Receive Purchase Orders

Receive Purchase Orders
Help your clients get a handle on their inventory as soon as it comes through the door!

ACCU-DART will quickly and accurately update inventory levels directly into the accounting system, while verifying that the items being received are the ones ordered.
When a delivery arrives, the warehouse staff scan the items and quantities as they are receiving them.

ACCU-DART verifies in real-time that the correct items are being received, and warns the user if they attempt to over-receive. Once all items have been scanned, the user simply presses “Post” and the inventory is automatically updated into the accounting system.

♦ Manually writing down serial and lot numbers can be very time consuming and mistakes can easily be made, leading to numerous issues down the road.

♦ With the serial and lot control (add-on modules for Sage Accpac), ACCU-DART will automatically update the accounting system with the correct serial or lot information for future tracking and transactions.

♦ ACCU-DART can put-away items as they are being received into the appropriate bins (For Sage Accpac this functionality is available with the upcoming Orchid Systems’ Bin Tracking Functionality*).

By receiving purchase orders with ACCU-DART, your client’s inventory will be instantly updated into the accounting system, allowing the sales and office staff to know their exact inventory levels for making sales, ordering stock, etc.

It will appear “in stock” as soon as it’s received with ACCU-DART. No more waiting for someone to manually enter the receipt before they can sell the products.

For more information about ACCU-DART, please visit www.careware.com.my or contact sales@careware.com.my

Sage Business Solutions – Spotlight on: Manufacturing-AutoSimply 5.6

Sage Business Solutions – Spotlight on: Manufacturing-Auto Simply 5.6.

With the launched of Sage Accpac ERP version 5.6 in Malaysia this month of March. AutoSimply a developer of the manufacturing systems for Sage Accpac has announce the official release of Service Pack 1 for Manufacturing Order (M/F) version 5.6A. This release primarily makes the M/F v5.6A compatible with Sage Accpac v5.6A and includes other major fixes.

Sage Accpac Auto Simply series is an easy-to-use manufacturing solution for small to medium-sized enterprises. Its design is fully integrated with Sage ACCPAC Finance and Logistics modules. Simple yet powerful, manufacturing order enables an efficient manufacturing operation flow covering material purchase, processing manufacturing orders, work in progress, routing cost calculation, material consumption, material scrap and item substitution and order closeout. The design of Manufacturing Order is conceptualized to fully accommodate users’ business processes needs and expectations.

Sage Accpac Manufacturing Order

AutoSimply’s Manufacturing Order is an easy-to-use manufacturing solution for small to medium-sized enterprises. Using ACCPAC SDK, its design is fully integrated with Sage ACCPAC Finance and Logistics modules. Simple yet powerful, Manufacturing Order enables an efficient manufacturing operation flow covering material purchase, processing manufacturing orders, work in progress, routing cost calculation, material consumption, material scrap and item substitution and order closeout. The design of Sage Accpac’s Manufacturing Order is conceptualized to fully accommodate users’ business processes needs and expectations.

Sage Accpac Production Planning.

AutoSimply's Production Planning module is an easy-to-use production scheduling and materials requirement planning solution for small to mediumsized enterprises. Developed using ACCPAC SDK, it is fully integrated with Sage ACCPAc's Financial and Logistics modules. The P/P module is the second installment of AutoSimply's manufacturing suite for ACCPAC. It makes full use of the manufacturing and BOM information in AutoSimply's Manufacturing Order (M/F), sales information as contained in ACCPAC O/E, stock data within ACCPAC I/C and purchase information in ACCPAC P/O. With AutoSimply's P/P module, ACCPAC can now truly generate a full blown basic MPS and MRP plan!

Disclaimer: The views express in the article are the personal views of the blogger and do not represent the official views of Sage Inc or SageAsia.

Sage Accpac 5.6 Business Intelligence launched

Business Intelligence and Reporting is a buzz phrase in today's marketplace-and for good reason. Gone are the days of trying to glean key information from a monthly balance sheet, profit and loss statement, and cash flow statement. Today's business leaders demand more insightful, more comprehensive metrics because their ability to serve their stakeholders and outflank their competitors depends on it.

What should you look for in business intelligence and reporting solution?

Full integration with your ERP, SCM, CRM, and the ability to pull data from anywhere in your enterprise, and total ease of use. You'll find these qualities, and more, in Sage Business Intelligence solutions.

Sage Accpac Business Intelligence

Sage Accpac Intelligence is a reporting and analysis solution offering Excel based Business Intelligence for Accpac ERP users.

Careware specializes in Excel-based reporting for easy and affordable business intelligence for small to medium enterprises; Sage Accpac Intelligence integrates seamlessly with Sage Accpac ERP by connecting automatically to the data source.

