New Years Revolution January 20, 2012
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It’s been a hectic start to 2012 with new punters getting started with AwardPro and training days revealing the depth of features and possibilities. Now is a great time for anyone mildly interested in AwardPro to have a look at it. We can set up an online demo or possibly come to you for a 1 hour demo to show you how the program is set up and how it will enhance your business day. It will save you time and it will save you money.
The program comes already set up with products and price lists and setting it to your businesses price system only takes about 30 minutes max. Then you’re off an running with a system that will save you time and money guaranteed. Give me a call on 02 9772 1999 or shoot me an email at sales@awardpro.biz to arrange a demo. No doubt this is the ideal time to get going with a professional business software solution that will transform your business. Happy New Year
Xmas Wrap Up. December 19, 2011
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Just half a page of orders left on the job schedule. The sales forecast tells me that we have just $22,000 of sales left to invoice for the year. With most of them showing almost complete on the Job schedule the team are ready to wind it all up. January Jobs are all written up and stock is automatically ordered ahead of time, the engravers has her list of engraving to kick off with and the profit and loss report (unlike MYOB) automatically allocates the stock cost to January.
What a great year it’s been for AwardPro. A fine group has evolved whom have become AwardPro user group with most punters loving the automation of what used to be a manual laborious management process.
Is AwardPro really that good? Does it really make it easier? Just ask the user group. With dynamic tailored programing focused on the industry and attention to the need for easy product import and ease of use AwardPro will change the way you do business forever and make it easier to not only get through your daily tasks but to manage your business in an efficient effective way.
Merry Xmas and I hope you have an easy new year.
AwardPro Job Schedule December 6, 2011
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Just by writing a sales order and setting a required by date AwardPro automatically sets up a work list. The Job Schedule shows all non complete jobs in finish date order so it is always in order and up to date. Everytime you open the Job Schedule any new jobs are automatically set in priority order.
The Job Schedule shows ata glance: The finish date, Job Number, Customer name, Job Reference, delivery method, if the stock has arrived and how many units are involved in the job giving, at a glance, a good grip on whats happening.
If you choose to use AwardPro’s Art Management system it will even tell you if the art has been sent for proof and if it has been approved. Any processes such as sublimation, laser engraving etc on the screen so you can see what is involved in the job and in fact each department in your business can filter the list by department view so they effectively get a clean work list that relates to them. Even one-man operators benifit from the AwardPro Job Schedule as they can either look at the whole picture or filter by say, diamond drag engraving to see what has to be engraved.
There are other features too on the job schedule that was designed in a trophy shop specifically for the trophy industry. AwardPro has come along way in it’s first 18 months and has made outstanding differences to many progressive trophy businesses all over Australia.
Sales Order to Stock order. October 14, 2011
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Being built from the ground up for a Trophy/Promo Business AwardPro provides tools for seamless intergration of orders all the way to invoice.
Starting with sales orders that remembers customer details and allows for more than one contact person; when you add a trophy to the order you can then hit the Modify button and change the components around. This action a) shows the assembly team what parts are required, b) changes the stock order requirement automatically and c) re-calculates the trophy price according to the parts being added and removed.
So once you have refined the order to suit the customer you get a complete list of components required (and if you have bothered to add your stock inventry into AwardPro it will tell you what is in stock and what you need to order. You can ofcourse, adjust what the program says in Job Stock Management which is directly linked to your supplier Pending Stock Orders.
So once you have managed your job stock (i.e looked at the list and adjusted if you have any in stock) the stock requirements are automatically sitting in Pending Stock Orders waiting to be placed. The pending lists shows you the very first job finish date so you always know if you can hold of on placing the supplier order.
Once you open a pending supplier order you can adjust quantites there if you wish and you can add to the order and choose to add to inventory or to a specific customers job. Press the send button and you can either print and fax the order or tell it to convert to pdf and attach to an email.
AwardPro helps you capture the right parts automatically and capture the right sell price for any adjustments and it seamlessly colates supplier order. It speeds up this process dramatically and is accurate allowing you more time to get on with selling and order production. You do save lots of time and human error is reduced dramatically. The trophy industry is a laborious indusrty with lots of t’s to cross and dots to dot.
AwardPro does make your life easier. We designed it that way
Does AwardPro make your life easier? September 15, 2011
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I just rang to speak to an AwardPro user. They said he was at the Gym. It’s thursday! It’s September! He runs one of the busiest Trophy stores in Australia! He’s at the Gym! Whatthu? AwardPro definately makes your life easier. People are wrapped in the speed in which they can write orders and the wonderful automated stock ordering system.
I have even heard users say they like it when the supplier rings to say they are out of stock which gives the AwardPro user the opportunity to use the quick stock swap system.
I am thinking if our Gym going Trophy Business Man is getting fit during business hours then I might ask him to become the pin up boy of AwardPro Marketing.
Getting ready for the crazy season. July 9, 2011
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With AwardPro all supplier catalogues are easily imported to give you instant pricing and stock management. No more sorting out stock needs. Creating price lists for each catalogue is automatic, just select the catalogue price list and print with your logo etc placed at the top of the list.
Now that the new catalogues are out AwardPro users can print mailing lables directly from AwardPro and they choose who to send to. The customer marketing filter allows the users to sort by Customer Type: Sport-Soccer, Sport-Netball, Corporate etc. They can choose they send to with a minimum spend level, by postcode range, by date range or by selecting specific customers from the customer list.
AwardPro Users are geared up for the crazy season and most of the gearing happened automatically.
Advantage AwardPro June 8, 2011
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With the User group growing we are seeing many different applications happening. People are using the program for framing, signage, screen printing, promo products and of course trophies. The system has risen to every challenge and handled all it’s users needs.
