The ‘New’ Look

Wow, Greentree GT3 introduces a fresh new look that begins when you startup Greentree, through the login screen, background and then on to all the forms and menus.  We have designed this new look to be easy on the eye and yet provide a colourful working environment for you to use.  But wait, there's more, the impact doesn’t just stop with the look and feel, you will now find colourful graphs on the each of the masterfiles that present visually compelling information specific to that item.

This serves to indicate how Greentree reveals the value beyond just what you see on the surface.

We have also introduced a number of exciting new capabilities in GT3 that will make using Greentree and finding information even easier.  For example you will now find a new option on the file menu called "Menu Search".  Have you ever been daunted by trying to find a particular menu option?  Well now we have made that easier. With ‘Menu Search’ type in the first few letters of the menu option and press enter, and all menu options that contain those letters will be displayed and you can select and action the one you want. 

As can be seen from this screen, we have undertaken a complete facelift of Greentree forms. From a new soft graduated colour background for each form and tab, through to colourful and larger set of Icons on the menu bar. And to enhance consistency, all masterfile forms now come standard with transaction launch buttons on the side bar (excludes Fixed Assets which will follow shortly). An Analysis Tab is now available on many of the forms to show 'contextual Intelligence/trends' related to that instance. Note that this can be turned off per user.

A key objective was to incorporate some of the direction of ‘Vista’ while still providing an uncluttered yet functional user experience. We think that difficult dynamic balance has been achieved and we hope you feel the same.

360 Degree View

We have continued our work to expand visibility of information within Greentree and GT3 introduces several new capabilities including a related tab for the AP Masterfile maintenance and Enquiry forms (related tabs will be progressively added across the product), so you can see all related activities for a Supplier, not just AP transactions. Now that really is a panoramic view for you!

We have also continued our efforts to provide consistency of use and the ability to drive all required functions from one Masterfile form, with Transaction entry launch buttons now having been added to the GL, AR, AP and CM Maintenance forms and a tidy up on IN and JC to increase consistency.

But that’s not all, be sure to look at Explorer and Business Analyst in detail for more exciting capabilities when finding and analysing the information within the Greentree system.  And better still you don’t have to buy any additional modules to get these powerful new tools, they come standard.  Greentree maintenance is working overtime for you.

Quality Control

Our new QC module is designed to allow manufacturing and distribution customers to automate their Quality Control processes for serial/lot tracked items.

Greentree’s Quality Control module provides the ability to design tests, group these within test classifications and then assign these to serial/lot tracked inventory items as well as non inventory items. When Inventory is received from the manufactory floor or receiving dock, the relevant test suite can be automatically generated and only on successful completion of those tests, plus optional secondary approval, are these items made available for sale.

Tests can be designed and used to monitor and approve a range of environmental or process based measures that may not be specifically related to inventory, for example, the temperature and humidity of a laboratory. Greentree’s Quality Control module has been designed to support use of our Approvals and Alerts module to deliver automatic notification of test requirements as well as multi level approvals.

With GT3 QC, we’re ensuring top quality products reach your customers.

QlikView for Greentree Customers

The cutting edge QlikView for Greentree is fast becoming the ‘must have’ analysis and reporting tool for Greentree customers. Business information previously ‘locked away’ is revealed and the rave reviews reflect the difference the tool is making.

Obviously the invigorating transformation of information visibility can positively impact very quickly and businesses can soon benefit from empowering data at your fingertips in no time at all…

“Sometimes, with the “ooh’s and ahh’s”, you’d think we were sampling some gourmet pasta filling, but no… it was QlikView showing them the information they wanted to see in the format they wanted to see it in. I honestly think QlikView truly unlocks the inherent power of the Greentree database.”

