Stephen Boyd

United Fisheries Limited

Accounting and Administration Manager

• WHAT DOES UNITED FISHERIES DO?– Catching– Harvesting– Processing– Export– Import– Auction

• ANNUAL PROCESSING VOLUMES– 45,000 Sales Invoices– 11,000 Purchase Invoices– 800 Containers Exported– 75 Containers Imported– 750,000 General Ledger Entries– 160 People are employed

• FINANCIAL SYSTEMS HISTORY– 1996 Implemented Olympick (Unix based

system from Sandersons)– 2001 Researched alternative systems

• Able Solutions• Greentrees• Navision

– 1st Oct 2001 Navision went LIVE

• WHY WE CHOSE NAVISION– Drill down– Easy to use– Windows based environment– Ease of data extraction– Customisation– 44,000 Live systems can’t be wrong!– Discount offered

• OTHER SYSTEMS– Quota Management– Prodoc– PayGlobal– Winforecast

• CURRENT COMPUTER NETWORK– 30 users– Thin client, 2 Citrix servers– File & Print server– Exchange server in DMZ– Windows 2003– Office 2003

• NAVISION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENTS– Navision the “Master System”– Auction system– Prodoc integration– SQL back-end– Upgrade– Costing table– Factory Report– National freight calculation– Sales Information table

• EFFICIENCIES GAINED FROM NAVISION– Less administration staff – National sales doubled– Paper storage– Accuracy / Presentation– Timeliness of Information

• LESSONS LEARNED– Choose your IT partners carefully– If your system is not giving you what you

want, don’t accept second best– Get your in-house Admin/IT support in order– Go with the masses– Make sure the system you choose has a long

shelf life

• FUTURE PROJECTS– Cashflow forecast– Reporting direct from SQL– Refinement of product tracking– Costings (Bill of Materials)

– Questions and Answers