Sage 200 Commercials
Product Benefits
- Flexibility. Sage 200 is
flexible throughout. From the main screen of the product, which can
be configured to show the information most pertinent to each user
to the many configuration options available within each area of the
system, Sage 200 is
designed to work the way you do.
- Speed Batch entryfacilities in Sage 200 give you the ability to
enter large volumes of transactions and choose when to commit them
to the ledgers. Additionally, colour-coded alerts let you know if
there's a potential problem without stopping your workflow.
- Multi-user capability.Sage 200 is extremely scalable thanks to
its SQL relational database and able to support many concurrent
users, typically up to 50.
- Foreign currency capability. You can trade with customers and
suppliers outside of the UK and in any mixture of currencies. For
example, you can produce foreign currency invoices, statements,
receipts and payments and you can maintain currency-specific
product pricing and discounts. You can specify spot and/or period
rates of exchange for each currency and all changes are recorded
along with who made them. All transactions are recorded in base
currency with the exchange rate used, so you can closely track the
effects of currency fluctuations over time.
- Management Information.Information is presented graphically
throughout the system to give you quick answers to your questions.
A wide range of management reports is available and the report
designer (with which Sage 50 customers will already be familiar)
allows you to tailor these reports or create your own. You can also
'pull' information from Sage 200 directly into Microsoft Excel for
instant analysis.
- New Project Accounting.The Sage 200 Project Accounting module
is a highly configurable and flexible costing application. It is
ideally suited to businesses that run projects or services and can
be adjusted to suit the needs of each industry type, whether that
be companies requiring a simple or detailed costing and analysis
structures. It will provide you with in-depth analysis and
reporting features, ensuring that projects remain on track and
profit levels are maintained.
Sage 200
Demo
Serenity Holidays gives
a video testimonial of using Sage 200 over Line
50.
Further Sage 200 Financials
and Commercials features include:
- Accounts and Finance
- Customers
- Suppliers
- Stock Control
- Nominal cost centre and departmental analysis -you can
attribute costs, analyse budgets and produce management reports,
e.g. Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss, by department and cost
centre. You can also attribute individual transactions by your own
analysis codes, for example, to track projects across departments
and cost centres.
- Group budgetsmake it easy for you to manage your subsidiary
companies. Sage 200 Financials includes multi-company consolidated
financial reporting and group budgeting capabilities.
- Open or Closed Period Accounting -you can open, close and
re-open periods as required, ledger by ledger.Up to 20 periods can
be set for each financial year. Access is tightly controlled by
individual user permissions, and there's a full history of who
changed what and when.
- Trading Periodscan be set up to match the accounting periods if
required or have their own date range structure. These date ranges
can be set to suit your business. For example, you could measure
sales performance on a weekly basis at busy times of the year and
monthly at other times.
- Comprehensive customer recordsstore all the details on your
customers
- For easy retrieval, with instant links to their sales
orders.
- Sage 200 Price Bookallows you to trade with your customers in a
fully flexible way. Unlimited and currency-aware price bands for
each product can be used along with unlimited discount schemes.
Pricing 'communities' can then be created to link in to them.
- Credit Management -a range of credit tools are supplied
including debtors' letters, statement production, provisions for
doubtful and bad debts and the ability to place customer accounts
on hold. Detailed credit information can be held against each
customer/supplier record.
- Prioritisation of orders -you can decide which orders are to be
fulfilled first, either manually, on a 'first come, first served'
basis, by prioritising your customers, or by scheduling against
deliveries.
- Repeat and duplicate orders -cut down on processing time by
raising quotations and pro formas and converting them to orders or
invoices.
- Multiple delivery addressescan be quickly chosen, allowing you
to meet your customers' needs.
- Rapid sales order entry- simply choose a customer, choose a
product, enter a quantity and hit 'Save'. For simple or batch order
entry, you will soon appreciate the speed and efficiency that Sage
200 gives you.
