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Acumen Republic

Greentree Financials has helped enhance the financial management of one of New Zealand’s largest public relations consultancies. Acumen Republic Limited has the reputation for delivering excellence in perception management, and now its internal financial reporting is more comprehensive and flexible than ever before.

Allied Pickfords

While this global household moving company delivers its customers’ precious belongings on time and intact, Greentree ensures the HR numbers stack up for future growth.

Alucobond

Struggling with a system that simply wasn’t coping with the demands of increasing levels of complexity prompted a visit to a business software tradeshow where, on the face of it, at least 12 offerings could achieve what Alucobond CEO Bruce Rayment was looking for - sophisticated workflow capability.

Amalgamated Pest Control

The largest Australian-owned pest control company, Amalgamated Pest Control Pty Ltd (APC) has decided Greentree is the software that will support its business growth. APC had used Attaché Business Software, tier 3 software, for over 13 years.

Airfirst

Beth Borzi, Administration Manager at Airfirst Pty Ltd, found salvation from the time-wasting inefficiency of disparate systems when Greentree eliminated the need for data re-entry.

Armflame

Since implementing Greentree almost 18 months ago, management at Armflame Pty Ltd, a gas & pipe installation company, has consolidated several quick returns on investment. With much greater data accessibility, the company now competes for more sophisticated, and thus more lucrative, tender opportunities.

A.S. Wilcox

Sustainable growth is the main driver for one of the largest privately owned fresh produce growers in New Zealand. A.S. Wilcox & Sons Limited required new business software to assist their business growth and the management of a production base of 2,500 acres and over 120 permanent staff.

Bidwells

When the business and reporting improvements Greentree could make were demonstrated, within the short time it took to complete a business meeting, the evaluation team knew they were onto a winner.

BIGA

Trying to fit the business model into a straitjacket-like system eventually got the better of one of Australia’s largest Construction and Allied industries apprentice training and education organisations, so they turned to Greentree for a ‘best fit’ accounting system.

Border Express

Australian interstate transport and distribution services company Border Express had a paper-based system where invoices were sent around various departments for manual signoff. With no tools in place to keep track of what had been approved across the company’s 12 sites, matching purchase orders with invoices was an unnecessarily drawn-out process.

Candis

It was almost a done deal until a showstopper phone call from the local Greentree Business Partner changed everything.

Carmel College

Finding the closed period accounting system you’re currently using a nightmare? You’re not alone.

Old-school accounting was relatively simple before bulk funding gave NZ school Boards of Trustees a crash course in small business accounting.

Castle Howard

Greentree brings a 21st century solution to 18th century icon, Castle Howard Estate. Known worldwide as Yorkshire’s premier historic house, Castle Howard’s mission is to use the profit generated by the estate to fund restoration and conservation of its historical buildings and landscape.

Centacare

Centacare, a large non-profit community care organisation in South Australia, has selected Greentree as its new financial system to support the organisation and its 220 staff.

Community Based Support

An interdependent community where all people can participate to their potential and achieve maximum control of their lives is the vision of Community Based Support South Inc (CBS), which provides in-home and community-based personal support and respite care for frail older people, people with a disability and their carers in Southern Tasmania.

CORD UK

Greentree’s Excel integration provided the perfect solution for this UK charity when its funding livelihood became increasingly entangled in a spreadsheet web.

Crosby Tiles

Crosby Tiles had a significant need for flexible unit-of-measure calculation within inventory management but the only offering that had all the angles covered was Greentree.

Curious Film

A Greentree solution is driving efficiency at Curious Film, helping the commercial film company complete its withholding tax calculations in minutes rather than days.

The Davey Group

The vibrant mining, transport and agricultural sectors in Queensland Australia continue to drive growth and change in companies like The Davey Group, where the incumbent business system could be ‘patched’ no longer. Greentree was implemented to help the group evolve from a jobbing shop into a product-based organisation, while not losing the jobbing capabilities of the group.

EasiYo

Whilst the ‘live’ cultures in yogurt go in to battle for healthy inner-space, Greentree IQ (powered by QlikView) analyses ‘live’ data for smarter mind-space.

