Happy Chinese New Year

Dear Valuable Customers, Partners & Friends,

May the New Year bring you & your family happiness  and good health.

Careware will be closed for Chinese New Year Holiday from 2nd February, 2011 (Wednesday) to 8th February 2011 (Tuesday). We will resume work on the 9th of February, 2011.

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CAREWARE Number 1 in Malaysia 2010.

Careware Systems is honour to receive the Sage ERP Accpac's top Business Partner for Malaysia again for the year 2010. Careware has been consecutively five years in the running the Sage ERP Accpac’s Top Business Partner in Malaysia and they once again received the title of Sage ERP Accpac Asia Premier business partner.


“Being number one position is no easy feat, but remaining number one is even harder as everyone is gunning to topple you. But thanks to our dedicated staffs both in sales & supports, amidst a difficult market scenario we are able excel. The other key factor for our success is One 1Solutons concept that we offer to our clients, a total solution from consulting, training, support, development, and planned maintenance we offer which differentiates Careware from other business partners and enable to us to deliver a Total Solution for Peace of Mind to our clients. The other keys factor is our domain experience in the project & manufacturing segments where we compete aggressively against other brands of ERP in Malaysia says Robert Tan, Managing Director of Careware Systems.

A big thank you to all our valued customers and staffs and may 2011 be another year of bountiful harvest for us all.

Careware Systems Sdn Bhd

Careware Systems Sdn Bhd has been for more than two decades a Sage Accpac ERP solution provider. She specializes in Verticals market such as project / Services & manufacturing and is consider the manufacturing master in Sage Accpac ERP. Careware Systems Sdn Bhd has been awards winners since 1990 from Computer Associates he previous owner of Accpac software. She was awarded the Asia number 1 Business Partner by Sage for 2008.

Sage

The Sage Group plc is the number one supplier of accounting and business management software solutions for SME and the third largest supplier of business software in the world. It comprises market-leading businesses throughout Asia, Australia, North America, Europe, United Kingdom, and Africa .The Sage group plc has over 5 million small and mid-sized customers in 55 countries and nearly 15,000 staff.

Sage Accpac V. 6.> (Advance and ever advancing)

There have been much talk and anticipation on the soon to be release Sage Accpac V. 6.

This version of the software is a leap forward for Sage Accpac ERP in that it presents the user with a browser-based user interface (UI) that has been designed using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT).

Specific Improvement that the customer are asking for:

1. The new UI enhance usability of the product with user friendly interface and simplify navigation quickly and as intuitively as possible, based on their specific job duties (i.e it's roles-based).

2. The dashboard style screen, displays their mission-critical data in a graphical format, and allows user to navigate accordingly. Each user can personalize their own portal, and system security assures that each user will only be allowed to view or change information that they are allowed to access.

3. The UI also allows quick access to inquiries on an ad-hoc basis and facilitates the creation of quick information lists and reports. User-created queries can be saved and reused. Providing manager with KPI so they can better monitor business. The new UI will replace the existing Sage Accpac ERP desktop.

4. Sage has also added significant functionality to SageCRM7 and to the Sage ERP modules. Improvements have been made to SageCRM in the area of quote-to-order workflow, which Improve Accpac integration with Sage CRM, so sales rep can be efficiently turn quote into sales order.

5. Last of all, a much requested change has been made to the ERP module functionality. Users now have the ability to lock fiscal periods by module. Modules can now be locked down until the fiscal period closing has been completed, preventing unwanted postings into the wrong fiscal period.

We shall see Sage Accpac V6 in Malaysia in the beginning next year. and it is eagerly anticipated by the Sage Accpac ERP partner channel and by end-users.

The use of the GWT in the design of the UI, and in the design of the version 6.1A accounting modules, will bring Accpac ERP one step closer to being a truly web-deployable product.

The new design will allow it to be deployed in a public or private cloud, and we'll undoubtedly begin to see a high end-user adoption rate for Accpac ERP delivered in a SaaS model. Sage has beta-tested Sage Live in the UK, and I don't think it's a stretch of the imagination to expect to see a version of it soon in Asia, using Sage Accpac ERP and SageCRM.

For a short Video of Sage Accpac 6.

New Year Greetings

Dear Values Customers & Supplier,

Another year is coming to end, and a new year is on the verge of beginning and the holiday season approaches.

We'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued partnership. It is business associates like you who make our jobs a pleasure and keep our company successful.

May your holiday season and the New Year be filled with much joy, happiness and success. We look forward to working with you in the coming year and hope our business relationship continues for many years to come.

Happy holidays!

Management & Staffs

Sage Accpac Solution: Inventory Planning for Sales Distribution.

The Inventory Planning (I/P) module is an easy to use purchase planning solution for small to medium-sized trading enterprises. With I/P, trading companies can now generate full scale purchasing plans for all their inventory items.

I/P makes full use of the sales information in Accpac O/E, sales forecast information in I/P, stock data within Accpac I/C, purchase information in Accpac P/O in generating a realistic purchase plan. I/P is fully integrated with Sage Accpac’s Financial and Logistics modules. By planning ahead, I/P minimizes inventory stock, prevents item shortages leading to improvement in customer service levels. With I/P , inventory planners actually spend more time planning instead of just tracking, compiling and calculating stock requirements.

