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Connaught Motor Company
Specialist Manufacturer of the Year 2006
Auto Express New Car Honours 2006
The Type-D GT Syracuse from the Connaught Motor Company offers a unique combination of performance and practicality. Fresh thinking has been applied and the end result is truly staggering. Every aspect has been questioned and new answers sought. This approach led to the adoption of Caliach Vision as the company's manufacturing ERP system.
Connaught Engineering Ltd
Connaught Enginnering Ltd now also use Caliach Vision for their HYBRID+ system, the first retro-fit Hybrid system available on the market designed for light commercial vehicles. This has led to the TESCO/Connaught partnership announced in July 2007 with initial trials being undertaken to hybridise their home delivery fleet with the intention to equip 335 TESCO.com vehicles in 2008.
Caliach Vision - Latest News
16th June 2008 - Caliach Vision V3.10 Released
12th November 2007 - Caliach Vision Open-Rental scheme eases cashflow
concerns
27th March 2007 - Version 3 inspires migrations
21st November 2006 - Major upgrade for Caliach Vision
25th November 2005 - New home, migrations and new sites
14th March 2005 - Rules-based sales order configuration for Version
2.1
1st October 2004 - From fish to furniture
1st May 2004 - Caliach Vision ERP Version 2.0 now being installed
Caliach Vision V3.10 Released
16th June 2008
Caliach Vision V3.10 has been released for use with Omnis Studio V4.3.1. The combination fully supports new operating systems Microsoft Vista and Server 2008 and Apple Macintosh MacOSX V5 known as Leopard. It's release includes a total of 47 significant enhancements including:
- Team Calendar - A full multi-resource calendar to enhance management co-ordination.
- Ledgers Debit Note - A new A/P feature to produce a Debit Note for supplies sold back to suppliers.
- PDF Printing Additions - The PDF report destination and Email now support backbround images and encyption with user password control.
- Environment Enhancements - to support new MacOSX features including window transparancy.
- SO and PO Reviews - now contain both on-order and history.
Full details are available in the What's New in Version 3.10 help page which is inside a full illustrated set of V3.10 help online.
Caliach Vision Open-Rental scheme eases cashflow concerns
12th November 2007
One of the major factors delaying investment in new business software is cash availability for software licences and up-front support fees, not made any easier by the current turmoil in the credit markets. Existing software rental schemes appear to address this, but after 3 - 4 years the need to keep paying rental indefinitely in order to run the software rapidly escalates the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). With these schemes pre-sales consultancy and implementation assistance can also be limited, compared to traditional capital purchase arrangements.
With the Caliach Vision Open-Rental scheme you get the best of both worlds. Customers simply pay a quarterly rental fee which includes software and support, for a fixed term of 3 years. They are free to adjust the configuration or cancel the arrangement at each quarter, and after the 3 year period simply revert to paying the same single annual support fee as customers who made a capital investment. Before and after sales assistance is exactly the same however the software is financed, and ending the rental after 3 years ensures that TCO is comparable with traditional ERP financing.
Within a couple of weeks of launching the scheme, the first rental site was registered, and several more are in the closing stages. More information and some cost illustrations can be found at:
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The Caliach Vision user community continues to expand with both rental and purchase sites including:
- Connaught Motor Company – Automotive Design and Development
- Connaught Engineering Limited – Design and Development of retro-fit Hybrid power units
- Veranda Living Ltd – Steel and Glass Verandas
- CLIFF Electronic Components Ltd – Design and Manufacture of Electromechanical Components
Version 3 inspires migrations
27th March 2007
The release of Caliach Vision Version 3 has helped encourage migrations from the legacy product Caliach MRP - amongst those recently taking the plunge were Mecmesin Ltd, Phoenix Vessel Technology Ltd, and Clariant Tamimi in Saudi Arabia.
