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The Software Solution That Saves Time And Money

“To meet difficult product demand schedules and maintain customer satisfaction, Pete Lien & Sons, Inc. automated a 120’ scale with an AWS system in 2006. The results were astounding. The AWS system substantially re-duced scaling queue times, which instantly translated into dollars saved for our customers. Ad-ditionally, the scale operators rave about how user-friendly the system is to operate. The staff at AWS is outstanding to work with both in their professionalism and expertise. Our success with automated scaling has resulted in Pete Lien & Sons, Inc. relying heavily upon the capabilities of AWS as we currently undergo an expansion of our automated scal-ing process.”

Dan MichaelPete Lien & Sons, Inc.Rapid City, SD

Every business looks for a return on investment with any capital expenditure. Our solutions have provided our customers with many forms of cost savings. Listed below are some examples of how customers have found AWS products to pay for themselves.

Ticket Printing • Increased accuracy due to elimination of unread-

able, hand-written tickets• Labor savings by eliminating manual data entry• Improved audit capabilities by allowing easy re-

trieval of stored ticket data• Improved customer service by providing accurate,

easy to read tickets• Ability to provide accumulated job/tonnage totals on

tickets• Eliminate wasted time searching for missing tickets

Invoicing • Improve cash flow by invoicing customers faster • Carefully monitor customer accounts and credit

management • Export ticket data to third-party accounting systems

Reporting • Monitor material inventories • Accurate material tonnage reports • Monitor truck haul and cycle times • Increase customer service by e-mailing reports to

customers and/or management • Process large amounts of data faster • Improved truck routing based on real-time decisions

In addition to Interact software, AWS also offers unat-tended weighing solutions. This is one of the fastest growing sectors in the truck scale industry. Automated systems provide businesses with a great opportunity to reduce labor costs and increase productivity. Instead of tying up office personnel to process scale transactions, staff can be utilized for other office activities.

Unattended Weighing Solutions• Payback is generally twelve to eighteen months

due to labor cost reductions and increased office productivity . . . do more with less

• Minimize time loader operators spend assisting drivers with updating of tare weights, etc. in scale house

• Provide better customer service at reduced costs by extending hours of operation without paying for additional labor

• Increase employee production and improve cus-tomer service

• Allow for quick and easy download of data from the field, track hauling and loading times, material inventory and efficient truck routing

• Faster transaction processing, less time on the scale

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Point Of SaleTicketing

Weigh Form• “Open Transaction List” easily iden-

tifies trucks in the yard• Use the “Truck History” feature to

recall the last Job, Bill-to Account, and Material to dramatically speed up ticketing process

• Reprint lost or misplaced tickets• Click the Tare button to update

stored tare weights or add new tared vehicles using the weight on the scale

General Features• User-friendly; common look and

feel between all screens• Track inventory by processing

outgoing and incoming material transactions

• Track hauler fees and generate reports

• In addition to the material and rate table categories, other categories are available to maximize reporting capabilities (for example: location, quarry, pit, etc.)

• Regulate minimum and maximum net and gross weights as a global value or individual truck value

• Regulate minimum and maximum tare weights for individual trucks

• Flexible Freight Table to meet mul-tiple needs; rates can be calculated based on the unit of measure, truck type, by the hour or distance, or for a specific job

• Easily calculate charges by weight (pounds/tons), unit count, or yard for each material

• Up to 23 user definable Note fields available such as a field for direc-tions, driver name, delivery ad-dress, phone number, etc.

• Custom designed printed tickets• Customize different ticket formats

to be associated with specific ac-counts or trucks

Security Features• Freedom to have central office

send/update account data to re-mote sites and receive data back from those sites

• Manage security through four levels of login access

• Optionally restrict scale attendants/users from viewing charge informa-tion on weigh form

• View images of each transaction from camera equipment installed by AWS with Image Capture Module

• Collect, print, view, and store driver signatures with the Signature Cap-ture Module

Weigh Form

Hauler Truck

Customer

Product Tare Weight

Conversion

Number of loads

Gross Weight Net Weight

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Price Table

Interact LESingle tare weightSingle price tableNo job tableLimited export capabilityLimited reporting capability

