Released on: March 28, 2008, 4:53 am

Press Release Author: MetricStream

Industry: Management

Press Release Summary: MetricStream announced that one of the largest employee-owned
supermarket chains in the United States has selected MetricStream as its
enterprise-wide platform for automating business processes for food safety and
quality compliance.

Press Release Body: MetricStream, Inc., the market leader in enterprise-wide
Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management solutions, today announced
that one of the largest employee-owned supermarket chains in the United States has
selected MetricStream as its enterprise-wide platform for automating business
processes for food safety and quality compliance. The solution will help the company
sustain compliance with food safety and quality regulations across its stores,
warehouses and manufacturing facilities.

The Fortune 500 supermarket chain, with nearly 1000 retail locations across southern
United States, chose the MetricStream solution to adopt an integrated approach for
company-wide safety and quality initiatives. The solution will provide a centralized
system to record and access food safety and quality information, reporting and
dashboarding capabilities for real-time visibility into trends and tools for
collaborative root cause analysis. Critical functions such as receiving audits, food
safety evaluations and third party audits will be streamlined though automation. The
solution ships with embedded best practices that will help the company comply with
government regulations and industry mandates.

Ensuring quality and safety is pivotal for foodservice companies. Unreliable systems
and inconsistent processes increase the exposure to quality related risks and
incidents. With growing oversight from regulators such as the FDA and the USDA,
companies are proactively implementing programs for HACCP procedures and ISO
22000-based food safety management systems. By unifying all safety and quality data
and processes on an integrated platform, foodservice operators can leverage
automated workflows, robust reporting, real-time dashboards and alerts to easily
identify trends, mitigate risks, resolve issues and track key performance indicators
(KPIs).

\"To meet their quality and safety goals, companies need to adopt robust IT systems
and weave industry best practices into their business processes," said Carl
McCauley, Vice President of Sales at MetricStream. "MetricStream continues to be the
preferred solution provider for companies looking to integrate their quality,
compliance and risk programs in order to reduce costs, shorten cycle times and
improve overall process efficiencies.\"
About MetricStream
MetricStream is a market leader in Enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance
(GRC) and Quality Solutions for global corporations. MetricStream solutions are used
by leading corporations such as Pfizer, NASDAQ, SanDisk, BP, Entergy, Subway,
Fairchild Semiconductor, Hitachi and TaylorMade-Adidas Golf in diverse industries
such as Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, Automotive, Food, High Tech Manufacturing,
Energy and Financial Services to manage their quality processes, regulatory and
industry-mandated compliance and corporate governance initiatives, as well as by
over a million compliance professionals worldwide via the ComplianceOnline.com
portal. MetricStream is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California and can be
reached at www.metricstream.com

Web Site: http://www.metricstream.com

Contact Details: MetricStream, Inc.
3000 Bridge Parkway
Redwood Shores, California
United States 94065
650-620-2932
http://www.metricstream.com
pr@metricstream.com