April 2006

Birchman has announced the launch of BenVista, the Benefits Management Toolset.
BenVista has been developed in response to the growing demand from clients to track and monitor benefits, complimenting the Birchman consulting approach. BenVista provides an ability to capture and monitor the progression of all relevant benefit details to measure and publish the success of IT investments. BenVista is a cost-effective, ASP application that can be accessed with low band-width requirements. It can be tailored to meet specific industry needs, benefit and organisational structures as well as client’s reporting requirements.

November 2005

Birchman has announced the roll-out of the latest version of the FashionWorks Solution based on SAP ECS 5.0 in November 2005. Birchman created the original FashionWorks Solution in 2001 based on the strength of its retail and manufacturing experience in the fashion and luxury goods sectors. Since then, the solution has evolved to reflect current ‘best practice’ processes. This has enabled our many retail and wholesale customers to control and optimise their supply chains from product design and manufacture through to the stores plus also realise ambitious international growth plans.

October 2005

Birchman is pleased to announce the opening of Asia Pacific .Due to increasing demand for our services across the Asia Pacific region , we have chosen to locate our Asia Pacific headquarters in Perth. We are already working with customers in New Zealand and across Asia and anticipate securing some new contracts in Australia soon.

I believe Perth is an ideal location for our Asia Pacific headquarters due to the proximity to Asia, time zone similarities with key Asian markets and access to a skilled workforce. We are fortunate to have secured two new Partners to lead the business on our behalf. Frank Early and Phil Thistlethwaite have established the new company offices in Perth’s CBD.

Frank, a well known Perth-based IT Executive, has a vast local and international background in business and technology spanning almost thirty years. He was recently the Western Regional General Manager for DMR Consulting/Fujitsu.
Phil has enjoyed a distinguished career having spent a significant number of years overseas running global and pan-European change programs for some of the world’s most popular brands such as Polaroid and Allied Domecq.

I am delighted with this important initiative as it provides Birchman with a solid base in the region to support our global customers who have operations in the region and it gives us the opportunity to grow our business by securing new clients. I wish Phil and Frank every success in the future.

Niel Shoeman - CEO Birchman Group