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INDIANAPOLIS -- Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. was poised on "the eve of a great adventure" last week as it fired up new warehouse management software and launched a complete renovation of its national distribution center.
"We are involved in a broad-gauge overhaul of all our bread-and-butter systems, focusing first on the customer-oriented ones," said Bob Smallman, vice president of operations at the publishing firm. "Hopefully, what our customers will see is better service time from us."
Anchoring the change is The Warehouse Boss Version 2.0, an automated warehouse management system fron Pansophic Systems, Inc. running on an Application System/400 Model B45 at Addison-Wesley's national distribution center here. 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 in Reading, Mass.
Orders will be processed on the mainframe and then downloaded to the AS/400, which manages the distribution process and passes data back to the mainframe.
Worth Its weight
With sales in excess of $300 million in 1990, Addison-Wesley specializes in college and school textbooks and a variety of trade books and publications....