ERP systems produce significant amounts of data which can, if interrogated correctly, provide valuable insights to a company’s CEO, Sales Director or Marketing Director. Sage Accpac Business Intelligence makes this technology available for all business decision makers.

Immediate ROI, the software delivers automated and pre-formatted management packs and other decision-support reports on demand in Microsoft Excel directly from your Sage Accpac ERP applications.

The standard report pack includes:

• Management Dashboards

• Management Account Packs

• Sales Master

• Purchase Master

• Inventory Master

Experience enhanced productivity, performance and presentation with automated monthly management packs. Sage Accpac Intelligence will minimize manual, repetitive work done in Excel and ensure your reports have only a single version of the truth.

The Drill Down capabilities allows detailed transactions to be accessed with the click of a mouse.

Driving a business to success is easier when the organization’s vitals are readily available in a dashboard style view various modules present the following benefits to organizations...

Management Dashboard

• A one page summary of key performance indicators (KPI’s), providing a daily health check on your business

• Incorporate data from other Accpac modules and/or systems

• Dynamically drill down to detail across modules

• Totally flexible and customizable within Excel

With Sage Accpac Intelligence your management information is at your fingertips. You can keep an eye on the health of your company at anytime and anywhere.

Support & training

Comprehensive product and skills training is available from Careware Training Centers. Careware has three (3) certified BI consultants to supports and train you. Our training will take you through 3 stages, Beginner, Intermediate and Advance level. Aimed at business analysis our courses can either introduce or enhance the skills required to be able to produce meaningful analytical reports.

For more information please about the Sage Accpac BI go to  Careware.

I am reading - Good to Great

I am now reading Jim Collins book, “Good to Great.” A good read I suppose, but find the concept level 5 leadership hard to fathom initially. As I progress in reading it becomes clearer and clearer. The book contains lots of good principles and concepts. From Level % leadership -> Hedgehog -> Flywheel. It is a good read and having sold to date more than 3 million copies worldwide there must be some worth to reading it.

Jim Collins teams research the fortune 500 listed companies for years. As there are published data and interviews to based on. It makes to feel that surely there must be some Great Small Companies out there.

To me, reading a management/business books is somewhat similar to the act of going to church … you know the core principles but you need to listen and internalize the subtle nuances so that you truly stay on the right path.
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So far as I progress in reading the picture becomes clearer.

Level 5 Leadership built a team of capable executives.

He is usually not egoistic, The “I” word is seldom used but the” we” word is often used.

He assembled the right people in the “bus”

Usually has a succession plan in place.

Level 1-4 Leadership built only himself.(He is usually a genius, capable and charismatic)

Consider himself as God gifts to the company. I able to do this, I, I, I is often his vocabulary.

He doesn’t have a team of executive but a 1000 “helper.”

He usually set the route for the whole company without much consultation.

When he leaves the whole company crumbles.

As I read through the “Good to Great” in between appointments & seminars, (3/4 way through)

Come to a realization that Careware is actually following the “Hedgehog” principles all the while. We do not get sidetrack with all the noise in the ERP world, but focus on Sage Accpac and what we do best for our customers. No wonder in a small market in Malaysia, we are consistently number ONE for 10 years plus. No wonder we are among the Top Business Partners in Asia.
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Year of Tiger 2010.

Wishing you a prosperous

and Happy Chinese New Year

Year of Tiger 2010 :

The Tiger is said to be lucky vivid, lively and engaging. Another attribute of the Tiger is his incredible bravery, evidenced in his willingness to engage in battle or his undying courage. Maybe he’s so brave because he is so focus. So we will engagged our business with the “Eyes of the Tiger” The killer instinct for businesses.

In the wild, seeing the "eyes" of the tiger signifies death, because right before a tiger attacks, it turns its ears forward so that the spot on the back of each ear faces nearer its prey. The "eye spots" on the back of tigers' ears serve to confuse predators and reduce the risk of attack from behind. Hence, once someone sees these "eyes", the tiger is about to attack.

The song used in Rocky is "Eye of the Tiger" by a band called Survivor. Some of the lyrics....

It's the Eye of the Tiger,
It's the thrill of the fight,
Rising up to the challenge of our rival,
And the last known survivor
Stalks his prey in the night,
And he's watching us all
With the Eye of the Tiger.

Sage Business Solutions – Spotlight on: Manufacturing-Process.

MISys/ACCPAC* has been successfully used for process manufacturers worldwide If a product is formula or recipe-based. MISys could dramatically improve operating effectiveness and efficiencies. We may not offer it right out of the box, but MISys is very adaptable to a wide range of industries, and for a small and mid-sized process manufacturing companies MISys may be a better fit financially as well as ease-of-use.

