Top-shelf companies constantly weigh their ability to improve business processes and guard hard-earned market share. If you're firmly committed to providing a product or service that's better than anyone else's (in this case it happens to be a doughnut), then you strengthen areas where weakness may impede success. Krispy Kreme is committed to serving ultra-fresh doughnuts to its customers and stands behind the freshness of the 7.5 million baked goods it makes every day. As of the 2006 fiscal year end, North Carolina–based Krispy Kreme posted sales of $543.4 million, which is a lot of dough by anyone's measure. Given the pace of Krispy Kreme's expansion over the past decade, ensuring the continuity of its business systems is central to the attainment of this mission. Krispy Kreme got its first System/38 in 1982. Now, it manages its wholesale operation with an EDI solution from EXTOL that runs on an IBM System i Model 520.