5.06.2008 - 11:59pm ET

TransparentCMS Compliance Manager Dashboard

(CSRwire) San Ramon, Calif. — Hokura LLC has announced the release of TransparentCMS Version 2.0, incorporating dynamic new features for comprehensive compliance management within the retail supply chain.

Available May 1, 2008, TransparentCMS Version 2.0, includes:

Self-administered customization

"Our customers have eagerly awaited completion of the dashboard reporting capability, which allows retailers to compare the performance of their vendors against established compliance standards," said Kumaran Perumal, Hokura co-founder and vice president of product development and support. "{When vendor performance is unacceptable, the audit scheduling and invoicing function empowers retailers to promote continuous improvement at the factory level."

TransparentCMS automates the process of managing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) compliance and Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) security compliance in the global retail/manufacturing supply chain. The modular system offers five key components: Vendor Compliance Agreements, Vendor/Factory Profile Management, Vendor Self-Assessment Management and Factory Compliance Audit Management.

The system allows agents, vendors and factories to register and manage their profiles, then electronically sign agreements that document accountability for CSR compliance, product quality and C-TPAT certification. Audit results are recorded to track supplier performance over time.

TransparentCMS gives retailers instant visibility into supply chain compliance. The rules-based system indicates which suppliers have up-to-date, verified documentation and assigns a risk factor to those suppliers who are non-compliant. By enabling self-assessment and independent verification, the system also promotes collaboration among supply chain partners.

"Hokura is a company that can make a difference in how supply chain partners work together," said President and Co-Founder Enrico Lara. “We are integration specialists for business processes and the people who implement them."

Hokura offers TransparentCMS Version 2.0 as a subscription-based Software as a Service (SaaS), where subscribers pay an affordable fee per transaction (vendor/factory registration or audit). TransparentCMS can also be delivered as an installed client server-side software product. In both models, TransparentCMS can by customized to meet the unique business needs of each client.

About Hokura LLC

Hokura's mission is to automate the retail supply chain for transparent CSR compliance management, so companies can hold their business partners accountable for ethical human rights, labor and environmental practices. Our vision is to eliminate the check-box approach to CSR compliance and replace it with an ethics-based self-regulated approach, where suppliers comply because it's the right thing to do. Visit Hokura at www.hokura.com.

Hokura in the News

Learn how Hokura helped the Mervyns department store chain after its break from Target, when the retailer replaced all its operating systems in 18 months. The Apparel Magazine April 2008 cover story, "Mervyns Tackles Opportunity," reveals how Mervyns' product design and development team successfully implemented a full suite of integrated, web-based systems that promote vendor collaboration.

"From the beginning, Mervyns IT and PD&D teams worked closely in sync and partnered with Hokura LLC, a consulting group and solutions provider. 'The IT team, including Hokura, was with us from the very beginning when we worked on what the three-year vision would be, to take all these databases and replace them with fully integrated 24/7 applications,' says [Becky] Nesmith, [director of Mervyns product design & development (PD&D) operations]. ‘There was a very unified vision and that made all the difference.' "

— Apparel Magazine April 2008

For more information please contact:

Kumaran Perumal, Co-Founder and VP, Product Development & Support
Hokura Software Solutions
925-415-2359
www.hokura.com

Cathy Chatfield-Taylor, Marketing Consultant
CC-T Unlimited
925-968-0088
www.cc-tunlimited.com

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