EnviTE

If ever the expression “can’t see the forest for the trees” was more apt, it’s in this case. When the efficient management of environmental projects got bogged down in 3500 general ledger codes, Greentree showed the way.

Eurotec Instruments

Distributing 1,500 orders to over 500 customers per month, and managing 5,000 stock items from over 50 product suppliers in Europe, USA and Australia with a team of 20, is a complex business and requires a powerful accounting and business management suite to maintain a high level of efficiency and performance.

Eyeworks Touchdown

Eyeworks Touchdown television productions is New Zealand’s leading producer of reality and lifestyle television, producing over 180 hours of prime-time television a year in four countries – NZ, Australia, UK and USA .

Fire Fighting Pacific

Management at Telarc ISO 9001-accredited Fire Fighting Pacific has a crystal clear view of business at the speed-of-business since Greentree was implemented.

First Nonprofit

Based in Chicago, First Nonprofit has been dedicated to serving non-profit organisations through innovative insurance and financial services for more than 25 years. First Nonprofit entered into the unemployment insurance field in 1995 to develop a product to help its non-profit policyholders reduce the rising costs of unemployment insurance.

Gerrard Murphy Plumbing

Since maintenance scheduling was integrated with CRM and Financials, dozens of plumbers at Gerrard Murphy Plumbing (Murphy Plumbing) are happily stemming the flow of water instead of drowning in a sea of paper. Informed management are now spending more time “managing the possibilities” which have come to light as a result of better access to and greater visibility of organisational data.

GMHBA

Greentree was the software of choice for one of Australia’s Hospital Benefit Funds, GMHBA Limited, when it decided to upgrade its CBA Financial system. Streamlined reporting via the ‘impressive’ integration between Greentree and Excel made the decision to change reasonably easy.

Gray Line New Zealand

Gray Line New Zealand offers day and overnight tours of the North and South Islands by luxury air-conditioned coaches. The company began life as Mini Tours in 1967 and now has a range of daily brochure tours.

HiPP.com.au

It was the ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ nature of hiPP.com.au’s software which management discovered was doing evil things to its cost overheads.

Hitron

Upgrading from microwave to digital transmission prompted the need for more sophisticated equipment tracking, which Greentree handles with ease.

HJ Cooper

Looking to pursue new market opportunities and enable more meaningful relationships with customers, this 100-year-old water systems company turned to Greentree to help reinvent the business through technology and process improvement.

H W Richardson

The H W Richardson Group Ltd is a family owned business and is proudly Southland owned, with over 1000 staff and a turnover of approximately $400 million.

Hydroflow

Distributing a wide range of valves, pipe fittings and plumbing hardware, Hydroflow has a presence throughout New Zealand. It has built an excellent reputation in water reticulation, backflow prevention and farm water solutions.

Hydrosteer

It was a case of ‘eyes wide open’ when management at Hydrosteer, a specialist steering and technical service company, made the informed decision to implement Greentree last year. Hard on the heels of a rogue accounting system implementation was a visit to a software trade show, where they were surprised to learn about the many possibilities before deciding Greentree was the best possible fit.

Incat

This large, fast, record-holding catamaran builder delivers its public and military passengers to their destinations in the comfort and warmth of its sleek, modern vessels every trip without fuss or incident. The same could not be said about the multiple disparate systems which were struggling to support the business in near ‘perfect storm’ conditions.

Infocus

A Greentree solution helps Infocus Wealth Management save half a day every week, while giving the Group Finance & Administration Manager peace of mind at the end of the month.

Integrated Automation

For Australian automation products supplier, Integrated Automation, the decision to adopt EDI didn’t so much arise from a set of problems, as present itself as an opportunity to improve.

ISS

By merging numerous payroll systems into one, and automating processes, a Greentree solution helps ISS save four full-time data entry positions a week.

JLF Group

JLF Group of Companies has been a long-term user of CBA. As its property development business grew, and with the introduction of compliance reporting of GST in Australia, JLF felt it needed a new financial system to manage its growth, the high volume of inter-company transactions, and GST functions.

