Future Business Systems Specialised Accounting Software
Edition 2 - July 2009
Monthly Harmony Newsletters
Welcome to edition two of the IN HARMONY online monthly newsletter.
Future Business Systems will be exhibiting at the upcoming Australasian Retail Expo which will be held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from the 11th to 13th August 2009. We will be featuring our WinPOS point of sale system, our JAVA based stock consolidation system as well as the new Rostering system. We invite you to visit us at stand: B12.
We have some complimentary tickets for the Retail Expo to give away so if anyone is interested in attending please send an email to: newsletter@fbsaust.com.au and advise how many tickets you would like.
New Harmony Feature
Auto Flag Stock Items as Obsolete
There is a new flag that allows Harmony to mark stock items as being obsolete as part of an end of month rollover. This feature is useful for WinPOS sites as the overnight update ignores obsolete items and therefore excludes them from being uploaded to the stores essentially making the update faster. Stock reports can also be run to exclude obsolete items making them run faster as well.

Basically the system will look at individual stock items and determine if the item has:

  • no stock level, and
  • no existing orders against it (this includes sales/purchase/transfer/manufacturing orders).

If a stock item fits the above criteria and the last activity against that item is more than the specified number of months ago, the stock item will be marked as obsolete.
New WinPOS Feature
 
WinPOS Stock Transfer Part Receive
Up until now, there has been no facility in the WinPOS system to part receive stock transfers. Transfers either had to be received in full or not at all.
 
The latest version of WinPOS now allows users to part receive stock transfers. The system can be setup in a couple of ways:
  • Default the stock receipt to receive all items on the transfer, thus requiring the user to only remove the items that were not received.
  • User needs to enter into the system what was received either by manually keying in the stock items or by using a barcode scanner to receive the stock.
If you would like to make use of either of these new Harmony features, please contact your Account Manager who will be able to guide you through the process.
 
 
Advanced Report Engine Functionality
 
One of the long awaited features of the new 13A Harmony release is the Advanced Report Engine.
Features include:
  • Direct Excel Output
  • Web Page Interactive reports
  • Grid Line Professional Style Printing
  • Customisable Layouts
  • Automatic Column Resize / Removal
  • Formula Screen Entry
  • Template & Schedule Maintenance
  • Global Control of Enabling / Disabling features

Contact your Account Manager for more Information

 
New FBS Customer

We would like to welcome on board our latest customer. Neds operate a chain of 8 stores selling a huge range of gifts and homewares. The company was established in 1985 and is owned and operated in South Australia. We look forward to a long term partnership with the staff at Neds and trust that Harmony will assist Neds in growing their company even further.
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New Look Harmony Interface
 
 
Work is continuing at a steady rate on our new Harmony JAVA based GUI interface. We now have 6 programmers continually working on converting over all of the Harmony programs to the new format. To date the following Harmony programs have been converted and running live at various customers` sites:
 
- Stock Consolidation
- Stock Re-order Template Maintenance
- Task Scheduling
- Bank Reconciliation
- Scan Packing
- Customer Database maintenance
 
We are designing the system in such a way so as to allow both Harmony Desktop and the JAVA interface to co-exist within the same organisation. This means that some users can continue to use Harmony Desktop whilst other users can make use of the new JAVA based interface.
 
If you use any of these modules and are interested in having the JAVA interface installed, please contact your Account Manager.
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FBS Employee of the Quarter
 
Congratulations to David Ying on winning the FBS Employee of the Quarter Award (Apr - Jun 2009)

David has been an application programmer at FBS since 1997. In 2003 David began development on our JAVA based WinPOS Point of Sale system. For the past 6 years David and his team have continued to develop this system and today Harmony WinPOS is one of the most functional and highly used Point of Sale systems in Australia and New Zealand. Harmony WinPOS is currently running in over 1,500 locations by some of Australia`s most noted and well respected retail companies. This is a credit to David`s hard work and vision and we congratulate David on this achievement.

Harmony Software Case Studies
 
Generating Case Studies that focus on various aspects of the Harmony system is a great way to highlights how Harmony is benefiting different customers in similar industries. One of the initiatives we are currently working on within our sales and marketing department is to build up a large number of case studies and feature them on our website.
 
We have just uploaded two new case studies to our website. The first of these new case studies highlight our state of the art Stock Consolidation Module. The second case study focuses on our customer, Sue Rice and the integrated E-Commerce solution FBS developed for her company some time ago.
To read any of our case studies feel free to click on the following link:
 
 
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