Showing posts with label Sage 200 Suite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sage 200 Suite. Show all posts

Sunday, 28 March 2010

The benefits of Sage 200 Payroll

Sage 200 pay roll saves your organisation time and improves productivity. If your organisation has more than 10 employees Sage 200 payroll is the solution you are looking for with regards efficiency and productivity.
An outline of the actions made easy with a Sage 200 payroll solution are listed below:
• Accurately manage bonuses and commission
• Quickly add new employees, greatly enhancing the productivity in this area
• Over time accurately calculated and paid accordingly
• Wage increase, bonus and commission projections accurately calculated; crucial when analysing your bottom line
• Integration with Microsoft Excel enabling data to be imported when required
• Safe, effective data storage
• Holidays and a host of other pay roll functions all taken care of in Sage 200 payroll

Overall, Sage 200 payroll enables your business to focus on critical areas, taking the time and fuss away from tasks that can become otherwise time consuming and stressful.

Pythagoras Communications Ltd has enviable experience in deploying, creating and understanding your individual Sage 200 needs. More than 300 Sage customers nationwide have discovered how Pythagoras’s approach adds value to their business. These are drawn from a diverse range of sectors and markets and we have specialist teams with specific expertise in each. Pythagoras has an enviable combination of extensive, multi-sector experience and a reputation for cutting edge technical development and innovation.

Wednesday, 10 March 2010

The benefits of Sage 200 Business Intelligence

Sage 200 Business Intelligence is best utilised looking into past trends; the more data which is used in BI the better it will operate and the more accurate the results will be. Business Intelligence tool is not best used to see how much your customers owe at present and balances but more how much a person has paid over time, and any trends or irregularities in their long term payment structure.

Furthermore data from Sage 200 Business Intelligence allows the user to bring through data seamlessly in to Excel; individual vertical cubes allow data comparison against a number of variables such as year to date (ytd), past few years, individual product lines and stores to name a few. Another added advantage Sage 200 BI in Excel brings is that users without Sage licences can utilise BI in Excel; the data can then be shared internally via methods such as email and share point.

Benefits offered by Sage 20 BI:

• Make faster, more informed and confident decisions
• Easy and fast deployment
• Easy to understand and use
• Reporting and analytics within the comfort of Microsoft® Excel
• Pre-defined reports out-of-the-box
• Dynamic Charts

Work spaces within Sage 200 are customisable spaces within the screen which can meet the user’s individual needs and requirements at a glance from data which is gathered from a number of sources. Furthermore on top of the ten out of the box workspaces available within the Sage 200 package Pythagoras has successfully developed two additional work spaces to enhance the productivity; the Outstanding Works Order workspace and the Stock profitability workspace.

Overall, Sage 200 workspaces deliver maximum value for the user at minimum effort.

Monday, 1 March 2010

Sage 200 Taster Day April 14th 2010

The growth of businesses through means such as employee numbers and product ranges has put pressure on their existing software packages. Sage 200, the natural progression from Sage 50, 100 and MMS software provides businesses with the ability to achieve greater effectiveness by interconnecting data and processes across departments.

Pythagoras Sage 200 taster days are designed to demonstrate how Sage 200 can be used to resolve challenges facing: Finance, Sales & Marketing, Operations, and Customer Care teams. We will focus on how we can help you manage your customers and staff and how to grow your business while delivering improved customer service through improved integration of these business functions.

Below we outline Sage 200’s core modules and benefits, giving you a brief insight in to the potential advantages and how Sage 200 can drive your business forward.

Sage 200 core modules;

Sage 200 Financials:
Greater Budget Control and deeper understanding of customer transactions through the unlimited archive available which enables trends to be recognised early and subsequent proactive decisions to be made
Open, closed and editable accounting periods rather than set accounting periods; allowing greater ability to manage your budgets and become flexible to the ever changing needs of your business.
Lastly, the greater ability to drill down on profit and loss figures utilising dashboards to enhance your visual presentation and understanding.

Sage 200 CRM:

Allows Improves internal communication and unity for your business through its integration with Sage financials and commercials enables your internal departments to be brought together, synchronising the accounting, marketing, sales and customer service elements of your business.
Real time customer service information allows you to access and view real time customer service information, the live data allows your business to be more proactive with responses to customers, resulting in a greater customer service experience for the customer. The ability for automated workflows to be created further improves efficiency and service time.

Lastly, records for your Sage 200 CRM contacts can be stored within the one central system; furthermore, information of communication or records can be associated or assigned to individual contacts, customers or suppliers accounts allowing you to keep a track on precious interactions, improving communication times and processes with these stakeholders in the future.

