Effective project management keeps your business profitable and ahead of your competition, particularly in this tough economic climate. By maintaining control over your projects and budgets, you can generate increased revenue at reduced costs, eliminate unproductive time spent on projects and improve your bottom line.
Sage 200 Project Accounting is a powerful, intuitive and highly configurable costing and analysis application designed for any business that needs to improve the management, performance and profit associated with its projects. Sage 200 Project Accounting provides full visibility within your projects as they progress. By capturing time and expenditure associated with a project, Sage 200 Project Accounting ensures that your projects are delivered on time and on budget. It will also provide you with in-depth analysis and reporting tools to ensure that your projects remain on track and profit levels are maintained.
The Integration Solution
Sage 200 Project Accounting links seamlessly with your Sage 200 Financials and Commercials and Payroll modules so that you can allocate transactions in your Sales, Purchase, Nominal, Stock Control, Sales and Purchase Order Processing modules to your projects. Therefore, you no longer have to re-key information held in your Project Accounting or other Sage 200 modules.
Flexible Project Accounting
Sage 200 Project Accounting allows your project managers to optimise their time and project profitability using a choice of project types – whether it’s time and materials, fixed price or a combination of the two. This removes the need for you to maintain multiple project tracking systems. You can create new projects quickly and easily using the project templates supplied or by copying existing projects - with the added functionality of having an unlimited number of sub-projects within one parent project. In addition, Sales Orders or quotations raised can be converted into projects – saving you time and the need to re-key information.
Resource Management
Automating the recording of time and expenses associated with a project is essential for ensuring that projects are billed accurately and resource costs are monitored. Sage 200 Project Accounting offers a simplified way to submit, review, track and approve timesheets and expense claims in multiple currencies. It will help you control costs and time worked, consolidate timesheet information, and adhere to your organisational time management rules.
Sage 200 Project Accounting also offers a web-based interface for time entry and approval. The Sage 200 Web Time & Expenses (WTE) module is an additional module to Project Accounting, which allows remote users to log time and expenses when out in the field working on projects. Timesheet and expense sheets can also be printed remotely for submission to the office.
Sage 200 Project Accounting offers you a choice in how expenses are reimbursed; through wages in Sage Payroll, bank payments in Sage 200 Financials, or via a supplier payment if the employees are set up as suppliers in the Purchase Ledger.
You can also group your employees into a resource hierarchy, with employees who perform similar functions being grouped together. In addition, each employee or group can be allocated a variety of different charge-out rates, allowing you to charge out the same person or group at various rates, depending on the project.
Sage Project Accounting provides an unlimited multi-tier structure which can be customised to suit the needs of any business. If your business needs to improve project profits and performance and wants visibility into the actual time and expenses of a project as it progresses, why not contact Pythagoras for more information on how Sage 200 Project Accounting can help your business.
About Pythagoras
Pythagoras is a company that is confidently experienced in providing Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Accounts and integrated business solutions for businesses across a broad range of industries including Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Sage 200 and Sage CRM.
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Wednesday, 23 September 2009
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Sage 200 and Integrating Information Across Your Business
Companies need to consider each of the options it has for sharing information across the business to enable more collaborative working and implementing a single integrated suite of applications across the business.
Faced with mounting economic pressures, companies are having to improve how they coordinate activity across their organisation in order to maximise the value they deliver to customers as well as minimising costs. But this requires integrating discrete departmental information in order to facilitate collaborative working.
Whether a company achieves this by linking together existing departmental systems or implements a single integrated suite of applications across the business depends upon their particular situation. The most common approach in attempting to share information across a business is by having staff key the same data into multiple applications, a very ill-advised means of providing critical management intelligence.
Supporting disparate departmental systems entails significant costs. As well as having to provide technical support for multiple applications, separate training packages need to be delivered for the different software packages involved as each will typically involve users in working with a very different interface. The cost of the time and effort required to identify and address the source of any such problems can be significant.
Before a company decides simply on cost grounds to share information across the business by linking existing departmental systems together, it needs to ensure that this course of action really will represent the cheaper option in the long run.