- Full sales order entry option -switch to full order entry for
complete flexibility over each sales order - change delivery
address, discounts, record cash with order. Add further stock
items, non-stock items, additional charges, and comments to the
order. You can modify any attribute of an existing line item such
as the quantity, price, delivery date, and allocation.
- Trade Counter sales order entrycompletes the sales order cycle
in one swift routine, allowing you to offer a quick service to your
customers.
- Mix order entrytypes within your business to suit your
needs.
- Profit Analysis- you can authorise individuals to view the
margin of a sales order line, assisting in price negotiation.
- Discount Analysis- instantly see how a price has been
calculated, even if your business has a complex pricing and
discount model.
- Better customer service -Sage 200 is packed with many more
features to help you offer the best service to your customers and
therefore keep your competitive edge. For example, custom search
categories allow you to quickly locate products to meet your
customers' requirements. You can quickly locate and call up any
sales order, drilling down to see the exact status in terms of
invoices, allocations and dispatches made. Unlimited alternative
stock items allow you to suggest alternatives if the chosen item is
out of stock.
- Comprehensive supplier records- store all details of your
suppliers for easy retrieval and drill down to related Purchase
Orders.
- Choice of delivery addresses- orders raised with your suppliers
can be shipped to a choice of delivery addresses, including direct
to your own customers.
- Flexible terms of business- you can specify the terms of your
agreement with your suppliers, including early settlement
discounts.
- Automated payments- Sage 200 will suggest which payments to
make in order to benefit from early settlement discounts. Purchase
Order authorisation allows you to set limits for supervisor
approval.
- 3-way order matching- you can check that each delivery matches
your purchase order and supplier invoice, including multiple orders
and delivery note numbers.
- Full Back-to-Back orderingallows you to run a lean supply
chain. You can drill down from Purchase Orders to related Sales
Orders and vice versa. Flexibility is built into the model. By
default, a particular high-value stock item might be supplied
back-to-back from your supplier to your customer, but this can be
overruled at sales order entry (e.g. if you happen to have one of
that stock item on hand following a customer return).
- Suggested Orders- Sage 200 can automatically compile lists of
what you should order, based on shortfall (by warehouse, if
necessary) and what's required for back-to-back orders. The system
will then generate reports to assist in negotiation if required and
create consolidated Purchase Orders for you. The whole process can
save you a significant amount of time.
- Order Consolidation- save paperwork by consolidating multiple
Purchase Orders into a single invoice.
- Multi-location stockmakes it easy to work with stock held in
different locations. You can run each location independently in
terms of stock levels, purchases and reporting.
- Serial numbered items- you can control high value items, or
other items that require a unique ID.
- Batch numbered items- you can track items that need to be
purchased, stored and sold in batches.
- Units of measure- you can buy stock in bulk and sell in smaller
quantities, maximising your purchasing power.
- Organise your stock- you can organise your products into Groups
for reporting purposes and create custom search categories to help
you quickly locate items during order entry.
- Default fulfilment methods- customer orders for a particular
stock item can by default be fulfilled from your own stock, from a
supplier via your stock and from a supplier direct to your
customer. These defaults can be over-ruled at the point of sale
order entry to allow you full flexibility and to manage
exceptions.
- Default comment linescan be entered against a stock item to
appear on picking lists and despatch notes, for example to convey
special handling instructions to warehouse and delivery staff.
These comments can be amended or over-written at sales order entry
if required, for example to add customer-specific delivery
comments.
- Alternative stock items- you can specify unlimited alternatives
to each item to ensure that your customers are never
disappointed.
- Stock takes -you are able to run cyclical stock-takes and only
on items meeting your chosen criteria, therefore saving you time.
Negative items can be recorded, to reflect 'real world'
operation.
- Unlimited suppliers- you can manage multiple suppliers for full
flexibility while recording a default supplier and cost for each
stock item to speed up your purchasing process.