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Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., in overhauling its software systems, is focusing first on the customer-oriented ones. Anchoring the change is The Warehouse Boss Version 2.0, an automated warehouse management system from Pansophic Systems Inc. running on an AS/400 Model B45 at Addison-Wesley's national distribution center. A new order-processing system from Cambar Software will also be joining the renovation, running on an IBM 3090 mainframe at Addison-Wesley's corporate headquarters. The company believes that, with the new software and the new AS/400, it will cut its in-house cycle time in half and improve productivity by 25%. Reducing errors in picking and shipping should be another windfall of the new system. "Slot level" inventory control was a key attraction for Addison-Wesley. The only missing piece in Boss was a module to handle returns, so the publishing firm had one custom-designed by another vendor.