The Oates & Company Blog

How Sage Makes It Easy For You

Posted by John Shepperson | Jan 31, 2014 7:33:00 AM

Do you have a Sage enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and need some help learning about it? Obviously you could go to your Sage consultant for help, but if that’s not an option, you should consider going to the source: Sage itself. Sage has a whole section of their website dedicated to teaching Sage; known as Sage University, it allows you to participate in trainings of your choice at any time. Working in a business, you’re busy – training is important, but you can’t leave your other tasks unfinished. With Sage University, you have the option to use real-time webcasts in virtual classrooms, but you can also watch pre-recorded training sessions whenever it fits your schedule.

Sage University offers training on 19 of their products, including (but not limited to):

Sage 100 ERP (formerly Sage MAS 90 and Sage MAS 200)
Sage 300 ERP (formerly Sage Accpac)
Sage 500 ERP (formerly Sage MAS 500)
Sage Accounting
Sage ERP X3
Sage CRM
Sage Fixed Assets
Sage HRMS

Topics: ERP, Sage, MAS 500, fixed assets, Sage 500, MAS 90, MAS 200, accounting, oates and company, enterprise resource planning, software, crm, Sage 100, X3, john shepperson, Accpac, sage university, networking, sage summit, sage 300, hrms

Can't Find Any MAS 90 Resellers? Here's Why

Posted by John Shepperson | Jan 20, 2014 3:45:00 PM

A company known as State of the Art, Incorporated introduced software into the market in the mid-1980s. It was called the “Master Accounting Series for the 90s” and was known, for short, as MAS 90. Like many similar companies, State of the Art, Inc. gained traction in the market with their MAS 90 software by encouraging others to become resellers. Their resellers were, at the time, most often certified public accounts (CPAs), who used the software, liked it, and then recommended it to others.

MAS 90 is no longer strictly accounting software, CPAs are no longer the ones promoting/reselling it, and State of the Art, Inc. is no longer the company supporting it.

Topics: oates and co, MAS 90, Sage MAS 90, enterprise resource planning, john shepperson, rebranding, state of the art, master accounting series, SAP, oracle

Using Sage Solutions is Right for Your Company

Posted by John Shepperson | Sep 4, 2013 7:40:00 AM

Product distribution in our “information age” requires orders, inventory, and finances to

move at the speed of light. Your information is careening through cyberspace, launching dollars, personnel, and tangible goods in all directions. Seamless integration of all systems is the key to management of these assets, and Sage 100 ERP is an essential tool to keep it all on track.

Do you sometimes feel that your distribution business is getting away from you? That the task of piloting your ship is becoming arduous and formidable? That this intricate behemoth, with its myriad, complex maneuvers, tasks, and departments is hurtling along – and you need to rein it in?

If so, Sage has developed a suite for you.

Sage 100 ERP (formerly Sage ERP MAS 90) is a solutions suite that intuitively organizes your infrastructure and monitors interactions with your customers and supply chain. Management of expenditures, budgets, planning, and market insights as well as tax reporting and point-of-sale processing will arm your accounting, marketing, and sales departments with the kind of serious firepower to master their dominions. Inventory data blasted to the cloud will give you real-time forecasting power to optimize your target fill rates, productivity, and streamline your entire shipping process. Integrated Sage CRM gives you ultimate power in boosting conversions, accelerating sales, and monitoring transaction history to forge and maintain enduring customer relationships. Employee data will automatically flow through your systems: time tracking, payroll processing and depositing, and efficient employee analytics will bulletproof your HR department.

If you are ready to grab the controls, plot your course, dominate your sector, and become the master of your distribution universe, contact Oates & Company today.

Topics: ERP, Sage, MAS 100, product distribution, MAS 90, Sage MAS 90, Sage Solutions, enterprise resource planning, business management, Sage 100, john shepperson

Just a Click Away from Going Green

Posted by Randy Aimone | Mar 27, 2013 6:11:00 AM

We see signs and commercials of companies Going Green all the time; do you wonder what you can do to help? As we get fastened in our perplexed routine way of completing our jobs, we tend to forget to step back, and look outside the box, and ask ourselves; is there an easier more proficient way to do this. Normally the answer is yes, and usually staring us in the face.

Do you print, scan, save, and email printed documents out of Sage 100 ERP (Formerly Sage MAS 90 and MAS 200) to your vendors, clients, or associates? Do you print Registers and Journals, and keep them tucked away, just in case you may or may not ever need them again? Are those filing cabinets filling up quicker and quicker every year? Do you print a report to just later throw it away? If so, there is a more proficient way in handling, the storage, viewing, printing, faxing, and emailing of documents, forms, reports, journals and registers through Sage 100 ERP using the Paperless Office module.

Paperless Office provides you with a PDF storage/viewer, of forms, reports, journals and registers. Setups can be module specific, or document specific.

Contact Lisa Brewer (lisa@oatesco.com) to schedule your Review/Setup/Testing/Training of Paperless Office, and begin the first stages of your company, Going Green.

(The Paperless Office module is a standard, included module with those versions 4.3 PU18 and above)

Topics: Blog Posting, MAS 90, MAS 200, Sage 100