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In today's volatile economy, it's more critical than ever that every aspect of your enterprise be operating at peak efficiency. Built from the ground-up with Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Basic and Microsoft Office technology, Sage ERP MAS 500 is a complete enterprise management solution. Based on our core of unmatched financial accounting software, Sage ERP MAS 500 solutions expand to integrate business intelligence, order processing, distribution, and manufacturing. They were developed to help progressive companies streamline operations, manage with insight and springboard to the next level.
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Features About MAS 500
 Financial Management
Financial Management
The core financial modules expanded by integrated solutions provide the tools to record monitor and report on performance and profitability across your entire organization. Flexible reporting, allocation, currency, and analysis options increase productivity and put you in control of your finances so you can manage your company and increase profits.
General Ledger
The General Ledger module puts you in firm control of your business by giving you quick access to mission-critical financial data. When you combine power and flexibility with ease of use, you get the critical information you need to make timely and informed business decisions and manage your business more effectively. The system's extensive drill-down capabilities enable you to view everything from detailed journal entries to original source documents.
Accounts Payable
The Accounts Payable module helps you save time, reduce administrative costs, and gain better control over your business processes by automating a wide range of vendor-related tasks. In addition to providing maximum flexibility through built-in customization capabilities, the system gives you fast, easy access to the information you need for day-to-day tasks and period-end processing, including vendor statistics, aging, and transaction information.
Accounts Receivable
The Accounts Receivable module helps you improve cash flow while enhancing customer service through more effective management of your entire collections process with the power of automation to speed up and streamline every step in your collection efforts, from invoice entry to the recording of payments. The system automatically calculates sales taxes, discounts, commissions, and due dates, and automatically distributes invoice amounts to the appropriate General Ledger account based on the item sold. During payment application, Sage ERP MAS 500 lets you automatically apply cash receipts to open invoices and write off those balances that are within predefined tolerances. In addition, you can use the Sage ERP MAS 500 Office integration tool to create customized dunning letters quickly and easily, without any programming knowledge.
Cash Management
The Cash Management module improves efficiency by using the power of automation to streamline transaction processing and reconciliations. Cash Management enables you to quickly and easily handle and track a wide range of bank transactions—including deposits, withdrawals, adjustments, interest earnings and charges, bank fees, and transfers between bank accounts—with pinpoint accuracy. In addition, the module's extensive drill-down and drill-around capabilities give you fast, convenient access to transaction details and source information.
Multicurrency Management
The Multicurrency Management module allows you to optimize your international opportunities by providing a streamlined, flexible way to manage multiple currencies, exchange schedules, and currency fluctuations. You can save time and streamline your business processes by using the power of automation to create and maintain an unlimited number of currencies and exchange rate schedules. You can use Multicurrency Management to update exchange rates on a daily basis and record realized or unrealized gains and losses due to currency fluctuations to the general ledger accounts assigned to the currency. Realized gains and losses are automatically posted when the transaction is settled.
Allocations
Being able to deploy resources efficiently and monitor costs accurately are key factors in gaining and sustaining a competitive advantage. Allocations module offers you a powerful yet flexible tool to do just that—through timely and efficient allocation and accrual processing, you can simplify and streamline period-end closing cycles.
Sage Active Planner
Sage Active Planner is an enterprise-wide, purpose-built budgeting and planning application. With Sage Active Planner, you'll make quicker, more informed business decisions by shortening budgeting and planning cycles. And with a planning process that is easier and more efficient, you'll be able to encourage collaboration across all lines of business and tie budgeting activities to organizational performance.
Sage FAS Fixed Assets
Sage FAS Asset Accounting is a comprehensive solution that provides advanced fixed asset accounting and reporting features. It offers more than 50 depreciation methods including MACRS 150 percent and 200 percent (formulas and tables), ACRS, Straight-Line, Modified Straight-Line (formulas and tables), Declining Balance, Sum-of-the-Years-Digits, and user-defined depreciation methods.
Sage FAS Asset Inventory allows you to efficiently create and track multiple physical inventories of assets and enjoy complete control over your entire asset inventory at every step. This solution allows you to track your fixed asset inventory thoroughly, helping to eliminate lost or stolen assets and reduce insurance and tax overpayments. With automated inventory functionality and built-in reconciliation capabilities, Sage FAS Asset Inventory offers you a complete range of inventory tracking tools so you can effectively achieve tighter control over your fixed assets.
Sales Tax
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eCommerce
eCommerce
In today's economy, everyone needs to boost sales and do more, faster. eBusiness Suite powered by RKL increases the efficiency and productivity of customers, salespeople, and customer service representatives. The eBusiness Suite enables 7 x 24 B2B ecommerce and provides a technology upgrade through state of the art standardized web services that enable ease of solution integration. As a result customers will increase sales revenue, efficiency and productivity while minimizing the costs associated with solution integration.