Kenneth Ayres

For over 25 years, Kenneth Ayres Australia Pty Ltd has been a specialist and leader in the sale of retail presentation packaging and display supplies, focusing primarily on the jewellery industry.

Keratec

It’s only natural that Keratec, a centre for innovation in the manufacture of Functional Keratin™, a natural protein obtained from wool, would be found in New Zealand where sheep still outnumber people by 10:1†. Whilst innovation fuelled growth, MYOB was struggling to support it.

Leap Australasia

When this NZ-headquartered water systems company launched its innovative polybutylene plumbing system into the Australian market, it leapfrogged its competitors by five years.

Lecky's Electrical

Melbourne-based Lecky’s Electrical and Data has grown to become one of Australia's most successful electrical component wholesalers. Since 1990, the company has expanded to open a total of five Melbourne outlets, along with one in Albury in regional New South Wales. Lecky’s presently has a base of over 1,000 regular customers and to cater for their varying needs, Lecky’s stocks over 40,000 different inventory line items, a number which is growing exponentially.

Lutheran Education

Organisational needs often change over five years. Software packages often can’t handle an organisation’s changing needs. But five years after Lutheran Education Queensland (LE Q) installed Greentree, accountant Julie Rogers is still a proponent of the accounting package.

Lyttelton Engineering

Lyttelton Engineering Ltd, a leading Canterbury marine and industrial engineering firm, was faced with the problem of replacing an antiquated financial system with as little disruption to ongoing business as possible.

Maria's Pasta

The growth of pasta manufacturer, Maria’s Pasta, has been fast and constant over the last 20 years. Since 1989 Maria’s Pasta had relied on CBA to manage the financial and distribution data, but its growth dictated the need for a new system.

Maskell Productions

When software salespeople enthusiastically answer “yes” to pretty much every question you ask, does it make you feel skeptical about what their offering can actually do and how much they intend developing from scratch? More importantly, it’s probably occurred to you that your business could be footing the bill for development that could be rolled out to every other customer.

Mazda New Zealand

Being at the forefront of technology Mazda required a modern, flexible and fully integrated financial system that could keep pace with the changing motor industry. Auckland-based Mazda Motors of New Zealand Limited had originally used an industry-specific accounting system, BPCS .

McCallum Bros

Raising an invoice each time a truck made a delivery simply wasn’t an option when on any given day, each truck might make 10 deliveries to the same customer. This had the potential to significantly increase administrative overhead and inundate their customers with one-line invoices, which is why Jane Chandler, Administration Manager at McCallum Bros. Ltd. opted for Greentree over any other system she evaluated.

Medical Council of New Zealand

As a national regulatory body, The Medical Council of New Zealand demands high standards throughout its organisation. Reaching and maintaining these standards means that it can achieve its primary purpose: protecting the health and safety of New Zealanders. Having the right systems in place to achieve this goal and support the weight of responsibility is key for the Medical Council and numerous fundraising groups, with accurate and timely information.

MG Rover

It was announced that new importer MG Rover New Zealand, trading under licence of MG Rover Group Limited, would be launching vehicles into the New Zealand market.

Meyercord Revenue, Inc.

Meyercord Revenue Inc. has unrivaled expertise and experience in developing anti-counterfeiting strategies, processes and products to satisfy even the toughest product authentication and tracking challenges. Its specialised and secure web-press production facility provides high-quality graphics, image transfers, coating chemistries and proprietary security labels.

Motorcorp Holdings

Mergers and Acquisitions are hardly unusual in business today, but how often does a retail dealership merge with the same wholesale dealership, remain competitive and deliver a higher level of customer service? On the face of it, many would suggest there have to be ‘casualties’ - but not so.

Newfishing

When they embarked on a major overhaul of their disparate systems, the main goal for Newfishing Pty Ltd and Austral Fisheries Pty Ltd was not trading integration for flexibility.

New Plymouth Boys High School

The production of one-size-fits-all reporting was producing more paper than useful. The implementation of Greentree changed this.

Newspoll

Newspoll is Australia’s leading provider of public quantitative market research services and opinion poll information. With offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, the company provides high-quality information that is accurate, reliable and timely.