The basic Sage 200 Platform comes enabled for one financial user and one CRM user. Beyond that, you can add any number of different users to the CRM module, the Web Time and Expenses module, and to the rest of the system.

Sage 200 suite also has modules including software to manage Manufacturing, Wholesale and Retail, Merchandising and more.
Our Sage taster days are FREE, if you would like to speak one of our team regarding signing up for this seminar or one in the near future information can be found on the events page.

Pythagoras communications has enviable experience in deploying, creating and understanding your individual Sage 200 needs. More than 300 Sage customers nationwide have discovered how Pythagoras’ approach adds value to their business. These are drawn from a diverse range of sectors and markets and we have specialist teams with specific expertise in each. Pythagoras has the combination of extensive, multi-sector experience and a reputation for cutting edge technical development and innovation.

Sign up for the FREE Sage 200 tester day on 14th April 2010

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Tuesday, 15 December 2009

The benefits of Sage 200 in Manufacturing

3 Common problems for businesses in Manufacturing

•Company growth has led to reliable financial systems being sought with current systems becoming outdated and compromising the businesses.
•Greater efficiency levels, especially from those purchase order driven businesses.
•The desire for maximum commercial awareness of projects and budgets.


Sage 200 Financials and Commercials
One essential element of the Sage 200 suite for manufacturing businesses is financials and commercials. This has given businesses the ability to control the whole financial function including sales order processing, purchase ledgers, sales and cashbook.

The depth of reports available at businesses fingertips allows a more proactive approach due to the amount of information gathered from a number of different levels. Furthermore from this being a significant competitive advantage the ability to drill down on costs (such as labour) with the any discrepancies highlighted at departmental level which has allowed businesses to remain on track and focused due to appropriate corrective action being taken early.

Vital to a manufacturing businesses success is the minimising of wastage on production timings and costs; Sage 200 allows more informed decisions to be made quickly by highlighting issues of concern which may affect the business and profitability.

Numerous time consuming financial tasks such as banking reconciliations have improved greatly thanks to Sage 200's tighter financial control; where numerous spreadsheets were once required significantly greater efficiency is now available.

Finally, a reflective list of just a few ways Sage 200 and Sage 200 Manufacturing can enhance your business:

• Greater managing the cash flow
• Reducing costs and improving efficiency
• Optimising production costs and timings
• Sharing of relevant information from raw material specialists to the final quality control
• Giving a potential competitive edge thanks to the ability to quickly spot and react to market trends and data.

Pythagoras is an experienced business solutions provider for Sage 200 and Microsoft CRM with offices in Maidenhead, London and Manchester. More than 300 Sage customers nationwide have discovered how Pythagoras’s approach adds value to their business. These are drawn from a diverse range of sectors and markets and we have specialist teams with specific expertise in each.

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Friday, 2 October 2009

Sage 200 CRM for Accounting

Sage 200 CRM is normally used by sales and marketing people; however there are many benefits for accounting departments and financial controllers.

One of the most important parts of the Sage 200 suite is Sage 200 CRM. If you have researched Sage 200 CRM, you will find that it is a great tool for sales and marketing. However if you look deeper, you will find that Sage 200 CRM provides enormous benefits to your accounting operations.

Sage 200 CRM can help improve cash flow and accounts receivable collections. It allows your accounting staff to prioritise and manage customer collections and rapidly convert outstanding invoices into cash in the bank. Through the dashboards built on your data you can identify potential problems swifter.

Improve vendor and supplier management with Sage 200 CRM, as it makes it easy to stay on top of vendor discounts, track special contract arrangements, and process purchasing requests and quotes in a timely fashion. With calendar and task management functions, you can stay on top of all activities.

With the Sage 200 suite you can decrease time spent on answering accounts queries. No doubt the accounting department receives multiple requests each week from sales and customer service regarding the status of orders, shipments, refunds, credit, and payments received etc. Sage 200 CRM, provides centralised data in a single database, this means that sales and customer service staff can perform their own operational enquiries while the accounting department benefits from few daily interruptions. These are just some of the benefits of Sage 200 CRM to accounting staff and financial controllers.

As an integral part of the suite, Sage 200 CRM produces key benefits to front office operations, such as assisting with the streamlining of sales, marketing and customer service activities. In addition the accounting team can deal directly with vendors, suppliers and customers. Sage provides a free Sage 200 CRM licence with every installation which could be used to great effect.

About Pythagoras

Pythagoras is one of the top Sage 200 business partners in the UK. More than 300 Sage customers nationwide have discovered how Pythagoras’s approach adds value to their business. These are drawn from a diverse range of sectors and markets and we have specialist teams with specific expertise in each. Pythagoras has an enviable combination of extensive, multi-sector experience and a reputation for cutting edge technical development and innovation.

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