Irish firm McArdle Meats turned to Infoplex when they needed to increase the efficiency of their accounting software after a period of business growth and when factory performance had been improved, which created additional demand on administration staff.

Using Infoplex's TASflex software which provides seamless integration with TAS Books has given McArdle Meats the ultimate in convenience in linking their factory software with TAS.

McArdle Meats is Dundalk's most popular butcher with two outlets in the Marshes Shopping Centre and Clanbrassil Street and another outlet in Charlestown Shopping Centre in Finglas, Dublin.

The company is also the leading meat wholesaler in Co Louth and Co Monaghan as well as owning a meat factory and has been a TAS Books customer since 2001.

As a result of company expansion, McArdle Meats asked industrial weighing scales and weighing system manufacturer DEM Machines to install a JPC Weighing/Labeling terminal. This included a TFT colour display and a touch screen, housed in a IP65 stainless steel case and produced sales invoices. The new system helped boost productivity for the products destined for McArdle's customer base - butchers, food manufacturers, hotels, restaurants and the catering trade.

Although this worked well, a side effect was that it shifted the efficiency problem to the accounts department, who still had to rekey basic invoice data into TAS Books 2 - literally 100s of invoices per week. This was a time consuming, costly, error-prone and tedious task and not the best use of staff time.

McArdle Meats desperately needed a streamlining process to be applied to their IT systems and that is where Infoplex's TASflex came to the rescue, as it allowed the creation of a seamless link from their weighing/labeling machine's software to TAS. DEM Machines' software developer was able to use Infoplex's TASLink SDK tool to develop the link within DEM's own software. This has made a huge difference to efficiency because invoices generated from the JPC Weighing/Labeling terminal are now automatically posted into the TAS Sales Ledger without manual intervention.

"It is amazing how much time we are saving", said Keith Shortt, who runs McArdles' day-to-day accounting operations.

He continued: "We are processing about 800 invoices per month and that number is still growing. With the TAS Books integration enabled by TASflex as implemented by DEM Machines we have avoided incurring the substantial on-going costs of additional personnel and our Sales Ledger is up-to-date all the time."

Mark Ramsay, Managing Director, Infoplex added: "McArdle Meats are getting net efficiency savings of at least 70%, which equates to a financial bonus of at least 2,000 Euros per year. In addition, TASflex is letting them achieve this whilst gaining the confidence of 100% accuracy, all helping to improve their bottom line."

Infoplex is a specialist developer of software solutions for users of TAS Books accounting software, with over 12 years of experience in this area, and is now branching out further with the pioneering OrderBooks technology. TAS Books is the acclaimed user-friendly and highly scalable software range from Sage UK with some 85,000 installations in UK and Ireland.

Infoplex's SME customers typically cut their admin costs by at least 60% and take pride in making their businesses over 150% more efficient. They achieve this whilst gaining the confidence of 100% accuracy and the satisfaction of a transformed bottom line.