America's Largest Pool Chemical Manufacturer Automates Warehouse with Motek's Voice-driven Microsoft-Based Solution
BioLab Inc. improves efficiency and accuracy with Priya™ Warehouse Management Software

Beverly Hills, CA — January 31, 2005. — BioLab Inc., America's largest pool chemical manufacturer, has gone live with the Priya™ warehouse management software (WMS) solution by Motek Inc. Early results are impressive: "The Priya WMS increased our labor productivity by 30 percent," reports Paul Harvey, Central Distribution Manager at BioLab. "It improved our inventory accuracy by over 20 percent." The system also boosted space utilization at the BioLab distribution center, enabling the company to accommodate growth without having to add facility space.

Priya supports a mixture of wholesale and retail distribution at BioLab's 410K sq ft Conyers, GA distribution facility. The system utilizes forklift-mounted radio-frequency devices as well as hands-free voice-recognition devices to maximize employee and facility productivity while assuring 99+% inventory management accuracy.

"The nature of our distribution has changed in recent years from shipping large, infrequent pallet-based orders to processing smaller, more frequent carton-based orders – often shipped direct to retail stores," Harvey explains. "We needed a WMS that would allow us to accommodate the individual needs of all of our customers, and use leading technology like voice recognition and RF to do that as efficiently as possible. Priya gave us a solution that is powerful and flexible enough to do exactly that."

The Priya WMS is the only Tier 1; full-featured Microsoft Windows based solution currently available that can support more than 150 concurrent mobile users in a real-time environment. This kind of throughput was previously limited to more expensive AS400 and UNIX-based systems running custom or vendor-configured code and operating on significantly more expensive hardware platforms.

Priya^® is a highly-configurable software solution designed with the flexibility to accommodate changes in business processes or customer requirements. "Priya is not a highly-customized solution that requires vendor modifications to keep up with your changing environment," notes Ann Price, President and Chief Executive Officer of Motek. "Our solution can be implemented in a fraction of the time of other systems."

Priya^® is designed to control the entire operation of any warehouse from 100,000 sq. ft to 1,000,000 sq. ft. Priya® was developed to meet the all of the requirements for retail and wholesale clients and can handle food (catch weights, serial numbers) or non-food items. The solution also includes features and functions needed to support third-party warehousing.

About BioLab Inc. - www.biolabinc.com

BioLab Inc. is a leader in providing solutions for recreational and industrial water treatment and home cleaning. Based in Lawrenceville, GA, with sales in excess of $600 million annually, BioLab is an operating unit of Chemtura Corporation. In addition to pool chemicals, BioLab provides solutions for recreational and industrial water treatment and home cleaning.

About Motek^® - www.motek.com

Founded in 1991, Motek is the warehouse management software technology leader. Motek's single, all inclusive product, Priya is the only tier 1 Microsoft Windows^®-based WMS available today. Motek's reputation for innovation began when the Smithsonian Institute recognized it for being the first RF WMS on a PC. Since then Motek has been the first WMS on Windows, the first WMS with real time engineered labor standards, and the first Windows^®-based WMS with voice recognition.