Consultancy Workshops - Sage

A review of Sage Line 500/1000 ERP that supports and consolidates activity across an expanding business, we will review:

• Full set of modules
  Covers operations across many areas of your business
   
• Huge breadth and depth of functionality
  Meets the needs of complex operations
   
• Highly customisable
  Can be tailored to suit your particular processes
   
• Powerful integration tools
  Build a true business management system with Sage Line 500 at the heart, and deep linkages to other Sage and third-party software
   
• Multiple language variants
  Supports your international needs and aspirations
   
• Desktop and/or web deployment 
  Fits in with your infrastructure
   
• Compatible with a number of databases and operating systems

Sage Line 500/1000 ERP in Distribution

Sage Distribution modules supports a company to deliver levels of service that exceed customers' expectations, while closely managing your costs. It provides the necessary integrated processes and information flows to help you supply total quality in terms of products, service and after-sales support.  The order processing options give you maximum flexibility in fulfilling customers' individual requirements on ordering and payment methods, order size, delivery times and packaging and labelling.  At the same time, comprehensive reporting and evaluation of market trends, give you a clear picture of where your best opportunities for profit lie.  If you handle large volumes of orders over the telephone, the Telesales module can handle a multitude of requirements, including mail order and counter sales, in a variety of industries.

Focus your supply chain and resources on customer satisfaction
Supplying excellence in service demands strong partner networks that are focused on always improving customer service. Sage Line 500 Distribution helps you manage a seamless flow of information and goods from supplier to end consumer. Reduce inventory and manage stock to satisfy your customers in a cost-effective way. Sage Line 500 Distribution keeps you fully in control, even in multi-warehouse environments, with real-time, multi-site views of current and expected stock and extensive inventory management features.

Create an effective purchasing strategy to reduce your financial commitment
An efficient purchasing strategy balances high customer service levels with minimal financial commitment. Extensive support for purchase requisitioning means Sage Line 500 Distribution helps you create a centrally managed, flexible purchasing operation.

Be fully alert to significant events
Being able to react quickly to events that could potentially affect your profitability or service levels is vital. Sage Line 500 'sounds the alarm' by working with business alerting software to alert your nominated person to respond to predefined business events, by your choice of email, phone, SMS, pager, fax, or over the web.

Sage Line 500/1000 ERP in Manufacturing

Whether you require support for a manufacturing organisation or for a batch engineering machine shop, in manufacturing Sage provides tight financial control of associated material and processing costs and real-time valuations of both completed operations and work in progress.

You receive every assistance in managing the complexity of resources involved in manufacturing, encompassing both your shop floor and sub-contractors.Sage Line 500 Manufacturing monitors and reports in real time on issues and events on the shop floor that could affect productivity.You benefit from readily available, detailed information on work in progress and on predefined events, such as the frequency of machine breakdowns or absenteeism. Choose Sage Line 500 in Manufacturing if you want a solution that:

• Supports configure-to-order, manufacture-to-order and batch engineering
• Controls associated material, inventory and processing costs
• Monitors and reports on issues and events on the shop floor to maintain maximum productivity
• Eases the complexity of managing your own resources and subcontractors
• Supports you in meeting the requirements of broad markets or individual customers

Review

Bill of Materials
Bill of Materials gives you total flexibility through its ability to handle both component listings and formulae. Bill of Materials has planning option percentages to simulate high level strategies and product families that can reflect the composition of complex relationships within a family of products, allowing planners to concentrate on the forecast model.

Works Order Processing
Works Order Processing provides the business with a comprehensive, dynamic, costing and control repository. It uses the detail supplied from the Bill of Materials and Routing modules and automatically creates works orders after Material Requirements Planning has optimised the timing and quantity. The moment anything happens, it is routed and controlled on a Works Order. Works Orders provide a reflection of actual build, mirroring what has happened on the factory floor. A Sage Works Order is also truly 'live' until it has been completed, allowing alterations and amendments to dynamically record the actual materials and resources used to create the end product.

Material Requirements Planning
Material Requirements Planning provides a Direct Supply Response to meet customer demand. It may be driven from source demand elements e.g. sales orders, forecasts or works orders ensuring that all material requirements are supplied directly to meet consumer needs or by using the traditional Master Production Schedule to generate the best volume/mix per period. Whether the requirement is for a responsive, agile manufacturing company or for the batch engineering machine shop, the appropriate techniques are provided within Sage Line 500/1000 ERP.

Sage Line 500/1000 ERP in Project Management

For tighter control in managing and accounting, Sage Line 500 is perfect for handling internal or external projects.

Any costs committed before expenditure are fully visible, expenses maybe validated against budgets, and costs closely tracked throughout. Customers may be billed using staged invoices or by using cost-plus calculations for maximum flexibility. Sage can help you ensure prompt, efficient billing for external contracts, such as equipment maintenance.

Review

• Project Ledger
  The Project Ledger is a user-defined cost repository mechanism designed specifically for project-based business.  The module offers a complete slice-and-dice approach, where data can be analysed from all angles and across any part of the organisation. It lets you follow a project from its embryonic stages right through to full maturity.
   
• Project Billing
  The Project Billing module provides for the specific requirements of project-related billing and accounts postings.  Fully integrated with the Project Ledger and Resource Ledger, this module allows you to define the services you provide to customers and subsequent rules for when and what to invoice.
   
• Resource Ledger
  The Sage Line 500 Resource Ledger offers comprehensive timesheet input facilities with the ability to determine default values for different locations, projects, sub-projects, rates and status allowing flexible costing whilst minimising the data entry burden.  Definition of expense, resource and project types provides you with complete flexibility for reporting and enquiring on activity and for productivity analysis.
   
• Contract Management
  Contract Management involves both contract maintenance and revenue billing.  It effectively handles all the financial elements involved in after-sales service requirements, typically covering long term contracts due to the nature of setting up the contract in the first place,  Contract Management provides the framework to handle complex, high value equipment with a structured billing requirement for recurring charges such as rental, lease, service/maintenance or support charges.

Call, 03-9847-7300 or email sage@inecom.com.au to book your workshop with a Sage Enterprise Consultant!