Greentree Puts Stationery Firm On The Move
Announcement posted by Greentree International 20 Jun 2014
Leading office products and hand tools importer, ACME Supplies, was facing a $100,000 price tag to upgrade its existing system until Greentree offered a solution.
From its warehouses in Auckland and Havelock North, ACME Supplies Ltd services hundreds of customers with stationery and hardware products. Its warehouses hold more than 7,000 inventory items and process an average of 5,000 orders a month. According to ACME Supplies Ltd Finance Manager, Brent Stanton, efficiency and reliability were critical to the company maintaining a competitive edge and this was being put at risk by its existing financial, sales and stock management systems.
"Any changes we wanted to make were very time-consuming and expensive," Brent says. "Often we'd just make do because the cost of making changes was too high." The final crunch came when the company was quoted $100,000 for an upgrade to equip itself for e-commerce. Greentree was recommended to them as an alternative and contact was rekindled with the local Greentree Partner.
"Greentree had just about everything we needed straight out of the box," explains Brent. "We wanted the software to revolve around us rather than us revolving around the software. It was easy to make Greentree fit with minor tweaks."
ACME Supplies has made some considerable gains since installing Greentree. Brent reports, that amongst other improvements, emailing the monthly statements has reduced from a day-long task to an hour and that preparing the monthly reports has gone from a two day job to less than half a day. What is more, minor changes are easy to make with ACME staff able to alter the wording or layout of a form, at no cost. "Now we know that when we want to make any changes to our business, Greentree will be able to accommodate them," concludes Brent.
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