Paul Italiano, General Manager - Maria's Pasta

“The implementation of Greentree and QlikView has made us information–rich”

Fiona Ludemann, Office Manager - Ivoclar Vivadent

Business Analyst Graphing

The Greentree Business Analyst allows you to view key information graphically, and gives the ability to customise the graph to suit each user.  The presentation of graphs allows you to view comparisons and patterns in data. Specific values belonging to Suppliers, Customers, Fixed Assets, General Ledger accounts, and Inventory items can be viewed graphically for individual items. The information that is graphed is also displayed in a table, where you can select whether or not data series are to be displayed.

The Graph Designer is a very useful tool for performing queries and presenting graphs of such information, for example; depict the 10 top selling inventory items last month, the customers with the highest overdue balances in the last 6 months, the sales year to date for customers belonging to a specified salesperson, and so on. The visible level of flexibility and simple graphical representation within the tool, provides yet another vital layer of business understanding in GT3.

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Data Import Manager

Data Import Manager automatest text file imports from other sources into Greentree.  The Import Manager is an advanced Workflow functionality that allows users to schedule regular imports of ASCII transaction types and master files such as Customers, Suppliers and Inventory Items as well as transactions such as invoices, receipts, and Journals.  The module has a field mapping function so it does not rely on a fixed format and it provides translation of actual data values during import.  Full audit trail and error reporting is provided including remote advice via email.  Import of files such as word documents, excel documents and graphical images which can be attached to records within Greentree, is a key feature also supported.

Direct Debits

Greentree direct debits module provides the ability to automatically create the bank interface file to directly debit the customers’ accounts for Accounts Receivable invoices in Greentree.  You can specify which customers are to be direct debited and which invoice types are to be included. The module provides automatic processing and reinstatement for any dishonors, including back charging of bank fees to the direct debit customer.

Organisation Charts

The Human Resources Management suite now has the ability to generate graphical organisation charts, using an interface to Microsoft Visio.  The new org chart feature is based on defined positions, rather than individuals, so that the structure of the reporting chart can be maintained regardless of personnel changes.  As part of this new feature, the ability to define positions has been moved from the recruitment module into HR Basics, so that it is available to a wider range of customers.

More FREE

With the FREE Framework changes, the first deliverable is the introduction of CRM options within FREE and the first function to be delivered is the ability to upload CRM Quotes and this will follow shortly after the full GT3 release.  You can be assured many more will follow!

JADE 6.1

Greentree is built in Jade. GT3 moves us to the next JADE platform being Version 6.1. The first major benefit this provides is access to a new set of capabilities that allow you to publish Greentree data on a scheduled basis into Microsoft SQL Server.  From there you are able to use a wealth of Business Intelligence and reporting tools (including Qlikview) as well as aggregate data with other non Greentree systems for consolidated analysis and reporting.

This functionality is provided by JADE's Relational Population Service (RPS).  RPS also provides the capability for hot standby database support, so in the event of major hardware failure you can hot swap to a secondary copy.  A valuable function for the cautious enterprise.

Keeping up with JADE product releases ensures that performance benefits that are delivered are available to customers and also that language and database enhancements (like RPS) can be factored into our future product design and development plans. The upgrade to 6.1 re-affirms JADE as a highly flexible and robust development platform.

Inventory Budgets

Preparation of budgets is always a time consuming and reiterative process. Inventory Budgets has been designed to facilitate this process, and to provide a simple and easy means of data entry. An annual budget quantity and a budget value are all that is required to commence the process with pre-defined user quantity and value spreads automatically extrapolating the quantities and values into each calendar period.

Quantity spreads cater for seasonal fluctuations while the price spreads cater for increases/decreases in value or special promotions for specific periods throughout the calendar year.

As any number of quantity and value spreads can be pre-defined, and with a range of combinations for entering the budgets, the reiterative process can quickly and easily be run with different configurations and strategies until the desired results are obtained.            

The screen shows the results of the quantity and value spreads being applied to an annual quantity and base value for a branch / customer combination with the ability to manually fine tune the resulting calculations.

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