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fT'S NOW time ro rake your busilness to the next stage of automation. Putting in a computer system today no longer involves merely putting terminals on your counters and tracking inventory and accounting.

Some of the next step components are: built-in time clocks, integrated take-off packages, hand-held inventory devices, radio ftequency terninals, integrated laptops to take to rhe job site or trade shows, scanning equipment and in-store sign printing, to name a few.

Elecronic data interchange or EDI has become one of the best time saven available. You now, deperyding on ttre vendor's capabilities, can send orders, receive price updates, promotion updates and electronic invoices. These options are currently sdving dealers hundreds of keystrokes and hours of time. These options combined with scanning merchandise at both receiving and point of sale will increase your accuracy at both points as well as improve your productivity.

Credit cards can now be processed directly through your system to youf financial institution for immediate credit to your account. These txansactions are processed through your point of sale (POS) system with rhe receipt printed on your printer. This is just one of the many new time-andmoney-saving steps being integrated into today's POS systems.

Access to yottr system is no longer limited to being at your desk or at the sales counter. With the use of radio frequency tenninals and laptop computers, your system can follow you from the store to the job site or the trade show. Your data can be downloaded into a portable computer that will give all the same inforrration that your store syst€trIcan provide. This gives you a 36 month sales history on which to base buying decisions and the ability to know that the prices you are quoting in the field are current rather than last week's printed list. The ability to connect to your system from your home only requires a tenni-

Story at a Glance

How moving your business to the nert stage of automation will improve productivity, accuracy and efficiency ... options that save time systems that fit almost any budget why those who update would never return to a manualsystem.

nal or personal computer with a modem and a dial-up line.

Whether your business requires one terminal or 100 terminals, there are now systems to fit almost any budget. Even though the level of inplementation varies from one business to the next" you would be hard pressed to find a business owner who would ever go back to a manual system.