Effective immediately, Joanne Collinson is the Managing Director of blueStar Business Solutions. Richard Jones is off on an overseas adventure soon, but he will be staying on at blueStar as a senior consultant until 29th February 2008.

Richard and his partner Kathy have been invited to help set up and run a new eco-retreat centre and community in Costa Rica (in Central America).

This is an amazing opportunity for Richard and Kathy and a complete life-change for them.

The place they are going to is in the jungle about 1 hour from San Jose – no power or any facilities yet – they will be starting from scratch, working with about 550 hectares of land, which happens to also be close to an extinct volcano (that has just come back to life!).

We wish Richard and Kathy all the very best in their new adventure.

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In December blueStar launched their new website, with a fresh look and a great deal more information for our customers.

We have also added lots of information on each of the Greentree product suites, as well as details on all the services that we offer.

Our website now also includes the Greentree Solution Gateway which is an interactive diagram that illustrates how the Greentree software product suites integrate to form a full business management package.

All future newsletters will be archived on the site too, so that you can refer back to any particular articles of interest.

If you have any ideas about what you would like to see included on the new website, please contact us - we welcome your feedback!

Visit our new website now>>

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We’d like to introduce you to our team of consultants, which is growing fast. This month we welcome on board two new consultants Diana and Maria.

Diana Grima - Diana is a qualified accountant who has worked in the information technology industry for a number of years implementing and supporting Sun Systems and Microsoft Dynamics AX.

Maria Rodwell - Maria has been in the IT industry since 1998, working in the areas of system analysis, software developer and technical support. Maria has worked in engineering, compliance and fashion.

Read more about the rest of our team on the website>>

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Simon Lim
(NSW Consultant / Developer)

We are pleased to announce that we now have just one phone number for all offices, making it much easier to contact us:

1300 653 011

Please use this new number from now on to contact us, rather than the old phone numbers.

The Green Dog went to JLF Corporation to read up on
"Seven Steps to Wealth"

Val Currie (Office Manager, McGees Property)
helps our Green friend to find a property.

Our Green friend couldn’t help himself and had to climb over the Palfinger Cranes.

Greentree’s Going Mobile

Businesses now can wring maximum value out of their software investments with mobile solutions.

Sales and field service workers for example, can now be more responsive to customers, save time and have information at their fingertips, anytime, anywhere, with or without internet conectivity. With this in mind, Greentree’s Mobile project objective is to provide a single platform to deliver both stand alone and connected solutions.

Read more>> (200kb PDF)

Inventory Labeling

Proper labeling plays a big part in inventory management. An organisation that maintains individual stock items can benefit from correct labeling. The ability to clearly read scanned items makes it much simpler to detect mistakes as well as to prevent any errors from happening in the first place, thus reducing the possibility of a breakdown in the system.

Greentree's new inventory label printing function enables users to print item labels automatically from any programme enabling receipts. Such programmes include Purchase Order Receipt/Shipment Entry, Accounts Payable Invoice Entry, Factory Orders Receipt Entry, Inventory Transaction Entry and Kitset Make-to-Stock programmes.

Labels can be printed in duplicate based on a received quantity. It could also be printed singularly where an item is packaged in such a way that only one label is required, e.g. a pallet label. Standard receiving labels cater for the output of item & receipt transaction detail, barcodes, location, and serial/lot data. Retail labeling is also supported via this feature, with the inclusion of a standard retail label that outputs an item price. Labels may also be customised to meet the specific requirements of the organisation.

Interested in this feature? Contact us for more info!

Currency Translation Consolidation

Greentree is constructing a new Currency Translation functionality to enhance their Global Finance suite. Currency translations may be used independently or in conjunction with the Consolidations module. Translation is the process whereby the General Ledger of a company is reported in another currency at a user specified exchange rate. The Reporting Currency Rates are being enhanced to provide for additional user defined rates to be used by the Translations process.

The translation process may be run at any time in a period and may be run multiple times at different rates. A single company may be translated into multiple currencies always based on the ledger value. The translated values may be extracted in a consolidation run by flagging a company combination to use these values when consolidating.

Interested in this feature? Contact us for more info!

We hope you enjoyed this edition of "Better Business Together", we'll be back soon with more blueStar and Greentree news.

Kind regards,
The team at blueStar