Key Benefits

Powerful Yet Easy to Use

Although MISys or ACCPAC ERP is not designed specifically for pharmaceutical or biosciences, but we have some good and satisfied customers who use it worldwide. Its helps to automate batch process manufacturing environments, MISys /Accpac ERP solution combines fully integrated process manufacturing, production planning and financial management capabilities. By implementing this solution, you will be equipped with the software you need to coordinate your entire manufacturing operation, including:
• Lot Traceability.

• Infinite locations for QA steps.

• Routing details.

• Formula can be looked at as a recipe. (i.e. x gallons of this, y oz of that.)

• 16 levels of sub-assembly/BOM

• Bar-coding and bin tracking.

• Expire or spoil date tracking.

• Return Merchandised Authorization.

• Integrated Sales order Processing.

• Integrated Retail management. (option)

Whether you manufacture chemicals, pharmaceuticals, or food, this powerful solution equips the process manufacturing industries with features required to improve operations, streamline workflow, and build profits. Choose the solution that many businesses have used to overcome the same obstacles you're facing today - MISys & Accpac ERP.

Integrated Business Solutions

MISys integrates seamlessly the Sage Accpac Accounting module seamlessly with the same look and feel. Unlike other ERP-accounting integrations, the distribution and manufacturing in some cases are handled by other software, with accounting in a difference software. . This means that the end-users have to learn two systems with difference look and feel and have put up with loose interface via import and export.

Careware Domain Experiences

Some users of Sage Accpac ERP/MISys

1. 
   
   Martek Biosciences Corporation
2. 
   
   Nuplex Resins
3. 
   
   SamChemicals
4. 
   
   Applied Chemicals
5. 
   
   Zhulian Industries Sdn Bhd
6. 
   
   SamLube
7. 
   
   Omni-trac
8. 
   
   Ridgemonde Resins
9. 
   
   Oak State Products - (Cookies)

This list is by no means exhaustive but give an indication of our domain experiences.

Disclaimer

* Once complex formulae that involve temperatures, gasses and pressures, (as in Oil and Gas ) it is out of our league and MISys will not be a good fit.

What are The Problems with Cloud-Based computing?

Executives considering adopting an ERP application on the cloud are concerns about some of these things.

There are several problems with cloud-based computing as follows:

1. Functionality – As a general observation, cloud erp is not ready for prime time yet. It is a good option if your functional requirements are limited, you are likely not to change your business requirements AND you plan to use the system for only 2-3 years before evaluating ERP again. It is usually an entry level type of application that is on the cloud with vanilla flavor as is basis. The business model falls apart when you need to customize and/or interface other software products. So vanilla flavor Quickbook, Salesforce, Netsuite and a host of entry level systems is for you?

2. Speed - Dial up access to the internet is not enough. It takes cable, DSL, or business class high-speed internet access to make web-based erp work at acceptable levels of performance. If you have dial-up access, don't even bother. What about your Streamyx broad band in some area like Sri Kenbangan and Subang it is fast enough? And if you are using dial up, don’t even bother.

3. Reliability - Web-based computing relies 100% on the internet being up and running and available. I can assure you, the internet is not always up and running and available. Ask yourself, how many times has your internet access been down this year? If the internet is down - you are down, and most likely your business is down as well. Ouch! The weakest link is its ULTIMATE SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE and you can’t do anything about it. This is a valid concern and there really is no answer other than employing a local on premised solution.

4. Viruses - because of rampant viruses and media attention, many people fear that they might be at a higher risk to contract a virus if they run their operation on a web-based system. There is little basis for this. Yes, viruses are a serious threat. You should be running virus protection software and a firewall device anyway. Theoretically, you are at the same risk level of contracting a virus whether your accounting system is on line or stored locally. The threat of viruses is not a very valid concern in my opinion.

5. Security - Most companies are very concerned about sending their data over the internet. They fear that their data will either be viewed or compromised. The reality is that with 128 bit encryption, sending you data over the internet is as safe as it can be. If you currently keep your data on a file server at the office, the thieves could steal the computer, unauthorized employees might access the system at night, backup tapes could be left in non-secure environments, etc. While nothing in this world is 100% safe, it boils down to managing your systems. Security is not a very valid concern in my opinion.

I have said it often; don’t be too hung-up on technology. Have a reality check. Don’t be clouded by the buzzword that is ringing around in the IT world. Ask the question how does this application help me to solve my inventory control problems, my operational issue? Careware is not against Cloud computing as our principals Sage also has its software available via SaaS for years already in US/Canada and someone is offering Sage Line50 in Ireland as well. This concept has being around for a long time.

Do some checking and you will find that just as fast as new customer signed-up the equal amount of customers sign-off and revert to the traditional model of running their ERP. But the biggest real obstacles for Malaysia and some South East Asia end users are those stated in point 1, 2 and 3.