Founded in 1991 and based in Brisbane, Australia, Perfect Potion is a privately owned manufacturer and retailer of organic skincare and aromatherapy products. With a manufacturing inventory of 500 items and a retailing arm of 800 products, Perfect Potion operates 18 stores across Australia and Japan. The Perfect Potion team is dedicated to creating a diverse range of holistic natural aromatherapy products that nurture the body, mind and spirit.
Prior to the upgrade, Perfect Potion’s stock was ordered manually, leading to human error and additional cost. One of its goals with Syspro 8 is to automate most of the order processing. The emailing of reports has already been automated, enhancing productivity and enabling members of the management team to receive reports anywhere, anytime.
Additionally, Perfect Potion plans to use Syspro’s Point of Sale (POS) module to enhance efficiencies by bringing its manufacturing and retail arms together under Syspro. By using Syspro’s capabilities more effectively, the company will be able to enhance its customer offering, for example through value-added promotions.
Another potential candidate for automation is the receipting of raw materials. Perfect Potion aims to automate the printing of starting materials and testing protocols, which is currently a manual process.
“Upgrading to Syspro 8 was seamless. The ability to do live postings of transactions to the general ledger has been a huge saving.”
“Predictive text has been a huge time saver. The visual aspect is cleaner, brighter and easier on the eye.”
“The ability to email invoices to customers seamlessly has led to better customer service.”
“Expanded fields which allow for full product name and detailed reference on Jobs has been a huge asset.”
“The customisation of layouts to remove visual noise has been great.”
Within a short time, Perfect Potion’s staff found that Syspro 8 saved time and improved business processes. The new solution also provided the enhanced reporting and business insights needed to support the growing business.
“Although we are still in the early stages of delving into how to optimise the potential of Syspro 8, it is gratifying that we are already hearing excited cries from our Syspro users as they discover new features.”
— Janet Shackleton, General Manager, Finance & Operations, Perfect Potion
A long-term Syspro customer, Perfect Potion identified a need to upgrade from Syspro 6.1 to Syspro 8. The goal was to use the new features available in Syspro 8 to improve and simplify business processes.
Syspro’s internal implementation team upgraded the company from Syspro 6.0 to Syspro 6.1 and then to Syspro 7 using three staging servers. This was followed by the upgrade to Syspro 8.
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