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© 2001-2006 Krupp Consulting, Inc. All rights reserved worldwide.Fee Reporting Made EasyBelgiumGermanySpainUKIreland(actual EPSS reports)KCI’s Environmental Packaging SoftwareSEP S© 2001-2006 Krupp Consulting, Inc. All rights reserved worldwide.Why EPSS?Fee Reporting Made EasyQuickly and easily calculate packaging fees and generate international packaging reports.Enterprise Compliance ManagementHelp ensure that everyone in your organization collects, calculates, and reports packaging data in a consistent and accurate manner.Design For EnvironmentTest new packaging designs to quantify the resulting packaging fees, gauge environmental impact, and help ensure compliance with international packaging design requirements.Track More Than Just FeesQuickly track, analyze, and report a range of environmental packaging data.EPSS is a unique software program that puts important environmental packaging data at managers' fingertips. With EPSS, managers can easily create a packaging data- base to help ensure that environmental packaging and labeling requirements and standards are met, to track and report international packaging fees, and to quantify the results of packaging design changes.About EPSSEPSS serves as a product packaging database; data are stored using one common structure.EPSS takes care of calculating and reporting fees, as well as a range of other environmental data.EPSS serves as a design tool, helping packaging engineers quantify the fee impacts of proposed packaging changes. KCI’s Environmental Packaging SoftwareSEP S© 2001-2006 Krupp Consulting, Inc. All rights reserved worldwide.Compliance With Essential RequirementsRegulatory Tracking / Software UpdatesWe track and monitor worldwide environmental packaging rules and regulations. When rules, regulations, fees, or report forms change, or when new country programs are implemented, we modify EPSS to reflect the change or add a new country module. Our web distribution and unique installation system ensures that users of the software have prompt access to the latest software updates. Installation of new versions is quick and simple, providing updated regulatory changes without modification of existing data.Maintaining and tracking compliance with the new CEN Packaging Standards (Essential Requirements) can be difficult and time consuming. EPSS makes ER compliance a snap by automating the most complicated tasks related to data entry and by providing push-button access to technical reports.Country Fee ReportingEPSS contains modules for the major international fee programs. Additional country modules are developed as new programs are implemented.PRO EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, SpainOTHER: Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom (Great Britain and Northern Ireland)With EPSS, calculation of fees and generation of country-required fee reports is easy. Just pick a country and click a button and the required fee reports are at your fingertips (see samples on cover).CustomizationEPSS’s open design and built-in customization features make it easy for companies to tailor the software to their particular needs. For companies with additional special needs, we offer customization services which can help companies get even more out of the software, for example, by developing systems to automatically import a company’s existing packaging data.(country modules can be sold separately)KCI’s Environmental Packaging SoftwareSEP S© 2001-2006 Krupp Consulting, Inc. All rights reserved worldwide.Contact UsTo learn more about how EPSS can help you get a handle on your packaging data, give us a call, send us an email, or visit us on the web:Additional featuresLanguage TranslationFee reports can be generated in either the native language or English.FlexibilityBuilt in customization options allow companies to tailor the system to their particular needs (e.g., units of measure, currency conversion).Error CheckingSophisticated error checking algorithms detect data errors, helping to ensure that resulting reports are as complete and accurate as possible.Import/Export/Flat FilesAutomated features facilitate the import and export of data, including the generation of electronic flat files for submission to third party organizations.Open DesignEPSS can be used for any type of consumer or nonconsumer product (toy, food product, electronic device, appliance, cosmetic, etc.).Krupp Consulting, Inc.14 Fairmont StreetArlington, MA 02474 USATel. +1 781 643 3315Fax +1 617 344 5656Who We AreEPSS is a product of Krupp Consulting, Inc. (KCI), a unique software and environmental consulting firm specializing in helping companies streamline and improve environmental performance through the use of information technology. KCI has incorporated into EPSS powerful tools to help companies manage international packaging data and reporting requirements. KCI has extensive experience working with global clients in a broad range of industries, helping them improve and streamline how they manage environmental information.KCI’s Environmental Packaging SoftwareSEP Sepss@kruppconsulting.comwww.kruppconsulting.com/epss