Pacifica Transport Group

The competitive pressures and demands of 21st century business practices had created a mismatch with this shipping company’s 20th century technology. Looking to avoid any potential disasters, management made the proactive decision to implement Greentree with little, if any, disruption to business continuity.

Pacific Marine Batteries

Pacific Marine Batteries decided it needed a new accounting system, as its incumbent system, Platinum, was outdated, had limited support and was a mass of add-ons. Financial controller Kenneth Andersen decided the company needed an integrated solution to simplify the finance team’s job.

Palfinger Australia

Greentree’s ability to update large volume price lists was the key driver in the decision to make the quantum leap from a manual to an automated environment for this well-known crane manufacturer.

The PA People

When we inherit responsibility for someone else’s business software decisions we usually want to change everything, right? Usually, yes. When David Goodwin took over as Group Financial Controller at The PA People, he was pleasantly surprised to find that Greentree, the business management software he inherited, wasn’t actually broken, so he had no reason to ditch it.

Paramount Services

A Greentree system works as a quality stamp for Paramount Services when tendering for contracts, as well as facilitating growth for the fast-expanding business.

Patton Refrigeration

Established in 1923, Patton is a leading manufacturer and wholesaler of refrigeration, air conditioning and mechanical services products. With manufacturing facilities in New Zealand, Australia and Thailand, and sales and service representation throughout the Pacific and Asia, Patton also manages some complex inventory and distribution issues.

Print Blocks

With several hundred stock items being updated each month, this entirely online business turned to Greentree’s WebStore and inventory management capability to streamline the web sales process. In less than 12 months, the company has achieved some significant efficiency gains.

The Publishers Association

A challenge to the status quo helped uncover Greentree’s remarkable potential for efficiency gains at the UK’s largest representative body of publishing industry participants.

RJ Hill Laboratories

The team at RJ Hill Laboratories Ltd works in modern, ergonomically designed laboratory space using state-of-the-art analytical technology. It maintains very high quality standards, and adhered to these principles when looking for a new business system to provide greater control and visibility for its business.

Roadways

The lack of a coherent job costing process in a 12-year-old DOS-based system had necessitated several experts in laying asphalt and other specialised road coatings at Roadways to seek deliverance from a new Business Management Suite. Salvation came in the form of Greentree’s fully integrated modular solution. The seal of approval was given to Financials, Job Cost, Payroll, Inventory and Transaction Analysis, which were all recently deployed.

Rocky Bay

Founded in 1938, Rocky Bay provides Clinical, Employment, Work Alternatives and Accommodation Services for over 1,000 children and adults with disabilities. As a large and long-established non-profit organisation, Rocky Bay has a responsibility to provide its stakeholders, the State and Federal governments and numerous fundraising groups, with accurate and timely information.

Rothbury

National insurance-broking firms Rothbury and Commercial & General merged on 1 April 2005 to form C & G Rothbury Insurance Group, making them one of New Zealand’s largest insurance-broking operations.

Ryman Healthcare

Ryman Healthcare Limited is a public company listed on the New Zealand Stock Exchange. It has been operating facilities in New Zealand for the elderly since 1984 and is considered to be a pioneer in many aspects of the healthcare industry.

SHC Direct

SHC Direct develops and delivers Loyalty Marketing Solutions to help companies create and sustain better customer relationships. Based near Chicago, Illinois, SHC Direct has assisted many clients in achieving their business goals, building stronger customer relationships with highly strategic marketing solutions.

Smith & Davies

The Holy Grail for any transport-based business has got to be the pursuit of the truly paperless despatch talking to GPS-connected trucks. Greentree has helped rescue this transport company from the paper war in the office, and enabled management to focus attention on process improvement, profitability and connecting the office to its trucks.

Solomon Telekom

Overcoming the business challenges presented to Solomon Telekom, in terms of remoteness and logistics, is testament to the robust architecture and the flexibile service of the Greentree solution.

Southern Cross Healthcare

The evergrowing need to provide services and ‘a great place to live’ for ‘yesterday’s pioneers’ has seen Southern Cross Care become one of the largest aged care provider in Australia. In the last 10 years it has seen a 600% growth rate and each year builds 4-5 additional facilities.

