Acctek Customisation

Each business is "Individual".

We are individual as a result of many factors:

• The Industry that we operate has specific needs
• We operate in an environment which dictates that we should set business practices apart from our competition.

Core "Generic" or "Shrink wrapped" software cannot be expected to accommodate all our needs.  These packages have been developed with a majority of industry needs and business requirements and often neglect the subtle individual needs of our business.

We have developed a number of utilities that allow us to create customised software for individual needs.

Case Study:

A Sydney based animal health food company required a manufacturing program that would use standard Bills Of Materials (BOMs) but allow flexibility to change components and quantities produced.  The system had to be easy and automatically update to the powerful Pastel Accounting system.
They specified a twist, in that the system should record Batch quantities for reporting.

Using our utilities and knowledge of the Pastel system we were able to store all the relevant information in the Pastel database, without the need for an external data table.  We created external routines and user interface in Visual Basic to read the standard BOMs and give the user the flexibility to change the component quantities and mixture.  At the same time recording the batch numbers for quality control.

The outcome has been that the client has been able to abandon a more complex and costly accounting package for a system that meets their needs.

Case Study:

A Sydney based chemical manufacturing and distribution company required management reports specific to their business practices.  Over many years the management had toiled over spreadsheets every month to produce sales based reporting.  These would take hours and days to produce.

Our solution was to create a suite of Crystal reports. Crystal reports is a third party data interrogation package that allow us to drill into the Pastel data and create management reports.  These reports were based upon the spreadsheets and use parameters and selection criteria to produce the same information.  Now management need only to refresh the report to get information in a fraction of the time.