Sage Line 200

Sage line 200, designed for a broad spectrum of small to medium-sized businesses, is a business management software suite that runs across your entire organisation. Sage 200 streamlines data collection and analysis from across the business, facilitating faster and more informed management decisions. Sage 200 centrally integrates all of your financial and CRM data, making it accessible to those who need it, anytime, anywhere.

As Ireland’s leading dealer in Sage 200, DB Computer Solutions is best placed to advise on how to get the best return from investment in Sage 200, and how to build a ‘future-proof’ Sage 200 system customised to your specific requirements. Ideally suited to growing medium-sized businesses with sophisticated business processes, or for organisations seeking an upgrade from Sage 50, Sage 200 is the ultimate front and back office software solution, integrating seamlessly with all other Windows applications, and eliminating the need for ‘double entry’ or manually matching data collected by separate applications.

What is Sage Line 200?

Sage 200 caters for simultaneous use by up to 50 operators, and any subsidiaries can be accommodated for reporting to central management, while maintaining separate structures and settings. It also supports trading in up to 100 different currencies, automatically ensuring accuracy of costs by managing fluctuations in exchange rates.

The Sage 200 workspace is user-friendly, displaying key information on overseas trade, dispatching of orders, re-ordering of stock, etc, and can be customised to suit the user. It organically integrates with your team’s current working methods.

Sage 200 is easy to install, and can be customised to meet your current specific needs, as well as laying a foundation for your business’s future.

Sage 200 Suite

A portfolio of software modules that will provide you with a 360-degree view of your entire business, the Sage 200 Suite provides a total management solution of a power and efficiency previously only affordable with the budgets at the disposal of larger or multi-national organisations.

The Sage line 200 Suite incorporates a range of modules, efficiently, swiftly and reliably controlling your business’s finance, distribution, CRM, manufacturing, retail and other business processes. There is no more need for separate software systems or databases, or hold-ups in data-sharing between departments.

The modules in the Sage 200 Suite include:

• Sage 200 Financials

• Sage 200 Commercials

• Sage 200 Project Accounting

• Sage 200 Web Time And Expenses

• Sage 200 BOM

• Sage 200 CRM

• Sage 200 Business Intelligence

• Sage 200 Manufacturing

• Sage 200 Wholesale And Retail

Sage 200 Financials

This Sage 200 application manages the day-to-day running of business, providing business control and management reporting, helping you to control costs and processes while you concentrate on driving the business forward. Its swift delivery of up-to-the-minute data facilitates tracking and analysis of data, will guarantee you peace of mind as you make the most crucial strategic business decisions. Sage 200 Financials is divided into four key modules, together encompassing the complete financial solution. These modules include Nominal Ledger; Cash Book; Sales Ledger; and Purchase Ledger.

Nominal Ledger is a flexible tool that will help you forensically drill down into your finances, with access to profit-and-loss and balance sheets across single cost centres or departments. It will also speed up repetitive tasks, and facilitate trading in up to 100 different currencies.

The Cash Book controls all of your bank, investment and cash accounts, with multi-currency processing, links to on-line banking services, and the capacity to configure standing orders and direct debits. It provides instant detailed status reports on the liquidity of all your bank accounts, right down to the transaction level. Inter-account transfers and dealing in foreign currency are no problem with the Sage 200 Cash Book, which give you complete flexibility and control.

With the Sales Ledger, you  have total control of customer management, across up to 100 currencies. Sage line 200 Sales Ledger allows for the simultaneous processing of a number of tasks, and the possibility of human error is minimised with a colour-coded visual alert system designed to ensure accuracy.  A powerful report writing tool, with a host of standard reports provided, Sage 200 Sales Ledger enables you to easily customise reports, or create brand new ones that will suit specific needs.

The Purchase Ledger offers accelerated data entry with numerous defaults that can be specified to suit your needs, as well as single-click retrieval, comparison and analysis of relevant information. It gives you total control of supplier management, across up to 100 different currencies. This module can also automate payments to suppliers, electronically, or by cheque with a printed remittance advice, and inform you of those that qualify for early settlement discounts. Like the Sales Ledger, the Purchase Ledger module has automatic error correction that reverses incorrectly entered data and updates the audit trail.

