Sage MAS 500 ERP Accounting Software - Florida
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MAS 500 |
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Best suited for:
Companies with 20 to over 1,000 employees
Overview:
Sage MAS 500 is a reliable, robust and integrated series of business applications that provide comprehensive functionality for companies with 20 to 1,000 employees, including advanced financials, distribution, manufacturing, CRM, human resources, project accounting, and e-commerce. Sage MAS 500 is flexible, scalable and full-featured, delivering a total business management solution.
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Inventory Management
The warehouse-centric design of Inventory Management lets you track costs and sales histories by warehouse, and use multiple bins in the same warehouse for a single inventory item. With this feature, you´ll be able to quickly locate the items your customers are requesting. It also allows you to continue taking orders during inventory cycle counting, ensuring that your business continues to operate at peak efficiency - saving your company valuable time and money.
Sales Order
This module allows you to price inventory items based on customer class, location, discounts and more. Each line item can have its own ship-to address, salesperson, tax rate, ship date, ship-from location and drop ship. By adding the MAS 500 Multicurrency module, the Sales Order module can also accommodate multiple currencies, allowing you easy access to global markets. It all adds up to unsurpassed pricing flexibility.
Purchase Order
Purchase Order manages the physical receipt of materials. It gives you the ability to track received goods by matching the delivery receipt with the invoice and the original purchase order. You´re assured of tighter tracking, and more accurate inventory control within your warehouse.
Inventory Replenishment
Significantly improve your ability to meet demand and reduce inventory-carrying costs with the Inventory Replenishment module. This can be done by incorporating such factors as seasonal cycles, sales history and lead times to determine the appropriate order point for inventory. You can also specify order points and override unusual demand when creating inventory forecasts. This sophisticated replenishment system helps you maximize return on your investment by accelerating inventory turnaround, while still keeping an adequate stocking level of the products your customers demand.
Project Accounting
The MAS 500 Project Accounting module allows project managers to optimize best practice project profitability. Project managers can track actual vs. estimated costs through forecast completion, which helps prevent cost overruns and generate bottom-line savings. As project scope evolves, Project Accounting permits changes to the estimated budget to increase forecast accuracy throughout project lifecycles. Project Accounting also provides remote time and expense entry and project status inquiry from anywhere in the world via the Internet. With this knowledge management capability, project managers and supervisors can obtain timely information about project profitability, while remote workers are assured their time and expenses are accurately tracked and entered.
eTimeSheets
Another add-on to the MAS 500 Project Accounting solution, eTimeSheets, is a browser-based time and expense entry and project cost management module that connects a remote workforce on a real-time basis. While remote professionals enter time and expenses from anywhere in the world through the Internet, team members at the home office can enter project time and expenses through the corporate intranet or Internet. All project information flows directly to the Project Accounting module for up-to-the-minute project analysis.
Microsoft Project Link
Project management tools like Microsoft Project 2000 help deliver projects on time. With the ability to integrate Sage MAS 500 Project Accounting with Microsoft Project, managers and finance departments will be able to utilize an end-to-end project management solution. The bi-directional data link allows for sharing between the two systems, and provides single-entry updates to costs and time - reducing administrative time and increasing knowledge.
Customer Support
Sales and Marketing deliver customers to your business - but your Customer Support department keeps them with you for the long haul. With the costs of acquiring customers 5-10 times higher than retaining them, support solutions designed to build lasting relationships with your customers have a tremendous impact on the bottom line.
eCustomer
The Sage MAS 500 eCustomer e-commerce module brings the power of the Internet and fully integrated Web-based technologies to your business. This module offers flexibility and ease of use for you and your clients to conduct business over your Web site. Through a business-to-business storefront, customers can order items from a general catalog that you can customize for your Web site. When they’re ready to purchase, they simply submit the order and receive an immediate confirmation. When the order is accepted, they receive an automatic e-mail acknowledgement.
eSalesForce
The newest Sage MAS 500 module, eSalesforce, will empower your salespeople with a level of efficiency, productivity, and customer service that is sure to boost sales. With eSalesforce, you can keep your sales team in the field and help them maximize their selling opportunities. eSalesforce empowers your salespeople with real-time remote access to critical customer account information and the ability to perform essential sales activities, including placing orders, checking order and shipment status, as well as managing invoicing, payment, and credit history. Down-time turns into up-time when your sales team has remote access to their accounts. Whether you're on the road, in the air, or at home, eSalesforce ensures that you can keep up with new opportunities, manage forecasts, and review sales and commission results.
Sales Management
Sage MAS 500 Sales Management helps you to effectively manage all aspects of the sales cycle. It standardizes key sales functions by automating activities such as account and opportunity management, quote and proposal generation, scheduling, forecasting, and reporting. The Sales Management module, Powered by SalesLogix, gives your sales team a holistic customer view so they can have more meaningful interactions with customers and prospects - and close new business. Most importantly, it is easy to use, so sales professionals have more time to do what they do best - sell. Complete Web integration and advanced remote synchronization keep your sales team connected and informed.
Advanced Manufacturing
Advanced Manufacturing includes all of the functionality of the Light Manufacturing/Advanced Kitting module, as well as enhanced work orders, and labor and production reporting, which are essential requirements for assembly, electronics, metal fabrication and machine/equipment manufacturing. The system provides shop floor visibility to your entire enterprise, including which employees are currently on the clock in any production facility. With a few mouse-clicks, customer service can quickly view the status of a customer order without having to interrupt the shop supervisor. The GAAP-compliant job costing system helps you identify which manufactured items are generating the most profit and which are costing you money. You will be able to spot production bottlenecks and respond in real-time to last-minute engineering changes and high-priority orders.
