Collaboration is a hot topic in this current economic environment. Companies realize that in order to maintain the competitive market advantage they've worked so hard to nurture, they need to become more efficient and reduce costs. One of the quickest and best ways to do so is by maximizing their collaboration with their ERP software.
Sage ERP X3 is a best-of-breed platform that will make it easy to improve utilization and integration across your entire organization.
Topics: ERP, Sage, sage erp x3, automating processes, enterprise resource planning, integration, john shepperson, oates co, collaboration, utilization
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.
Topics: oates and co, Sage, consultant, accounting software, john shepperson, oates co, manufacturing, bill of materials, cost accounting, subsidizing, contractor, manufacturer
Choosing the right business management software can be tricky. You want to balance efficiency and ease-of-use while still having comprehensive data and a full set of features. Sage ERP X3 is a time-tested enterprise resource planning (ERP) option designed to keep pace with a dynamic and increasingly global economy, where employees require up-to-the-minute information anywhere they are.
Topics: ERP, Sage, sage erp x3, cloud storage, enterprise resource planning, cloud, X3, john shepperson, oates co
When you first launched your small business, almost all of your focus was on increasing the turnover of your current assets. You had a product and you wanted to sell it. Now, as your business has begun to grow, you find yourself making long-term investments in fixed assets. Making value determinations on these fixed assets can be much more complicated than valuing your current assets.
Topics: oates, Sage, fixed assets, sage fas, john shepperson, oates co, small business
Small and medium sized businesses often find themselves in the unfortunate position of needing a small, simple enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution but only finding large, complicated options. For a long time the only real choices in this situation were to go without an ERP solution and continue to deal with frustrating inefficiencies or buy into a way bigger solution than was needed.
Topics: ERP, Sage, sage erp x3, efficiency, integration, X3, john shepperson, oates co, quickbooks versus sage erp x3, customizable
Have you heard great things about Sage’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) system known as Sage ERP X3? Are you in the market for a new ERP system? At Oates & Company, we strongly suggest using Sage ERP X3 for its superior capabilities and its potential to make your processes more efficient, make your employees’ jobs easier, and improve your bottom line.
How? By serving repetitive make-to-stock, make-to-order, and process modes of manufacturing. It offers tools like dashboards, alerts, and workflows – all of which can be personalized, customized, and automated. And because Sage ERP X3 stores all of your data in one central database, it offers a clear view of business transactions for every department as well as real-time data updating.
Topics: ERP, Sage, sage erp x3, enterprise resource planning, X3, john shepperson, oates co, reviews
Small businesses face big odds, but despite the risk, many determined entrepreneurs take the plunge to go into business for themselves. If you are considering starting your own business, you are going to want to avoid common pitfalls and make sure you are as prepared as you can be to succeed in this tough environment.
Topics: Sage, customer relationship management, billing, enterprise resource planning, inventory, john shepperson, oates co, human resources management, payments, tools, new business
Whether you use Sage 100 ERP, Sage 300 ERP, Sage 500 ERP, or Sage CRM for your business, you will welcome the recent announcement that BrainSell and Sage have extended their long-standing partnership. This extended partnership means that the focus of the Sage’s existing software will be complemented with the addition of Human Resource Management (HRMS) software.
Sage's HRMS software will provide a very agile way to manage the complex and often confusing processes involved in human resource management, from payroll and time/attendance to the changes in health insurance resulting from the Affordable Care Act.
Topics: Sage, customer relationship management, Sage 500, enterprise resource planning, crm, Sage 100, sage 300, brainsell, sage hrms, human resources, human resources management
Running a business requires managing a bewildering array of variables, regulations, problems, solutions, and customer requirements. Attempting to do so without the proper tools and expertise is, at best, a waste of the time and money that you should be using to improve and expand your business; at worst, working without the proper tools and expertise will cause your challenges to quickly spiral out of control and damage your company.
Topics: ERP, Sage, enterprise resource planning, software, john shepperson, the sage group, oates co, Vacuum Engineering & Materials, major tech
Fixed asset accounting can be one of the more difficult items to figure out in the accounting world. It deals with not only the value of a product, but also with the value of that product’s services as well. A fixed asset is any business asset that exists solely for the use of commercial production. For example, if you run a floor cleaning business, a cleaner that you lend out to customers to use at home would be known as a fixed asset.
While that may sound a bit confusing at first, it doesn’t have to be. The proper software can crunch all the numbers and give you all of the data you need with little effort from you.
Topics: Sage, fixed assets, fixed asset accounting, john shepperson, oates co, sage fixed assets
