PRESS RELEASE - 17 February 2005
Advanta Advances into 2005
Specialist 3PL solution provider Advanta Software held its six month review at their Macquarie Park (Sydney) Head office. Reflecting on the past year, Managing Director, Robert Kery reported “2004 was a pivotal year for our company. Indeed it capped off a period of change unequalled in our 30 year history."
Following divestment of the CRM division in 2003, Advanta re-focussed on its Logistics Division and transformed itself into a dynamic single market organisation with new branding, under the Advanta name, new premises and a whole swag of new products.
These changes have been well received by Advanta’s client base and the 3PL marketplace in general, with Advanta closing half a dozen new name deals in 2004 and a further three in 2005.
“Winning new name deals is always pleasing – because you know that your products are preferred by the marketplace” commented Robert, “but what is equally important for us is that during the year our major clients have enjoyed great growth – indeed our 3PL clients have also been winning in their very competitive marketplace. This is testimony to our ability to deliver value to our client organisations.”
“We absorbed a lot of changes, won new business, developed new products and managed to deliver a satisfactory bottom line. Our results last financial year were excellent with both sales and profits exceeding our budgets”.
Looking forward to 2005 and beyond, Robert indicated, “We have some exciting developments over the coming year. We will be unveiling a new product suite, the ATLAS release, sometime in the middle of the year. This is the culmination of several years development and we believe will raise the bar on integrated logistics for the 3PL marketplace. We are also planning to extend our re-seller channels by appointing some international reseller partners”
Here are some of the highlights of Advanta’s developments during 2004;-
Advanta released Pursuit CRM - 28 April 2004
Pursuit is a windows .NET application developed to integrate with and enhance Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange. Pursuit extends the ease and functionality of Outlook to provide unique facilities to build better relationships with business contacts, including; Corporate Information Organisation, Opportunity Management and Email management. Full Story
Advanta releases EMpower B2B web ordering for the print industry – 5 May 2004
EMpower™ provides all the functionality required for a print company to start eCommerce operations. This includes an internet ‘shop-front’, which allows registration of new customers, processing of requests for quotation and the entry of orders. EMpower™ is also hosted by Advanta, providing fast implementation, minimal administrative overhead and low entry costs. Full Story
Advanta was awarded Best Warehouse Management System for 2004 -12th May 2004
Advanta Software has been recognised by the Global Institute of Logistics for its contribution to the development of operating standards within the 3rd Party logistics sector Full Story
Empower Gains new Client BHB Printing - 2nd June 2004
BHB printing is a medium sized commercial print company who specialise in one out of two colour printing and business forms. They offer their services to a broad customer base including multinationals down to small manufacturing companies. They have implemented Advanta’s Empower B2B web ordering solution. Full Story
MSC Selects Advanta Software - 30th June 2004
MSC Logistics are a specialist 3rd Party Logistics Service provider who offers tailored solutions to a wide range of businesses. Advanta’s BILS – Supply Chain Execution (SCE) system was chosen to replace MSC’s outdated legacy systems. Full Story
ITW updates - 29th July 2004
Advanta Software, celebrating their 31st year of operation, formally recognised ITW Finishing Technologies for their 22 year long partnership. This recognition comes in the final phases of the implementation of ITW’s project upgrading their supply chain software to Advanta’s latest BILS – SCM package. Full Story
Markitforce selects Advanta Software - 31st August 2004
Markitforce are specialists in the warehousing, packaging and distribution of sales, merchandising, point of sale and promotional material. Markitforce has selected Advanta’s eLogistics suite to meet changing consumer needs and to enhance customer service. Advanta’s eLogistics suite covers a wide range of eCommerce applications. In the first phase of their project Markitforce has implemented on-line ordering and catalogue management in a fully hosted environment. Full Story
Advanta hosts training session for Sinopec - 17th September 2004
Advanta Software hosted 14 Sinopec employees on their International Logistics study group. Sinopec Corp. a vertically integrated energy and chemical company visited Australia to learn about Australian Logistics software. Sinopec visited Advanta because they had been awarded the “Best Australian Warehouse Management Solution – 2004” from the Global Institute of Logistics. Besides Advanta only two other organisations were visited in Sydney by Sinopec.
Caltex commissions specialised supply chain management solution – 25 October 2004
Caltex Australia one of Australia’s leading oil refining and convenience retail companies commenced a project to utilise Advanta’s Supply Chain Management software.
Advanta releases A3 - 21st December 2004
A3™ - a suite of internet applications which provide A(nytime)-A(nywhere)-A(ccess) to an organizations published information. A3 can dramatically improve visibility, eliminate administration overheads, streamline business partner activity and promote self-service.
About Advanta Software
Advanta Software specialises in the development and support of state-of-the-art logistics software solutions.
Advanta brings together IT specialists with extensive logistics experience and develops solutions that deliver long-term value to a broad base of blue chip organisations and government departments.
Advanta’s solutions are built on their BILS (Berger Integrated Logistics Suite) product, which is applicable to all distribution centres and contract warehousing companies and is ideally suited for Internet fulfilment type operations. BILS can be operated independently or integrated to an existing ERP system.
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