The final option a company has for making data available across the organisation is to implement one single shared system containing applications for each part of the business in one complete software suite. As well as a core set of key business applications, such suites also typically provide a platform into which extra optional modules containing additional functionality can be plugged in to enable the system to be further tailored to an organisation’s particular requirements.
The Integration Solution
The Sage 200 suite integrates CRM and ERP processes together in one system, and anyone can readily monitor activity right across the organisation. Therefore, the performance of cross-functional processes can be viewed end-to-end, enabling any problems to be swiftly identified and appropriate corrective action taken.
In addition, data on any aspect of the organisation can be made available to anyone within the organisation in a form tailored to their role so that they can coordinate their activity accordingly. For example, sales staff and customer service agents can have immediate access to customer records, stock information and credit history. Both sets of data can be accessed from one screen, enabling a customer order to be taken, credit-checked and scheduled for delivery in one uninterrupted transaction.
Likewise, by using a single integrated suite of applications, data entered in any part of the organisation instantly becomes available to any other department enabling the company to respond to changing conditions in real time. So, for example, customer-facing staff could use information on actual stock levels to target discounts on ‘near end of life’ items.
As well as enhancing operational agility in this way, the use of a single integrated suite of applications also offers major benefits when it comes to system development and support. With all the applications residing in a single suite, there is no need to work on developing links between applications to enable data to be exchanged between them. As a result, development times and costs are reduced dramatically compared to attempting to integrate existing disparate departmental systems.
Using a single suite of applications shared across the business avoids any compatibility issues between departmental systems, is much cheaper to maintain and upgrade and can be more easily adapted to deal with changes increasing business agility.
Faced with mounting economic pressures, companies are having to improve how they coordinate activity across their organisation in order to maximise the value they deliver to customers as well as minimising costs. But this requires integrating discrete departmental information in order to facilitate collaborative working.
Whether a company achieves this by linking together existing departmental systems or implements a single integrated suite of applications across the business depends upon their particular situation. The most common approach in attempting to share information across a business is by having staff key the same data into multiple applications, a very ill-advised means of providing critical management intelligence.
Supporting disparate departmental systems entails significant costs. As well as having to provide technical support for multiple applications, separate training packages need to be delivered for the different software packages involved as each will typically involve users in working with a very different interface. The cost of the time and effort required to identify and address the source of any such problems can be significant.
Before a company decides simply on cost grounds to share information across the business by linking existing departmental systems together, it needs to ensure that this course of action really will represent the cheaper option in the long run.
The final option a company has for making data available across the organisation is to implement one single shared system containing applications for each part of the business in one complete software suite. As well as a core set of key business applications, such suites also typically provide a platform into which extra optional modules containing additional functionality can be plugged in to enable the system to be further tailored to an organisation’s particular requirements.
The Integration Solution
The Sage 200 suite integrates CRM and ERP processes together in one system, and anyone can readily monitor activity right across the organisation. Therefore, the performance of cross-functional processes can be viewed end-to-end, enabling any problems to be swiftly identified and appropriate corrective action taken.
In addition, data on any aspect of the organisation can be made available to anyone within the organisation in a form tailored to their role so that they can coordinate their activity accordingly. For example, sales staff and customer service agents can have immediate access to customer records, stock information and credit history. Both sets of data can be accessed from one screen, enabling a customer order to be taken, credit-checked and scheduled for delivery in one uninterrupted transaction.
Likewise, by using a single integrated suite of applications, data entered in any part of the organisation instantly becomes available to any other department enabling the company to respond to changing conditions in real time. So, for example, customer-facing staff could use information on actual stock levels to target discounts on ‘near end of life’ items.
As well as enhancing operational agility in this way, the use of a single integrated suite of applications also offers major benefits when it comes to system development and support. With all the applications residing in a single suite, there is no need to work on developing links between applications to enable data to be exchanged between them. As a result, development times and costs are reduced dramatically compared to attempting to integrate existing disparate departmental systems.
Using a single suite of applications shared across the business avoids any compatibility issues between departmental systems, is much cheaper to maintain and upgrade and can be more easily adapted to deal with changes increasing business agility.
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