Total Parts Plus, Inc. and STANDARDS AND MORE ... Announce Partnership for Germany, Austria and Switzerland

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla., Jan. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Total Parts Plus, Inc., a leading Content and Solution provider for electronic components, is pleased to announce that it has entered into an exclusive reseller agreement for their products with STANDARDS AND MORE ... (SAM), a leader in the distribution of technical databases including Standards, IEEE's Electronic Library, ASTM's Digital Library and other technical databases, and now are an exclusive reseller for Total Parts Plus products in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

"We are very excited and welcome STANDARDS AND MORE ... to the TPP team," stated Keith Biggs, CEO of Total Parts Plus. "The addition of SAM brings added value to TPP customers by increasing our presence within the European community."

SAM provides a high level of service for all electronic component needs. SAM is pleased to offer customers and prospects in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, on behalf of Total Parts Plus, solutions for:

    -- Obsolescence Management Tools
    -- Supply Chain Tools
    -- Material Content/Environmental Compliance (RoHS)
    -- Bill of Material (BOM) Cleansing and Analysis

"TPP is the perfect complement for SAM," said Karl-Heinz Gruber, Managing Director and founder, SAM - STANDARDS AND MORE ... . "...with them we can now provide a complete obsolescence management and environmental compliance solution to our customers in the electronic market." "...Obsolescence management and material content compliance have been some of the most requested services at SAM," said Uwe Jungfer, Managing Director at SAM - STANDARDS AND MORE .... "... with Total Parts Plus we now have an efficient and reliable management solution to offer them".

About Total Parts Plus

Total Parts Plus is an engineering services company specializing in obsolescence management and environmental compliance solutions in the form of web-based products and custom engineering services. TPP's suite of products and services provide information and reporting for DMS Management, RoHS Compliance, Alternate Equivalents, Alternate Sourcing, PCN data, and Life Cycle Predictions.

TPP has customers in over 30 countries worldwide, and continues to be the leading supply chain and material content management tool on the market. For more information on Total Parts Plus, please visit our Web site at http://www.totalpartsplus.com/

About SAM - STANDARDS AND MORE ...

SAM offers technical documentations, e.g. standards, guidelines and other technical databases on yearly subscription basis. The provided technical documentations are stored on various data carriers, e.g. DVD or made available online. SAM does not produce these technical documentations but obtains them from third parties and, by a technical procedure, transfers them to data carriers without changing their contents; hence the preparation of the contents of these documentations and the examination of the correctness of their contents are not part of the contractual relationship between SAM and its customers. Additional information about SAM is available at http://www.SAM-online.eu