Southern Cross Care plans, builds and provides the management for a network of lifestyle villages for the over 60’s throughout 26 locations in ACT and NSW. The organisation manages over 55 facilities comprising hostels, nursing homes and retirement villages and employs a team of 800 including nursing, administration, food and hygiene and maintenance staff. The ever-growing 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 providers in Australia. In the last 10 years it has seen a 600% growth rate and each year builds 4-5 additional facilities.

As a not-for-profit organisation the management team need to manage this growth and improve efficiencies across the board with the latest technology available. The move to Greentree enabled a centralised accounting system for the 55 facilities. Danny Assabgy, Finance Manager, says, “every organisation has to keep up with the latest technology with a modern system, Greentree will easily be a good fit for us for the next 5 years plus.” Danny explains that following a detailed demonstration and training session conducted by GT Business “we were convinced from day one to change to Greentree. We are very confident that Greentree is good for our organisation…as a non-profit organisation we were pleased that GT business ensured that Greentree was implemented to schedule and budget.”

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Major changes to CRM, enabling the easy importing and de-duplicating of data. There is no need to store and maintain mailing lists externally. It means that your email or postal lists are always accurate and up to date, and available in CRM.

Warehouse Management suite now includes Warehouse Bin Management, enabling trouble-free picking and packing, and Mobile Warehouse Operations, which allows staff to pick items on the move, updating orders and information in real-time.

For management of day-to-day operations, Greentree’s new visual planning boards provide real-time information on just about every hands-on business action. At a glance you can see what jobs staff are doing, allocate new tasks to those who are free, plan job, service and leave requests, and be notified instantly of changes.

Greentree has made job costing a breeze with date based price books, which allow you to set up new pricing structures in advance, and job cost inventory advanced pricing, which offers highly configurable pricing options. Greentree’s Job Cost module can also interface with Microsoft Project, allowing you to update information in both.

Greentree WebView is a powerful publishing engine that allows anyone else you wish to view any Greentree information via a web browser. WebView Financial Reporting allows you to define the structure of your financial reports and publish them to authorised users, who can also drill down for further information.

3D just goes to show that Greentree has one focus: to help companies be primed for business.

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Mark Gould director of GT Business says “GT Business is really pleased to be associated with a finalist in the $250,000 Greentree Game-ON promotion. Caesars are a family owned home furnishing business in Griffith NSW. It is tremendous that a regional based business who are closely involved in their community was given a chance at winning this fantastic prize.”

“Normally when people buy carpets they tend to buy something else,” says Financial Controller Sonia Callipari, “but at present we have no way of communicating between departments.” Callipari would also like integrated payroll entry, better stock control and warehousing systems, and to enable customers to make payments online. “Greentree would streamline us,” she says. “It would help us better serve our customers, in terms of knowing where they’re at, and what service we can provide them with now and in the future.”   >>

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Mark Murphy said he realised their old system wasn’t performing since there didn’t seem to be any real flexibility or tangible benefits but “the GT Business came up with some useful ERP system customisations which have made progressive, overdue improvements”.

Mark Gould, Director of GT Business commented “We enjoy working with Murphy Plumbing and are proud to have helped them grow their business”.

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Many ANZ organisations appear to be evaluating just what operational resources will net them a good return. “The Greentree ERP system is fully integrated and enables business to effectively manage costs and to make better strategic decisions, due to access to centralized KPI driven data”, said Mark Gould, Director of Greentree Partner GT Business.

Having a great solution is only part of the equation of course and as companies get more discerning they also look for even more added value. “We form a close link with our customers, aiming to provide not just software but a complete solution that includes responsive services and business advisory” said Mark.