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We are often asked what makes a company choose MAP4.
There are, after all, many more well-known, and cheaper, products on the market. Sage and Pegasus, for example are higher profile and perhaps glitzier, with more users than MAP4. Yet still we continue to attract many customers who already use those products.
We believe that the majority of companies see beyond the glitz and know what is really important.
A core business system needs to be robust and reliable. Yes, it must, of course, perform all the normal daily functions expected of it, like invoice production, stock control etc. Yet a system that is 100% reliable, doesn’t crash, doesn’t get viruses and doesn’t need expensive IT professionals to run it should be very high on the priority list. Couple that with top-notch customer support and we believe we have the answer.
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On the move
We are delighted to announce that we are moving to new offices.
Our modern, larger premises will give us much improved Training
and Demonstration facilities, whilst we remain in easy reach
of the motorway network.
We will be operating from our new address from Monday, 28th
July 2003 with new telephone and fax numbers. Email and Website
addresses remain unchanged. Our new details can be found
at the foot of this newsletter.
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Kent Bearings.
 
It was back in 1995 that we first came into contact with
Kent Bearings. They were getting frustrated with the lack of
sales information available from their Sage system, and had
heard about MAP4 from several contacts within the Bearings
Industry. As a result, we were invited to
demonstrate our software to them, which we
duly did at their Head Office in Ashford.
That was the
last we saw or
heard of them
until 5 years
later.
We then received a request from them to have
another look at MAP4. The difference this time
was that the company had grown considerably,
and the problems they had been experiencing in 1995 were
now much more acute and had far greater consequences for
the continued expansion of the company.
It transpired that Kent Bearings had installed a Foxpro Database
system in the intervening years, written and installed
by a family friend. This, in turn, had not been the answer to
all of their problems, and they subsequently opted for the
market leader in the industry, MAP4.
But the story had begun 12 years previously, when Martin
Bennett and Stuart Parker decided to leave Mecro and, like
many others, start up on their own. An 8’ x 10’ office near
Ashford Airport was their first home, with a move to larger
premises coming 2 years later.
Expansion continued when they acquired BT Express in
Whitstable in 1993. This was followed in 1996 with the
opening of a branch in Hastings and in 1999 the relocation
of their Head Office and branch in Ashford. Yet another
new branch was opened in Rochester in 2000, and the recent
purchase of BG Engineering, of Staplehurst, and it’s relocation
to Ashford completes the story.
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MAP4 NEWS BRIEFS
Some recent MAP4 enhancements
and modifications which we hope
you find of interest.
Invoice Archive
Report Generator
This new Report Generator has been
added to the Transaction Reports
sub-menu of the Sales Ledger.
It will enable you to produce reports
and data export files from the Invoice
and Credit Note Archive
Files, containing data such as Customer
Name, Stock Reference,
Quantity, Value, Delivery Address,
Order Number, Invoice Number etc.
It could be particularly useful for
producing mailing lists (using the
Delivery Address for Cash customers)
selected by Product Type eg
create a file of names and delivery
addresses of all customers who have
bought pulleys in the last two years.
This file could then be mail merged
with a standard promotional letter.
User Enhancements
We recently asked our users if there
were any specific MAP4 improvements
they would like to see.
Whilst there weren’t too many
(which we took as a compliment),
these have been implemented in
Level 36 of the software.
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