April 17, 2007 – Health Business Systems, Inc (HBS), an SXC company, and ECR Software Corporation (ECRS) have signed an agreement to provide integration between HBS's Pharmacy Management System and ECRS' CATAPULT POS and Retail Automation Suite. The integration project directly benefits the companies’ mutual customers by providing seamless advanced level integration between the two systems. Phase One integration is already complete and is running in store locations. Phase One provides a direct pharmacy-to-POS link that automates prescription sales and will-call management by capturing correct co-pays and ensuring accurate pricing at checkout. Phase Two integration will encompass a real-time, extensive two-way communication between the HBS and CATAPULT servers that will provide both cashiers and pharmacy managers with vital information and complete in-store situational awareness.
“We are very excited about this project for a number of reasons,” commented Louis Greenberg, President of HBS. “Although our individual products are already leaders in their respective markets, the advanced integration between these two solutions provides additional benefits for pharmacy retailers. As prescription profit margins continue to shrink, retailers must look at the front-end of their stores as opportunities for growth, and for offsetting waning profit margins at the back end. This advanced front-to-back integration between ECRS and HBS gives pharmacy retailers the control and real-time data exchange they need to seize this growth opportunity.”
“This cooperative effort represents a unified corporate commitment by ECRS and HBS to solve real-world problems for independent pharmacy retailers,” said ECRS Founder and President Pete Catoe. “Tight front-to-back integration is absolutely essential in today’s big box competitive market. CATAPULT and the HBS Pharmacy Management System are both proven solutions that together will allow our mutual customers to fully integrate both ends of their stores, and thus become more competitive, operationally efficient, and customer focused.”
SXC Health Solutions (SXC) is a leading provider of pharmacy benefits management (PBM) services and healthcare IT solutions to the healthcare benefits management industry. The Company's product offerings and solutions combine a wide range of software applications, application service provider (ASP) processing services and professional services, designed for many of the largest organizations in the pharmaceutical supply chain, such as Federal, provincial, and, state and local governments, pharmacy benefit managers, managed care organizations, retail pharmacy chains and other healthcare intermediaries. SXC is based in Lombard, Illinois with locations in; Scottsdale, Arizona; Warminster, Pennsylvania; Milton, Ontario and Victoria, British Columbia. For more information please visit www.sxc.com.
ECRS has been providing best-of-breed automation solutions to independent retailers since 1989. The ECRS retail framework includes point of sale, self-checkout, back office, inventory management, order forecasting, supply chain automation, membership management, fuel pump interface, integrated video surveillance, digital customer billboard, self-hosted gift card, signature capture, wireless hand-held terminal interface, and a range of other retail automation components. ECRS products are delivered directly and through a national partner network. For more information, go to www.ecrsoft.com.
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