Retailer streamlines credit authorization.
Communications News › Vol. 27 Nbr. 8, August 1990
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Montgomery Ward
The nation's ninth largest retailer, Montgomery Ward, has automated its credit and check authorization procedures by installing a wide area SNA network in all its 334 stores in 39 states. The network operates on a fault-tolerant on-line transaction processing platform. Inventory data is also processed on the same system, which is called the Advanced Data Communications Utility (ADCU). Communications costs have been reduced by $150,000 a month. The system, which uses two fiber-optically linked eight-processor NonStop VLX computers from Tandem Computers Inc, was designed by CACI International.See the full content of this document
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Retailer streamlines credit authorization.
RETAILER STREAMLINES CREDIT AUTHORIZATION
Keeping retail-store customers satisfied depends on a lo of different factors, not the least of which is minimizing waiting lines at cash registers by streamlining the credit and check OK procedures. Another way is making sure the products customers want are always in stock. Montgomery Ward & Co., the ninth largest reta...See the full content of this document
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