Recent new site licences include:
- Malvern Tubular Components Ltd – Tubular components and assemblies
- Limbs and Things Ltd – Surgical training equipment
- Concurrent Technologies Inc – Single board computers
Major upgrade for Caliach Vision
21st November 2006
Version 3 is now shipping to supported users, and includes significant structural changes. Customers, suppliers and CRM/SRM records now all have unlimited multiple addresses, and all addresses have unlimited numbers of contacts. Two of the many advantages with the new data structure, are that a wide range of commercial documents can now be assigned default address and contact records to speed administration, and end-user contacts and addresses can be maintained for serial numbered products, improving product life-cycle management.
Production scheduling is enhanced with a new work operation data structure independent of item masters, allowing for alternate operations and alternate routings, as well as flexible rescheduling with real-time resource loading recalculation. As well as easily identifying bottlenecks, planners can now reschedule and immediately see the results, for rapid optimisation.
An in-built report destination of PDF helps to standardise report and document management, while emailed document attachments are now PDF by default. BACS payment export facilities have been integrated into the main program, with serialised transaction management.
The user interface hasn't been neglected either - the function navigator now allows functions to be grouped into topics, with site-defined instructions or help at both the function and topic level. Users can assign icons, icon style and text to functions, and topics can contain functions from anywhere in the program.
New home, migrations and new sites
25th November 2005
Today sees Caliach Ltd safely installed into our new home, with minimal disruption.
The process of migrating customers from CaliachMRP to Caliach Vision continues, with Classic Glass and Dishwashing Systems and S S White Industrial Ltd of Milton Keynes in the UK, Arabian T R Oil Services Ltd in Saudi Arabia, and Atval (Pty) Ltd in South Africa among recent sites taking the plunge. Around 80% of supported Caliach sites are now operational on the new software, with the balance still able to use CaliachMRP on the latest hardware and benefit from support.
Caliach Vision also continues to replace legacy systems in the manufacturing sector, while being the choice of first-time ERP investors as well. Recent new sites include:
J F Walsh (Packaging) Ltd - Paper Bag Manufacturer
New Pro Foundries Ltd - Aluminium & Bronze Alloy Sand Castings
Dass Manufacturing Ltd - Manufacture of Coffee Dispensing Machines
Energy Technology and Control Ltd - Electronic Controls for Boiler Houses
Rafi GB Limited - Rugged Keyboards and Display Systems
Rules-based sales order configuration for Version 2.1
14th March 2005
Caliach Vision V2.1 sees the introduction of a powerful rules-based sales document configurator as an alternative to the existing product configurator. The new environment employs wizards to guide sales entry staff through the creation of estimates, quotations, jobs or sales orders, while their point-and-click choices are translated into sales documents, new or modified products, and even purchase and works orders. Stock availability at all levels is analysed, and available dates and gross margin can be calculated and displayed in real time.
Other new features include an ad-hoc graphical analysis tool for the generation and display of Key Performance Indicators (KPI), simplified stock multi-location management and reporting, and 49 other enhancements.
From fish to furniture
1st October 2004
New installations of Caliach Vision continue to highlight the versatility of the system, shown by the range of industries represented. Recent sites include:
Bytec Systems Ltd - Contract Electronics Product Manufacturer
Broadwater Mouldings Ltd - Engineers in reinforced plastic moulding (GRP)
Securi-Cabin Ltd - Manufacture of Secure Portable Cabins
Custom Micro Products Ltd - Data Collection Solutions
South East Fish Distributors - Shellfish Processing and Distribution
Beyon - Office Furniture and Installations
Aber Instruments Ltd - Instrumentation
Guardian Lock & Engineering Co Ltd - Locksmiths and Security Products
Caliach Vision ERP Version 2.0 now being installed
1st May 2004
April saw this latest major update distributed, and as with previous releases the majority of users will perform the upgrade themselves, while custom reports and features are safely preserved using the integrated Change Management System (CMS).
Enhancements since version 1.3 number 47, and include a configurable integrated document linking framework allowing a wide range of external media to be associated with most system records, making data such as CAD drawings, quality plans, customer letters and web pages accessible with a single click from a related record.
Other enhancements include a new bank cashflow feature allowing for tentative, firm and recurring predicted entries along with standard accounts transactions; automatic stock allocation according to time-phased priority; improved quality assurance functions and multi-batch stock movement tracking.