Bookmaster

2002 Consensus Software Awards

Product Description

Powermaster & Bookmaster are two faces of an integrated ERP/Enterprise Management System. Powermaster is designed for distributors and manufacturer/distributors, Bookmaster is a version specific to publishers.

Both incorporate integrated distribution, financials, warehouse management, business intelligence, e-commerce and DRP, with CRM to be released in June 2002. Powermaster also incorporates integrated manufacturing, including MRP, and specialised modules such as rebates and warranty & service.

Bookmaster incorporates publishing specific modules such as subscriptions, royalties, book publishing, academic sales and direct mail. Both are 100% developed by TMS and are delivered as a fully integrated solution by TMS.

Innovation

Bookmaster is an industry-specific solution for publishers and distributors and is one of only two worldwide packages for this industry. It includes a number of unique features and modules such as Academic Sales. It is the only book industry specific ERP to incorporate integrated warehouse management, e-commerce, business intelligence and CRM (due June 2002).

Powermaster is one of very few distribution and manufacturing solutions to include integrated distribution, manufacturing, financials, DRP, e-commerce, business intelligence and CRM (due June 2002) in one integrated solution 100% designed, developed, implemented and supported by one vendor. It also includes unique modules such as Rebate Management.

RF scanning at the state of the art Macmillan distribution warehouse in Melbourne

Performance

TMS has written references from over half its customers and all are published on the web as reference sites.

Code is written to strict in-house standards and can be inspected if required.

Product support is exceptional - 23 of the past 26 implementations have gone live on schedule, with the longest delay being one month.

Real world performance is shown by satisfied customers in 16 countries with many customers using TMS solutions in more than one country, and with Bookmaster being a strong market leader in 4 regions.

• All beta testing is done with customers and works well

• Major user benefits shown by satisfied customers and ongoing new customers

• Both products set new benchmarks for integrated single vendor solutions

Some of the many worldwide clients of TMS 

Potential

• Agents in UK, USA, Netherlands & S Africa, office in Singapore

• Used in 16 countries on 5 continents

• TMS has grown steadily year on year for 16 years and is structured to continue

• Global design standards shown by global acceptance of product

• Major markets identified. Market leader in 4, strategic position in 3 more (Europe, UK & USA)

• Finalist, W Sydney IT & Export Awards, featured in "Best IT&T companies in Australia", customer won LAA "Distributor of the Year" Award

• Successful in Australia & overseas

• Premium software developer with IBM, collaborate with plant in US. Also key strategic partner with Silvon Software, US based Data Warehouse software provider

Other information the judges should know

Both versions of the system have significant commercial success.

Bookmaster is used in more countries worldwide than any competing solution in its niche, is one of the top two worldwide by number of customers and is a strong market leader in Australia, New Zealand, Asia and South Africa. It is used in 14 countries and has major customers such as HarperCollins, Pan Macmillan, Butterworths (7 countries), Pearson Education (4 countries), McGraw-Hill (4 countries), Thomas Nelson (4 countries), Harvard, Yale, MIT, Columbia and Johns Hopkins University Presses and many more.

Powermaster is used in Australia and Europe by by major companies like JVC, Hagemeyer, Panasonic, Sanyo, Pioneer Electronics, Minolta, Maxell, Smeg, Daewoo Electronics, Makita and Solectron Global Services.

Because both are comprehensive integrated systems they are easier and more economical to implement that competing ERP systems. Of the last 26 sites to be implemented by TMS, all but 3 have gone live on schedule, with the longest delay being one month.

TMS has succeeded against major opposition, replacing JD Edwards at Sanyo and Thomson Singapore, replacing Oracle Financials at Butterworths Australia and winning against SAP at Sanyo, Macmillan, Struik Publishing, Nasionale Boekhandel, Pearson New Zealand and HarperCollins.

TMS is a finalist in the Western Sydney IT & Export Awards in 2002, was featured in "The best IT&T companies in Australia" book in 2001. Macmillan Distribution Services recently won the Logistics Association of Australia's "Distribution Centre of the Year" award for its new distribution centre driven by Bookmaster Warehouse Management.

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