AwardPro Users get an advantage of seamless sales order writting to automatic stock ordering through to production management. Just write a sales order and it all happens automatically. Sure this is a great time saving system that is actually reducing the hours people need to run their business. It also reduces interuptions as all work data is there to be seen by all staff. It is definately making lives easier just ask any user.
But their is much more to AwardPro. Features like the automatic catalogue price lists, sign off report, value add system, modify product, supplier out of stock handle, component variation and generic parts system all add up to a professional advantage for AwardPro Users.
But even further to this are the reports. The reports give users the advantage of seeing exactly how much a job costs instantly. Users can also see how many of each product or product type they sold and how much they made for the sales. There is a report that shows how departments are performing. Ever wonder exactly how much money your Laser Engraver makes. AwardPro will tell you that with the press of a button. These are just a few of the reports you get with the system to give you a serious professional business advantage.
It’s July 1 soon and a new financial year. Isn’t it time you took steps to automate the laborious manual management system of a Retail Trophy business. This financial year give yourself the gift of extra time and get AwardPro into your business model. We guarantee it’s easy to use, easy to set up and easy to maintain. We built it that way from the ground up.
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Making a Difference in a busy environment May 25, 2011
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Anthony and Brother Carlo are the young guns taking over the busy family business from Joe and Annette. During a recent version update I asked Anthony how was it going with AwardPro? He told me it was excellent and that they were saving a huge amount of time in not having to work out stock and write up a multiple forms for the one job. Just write the sales order and it all happens. It was music to the ear when he told me that his staff are no longer continuously asking questions and interrupting him each day. The program was obviously doing what it was designed to do.
AwardPro does far more than make your life easier. It propels your business forward and gives you back real time so that you can get some manageable time for yourself and invigorates a new sense of joy of managing a business. It’s like employing a manager for $3.00 per hour in the first year and then free forever after.
AwardPro is designed to and will “Make your life easier”
Clever ways to use Component Variation April 2, 2011
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The Component Variation System is designed to be used for components with a variation factor such as Timber trophy colour or shirt size etc. When you actiate this you can elect to add in the variation possibilities (colour range, size range ect) or leave it blank and just type it in when Variation screen apears at the ales screen. You might just look up the colour or size from the suppliers book.
But I have seen now how Variation System can actually be used as a prompter system to remind you of things such as time frames for printing or print area restriction ect. Whilst using AwardPro was placing and Order with Premier Awards for some Promo Pens for TroPro I stumbled across some Variation “variations/possibilities” and so I thought I would share my email to the lovely Janice regarding this.
Dear Janice,So the task will be:
The Pen Australia range needs to be re-imported with Variation switched on. This will be a good quick exercise for you. The list is imported with no variation (it was created back then when we did not have Variation) and as there is a choice of barrel colours so we need variation activated. We could add in the colours for each pen at the import list VARIATION DETAIL field but that will be a bit time consuming as each Pen will be a bit different. So let’s not worry about the wording as their website is easily accessible and has the colours there so let’s just add YES to the VARIATION column on the import list and we can just look up the colour availability on the website. They may even have a catalogue we could use for look up?
Hang on here’s a thought. What about if you add the website address to the Variation detail field in the template. That way when you add a pen to a sales order and the Variation Screen pops up the web address will right there to access. How good is that! Let’s give that a go.
Also all those lovely art and print components you created for them could have variation switched on and you might even like add a bit of text to variation details for each one such as “minimum print run, time frames for printing etc so the sales person has the detail staring at them when they add the Process Components to the sale.
- Open the original Pen Australia import file
Type YES in the first listing under VARIATION heading and drag it down the list to activate all.
Type in the web address to the first VARIATION DETAIL field and drag it down the list.
Consider if you want to add in some text in the VARIATION DETAIL field and do so. There is only a dozen so you could quickly add something different in each field
Save the file and import it in and your done. Should only take you 10 minutes at the most.
Thanks very much…… and have an easy life. 
Kind Regards,
Geoff
Remote Control March 28, 2011
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It’s Monday morning and I have decided to work at home today as I have a pile of projects I need to concerntrate on without being interupted. I thought I had better check the roster to make sure everyone is at work today and there I discovered Linda is having the day off. Seeings she is Production Manager and Stock Manager I thought I had better take care of her job before getting stuck into my own projects.
So from my study at home, I VNP log into to the computer network at work and opened AwardPro Remotely. I did not bother checking the Artwork Sign Off Report as Burc had told me Friday afternoon that artwork was in good shape. So straight to Job Stock Management Screen where you can see every job that has been written up and not stock managed. There were 6 jobs in the list and according to the visible finish date only two were for this week. Opening each Job’s Job Stock Screen shows all the parts required, who the supplier is, if any are in stock and when they were ordered, due and recieved. After reviewing the six jobs I had to place orders with Evaton and Styles Factory to ensure stock was here on time. The rest were not urgent and some small sized orders so they can wait and Linda will take care of them later. It took me six minutes to manage stock and place the orders I needed to place.
Next I opened the Outstanding Job Schedule to find there were four jobs with red text (due or overdue). Checking the job status notes I could see the first one was cancelled halfway through and it just needs packing (way too busy last week to do that) (I checked the Payment details in AwardPro and could see that they had paid 50% deposit so at least the materials cost is going to be covered or this cancelled job) Another red job was waiting on a replacement part to come in and the other two, well, we better get a move along for those two.
Scanning down the Job Schedule list I could not see any jobs that needed attention except for one custom medal order due at the end of the week. I opened the suppliers card, double clicked on the email address and sent an email follow up.
Cool it’s all in control, Production Management and Stock Control on this Monday took about 15 minutes all up and remotely I can see the state of affairs from my business. Now I can get on with my projects.
AwardPro will give you better control over your business and it will make the whole process of running your business much faster.
