Corporate Capabilities
Business Management Systems specializes in the design and development of
computer systems aimed directly at producing increases in profit or reductions
in costs for small to medium-sized organizations.
Business Management Systems provides problem analysis,
system design, and programming,
separately or integrated into turnkey computer systems, complete with hardware
from IBM, Motorola, and other well-regarded manufacturers.
Business Management Systems' staff is made up of individuals from a
wide variety of backgrounds and environments. BMS' practice is to employ
people skilled in a discipline generally other than computer science, and
then to train them in the art of system development and programming, resulting
in an exceptionally "broad-gauged" roster of professionals.
Formed in 1976 from the partnership of Adelard L. Brault, Jr. and Dennis
M. Makurat, Business Management Systems' primary service area is metropolitan
Washington, DC, but the company has systems installed in every time zone
from the Virgin Islands to California, plus the Middle East.
This text will endeavor to suggest the kinds of tasks for which you
will find it profitable to consult BMS. But a phone call
will bring you an initial consultation, without obligation.
Year after year, many of the assignments completed by Business Management
Systems are of the kind which enable the client to significantly increase
the volume of business handled, resulting in increased sales and profits.
These typically allow the customer to change his present way of doing business
so dramatically that they result in new service "products" to expand the
client's marketing coverage.
| Example: |
A BMS client is moving to the forefront of the security guard industry
with a high-technology approach to the control of a guard force. The progress
of each guard on his rounds is monitored by a computer system which knows
the guard's whereabouts based on inputs from several different types of
"sensors", including bar-code readers. If a guard deviates from his assigned
sequence of tasks the computer system initiates a telephone call to the
guard and, using a voice synthesizer, gives the guard appropriate instructions.
One
result for the client is the ability to roughly double his billings
without an increase in his supervisory force. BMS supplied
hardware and software as a turnkey system. |
| Example: |
A BMS client in the extremely competitive custom house brokerage business
engaged BMS to implement a system which integrates the preparation of all
shipping and accounting documents and interfaces with the U.S. Customs
Services' Automated Broker Interface. As a result the client has moved
into a position of dominance in the geographic area served. |
| Example: |
For a BMS client in the Durable Medical Equipment business BMS designed
systems to consolidate and streamline the complex paperwork and accounting
involved in selling and renting such things as wheelchairs and hospital-type
beds to an individual where the bill is to be paid, not by the individual,
but by any one or a combination of Medicare, Medicaid and third party insurance.
With
the BMS system, Accounts receivable age has improved from nearly
90 days to typically less than 30 days. The systems have
also improved delivery scheduling and inventory control. |
There is generally no shortage of expertise at the top of an organization.
Managers know what needs to be done, and when. What is feasible, and what
isn't. How the various activities of the organization relate to each other.
But the big picture isn't visible to the rank-and-file employee. Many organizations
have turned to BMS to create computer systems to marshall the information
critical to managing the organization and directing the activities of its
people.
| Example: |
A commercial printer needed a way to track job costs and schedules.
BMS designed a system which collected the data as the work was being done.
Management could review the status and cost of each job daily. Exception
reports highlighted problem areas and allowed quick remedial action to
be taken. The result was a substantial increase in productivity and profitability. |
| Example: |
A major convention management company needed a way to handle conference
registrations. BMS provided a system which not only handles all of the
accounting and billing functions, but also provides accurate counts for
all events, coordinates hotel room registrations, prints badges and provides
complete management information. The result was a substantial increase
in accuracy and management control. |
| Example: |
A waste-disposal company needed a way to accurately track the location
and activities of its trucks. BMS developed a system which uses the output
of the Motorola Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) system to monitor and document
the exact location, movements and activities of the trucks. With the BMS
system, the company was able for the first time to accurately determine
the cost of each route and to maintain better control over its drivers. |
| Example: |
For a major freight forwarding Company with offices throughout the
United States, but centralized accounting, BMS developed a system which
uses multiple minicomputers in a transcontinental network, allowing local
entry and printing of Air Waybills and invoices together with centralized
control of all accounting functions. |
| Example: |
A small municipality needed a plan to organize its Office Automation
operations. BMS performed a detailed survey of its needs and prepared a
plan which will result in a savings of more than $300,000 over a period
of 5 years while extending O/A services to the entire staff. |
Successful organizations grow. And grow. And eventually out-grow the way
they have operated. BMS has a record of success in helping other organizations
to gather together and systematize, on their computer, a collection of
diverse but related activities
| Example: |
For a credit union, BMS installed an IBM computer which tied together
a number of special functions outside the capabilities of the client's
principal computer system and a computer network to which the client is
a subscriber but which is not under the client's control. The BMS system
connects to an Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) network; refers to the client's
principal system for account status and transaction approval; gives synthesized
voice responses to members making touch-tone inquiries as to account balances,
etc., and maintains duplicates of customer accounts to insure uninterrupted
service in the event of an outage to the principal computer. |
| Example: |
For a major equipment leasing company dealing with a very large number
of relatively "low ticket" computer systems, BMS developed an integrated
data processing system which not only handled the mechanics of billing
and accounts receivable control but also amortization of the asset-based
debt financing characteristic of the leasing industry, item-by-item depreciation,
and projection of revenues and expenses over the life of each transaction.