B2B and B2C Capabilities
Customers, salespeople and customer service representatives have the ability through your on-line store to place orders and get accurate and up to the minute information about items, prices, inventory, account status and expected delivery dates. eBusiness Suite provides the ability to pick, pack, and ship invoices for on-line orders and enables Credit Card processing of payments through integration with the Credit Card module.
Online Access to Account Information
eBusiness Suite can function as a remote interface. The user can view customer's orders, shipments, invoices, payments and backorder information. It is ideal for salespeople or customer service representatives to see a comprehensive overview of customer accounts in order to respond quickly to customer requests and follow up on orders or payments due. Security features allow access to this feature at the Customer level, Sales Team, Salesperson or Company.
Streamlined Order Entry/Processing and RMA Entry
Choose from multiple interfaces to enter a quote or an order or copy or edit an existing order. Filters can limit the items displayed during entry by Sales Product Line, Item Category or Item Class. Sales Product Lines can also be filtered by Login ID to allow for customer specific price lists. To further streamline the process use eBusiness to enter an RMA and email the customer the RMA packing sheet and label. Autoship functionality enables processing of sales orders and lines through pick/pack/ship/invoice upon order creation.
Additional Features
Additional features include Pricing and Inventory Inquiry, Data Import/Export Tools, Security and Configurability Options.
Time and Project Management
Time and Project Management
Prevent cost overruns and generate bottom line savings with advanced enterprise project management software. Sage ERP MAS 500 Time and Project Management solutions provide project management software tools to help your business achieve the operational edge with powerful features that put you in control of managing projects with exceptional flexibility.
Sage Timesheet
Enterprise project management software allows you to track projects and collect data on the actual time spent and the expenses incurred on each task. Along with seamless integration with Project Accounting, Sage Timesheet adds sophisticated time data collection to all major financial and payroll systems.
Project Accounting
Prevent cost overruns, generate bottom-line savings by tracking actual vs. estimated costs, and increase forecast accuracy throughout project lifecycles. Project Accounting also provides Internet-based remote time and expense entry. This is one of the project management software tools.
Microsoft Project Link
Integrate Project Accounting with Microsoft Project and gain visibility while reducing administrative time by making single-entry updates to both systems simultaneously. This versatile project management software tool updates a wide range of project costs and time with a single data entry.
Service Management
Service Management-Plus (SM-Plus) for Sage ERP MAS 500 provides service-centric organizations with enhanced performance, productivity, and customer satisfaction.
Wholesale Distribution
Wholesale Distribution
The Sage ERP MAS 500 wholesale distribution software comprises a robust suite of modules that work synergistically to provide advanced solutions for tracking, managing, and replenishing inventory and managing warehouse operations through the entire distribution cycle, from purchasing to stocking, all the way through sales.
The following modules integrate seamlessly with Sage ERP MAS 500 wholesale distribution software to build valuable functionality as stand-alone solutions and give your distribution operations unparalleled efficiency and control.
Inventory Management
Track costs and sales histories by warehouse, and use multiple bins in the same warehouse for a single inventory item. With this wholesale distribution software feature, you'll be able to quickly locate the items your customers are requesting.
Inventory Replenishment
Meet demand and reduce inventory and carrying costs with the Inventory Replenishment wholesale distribution software module by incorporating such factors as seasonal cycles, sales history and lead times to determine the appropriate order point for inventory.
Warehouse Management
Align processes in your warehouse with your business management system. The Warehouse Management wholesale distribution software module extends the functionality of the Inventory Management and Inventory Replenishment modules by providing advanced features, including bin tracking, three-step inventory transfers, and both wave and zone picking.
Purchase Order
Control inventory through accurate tracking and manage the physical receipt of materials by matching the delivery receipt with the invoice and the original purchase order.
Sales Order
Price inventory items based on customer class, location, discounts, or any number of criteria your business requires. Each line item can have its own ship-to address, salesperson, tax rate, ship date, ship-from location and drop ship.
Credit Card Processing
A complete credit card processing solution for mail order, telephone order, and Internet businesses. Transactional information, such as authorization codes, is captured and stored for historical and reconciliation purposes. Security and fraud prevention features protect both you and your customers from unauthorized credit card usage.
Sales Tax
Constantly changing tax laws intensify the complexity of calculating, collecting, and remitting sales and use taxes to more than 8,000 taxing jurisdictions across North America. Automate calculation, reporting, and returns to reduce audit risks, and time-consuming tax schedule research. Sage MAS Sales Tax automates functions ranging from jurisdiction assignment, rate research, and maintenance to reporting, returns, and remittance.
