Sage MMS - Additional Modules 

In additional to the Sage MMS Financial and Commercial Suite additional modules are available for complete financial management:
 

Sage MMS – Bill of Materials

• Precise Costing - detailed costs can be built in for each unit or build run. Additionally, allocate a proportion of a fixed cost/operating overhead to a run, based on an average number of units per run. For components that do not use the standard costing method, the Sage MMS will re-calculate the rolled-up cost of the finished goods upon allocation.
• Flexible Nominal Ledger analysis - stock use can be summarised to a single line for each nominal account when posting to the Nominal Ledger to significantly reduces the volume of transactions
• Easily manage multiple Bills of Materials - multiple versions of a BOM can be stored and used, one of which is ‘live’ at a given time. Only one person can edit or change a BOM at any one time. Full change history is stored for each BOM. Old BOMs can be marked as ‘Dead’ or ‘Obsolete’.
• 4 views of BOM structures - Tree view allows drill-down through all levels and branches of the BOM. Top level view shows only the first level of components below the finished item. Bottom level view shows only the end points of each of the BOM branch. Finally, a consolidated view shows rolled-up totals of all components used.
• Flexible build options - the system can be configured to always build sub-assemblies or always use from stock, or allow choice in each case. Picking lists can be produced at the time of allocation or separately.
• Customised BOMs and ‘Specials’ - Users can replace individual items, add new items or amend quantities of existing items. A ‘Partial Build’ means in the event of any surplus raw materials remaining users enter the quantity actually built. MMS can also support situations where finished goods are built without allocating raw materials first, for expedited builds.

• Sage MMS Bill of Materials also includes: ‘On Hold’ feature, support for trial builds, full BOM history, allocation reference numbers and serial/batch numbers

Sage MMS Reporting and Financial Analysis

• Budgetary Control - advanced budgetary control combined with cost centre and departmental management is a key strength of Sage MMS. Analysis of budgets versus performance can be viewed graphically. Drill-down to individual transactions to analyse the detail behind the trends.
• Analysis Tools - throughout MMS, custom analysis codes allow you to cut information any way you want. For example, choose to categorise customers by region, sales person and account type to analyse sales performance across these categories.
• Report Designer - Sage MMS is supplied with over 250 ready-made reports covering all modules within the system, plus a wide range of documents such as credit letters and invoice layouts for everyday use. With the inbuilt Report Designer tool, customise these reports and documents or add entirely new ones. Reports and other documents can be previewed, e-mailed, printed directly or sent to a print manager for print pending.
• Excel Integration - Enhanced Excel integration allows information from Sage MMS to be quickly and easily uplifted into an Excel spreadsheet without the need to re-key or manually export or import data. A library of Excel functions is supplied to allow information to be pulled from MMS into Excel for analysis. Sample  spreadsheets are supplied for Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet and Key Performance Indicators. It is easy to amend these or create new spreadsheets to suit your own business.

• Other integration - Via industry-standard ODBC connectivity, Sage MMS can be linked to a host of other desktop applications for analysis or other integration.

Sage MMS Document Manager

The MMS Document Manager module enables high quality business documents to be easily designed and everyday documents such as statements, notes, invoices and quotes to be created quickly and easily by merging information held in Sage MMS. Choose how these documents are dispatched – by email, fax or post, giving you both control and flexibility.

• Professional looking documents - Sage MMS Document Manager merges information with form designs to include company logo and branding and produces professional looking documents that can be instantly faxed or emailed.
• Intelligent delivery - more businesses today are using email to send their documents out in an attempt to cut costs and save time. MMS Document Manager ensures that you achieve this by enabling users to generate professional looking emails or faxes directly from MMS saving time and eliminating postal costs.
• Eliminate wastage of out dated stationary - By using the backdrops that exist in the Sage MMS Document Manager, there is no longer a need to use pre-printed stationary. Documents can now be printed directly onto plain paper, as well as maintaining a professional look and feel, it also the quickest and easiest way of cutting down stationery costs. For additional backdrop customisation we recommend Spindle Professional.

• Efficient archiving - Sage MMS Document Manager also offers an efficient, easily accessible document archiving system. Instant retrieval of any document is possible in just a few steps, reducing paper-chasing and a clear audit trail increases clarity and saves time.

More Information
Through our partners, Preact can arrange independent accounting software advice including demonstrations of the Sage MMS suites. To discuss your business requirements call us on 0870 382 5000.

Sage MMS
Read our Sage MMS brochure to learn more about the business benefits of using Sage MMS to manage your business (PDF).