Sage 500 ERP Distribution
The Sage 500 ERP (formerly Sage 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 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.
- Maximize your inventory investment by establishing a variety of inventory management system options to meet your unique business requirements.
- Realize your maximum profit potential by providing flexibility for all aspects of your business—and accounting for every eventuality
- Choose costing methods and specify price breaks to best fit your business and industry
- Make sure that all of your delivery promises are kept and on-hand stock balances are accurate with the advanced warehouse management and inventory transaction capabilities in Sage 500
- Receive and ship orders during inventory cycle counting, so your business never misses a beat
- Maintain pricing in the Inventory Management module when used in Sales Order
- Analyze and monitor inventory data and transactions to reduce carrying costs and increase inventory turns
Sage 500 Inventory Management Data Sheet
Inventory Replenishment
Meet demand and reduce inventory and carrying costs with the Inventory Replenishment module by incorporating such factors as seasonal cycles, sales history and lead times to determine the appropriate order point for inventory.
- Determine how much of an item you will sell is critical to controlling costs while maintaining enough stock to keep customers happy.
- Monitor and report unusual usage for an item, so that you can determine if you need to adjust the demand for the item.
- Ensure that stock of critical items will be available when the customer needs them.
- Using one of four popular methods, automatically calculate how much to purchase of each product, based on user-defined input that best suits your business practices.
- Inventory Replenishment manufacturing inventory software provides tools to minimize processing and carrying costs, while ensuring that the items your customers need are on hand.
- Generate actual orders and firmed orders from a single point of entry.
- Analyze and monitor Inventory Replenishment and MRP data and transactions.
Sage 500 Inventory Replenishment Data Sheet
Warehouse Management
Align processes in your warehouse with your business management system. The Warehouse Management 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.
- Take inventory transfers to another level by tracking your goods in-transit between warehouse locations
- Bins are built in to related Sage 500 activities to manage stock movement and inventory transactions
- Warehouse Management provides wave and zone picking for larger warehouses and distribution centers
- Analyze and monitor Warehouse Management data for greater insights into inventory movement
Sage 500 Warehouse Management Data Sheet
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.
- Create requisitions using date, originator, item description, quantity, and date required, even if vendor information is unavailable
- Assign different ship-to locations to each purchase order line item, invoice automatically or manually, or use the Multicurrency Management module to create purchase orders in any currency
- Automate warehouse processes while retaining accountability
- Capture key vendor metrics to identify vendors that perform well and those that disappoint
- Limit access to confidential purchasing information and tasks to authorized users
- Obtain fast, easy access to purchasing information on any level
- Increase your productivity with the ability to set up landed costs, maintain a tight audit trail, and create purchase orders automatically based on inventory requirements
Sage 500 Purchase Order Data Sheet
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.
- Customize your entire sales function, including discounts, credit, taxes, commissions, kitting, and more
- Command the flexibility to define your pricing structure and price your inventory items for maximum profitability
- Simplify and streamline workflow with some of the most powerful sales order processing tools available in distribution software
- Make it easy to set up, maintain, and close blanket orders, reducing paperwork and maximizing efficiency
- Create an efficient workflow in your warehouse
- Additional features are available during Sales Order Entry when manufacturing modules are installed
- Analyze and monitor Sales Order data and transactions, including sales histories, shipment information, customer returns, and more
Sage 500 Sales Order Data Sheet
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.
- Automatically connect to merchant accounts for credit card authorizations and settlements
- Data security and fraud prevention features
- Process payments using Sales Order and Accounts Receivable modules
- Credit Verification Value (CVV2) is fully supported to help verify card authenticity
- Compliant with Visa and MasterCard Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standard
- Complete, secure online transaction reporting available 24/7
Sage 500 Credit Card Processing Data Sheet
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 Sales Tax automates functions ranging from jurisdiction assignment, rate research, and maintenance to reporting, returns, and remittance.
- Reduce audit risk
- Automate sales tax calculation, reporting and returns
- Real-time Address Verification
- Receive completely accurate sales tax charts
- Simplify your work with the instant online tax calculator
- Seamless integration with your Sage ERP solution
- Eliminate the need for manually selecting or assigning a schedule or detail
- Set best practices in sales and use tax compliance
eOrder
Maintain unlimited number of currencies and exchange rate schedules, leveraging the ability to update exchange rates daily and post realized and unrealized gains or losses due to currency fluctuations.
- Access your critical account information online anytime
- Expedite customer credit applications
- Place orders online
- Check status of orders and shipments
- Track payment, billing, and credit information
- Review sales goals and commissions
- Streamline order entry by simultaneously viewing the order, item listings, item details, and even images
- Increase productivity with rapid order entry features
- Automate workflow by automatically sending e-mail order acknowledgements to customers
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.
- Customers return items with or without a formal RMA depending on setup options
- RMAs do not affect inventory until material is received and neither available quantity nor replenishment position are affected by open RMAs
- Your customers return products for various reasons and will require different actions to be taken to process their returns
- Returned items are processed through the Sage MAS 500 Purchase Order module providing an integrated system for tracking returns to vendors
- Companies can define how they want to track costs and charges related to customer returns
- Analyze and monitor returns and RMA data for greater insights into customer service levels
Light Manufacturing / Advanced Kitting
Manage production and kit assembly without complicated labor transactions or material issues. Streamlined Sage MAS 500 manufacturing business software integrates 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.
- Establish standard routings and bills of material for your manufactured items
- The elimination of work orders simplifies your production process
- Report production only for finished goods, while other labor transactions are automatically calculated at standard
- Accurate job costing is critical to establishing item prices, profitability, and business planning
- Use the optional Alerts module to notify your maintenance and production departments when assets are due for maintenance
- Sage MAS 500 offers several manufacturing modules that provide Light Manufacturing customers with advanced features.
- Analyze and monitor Light Manufacturing data and transactions
Sage 500 Light Manufacturing Data Sheet
Sage 500 Advanced Kitting Data Sheet
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 Sage 500 wholesale distribution software, Product Configurator even builds the item cost and suggested price.
- Engineers can easily set up and maintain features and options
- Product Configurator is very useful for building items on the fly from base models
- Configuration data entry personnel can quickly build new items from customer specifications
- Options may be defined as ranges and used in calculations
Sage 500 Product Configurator Data Sheet
MAPADOC EDI for Sage 500 ERP
MAPADOC by SWK Technologies, Inc. is a fully integrated, easy to use electronic data interchange (EDI) software solution for Sage MAS 500 that will:
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Dramatically cut data entry time and costs by eliminating duplicate entries
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Improve communication with trading partners
- Integrate seamlessly with Sage 500 ERP
- Reduce mapping time by over 75% by allowing end-users to quickly and easily create their own maps for integrated documents
The MAPADOC mapping utility enables end-users to easily update maps on the fly. The unique EDI mapping wizard for inbound purchase orders (850) and outbound invoices (810) cuts mapping time by over 75%. When trading partners institute new rules, you will be ready. MAPADOC allows mapping to/from MAS fields, preset variables and user defined fields (UDFs). You can assign cross-reference values and perform pre-processing and post-processing data format conversions. Available cross-references include item, ship to, ship via, warehouse address code and UPC code.