Stahmann Farms

If your business has a manufacturing, processing or growing component to it, then the significance of Quality Control can never be underestimated. The cost consequences of a product recall and the associated loss of reputation in your market could be potentially disastrous.

Strutt & Parker

UK property consultancy Strutt & Parker has more than 125 years of experience in real estate management. Through their more than 50 offices and a team of about 700 agents, they look after a huge range of farming, residential and commercial properties, and when the time came to update their client financial management system, their choice was Greentree.

Sun Engineering

Sun Engineering (QLD) Pty Ltd has an ambitious growth strategy which bucks global trends. To ensure this wasn’t constrained by an antiquated accounting system, they sought to install a fully integrated high-performance business solution.

Taikura Trust

The financial management success of this community-based trust is directly related to Greentree’s adaptability to its unique needs.

Tear Fund

Donations to this not-for-profit are making a difference faster than they ever have before.

Technika

They say a happy user is the best salesperson. And after European appliance importer and distributor Technika installed Greentree earlier this year, financial controller Trevor Porter is a huge proponent of Greentree.

Toyota Technical Center

In June 2003, Toyota Motor Corporation announced a major investment in automotive engineering design through the creation of a Technical Design Center for the Asia Pacific region. They chose Greentree to help them breathe life into their vision.

UK Highways

Traffic flow on two of the UK’s busiest arterial roadways was arguably more manageable than office workflows, until Greentree got behind the wheel.

United Cleaning

United Cleaning Services upgraded from CBA to Greentree and is now seeing significant efficiency gains across the business.

Universal Homes

Listening to customers and designing to specification has made Universal Homes unique in its industry of building homes and creating lifestyles. A recently implemented financial system – Greentree – is playing its part in strengthening this business.

Valley Longwall

The implementation of Greentree has achieved the original goal of positioning Valley Longwall International for growth through acquisition. Greentree continues to support the forward momentum of that growth as the organisation taps into the potential of China.

Veolia Transport

It took Veolia Transport, with over 100 years of public transport operations experience in 25 countries, little time at all to figure Greentree was exactly what was needed to help transform Auckland’s rail system into a modern, efficient and integrated public transport service.

Video 2000

Since 1982 Video 2000 has grown to be the fourth largest video store owner and operator in Australia, with over 100 rental stores. These are a mix of wholly-owned stores and franchises, with stock levels exceeding half a million movies. The group’s affairs and the 11 different distribution companies are managed by a family-type group and an active Board of Directors.

Vynco Industries

Unleashed from the constraints the previous system was putting on growth potential, this manufacturer has improved its sales performance by adding Workflow and Greentree IQ (powered by QlikView).

Ivoclar Vivadent

Ivoclar Vivadent, a dentistry sales and marketing company, is familiar with precision ‘tools of the trade’. But with 18,000 stock codes to handle, it needed a very high-performing set of business tools itself.

John Goss Projects

If you lived in a tropics-like location within a short distance of Australia’s stunning Gold Coast where you could surf all day or just lie idly around on the beach, would you want to spend almost a week getting your end-of-month accounts out? Hardly!

Seeka

Maintaining your competitive position as your industry’s largest supplier is not a situation that happens by accident or overnight. Ensuring your internal information systems and processes support and maintain that position is strategic, requiring a clear understanding of the competitive dynamics of your industry.

Griffiths Equipment

Griffiths Equipment supplies major automotive and hardware outlets nationwide, including Repco, Supercheap Auto, Mitre 10, and Bunnings. On average, Griffiths’ warehouse picks 40,000 product lines a month, generating more than 5000 invoices. Griffiths had already benefited from Greentree’s ease of use, flexibility and drill-down features, which sped up the time for processing orders and provided greater visibility. However, errors in the picking of products were costing time and money.

John Hart Pty Ltd

When you’re playing table tennis, seeing the ball should be simple. But if the ‘ball’ consists of a series of orders that are bouncing back and forth between various branches of your business, visibility can be tricky.