Return Merchandise Authorization
Processing returns and staying competitive demands a more specialized level of service. Tracking and resolving these returns can be an increasing challenge. The Sales Order module includes advanced tools to manage customer returns and a formalized Return merchandise Authorization process to help you easily implement return and replacement policies.
Light Manufacturing / Advanced Kitting
Manage production and kit assembly without complicated labor transactions or material issues. You have the ability to integrate with other optional 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.
Product Configurator
Configure sales orders and finished parts routings or bills of material based on variable functions. An easy-to-use manufacturing software interface lets customer service quickly identify and select configured parts. Create new items on-the-fly using customized item masks, as well as new long- and short-item descriptions. As part of the wholesale distribution software, Product Configurator even builds the item cost and suggested price.
EDI
TrueCommerce is your single-source Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) provider for everything you need to implement a fully integrated EDI solution. TrueCommerce makes EDI painless, simple, and affordable.
Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence
Business Insights Dashboard
See a real-time snapshot view of your vital business operations in one convenient dashboard. Leverage key performance indicators such as current sales, customers, financial data, and more. Business Insights Dashboard uses .NET and web browser technology to put up-to-date company metrics, ad-hoc inquiry, analysis, and competitive intelligence at your fingertips.
Business Insights Analyzer
Gain insights into your business and make informed decisions quickly, decisively, and confidently. Business Insights Analyzer is an intuitive, easy-to-use analytics tool that serves up reports in many formats, filters, groups, sorts, and organizes your data in the way most appropriate to your task at hand.
Business Insights Explorer
Optimize daily decision making in the most critical areas of your business. Business Insights Explorer brings ad hoc inquiry, drill-down and drill-around analysis up to a whole new level. Turn your data into knowledge that you can act on by using powerful sorting, grouping, and filtering capabilities that you personalize to your specific needs and role within your company.
Alerts
Send e-mail notifications to you and your specified personnel when something significant happens in your business. Solving problems before they start can satisfy your customers far more consistently. Integrated into critical Sage ERP MAS 500 modules, Alerts shifts your focus using early warning signals that announce critical events in your Sage ERP MAS 500 system, including credit holds, inventory thresholds, priority client transactions, urgency levels, and more.
Custom Office
Harness the power of automation to build stronger, more lasting customer relationships through enhanced communications. With the Office module, you can use predefined, customizable templates to help you automatically (or manually) generate business communications that incorporate application data.
Web Reports
Generate and view any report found within Sage ERP MAS 500 operational modules over Microsoft Internet Explorer with the same high level of security as any module's standard output.
Crystal Reports
Format and print a wide variety of standard reports with Crystal Reports®. This powerful report writer is used throughout Sage ERP MAS 500 for formatting and printing reports. The core reporting functionality for each module of Sage ERP MAS 500 includes a wide variety of standard reports. You can customize each report with specific option choices, and sort preferences and selection criteria. By leveraging the power of SQL Server, reports are tuned for high performance—even when data volume is significant. Reports can be output to paper or to a Web page at your discretion.
Alerts and Workflow
KnowledgeSync monitors and responds to critical business conditions across your entire organization - Finance, Sales, Manufacturing and beyond - by automatically identifying elements that are crucial to the success of your business.
Document Management
doc-link™ software is an integrated document management system (IDMS) that interfaces with your business system, bringing control to your existing workflow and effectively eliminating paper.
Sage ERP MAS Intelligence powered by Alchemex
"Improve the productivity of your financial staff, enhance report presentation, and streamline report preparation. Build your intelligence solution so it works the way you want, using the flexibility of Sage ERP MAS Intelligence powered by Alchemex."
Customization
Customization
Customizer
Modify standard screens and forms to match your specific business process and to improve staff productivity. Changes can be made to specific users or groups, including departments, companies, executives, or other groups that you define. Many controls are modifiable without extensive programming knowledge.
Software Development Kit
Customize applications and finish your development tasks faster and at a lower cost. The Software Development Kit provides Visual Basic controls, wizards and utilities to solve housekeeping issues, including concurrency, user interface, security controls, data handling and more.
Source Code
Source code is available for specialized customizations, delivering ultimate flexibility to implement your own customized solutions or modify Sage ERP MAS 500 to match the unique way you do business.
Business Intelligence
Define customized dashboards, ad-hoc queries and drill-downs that enable you to analyze and respond to business trends, maximize efficiency, and increase profits.
Crystal Reports
Custom reports are just minutes away with Crystal Reports, empowering you to customize each report with specific option choices, sort preference, and selection criteria.
Data Import Manager
Quickly and easily import selected data from external applications such as third party payroll systems, billing services, in-house databases, and much more. Imports can be one-time or recurring, and an easy to use mapping wizard walks you through the creation of custom imports.
Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Sage ERP MAS 500 manufacturing software provides manufacturers with the flexibility and expanded capabilities to meet the diverse business requirements of varied industries, including industrial, automotive, high tech, electronics, consumer packaged goods, and other industries. One of the key advantages of the suite is its streamlined integration of routings and bills of material, which allows for improved lead-time calculations, more accurate material plans, and better resource allocation.
With the nine manufacturing software modules, your operations become optimized for maximum productivity and provide a real-time business picture that gives you vision to manage profitability with insight.
Advanced Manufacturing
You'll be able to spot production bottlenecks and quickly implement last-minute engineering changes. Manufacturing business software extends visibility of the shop floor to your entire enterprise to see which employees are currently working at any production facility. 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 identify your most profitable (or most expensive) manufactured items.
Advanced Planning and Scheduling
Eliminate late orders and lost production time due to errors in scheduling and planning with automated production scheduling software. Manufacturing software includes a drag-and-drop schedule board that takes into consideration real-world concerns and displays all system-generated operation schedules, while allowing supervisors or production scheduling personnel to prioritize high-priority orders or shift scheduled operations.
Engineering Change Management
Control production costs with advanced manufacturing software by tracking constantly changing labor operations and material items as new items are developed and manufacturing processes are streamlined using newer equipment. Use this top-quality solution to meet your ISO and QS certification requirements and maintain quality control. The module also includes business software integrates Engineering Change Management (ECM) with e-mail notifications providing instant visibility and standardized approval methods for routing and bill of material changes.
Estimating
Manufacturing business software helps you base your estimates on more than an educated guess regarding total cost of production by understanding key impact factors such as material costs, outside processing and labor, overhead rates, and one-time tooling and engineering set-up charges. Directly convert estimates into a customer quote or directly into a sales order with a simple mouse-click.
Light Manufacturing Advanced Kitting
Manage production and kit assembly without complicated labor transactions or material issues. Streamlined intergration with other optional 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.
Material Requirements Planning
Understand material and distribution requirements across your enterprise. Our solution uses historical data and advanced replenishment formulas to help you more easily understand current and future material and distribution requirements. Single-screen planning provides up-to-date item statistics, including on-hand quantities, current purchase orders, work orders, transfer orders and other elements that affect planning decisions.
Product Configurator
Configure sales orders and finished parts routings or bills of material based on a variable functions. An easy-to-use manufacturing software interface lets customer service quickly identify and select configured parts. Create new items on-the-fly using customized item masks, new long and short item descriptions—Product Configurator even builds the item cost and suggested price.
Project Management for Manufacturers
Equip project management with all the tools they need to manage engineering or prototype production projects or complex installations with Project Management for Manufacturers module and stay within budget and scope.
Shop Floor Control
Use Sage manufacturing business software to log onto shop floor operations manually or use the built-in bar coding functionality to scan work order numbers. Easily customize the menu to include virtually any activity, maintenance function, report or inquiry you need to run your shop floor. It's designed for use with bar code and touch-screen technology, meaning the shop floor can run on a terminal or from a remote handheld Windows CE device.
Process Manufacturing
O2 Process Manufacturing is a full-featured, mixed-mode module for process manufacturing, engineered for seamless integration. Service Management
Service Management-Plus (SM-Plus) provides service-centric organizations with enhanced performance, productivity, and customer satisfaction.
Customer Relationship Management
Customer Relationship Management
In today's competitive marketplace, a sales-oriented company's most valuable asset is its existing customer base. New customers are much harder to come by. Consequently, it's of utmost importance to take care of your existing customers and serve their business needs. It's no wonder industry analysts are predicting that customer contact and relationship management will become the largest growth segment in the software market and will have a lasting impact on how companies conduct business in the future.
Sage SalesLogix Marketing
Manage full-scale marketing campaigns. Shorten your sales cycle by analyzing leads to identify your most profitable customers. Capturing rich, timely data from customer interactions across your organization allows you to develop and execute meaningful marketing programs that generate results.
Sage SalesLogix Sales
Increase team sales performance by managing all aspects of the sales cycle and increasing team sales performance. Sage SalesLogix Sales is a single repository for the customer information captured across your entire organization that enables you to access account and contact information, track opportunities from lead through close, manage team calendars and activities, forecast revenue, and report on sales activities and effectiveness.
Sage SalesLogix Support
Track and resolve support issues faster with instant access to relevant customer data, including products purchased, ticket and defect history, and maintenance contract status—making each customer interaction effective and positive.
Sage SalesLogix Customer Service
Deliver the resources and tools that drive sales performance and help provide superior customer support. Sage SalesLogix Customer Service solutions provide a powerful deployment alternative to traditional client/server applications. Designed for businesses needing a Web-based CRM solution with flexible financing options, Sage SalesLogix Customer Service is easy to deploy, customize, and use.
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