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Sage 200 Financials & Commercials - Overview

Sage 200 Suite - Financials & Commercials

Sage 200 Financials & Commercials are at the heart of the Sage 200 suite forming a mid-range business finance solution, built on a .NET platform.

The Sage 200 Financials & Commercials Structure:

Sage 200 Financials is the core of Sage 200 comprising: Nominal, Sales and Purchase Ledgers and cash book. Extra modules can be added, namely the Commercial suite comprising Order Processing, Stock Control and Price Book. Separate Reporting and Bill of Materials modules can also be added.
 

 

Nominal Ledger

  • Open period accounting up to 20 periods in each financial year
  • Flexible nominal coding structure includes departments and cost centres
  • Optional automated coding / hierarchy creation
  • Flexible P/L and B/S reporting
  • Transactions held in base currency whilst storing currency & exchange rate of originating transaction
  • Transactional analysis codes enabling project cost tracking across profit/cost codes
  • Custom group accounts enabling production of summarised balances across nominal accounts
  • Automated pre payment and accruals for pro-active reporting
  • Merge Nominal Ledger data from two or more separate companies for financial reporting
  • Output to alternate currencies if required
  • Subsidiary companies can operate in a different base currency to head office
  • Powerful consolidation of multiple companies with different nominal structures & operating currencies
  • Alerts and batch entry features for rapid, error-free data entry
  • In-depth reporting and graphical analysis
  • Budget by cost centre and department

Advanced Multicurrency

  • Specify date range for exchange rate
  • Use “spot” exchange rate
  • Maintain currency-specific product pricing and discounts
  • Customers can pay in more than one currency

Sales Ledger

  • Advanced credit management facilities
  • Unlimited analysis codes
  • Accounting and trading periods with independent date range structure – ideal for retail businesses
  • Advanced currency handling
  • Batch data entry
  • Head office and/or branch statements

Purchase Ledger

  • Automated payments routine for rapid payment processing
  • Unlimited analysis codes
  • Advanced currency handling
  • Accounting and trading periods with independent date range structure
  • Factor house facility
  • Unlimited contacts, roles, telephone numbers and other contact information

Cash Book

  • One point of entry for receipts and payments in up to 100 currencies
  • Automated standing orders and direct debits on a user defined basis
  • Graphical representation of bank account data offering instant views of liquidity
  • Grouped transaction views allowing drill down to individual postings

Stock Control

  • Full stock location management allows independent operation for sales, reporting, stock take and replenishment
  • ‘Real’ stock level recording to include system reported negative stock
  • Supplier price lists with selective pricing at point of purchase
  • Landed costs option for absolute costing accuracy
  • Traceable product grouping
  • Traceable stock item archiving
  • Serial number stock tracking assignable at any point with auto-generation
  • Optional ability to assign same serial number to more than one stock item
  • Batch number stock tracking assignable at any point
  • Supplier serial number tracking for total flexibility
  • Totally flexible pick and packing specification – amendable at despatch if necessary
  • Default comment lines for picking lists and despatch notes for packing instructions etc
  • Optional unlimited text stock descriptions
  • Traceable stock with “sell by” and “Use by” date association
  • Default shelf life date application
  • Alternative reference numbering for increased flexibility
  • Up to 15 additional user definable lines per stock item
  • ‘Real World’ stock take processing
  • Default fulfilment methods flexible up to sales order entry
  • Keyword search facility for rapid order entry and enquiry
  • Temporary ‘Inactive’ stock flags allowing suspension of stock items
  • Temporary stock location suspension for bonded or quarantined stock
  • Unlimited suppliers assigned to stock items
  • Unlimited alternative stock cross referencing
  • Unlimited buying prices per stock item
  • Drill down enquiry routines
  • Monthly trading profitability / trading enquiry
  • Up to 3 customisable analysis codes per stock transaction enabling more comprehensive stock movement recording
  • Internal stock issues tracking for increased accountability
  • ‘Sales Order’ flag excludes certain stock items from sales order entry process ie boxed set items
  • Automatic stock label production recognises need for individual or batch item labels

