Sage ERP X3 is a superstar in the world of enterprise resource planning systems.
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When your distribution company starts to grow, gaining local and global customers alike, your accounting department will find it more and more time consuming to prepare invoices.
It’s going to be especially difficult and time consuming if you aren’t using the latest software. If you’re using software that houses information in individual silos – Office, Excel, and/or Outlook, for example – creating invoices that need support documentation will take too long. This is because the information is only available in its silo and not “out” where it’s easily accessible for everyone.
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Let’s talk about cost accounting. Whether you are a contractor, a consultant, or a manufacturer of widgets, costing is a valuable tool for planning, setting prices, and identifying areas that need improvement.
Sometimes the market dictates prices for a service or item. In that case, costing will let you know which product is the most profitable and which one you are subsidizing. Many people view subsidizing in a negative light, although it is not a bad concept – subsidizing a low priced washer may get you’re an order for a special, very profitable bolt that you wouldn’t have gotten otherwise.
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Avalara AvaTax: Sales tax is hard. AvaTax™ makes it easy.
Avalara’s AvaTax is a cloud based service that uses a secure, encrypted internet connection to deliver real time tax decisions. Its database holds more than 100,000 sales tax rules and can automatically apply them across more than 11,000 jurisdictions and nearly 100 countries. Most importantly, the AvaTax database is always up to date, making accurate sales tax calculations all day, every day.
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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.
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Having the right inventory management formulas will make your business’s warehouse a more efficient place.
Here are some quick tricks to do so:
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Web-based project management uses software that is available via the internet. Because there are several advantages of using this system, companies of all sizes are embracing this technology and reaping the rewards:
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The base – that is, out of the box – version of QuickBooks is for financial/accounting only – you have to purchase industry specific versions for manufacturing, wholesale, professional service firms, contractors, non-profit entities, and retailers. QuickBooks is best for very small companies, supporting only 1-5 active users with their general accounting needs.
Sage ERP X3, on the other hand, supports all those things right out of the box – it covers discrete, process, and mixed mode manufacturing, advanced financials, wholesale distribution, contractors, etc. – all without purchasing additional software. Its functionality extends from accounting to inventory control, material resource planning, shop floor control, supply chain management, and even human resources. It is also more flexible in terms of size capabilities: it is best suited for 50-1,500 employees, all of whom can be working in the system concurrently.
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Sage ERP X3 is, as we like to reiterate from time to time, the most powerful and flexible solution for businesses that want to grow competitively and cost effectively – even with limited resources.
And in November 2013, the newest release of Sage ERP X3 – version 6.5 – became available.
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