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Enterprise Computer Systems, Inc., Greenville, S.C., offers four distinct point-of-sale systems for building materials retailers and distributors, plus plug-in products such as the Executive Information System, Document Management, Professional Estimating, Credit Card Authorization, and EDWendor Communications.

The ECS 4GL's 3.8 release, scheduled for early summer, allows users to customize all main menus, submenus and strip menus; define their own hot keys; specify how the software stores, sorts and separates transactions, and set defaults or switch screens on or off for any customer, operator, product or supplier.

Also available are the Enterprise Notepad, special pricing features, unlimited product synonyms at POS, and a recommended replenishment action function.

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Precision Estimating-Extended Edition from Timberline Software Corp., Beaverton, Or., combines advanced estimating capabilities with point-and-click, drag-and-drop, and other ease-of-use features to speed up estimate creation and analysis. The 32-bit system offers three takeoff methods, an Explorer for sorting and viewing estimates by client, location, project type or other criteria, and Smart Assemblies, allowing coverage of hundreds of item variations and calculation methods in one assembly.

The new edition also offers more type font choices and sizes, colors and other graphics.

Distribution Management Systems, Inc., Omaha, Ne., recently released its latest software update, DMS+ Release 7.3. business management and accounting software for building product wholesalers and distributors.

Among the 40+ new software features are: the ability to run sales reports by sales rep code, inventory description keyword search, auto fax

The latest release of LumberJack Software, Version 6.0, runs on a Microsoft Windows NT Operating System. It includes the basics (accounting. credit, inventory, notice to owner, sales analysis, POS/order entry, purchasing, and ad hoc reports) and specialty features (remanufacturing, the cut program, ProJob for lengthy contracts, wood treating, lot and unit processing, block manufacturing, vehicle maintenance), plus specialty modules (prehung door and trim, millwork, garage door, block manufacturing, Redi-Mix).

It is year 2000 compliant and accommodates four to 1,000 system users in single or multiple branch locations.

The newest software release from WoodWare Systems, MemPhis, Tn., includes Formula-Driven Order Entry capabilities to handle dimension-driven products such as specialty millwork and vinyl windows. Year 2000 compliant, it also features bar coding solutions for physical inventorY, receiving label printing; auto-faxing, and a Var-I-Frame Configurator permitting prehanging doors or mulling window units with needing a bill-ofmaterial.

WoodWare Visions, a customized electronic catalog for millwork, is a graphical Windows-based quoting tool for users to provide access to all or part of their product catalog.