Price Book

  • Supports simple and complex pricing schemes
  • Discount or price band based pricing schemes
  • Create one price or discount scheme and apply to multiple customers
  • Unlimited, customisable and re-nameable price bands per stock item ideal for wholesale, retail and web business etc
  • Unlimited quantity break discounts
  • Pricing structures for multiple stock units of measure
  • Foreign currency pricing enabling dual pricing per stock item
  • Price book validation ensures pricing/discount structure is viable
  • Price band specification per customer record for rapid creation of new customers
  • Price book band deletion for improved housekeeping and error reduction

Sales Order Processing

  • Rapid or Full Order Entry mode – switch from one to the other to suit
  • Trade Counter processing
  • Different order entry systems for different departments offering choice over ‘one size fits all’
  • Totally flexible back to back ordering to match purchasing methods
  • Optional, flexible Cost of Sales postings to Nominal
  • Totally flexible stock allocation for greater control
  • Order profitability recording enabling accurate profit analysis – estimated at order entry and confirmed at dispatch or invoice posting
  • Profit levels shown at full order value or individual lines to protect profit
  • Sales return cost management to maintain accurate profit analysis
  • Auto or manual and fully amendable stock allocation
  • Discount calculation display during order entry controlled by user level
  • Easy screen monitoring of order status line by line for improved customer service
  • Optional negative invoice lines  Ie for part exchanges etc
  • On the fly ‘Price & Availability’ enquiry using Customer Pricing Summary feature
  • Extended filtering of repeat orders to speed up order entry
  • Complete stock availability view across all locations within order entry
  • Alternative stock view within order entry
  • High level user privileges to price changes, over-ride credit hold, view profit etc
  • Up to 6 analysis codes per order line and a further 6 per order header offering  superb reporting ability
  • Unlimited additional charges per sales order
  • Unlimited comment lines per sales order for explicit instructions right up to delivery
  • On the fly filtering of order data for swift customer enquiry
  • Record payment during sales order entry, i.e. for deposits with breakdown of deposit & balance on invoice
  • Method of payment stored with each order for swift end of business reconciliation
  • Partial dispatch ability
  • Cancelled order lines constantly monitored to detect patterns
  • Sales prospect quotations automatically converted to new account when business won
  • Multiple invoice layouts allows customer specific documentation
  • EC Sales list in XML format ensures procedures are legislatively compliant

Purchase Order Processing

  • Simple and efficient supply chain management
  • On the fly data filtering provides rapid enquiry with full drill down
  • Allocate outstanding sales orders from purchase goods receipt routine
  • Complete back to back ordering process
  • Standard cost variance process holds running variance for each stock item enabling swift clear down to nominal Stock Value Adjustment account
  • Complete Goods Received Note process supports 2 way & 3 way matching
  • Enhanced Purchase Invoice matching calculates running total for less error-prone data entry
  • Disputed Invoice file held separately for easier identification
  • Separate delivery address per purchase order line
  • Choice of delivery addresses supports complex supply and delivery models
  • Auto purchase order generation with price negotiation based on shortfall, back to back orders & minimum stock levels for improved workflow
  • Full order line history with full drill down for total traceability
  • Up to 6 analysis codes per order line and a further 6 per order header offering  superb reporting ability
  • Unlimited additional charges by default or ad hoc application during order entry
  • Incomplete order write off facility
  • Cancelled order lines constantly monitored to detect patterns

Sage Report Designer

  • Simple, fast and efficient WYSIWYG designer
  • Provides instant information for critical business decisions
  • Unique Expression Engine easily creates calculated fields

Bill of Materials

  • Easy to setup precise costing based on component and overhead cost
  • Flexible Nominal analysis with single line or summarised postings
  • Multiple Bills of Material with full change history
  • Multiple views of Bill of Material structure
  • Flexible build options
  • Customized and flexible posting routines for total stock control


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More Information
To discuss your business requirements call us on 0870 382 5000.

Sage 200 Financials & Commercials Brochure
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