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fT'S NOW time to take your busiIness to the next stage of automation. Putting in a coiputer 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 tine clocks, integrated takeoff packages, hand-held inventory devices, radio frequency ternrinals, integrated laptops to take to the job site or trade shows, scanning equipment and in-store sign printing, to natrle a few.

Electronic data interchange or EDI has become one of the best time savers available. You now, depending on the vendor's capabilities, can send orders, receive price updates, promotion updates and electronic invoices. These options are curren0y saving dealers hundreds of keysbokes and hours of time. These options combined with scanning mercbandise 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 your financial institution for immediate credit to your account. These tra:nsactions are processed througb your point of sale (POS) system with the 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 0o your system is no longer limited !o 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 information that your store system can provide. This gives you a 36 month sales hisory 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 termi-

Story at a Glance

How moving your business to the next 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 impte,mentation 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.