Significantly,
the client has a strong in-house computer capability, yet turned to BMS
because of BMS' well-earned reputation for successful handling of such
assignments. |
| Example: |
For a Third World country aggressively lifting itself by its own bootstraps
by sending large numbers of its most promising young people to the U. S.
for advanced study entirely at the expense of its government, BMS created
a computer system which puts at the administrators' fingertips data on
the students' - and dependents - expenses and stipends, while monitoring
the student's academic progress. |
Business Management Systems:
Solving Problems
| Example: |
A government agency with multiple telephone systems required a way
for its operators to provide directory assistance quickly. BMS developed
and installed a fully indexed multi-user directory assistance system which
has less than 1 second response time and allows lookup by name, location,
organization and any part of the phone number. The system communicates
with a mainframe computer so that accurate, up to date records are maintained
on both systems. |
| Example: |
A major food service company with more than 100 fast food outlets required
an automated way for its store managers to place daily orders for supplies.
BMS provided a touch-tone data entry system which accepts the orders and
routes them to a mainframe computer for processing. |
| Example: |
A major manufacturing company with forty plants was receiving unacceptable
performance from its network of minicomputers. BMS installed its BTAS/1
file access system and achieved a 10:1 improvement in system performance. |
| Example: |
A Fortune 100 company was experiencing long delays in collecting on
invoices to the Federal Government because its standard billing procedures
did not conform to contract requirements. BMS installed a small system
which allowed consolidated invoicing in the required formats. Payment cycles
immediately improved from more than 120 days to less than 45 days. |
| Example: |
A startup company had an idea that computers could be applied to medical
diagnosis. BMS devised what has since come to be known as an "artificial
intelligence" system to implement the idea. The system is now in use at
major teaching hospitals. |
Business Management Systems:
Proprietary programs
Many requirements for processing data are sufficiently similar from one
organization to another that they can be satisfied by the use of a standardized
program developed for use by many similar organizations rather than a program
custom-designed for the individual user. Where such an off the shelf program
is available, it will be much less expensive than a program written to
meet that user's needs only.
Business Management Systems has recognized a number of instances where
such standardization can benefit multiple users, and for these users has
developed a number of proprietary programs, including the following:
| BTAS |
BALANCED TREE ACCESS SYSTEM
A "balanced tree" file access system for the IBM Series/1 and for UNIX
systems. BTAS is a full featured indexed file access system optimized for
speed. It is four to ten times faster than comparable commercially offered
systems. |
| RTAS |
REAL TIME ACCOUNTING SYSTEM
A "transaction-processing" accounting system. RTAS provides a complete
set of accounting capabilities covering General Ledger, Accounts Payable,
Accounts Receivable and Payroll. Transactions are posted to the General
Ledger as soon as they am entered, eliminating the need for time consuming
month-end closings. Up-to-the-minute financials can be printed at anytime.
This system is the heart of and is incorporated in each of BMS' business
systems, but it can also be used on its own by any business which requires
timely financial reporting. |
| AIRPEX |
AIR WAYBILL INFORMATION, RATING, AND PREPARATION SYSTEM
A comprehensive system meeting the operational and accounting needs
of the Air Freight Forwarding industry. AIRPEX calculates appropriate rates
and prints Air Waybills, maintains tracking files, prints invoices and
posts to Accounts Payable - all based on one data-entry operation. An innovative
"template" system means that most Air Waybills can be processed with only
a few keystrokes. An inventory subsystem allows forwarders to handle customers'
goods efficiently and to bill accurately for this service. The system includes
the complete RTAS accounting capabilities. |
| ADAP |
ASSOCIATION DATABASE AND ACCOUNTING PACKAGE
A database and accounting package for trade associations. ADAP is a
modular system which provides a complete array of functions required. by
a trade association. Database functions include mailing lists, membership,
conference registration and publications. A complete order processing module
is included together with inventory, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable,
Payroll and General Ledger. |
| CBOS/ABI |
CUSTOM BROKER OPERATIONS SYSTEM with AUTOMATED BROKER INTERFACE
A complete, integrated package which fully automates the operations
of a Customs Broker. CBOS/ABI provides all facilities required to perform
Customs entries and clearances through the U. S. Customs Service Automated
Broker Interface system. It prints all required forms and automatically
generates Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable entries as required.
A unique feature of this system is that it validates data during entry
rather than requiring extensive error checking processing prior to uploading
to the ABI system. |
Business Management Systems:
Independence
Business Management Systems represents a wide variety of vendors of computer
hardware, communications devices, and proprietary software, but is bound
to none of these.
Business Management Systems is abreast of the technology - software
and hardware - available to be brought to bear on the client's objectives,
but is committed to no particular vendor.
Thus in selecting a system solution for any client, Business Management
Systems is free to select that combination of resources which best serves
the client without bias to any particular supplier, or brand or type of
product or service..... but with knowledge/experience as to what has worked
to the benefit of others.
Business Management Systems, Inc.
PO Box 55
Fairfax, VA 22038-0055
Voice - 571-338-4070
E-mail - info@bmsi.com
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