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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 11^th to 13^th 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.

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.

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.

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, thusrequiring the userto 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.

One of the long awaited features of the new 13A Harmony release is the Advanced Report Engine.

Features include:

• Direct ExcelOutput
• 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

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.

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.

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.

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:

Want to email Invoices, Purchase Orders or Reports from Harmony? Well now you can. Harmony now has the ability to automatically convert your forms into PDF format and integrate seamlessly with your Email client. We can even customise your forms to grab the required email address from your Debtor and Creditors contacts. All you need is Harmony Desktop V1.6 installed on your PC and to purchase from FBS, Visual Software’s PCL to PDF software. This is PDF software developed specifically for the Unix Operating System and allows Harmony to integrate with it far more seamlessly and reliably than other Windows based products on the market.