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Poinl-of-sale - Reprints for 2 years. General ledger (Fully integrated to all syslems) Invenlory maintenance. Payroll. Accounls payable - On-line history.4ssar.,r receivable - 7 yr. history. Purchasing. g6l9s analysis. Word processing. Mailing list mariagement. Kil sales (houses, decks, etc.) r lr,4;11 Orodu.,ion. Takeoffs. Manufacluring (doors, windows, etc.). Job cosling (contract project mgmt.) custom programming @ $4slhr.

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Vendor communications with: Handy. Orgill Bros. Ace. Allied Building Stores. Coasl to Coast. HWI Cotler True Value. SeryiStar. Henderson-Baird South Siales. House-Hasson JensenByrd TRW Credil Srv and many olhers systems. We use your existing equipment when possible, generally over a weekend.

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Products and services include: l-beam cantilever racks for lumber, LVLs, glulams and l-joist engineered products.

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Ambiance is a word most of us associate with restaurants, not the retailing and wholesaling of building products.

Yet the sense, feel and atmosphere of a store or office can affect its profitability as surely as the inventory does.

Some questions: if your customers wear dirty boots should you add white carpet? Should a store like Home Depot? Would your female customers (especially) favor a return to the sawdusty counters of old? Would wallpaper and new lighting improve the morale and performance of your office staff and lumber traders? Does an all-day coffee pot add to the friendliness of a store?

While the answers seem pretty obvious, we still visit too many stores and offices that ignore the common sense attributes of that fancy word ambiance. Neatness and cleanliness are frequently noticeable by their absence. Yet they are often the dynamic duo that can inexpensively produce an overnight change for the better. Fresh paint and bright, new signage can quickly add interest and sparkle to four dull walls.

Inherent in the questions asked above is another query. Do you know your customers well enough to be certain that the changes you are making will produce the response you want? The classic example is the funky, old-timey store that violates modern merchandising principles, yet the customers love it. When changed, the customers depart. So-called open offices, where employees are separated by a low partition or maybe just a potted plant, can rob productivity if the lack of privacy and the ease of interruption offset the benefits of the system. More than one company has retreated when it found that the open office the consultant loved, just wasn't livable or practical for the people who spent their day in it.

While many customers seemingly don't notice, your store atmosphere registers, whether they consciously realize it or not.

Professional design help is widely available. But first you have to be certain that any changes will be favorably received. Without that accurate information, whoever does the redesign is shooting in the dark.

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\-'right word. Lowe's new 200acre distribution complex in Mount Vernon, Tx., includes a 770,000-sq. ft. Regional Distribution Center, a 180,000-sq. ft. Specialty Distribution Center, 40,000 cubic yards of concrete,7.5 miles of conveyor, and 600 miles of data and electrical wire.

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All aniving merchandise is immediately sorted by item and checked. Advance vendor shipment information via the Distribution Management System (DMS) further speeds processing of merchandise for flowthrough to shipping.

Unique, barcoded license plates are applied to each item, so productive functions can be monitored as items move through the chain. Products are stacked on 40"x 48" pallets, with their size and weight determining storage quantities.

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Story at a Glance

Lowe's new 200-acre regaonal distribution complex in northeast Texas uses high tech to serve up to 100 stores.