Preamble
What qualifies me as a person who can provide Computer solutions? I believe it is the journey I went throughout the years as I changed jobs and met new accounting challenges
I started my career in Sime Darby in 1979 maintaining the books of the retirement Plans and doing financial consolidations. It was a time when things were done manually. There were no Personal Computers like today, no spreadsheet programmed. It was a very painful exercise maintaining the records of each participant of the various Retirement Plan we kept. The killer was to calculate Interest on the monthly collections quarterly. It was painfully repetitive. So the first exposure in computing was to computerize the Retirement Plans. Our programmers used Cobol. We did not have a Computer then so we borrowed some space from a sister Company, Sime East West.
We did not succeed in making any great advances in our manual consolidation process but what we did do was set up a Team to study the consolidation for improvements.
I moved on to Sime Crest, a design engineering Company. As man-hour costing and timesheets were the core feature of the business it wasn’t long before we got this part computerized. Again, our programmers got this done in Cobol.
During my short stint at Tractors, we implemented the Motor Computer System patterned on the Caterpillar Dealership System. The exposure here was in Inventory management.
The next phase of change came about when I was posted to Sime Sembawang. I brought along with me, the General Ledger and the Time Sheet System. As a fabrication Company the need for material control was essential and what was developed at Sime Darby was the Material Control System.
My next experience was at Sime Axa Assurance Berhad. (See my story on Insurance in the Insurance Section). After Sime Axa, I was posted to Sime UEP. Sime UEP had a computer System but it had not kept up with the advancement in computer technology. Sime Darby’s Computer Head recommended a system change and this system was the forerunner of the Microsoft AX ERP System.
I set up the Microsoft AX System for the Bakun Project while with Sime Engineering Services after moving on from Sime UEP.
I left Sime in 2016, got a job at PT Gunnausa in Indonesia. Our Company Axtra Synergy Sdn Bhd implemented the Microsoft AX System there. As Procurement was the key process. I assumed the role of Procurement Director during the period of Project Implementation and got the full commitment of the Department for the System change.
In late 2011 I left Gunanusa for TH Heavy which was at the stage of finalizing the Microsoft AX System there. Again I took over the Procurement role to maintain discipline. At TH Heavy my focus was on developing the Procurement Monitoring System and the Production System.
How can Impiana Varia help?
Impiana Varia has the contacts with the resources to implement the mega to medium size computer system.
We currently deal with the Acumatica System for the Large Companies and I personally offer QuickBooks to the small businesses. QuickBooks offers a wide range of business tools and, having to satisfy their large existing client base, is constantly upgrading with the latest technologies.
For a quick introduction go to QuickBooks.
Contact us with your requirements (business, personal, or otherwise) and we will provide you with various options and solutions to your particular need(s).
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