Given the economic climate, the current focus is on new implementations (for new and existing customers alike) to improve efficiency and KPI monitoring. The drive for increased productivity and easily-accessible information will help our customers manage more effectively against the current economic backdrop.

All in all, with record turnover in the year to 31st March 2008, we continue to expand our team in all areas in order to meet customer requirements and our own internal development programme.

It is with pleasure, therefore, that we are pleased to announce the arrival of five new domestic and international customers already this year. With activities spread across manufacturing and own goods distribution, implementations are phased to take place in the first half of this year.

We wish you all a very merry Christmas and a prosperous new year.

The first implementation (of an rf-MACS) system will take place in Georgetown, Guyana in October 2007.

Our continued expansion has resulted in the appointment of a new Operations Director (Jerry Beswick) to manage the company's day-to-day activities. As a former customer, Jerry brings with him an excellent knowledge of our software products, together with significant commercial management experience. With an increase in overall staff numbers (in the areas of software development, project management/implementation and support) and with various other new projects in the pipeline, Jerry will also have the benefit of the additional expertise and experience provided by Richard Miller. Richard has significant practical logistics and systems experience. Most recently, he has been working with MACS Software on a number of new installations in the UK and internationally.

We have also again decided not to send Christmas cards to our partners this year. Instead, we have made a donation to the Leicester Children's Hospital, which we hope will bring some festive cheer to the children at such a difficult time.

In addition, in recent weeks, we're delighted to have been chosen to install systems in three growing businesses, all varying in size. One is a well known manufacturer/distributor of outdoor leisure products, with the other two involved in the distribution of printer consumables and electronics accessories. Implementations are ongoing.

For further information on how MACS Software can help your business, please contact Esther Dutton on 01455 203626.

We hope you all enjoyed the latest newsletter. We hope to bring you regular updates throughout the year. We welcome any feedback from customers old, new and potential alike.

We have again decided, therefore, not to send Christmas cards to our customers, suppliers and partners this year. Instead, we have made a donation to the Hospital, which we hope will bring some festive cheer to the children at such a difficult time.

We would like to thank all our friends, partners and colleagues for their support during the year. We wish you all a very merry Christmas and a prosperous new year.

The first is a distributor of ingredients to the food industry. In this environment, batch and sell-by-date control is critical. The system is due to go live at the end of July, some 4 weeks after project approval.

The second is a major house builder located in the south-east of England. A new warehouse will manage the supply of equipment and materials from a central hub to all its building sites. Significant benefits are expected through better purchase order management, greater stock visibility and more accurate supply to meet critical site deadlines. MACS will interface with our customer's AS400 system to ensure a seamless accounting and warehouse management process.

With another new 3PL customer scheduled to go live this month with an i-MACS driven wms, we are also in the process of upgrading two customers from paper to rf-based MACS systems.

Also of note, our involvement as CML plc's technology partner was highlighed in Manufacturing and Logistics IT magazine recently. Our increasing involvement in helping manufacturers with their warehouse management will be featured in the same magazine in the future.

Again, the MACS system is available in either Russian or English, according to the user's preferences and profile.

One, established for 10 years, has grown steadily and now manages complete supply chain solutions for a number of well known companies from the promotional, publishing and pharmaceutical markets.

The other, recently established, distributes a number of barbeque products to some of the UK's largest multiple retailers on behalf of overseas suppliers.

Both companies will use a combination of c-MACS (our wms solution for expanding small businesses), i-MACS and EDI interfaces to help manage their operations.

Our client will utilise the latest Intermec CK30 radio frequency barcode scanners and the rf-MACS warehouse management software to manage the flow of goods into and out of the production area and despatches to customers.The rf-MACS system will extract data out of our client's Caliach MRP package in order to minimise duplication of effort and to allow a seamless flow of relevant information.

Again, significant improvements in productivity and visibility of stock are expected. Overall stock levels and write-offs should also reduce dramatically.

The project is forecast to go-live at the beginning of January 2005.

Given our client's requirement to obtain in short order greater and more rigorous control of its packaging components and chemicals, a paper-based MACS warehouse management system was installed within 10 days of the go-ahead for the project. Barcode technology will be added shortly to improve further control over, and efficiency of, the warehouse.

A larger project to manage our customer's entire raw material and finished goods inventory is likely to follow later this year.

Interfaces between our customer's EDI and Pegasus Opera financial systems and the warehouse's MACS system will reduce significantly the paperwork and administration errors in the process. Further, real time visibility of finished goods will help to reduce order cross-offs by aiding the production planning process.

One, a leading global engineering plc, is involved in the 30 year refurbishment of the London Underground. MACS will help to manage all the installation equipment and tools for the project.

Another is a leading world-wide distributor of heating, plumbing and piping systems. Interfacing MACS with Pegasus Opera and TNT (the company's accounting, sales order processing and transport systems) will give customers a more accurate picture of stock availability, increase order fulfilment and improve the efficiency of the whole order to delivery process.

Last, but not least, we are currently in the process of implementing c-MACS across two warehouses in Lincolnshire. These are part of a growing 3rd party distributor of chilled foods and consumer products. Our customer will not only benefit from more accurate stock control and greater productivity but, by eventually integrating MACS with the systems of its major customers, it will offer increased visibility of stock to all, increase order fulfilment and improve significantly overall customer satisfaction.