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Interact SEMultiple tare weightsUnlimited product, job & freight tablesImport/export capabilityFull reporting capability

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Interact ProfessionalInvoice processingStatements processingGeneral & custom termsEarly payment discountsAccount activity and aging reports

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Interact Versions

Quotes & Order Tracking• Generate and print quotes

for customers and prospec-tive clients

• Easily convert quotes to orders and jobs

• Store and print addresses specific to an order or job that are different than the Hauler or Bill-To Account addresses

• Link quotes and orders to a Microsoft Word document

Creating A Quote

Invoice By Job

• Ability to utilize the invoic-ing capabilities of Interact Professional or utilize your current accounting soft-ware (see System Integra-tion on next page)

• Generate invoices• Sub-group invoices by

Material or Job• Option to create a separate

invoice for each sub-group• Statement processing• Account Terms can be

defined globally and at an individual account level

• Automatically calculate a discount when invoices are paid on time

• Reprint Invoices and State-ments

• Invoice and Statement summary reports

Freight Table

Update Tare Weights Open Ticket List

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Reporting andSystem Integration

Full Import/Export Module With the Full Import/Export Module, Interact provides the ability to transfer the exact data you need to operate most efficiently. This eliminates the need to double enter data between Interact and your accounting system.

Virtually unlimited number of Export RoutinesProgrammable Export file namesProgrammable Export file target locations including local folder, net-work folder and local media (floppy, thumb drive, etc.)Log file for each Export operationUnique selectable Data Inclusion and Data Order format for each Export RoutineComma, Tab or user defined delim-itersDate Range and Ticket Range parametersMultiple file format options (CSV, TXT, DAT, etc.)

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System IntegrationWhy spend valuable time hand enter-ing data into your accounting soft-ware when Interact can perform this for you? When third party integration is required, we work with you and your third party software provider to design a custom export definition within Interact. This allows you to ex-port scale transaction data to external applications.

Some of the available interfaces include:

MAS 90/200Maxwell SystemsMicrosoft DynamicsOracle/PeoplesoftSAPJD EdwardsPeachtreeQuickBooksRamcoTimberlineViewpointOpen Systems

Is your accounting program not listed above? Does your accounting software have an import feature? If it does, it is quite possible that we can interface to it. Contact us for more information.

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Interact ReportingModify reports to fit your needs by specifying the type of transaction you want included on each report (varies depending on the version of Interact). Transaction types include:

VoidedEditedInboundOutbound

Sort by any two primary fields:Ticket number Account IDAccount nameHauler IDHauler nameJob IDJob nameMaterial IDMaterial descriptionPrice table IDPrice table descriptionTruck (Tare 1)(Tare 2)(Tare 3)Additional category ID (i.e. Quarry, Pit, Location, etc.)Additional category descriptionUser name

Specify data by a range and/or sort ID and sub-categories. Reports can be formatted as:

DetailedSummaryMonthly SummaryWeekly SummaryDaily SummaryHourly Summary

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The AutoTouch™ Data Collection System uses a touch-screen to guide drivers through a simple sequence of prompts making it one of the most user-friendly devices available.

The Real Time Scale Ap-pliance™ (RTSA™) pro-vides real-time data col-lection which will improve the efficiency of your business by reducing or eliminating the need for a scale operator.

The Remote Scale Ap-pliance™ (RSA™) is a self-contained scale ticket data collection unit designed specifically for sites where having a PC based data collection system is not feasible or desired.

The Remote Printer™ speeds up the process of weighing a truck with a modular design that allows for easy trouble-shooting and field-friend-ly support.

The Signature Capture Module allows an elec-tronic signature to be recalled and reprinted in a fraction of the time it would take to manually search through hundreds or even thousands of tickets.

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is fast be-coming a critical element to fleet management. The time-of-transaction saved by this technology will translate into lower operational overhead.

Aiphone AP High Power Intercom System (Master Station) allows the truck driver to communicate with the scale house from the truck.

Camera systems and DVR recorders allow you to capture and store images with each scale transaction.

Interact Software Options

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