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ROM: the recycler's best friend.


There is nothing easy about the recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment.  business. Managers have to understand the complexities involved with every aspect of their business-from purchasing, scaling, processing, inventory control, sales and ultimately shipping out loads--all quickly and efficiently.

Without an integrated software Separate software components or applications that have been combined into one package. See integrated software package.  system, managing all of that data is not only time consuming and costly, but almost impossible. That is where ROM comes into the picture. A comprehensive package, ROM seamlessly ties almost every aspect of a recycler's business together, providing a true single entry system.

ROM has proven to be an ideal program for one- and two-site recycling operations, whether they handle scrap metals, paper, plastic or multiple materials. Its flexibility is proven across almost all industries and is capable of handling almost any scenario encountered by small to mid-size operations. Its many features allow recyclers to improve their operations in a number of areas:

* Scale Systems

* Inventory Control

* Payments and Receivables

* Dispatch A dispatch or dispatches can refer to:
  • Dispatch (logistics), a procedure in logistics
  • Dispatch (band), an American jam band
  • Dispatches (TV series), a documentary show on Channel 4 in the UK
  • Dispatches
 and Bin Tracking

* Public Scale Buying

* Shipping and Order Management

Many people think that their employees are not smart enough to use a computer. However, with its programmers This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions.

See also: Game programmer, List of computer scientists

 having years of experience in recycling, ROM was designed specifically for these users. By using a touch screen interface with integrated scales and cameras, anyone can use ROM.

ROM's bar coding capabilities are a big part of what allows the software to sensibly tie together operations from the scale house to the shipping dock--and everything in between.

Bar codes are used for more then just inventory management, including public customer cards, inbound in·bound 1  
adj.
Bound inward; incoming: inbound commuter traffic.

Adj. 1. inbound
 inspection stubs stubs

The shares of equity in a firm that is financed almost completely with debt. Stubs are often created when firms go through a leveraged buyout or pay big cash dividends in order to fend off a takeover.
 and even ATM Payments.

ROM also has specialty systems designed for specific niches within the business:

* Elemental-level alloy alloy (ăl`oi, əloi`) [O. Fr.,=combine], substance with metallic properties that consists of a metal fused with one or more metals or nonmetals.  systems

* Overseas paperwork for LC and China-based business transactions

* Bookings and overseas container tracking

* Material recovery facilities.

In less than a decade, ROM from 21st Century Programming has established itself as the premier software solution for recycling Facilities seeking to upgrade the efficiency of their operations to compete in the active and growing global market.
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Title Annotation:SPOTLIGHT ON SOFTWARE
Publication:Recycling Today
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Mar 1, 2006
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