Main Features

Available to Promise (ATP)

• Allows salesmen to query and view online the available to promise quantity of selected items
• Provide stock inventory information such as on hand quantity,PO on order quantity,SO allocated quantity by location
• Displays the default sales price based on Accpac I/C
• Displays summary ustomer credit status based on AccpacA/R
• Includes a date-based sales history information
• Displays detailed item planning information for the selected item

Buyer Information

• Allows definition of unlimited number of buyers for purchased I/C materials
• Create planned purchase orders by buyer
• Generate planning inquiries by buyer

Item Planning Information

• Allows the user to define safety stock levels for each item record in I/C
• User may also define an order multiple(e.g. purchase unit)for each I/C item
• Purchase Lead Time can be maintained for each I/C item
• Option to automatically generate planned orders for selected items

Minimum Order

• Generate realistic purchase plans with minimum order quantities per item
• Minimum order levels are useful to simulate purchase economic order quantities(EOQ)and supplier minimum order requirements

Consumption of Sales Forecasts

• Sales forecasts can be inputted or imported or use during planning runs
• Actual Accpac O/E sales orders can consume user-defined salesforec as tsthus preventing excessive estimation of item demand.
• Consumption tolerance can be defined by using backward and forward consumption days

Flexible I/C Location Coverage

• User-defined I/P Distribution Networks determine the scope of purchase planning runs
• I/P Distribution Networks are used to group I/C Locations to form supply chains
• Supports unlimited number of I/P Distribution Networks

Planning Calendar

• Allows user-defined working and non-working days
• Sets the default working days for a normal week

Simplified Planning Runs

• User-friendly planning run interface requires only one click of a button to run the entire purchase planning process
• Includes option to exclude I/C stock, P/O orders, O/E orders
• Includes option to ignore minimum stock levels and work calendar

“What If” Scenarios

• Allows four(4) other planning records per Distribution Network to simulate “What If” scenarios
• Option to copy a source planning record to any target planning record

Auto Generation of Purchase Requisitions

• Planned orders can be automatically converted to P/O Requisitions via the I/P Generate PR routine
• Buyer has the option to combine or generate separate P/O Requisitions
• Buyer has the option to change order dates, due dates and order quantities for planned orders prior to generating P/O Requisitions

Reporting & Inquiries

•Purchase Planning Summary Report
•Purchase Planning Summary Report by Buyer
•Purchase Advice Report –Detailed or Summary
•Purchase Advice Report –Detailed
•Item Planning Inquiry –Detailed or Summary
•Sales Forecast vs. Actual Sales Report
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AutoSimply Inventory Planning is an add-on module that facilitattes sales forecast & planning.
For more information call Careware at : 603 79588232 or email :  sales@careware.com.my

Service Manager 5.6 now working on iPad

Since launching the Apple iPAD it has taken the market by storm. It may revolutionize how people work in the future. Apple is obliterating the distinctions between consumer and professional devices and for more and more professionals work & play goes hand in hand.

Sage Accpac ERP Solutions are among the forefront of progress, and has always kept abreast of technology changes and advancement. The latest Service Manager 5.6 an endorsed solution by Sage from Technisoft is really to work with iPAD.

Technisoft is excited and proud to announce the release of the latest version of the Employee Portal which now supports Apple iPad.

We are presently in development with iPhone and Android Phones and hope to have some exciting news in that regard early in 2011.

Remember Apple touch screens are designed primarily for finger use only but there are now styluses available for the iPad as well.

Those on Software Assurance can download the latest version of the Employee Portal to try this out.

Licensing is as per the Employee Portal which is Named User based using Sage Accpac IAP’s. If you are already using the Employee Portal you will have no additional requirements.

We hope you enjoy the new options

Please stay tuned for some further exciting releases prior to year end.

Please check out brilliant first views.

Paying too little.

During my early as a young man selling engineering product the maxim of John Ruskin has been drummed into our mind by the Senior Sales Engineer.

 “It is unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little.

When you pay too much you lose a little money - that is all.

When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought

was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.

The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot;

it cannot be done.

 If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run,

and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better"

John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

 

Too many disasters occur because the customer wants to have something very good for very little cost. All too many public sector procurements end up as lemons (to be polite) because they insist on the lowest price as being the main discriminator. Price is important, but so are:

• the track record of the supplier - which includes their reliability.
• the experience of the supplier in this area of requirements and their quality regime.
• the facilities available in the product(s) or service(s) offered.
• their product support, training and maintenance services.

It is easy to mistake price and cost. The price is what you pay for an item. Cost has many dimensions and many of them are intangible, ongoing costs which can potentially cripple a business. Which brings me to the most important point.

 Do not buy for fashion, or appearance, or whim - buy because it brings to your business clearly identifiable and quantifiable benefits. You should write down what you intend to achieve, because at the end of the process you should be able to check that you have indeed achieved the benefits you expected.  

The cost of any product or service must be proportionate to the business benefit to be derived. If the benefit is high, then some risk is likely to be involved too. There are very few cheap, quick and effective fixes. You rarely get great benefit for no effort.
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 “There is hardly anything in the world that someone can’t make a little worse and sell a little cheaper – and people who consider price alone are this man’s lawful prey”.

John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)