Advanced Planning and Scheduling
Do you have problems scheduling production? Are orders late because someone forgot to schedule an operation? Did you ever lose a good customer because production fell behind their required deadline? Sage MAS 500 includes one of the most powerful and easy-to-use Advanced Planning and Scheduling systems available today. The industry-standard scheduling rules automatically schedule production based on advanced algorithms and mathematical calculations. Sage MAS 500 includes a drag-and-drop schedule board that takes into consideration real-world concerns. The schedule board displays all system-generated operation schedules, but it allows supervisors or production scheduling personnel to tweak the schedule to fit in high-priority orders or to move scheduled operations to a different machine when another breaks down.
Engineering Change Management
Quality control is one of the most important business concerns for manufacturers. Sage MAS 500 can help you control production costs by tracking constantly changing labor operations and material items as new items are developed and manufacturing processes are streamlined using newer equipment. Consequently, it is more important than ever before to standardize your engineering change management process. Sage MAS 500 integrates Engineering Change Management (ECM) with e-mail notifications providing instant visibility and standardized approval methods for routing and bill of material changes. Any change made to an ECM-controlled routing and bill of material is cycled via e-mail to members of an approval group. Engineering Change Management is crucial to quality control and is a requirement for ISO and QS certification.
Estimating
Do you know if a new part is going to make you money or cost you money? Do you lose business to your competitors because your estimates are too high? Sage MAS 500 provides detailed estimating capabilities to help you increase business while improving your bottom line. Estimates provide more than an educated guess regarding total cost of production because they include materials, outside processing and labor, as well as overhead rates, and one-time charges for tooling and engineering. Estimates can be converted to a customer quote or directly into a sales order with a simple mouse-click.
Light Manufacturing/Advanced Kitting
Light Manufacturing/Advanced Kitting is the perfect product to help you manage production and kit assembly without complicated labor transactions or material issues. The streamlined manufacturing system integrates with other optional Sage MAS 500 manufacturing modules and allows distributors, assemble-to-order industries, and other light manufacturers to concentrate on other critical business issues without getting tied up in complex manufacturing processes. Traditional manufacturers may need the Advanced Manufacturing module.
Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
Understanding material and distribution requirements across the enterprise without advanced planning tools is impossible. Sage MAS 500 uses historical data and advanced replenishment formulas to help you more easily understand current and future material and distribution requirements, and how they will affect your business. Sage MAS 500 provides single-screen planning that provides up-to-date item statistics, including on-hand quantities, current purchase orders, work orders, transfer orders and other elements that affect planning decisions. The planning activity provides insightful information to help you make purchasing and production scheduling decisions based on industry-standard practices and flexible, real-life circumstances.
Product Configurator
The Product Configurator module was designed for use in either distribution or manufacturing environments. The rules-based Product Configurator configures sales orders and routings/bills of material for a finished part based on a variety of features or functions. Customer service personnel benefit from an easy-to-use interface for quick feature/option selection of configured parts, and integration with Sales Order entry. New items can be created on the fly using customized item masks, new long and short item descriptions, and other options. The Product Configurator also builds the item cost and suggested price. The advanced Product Configurator is easy to setup and maintain. Popular configurations are saved and reused as standard parts.
Project Management for Manufacturers
Do you manage engineering or prototype production projects? Do you install or service the products you manufacture? If so, the Sage MAS 500 Project Management solution can keep all of your project managers informed and equip them with the tools they need to profitably manage these projects.
Shop Floor Control
The Shop Floor Control system from Sage provides real-time labor and production reporting for online production visibility throughout the enterprise. The module was designed for use with bar code and touch-screen technology, and can run on a terminal or from a remote handheld Windows CE device. Shop Floor Control provides access to all of the activities that generally take place in the shop. Users can log into or out of operations manually or they can use the built-in bar coding functionality to scan work order numbers and work order steps for automatic logins. The shop floor menu is easily customized to include virtually any activity, maintenance function, report or inquiry you need to run your shop floor.
Employee Attendance
Expand your attendance tracking capabilities with Abra Attendance. The program offers easy setup, management and monitoring of multiple variations of employee attendance plans. Fully integrated with Abra HR, Abra Payroll and Abra Alerts you can enable automatic recording of incident-based time off (jury duty, bereavement) as well as regular time off (vacation, illness and holidays) and share it with the other Abra modules.
HR Management Systems
Sage Software offers a comprehensive line of scalable, Microsoft-based HR and payroll solutions to meet the unique needs of organizations of any size.
- Sage Abra HRMS - a fully-integrated HR/payroll software solution designed to streamline everyday administrative processes with in-house control and accuracy.
- Abra Enterprise - a scalable, Web-native HRMS solution offering complete, real-time control of pertinent HR, payroll and benefits administration information.
- Abra Online - Sage´s Internet-based HR/payroll service designed to bring robust HRMS functionality to small to mid-sized businesses on an affordable subscription basis.
Payroll Management
Businesses need the control to process payroll accurately and quickly every time, due to its critical affect on individual employees, company bottom lines and interaction with government agencies. Abra Payroll is fully integrated with Abra HR allowing benefits administration and attendance plan management to automatically update with payroll processing.
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