Sage 200 Commercials

This module, another key component of the Sage 200 system, complements Sage 200 Financials with modules in Sales Order and Purchase Order Processing, Stock Control and Price Book. Sage 200 Commercials helps to maintain customer loyalty and ensure customer satisfaction by ensuring faster response times to product and pricing demands. With its capacity for effective stock management and automated delivery of customer orders, Sage line 200 Commercials gives you complete control over the supply chain.

With Sage 200 Sales Order Processing you can control all aspects of the sales order process, including provision of quotations, processing orders, ensuring stock availability, dispatching goods, and creating invoices. As part of the work flow, all associated documentation (invoices, delivery notes, acknowledgements, etc) is created automatically. Simplifying the sales order process, Sage 200 Sales Order Processing integrates with the other Sage 200 Commercial modules to work in foreign currencies.

Sage 200 Purchase Order Processing simply and effectively manages the entire purchase order process, from creating an order to checking goods received. The module’s automated processes help to manage your supply chain and ensure that the correct goods are ordered and paid for. Sage 200 Purchase Order Processing ensures that both the stock and the resources are available to support your company’s sales functions,

Sage 200 Stock Control provides full control and management of your stock levels and warehouse. Accountability is the key with Sage 200 Stock Control. The module allocates unique serial numbers, ensuring all stock can be accounted for, efficiently and securely. Sage 200 Stock Control also provides users with the ability to manage stock and warehouses across a number of locations. All in all, the entire business of stock control and warehouse management is made simple, ensuring that your costs are kept to a minimum, and your customer satisfaction levels are maximised.

Sage 200 Price Book enables easy management customer prices and discounts across your entire product range. Fully integrated with the other Sage 200 modules, and supporting discount and price band based pricing, Price Book offers huge flexibility for businesses dealing in differing price structures. Complex pricing structures are made simple with Sage line 200 Price Book, which allows for customisation, and also creates defaults for regular business processing.

Sage 200 Project Accounting

Designed for companies who require project-by-project analysis of costs, Sage 200 Project Accounting provides a highly configurable costing and analysis module. Its in-depth reporting and analysis features will ensure your projects remain on target, with profit levels maximised and maintained.

This module does away with the need for multiple tracking systems by offering a choice or combination of specific  project types, optimising time and profitability for project managers. It also facilitates the creation of any number of sub-projects within each parent project-by-project, and the option to automatically convert sales orders and quotations into projects is a great time-saver.

Easy to use, Sage line 200 Project Accounting is also easy to configure to your existing ‘in house’ terminology.

It will link seamlessly with all other Sage 200 modules, for the ultimate in overall cost control, facilitating easy drill downs to any level, and analysis of any or all projects, delivering data on progress made, costs incurred, revenue received, budgets and profitability.

With projects varying according to customer needs, Sage 200 Project Accounting creates templates that reflect these variances, providing for accurate billing at particular milestones, either automatically or manually.

Sage 200 Web Time And Expenses

This module allows for remote entry into and tracking of timesheets and expense claims, via a web browser, and so thereby facilitates users who will be operating on-line or on your premises.

Sage 200 BOM

Sage 200 BOM (Bill Of Materials) is designed to follow the BOM process from beginning to end, breaking down the manufacturing operation into easily accessible areas, including materials, labour, machines, operations and reporting.

Flexible and easy to tailor to your needs, Sage 200 BOM has an intuitive operating system, and offers multiple views of BOM structures, offering you enormous flexibility and optimising control.

Sage 200 BOM also allows you to sore and use multiple versions of a BOM, and minimises error by allowing only one person to edit or change a BOM at any one time, storing a full history of amendments for other users to refer to.

Sage 200 CRM

With the Sage line 200 CRM module, users have a powerful, internet-based tool for analysis, management and synchronisation of all client data, ensuring swift, responsive and efficient customer service.

This award-winning CRM system offers instant, fully integrated, ‘need to know’ access and usage for personnel in and across the sales, marketing and customer care areas of your business, either remotely or on-premises.

Maximising the efforts of your personnel, Sage CRM is an effective ‘team leader’, harnessing the individual and combined efforts of your personnel, and making people, groups and departments more efficient in pursuit of the overall goal of customer satisfaction.

Sage 200 Business Intelligence

The aptly named Sage 200 Business Intelligence module provides managers with clearly presented information that will assist in the identification of trends, as well as pinpointing areas of inefficiency. This up-to-date data will enable them to make the swiftest and most informed business decisions.

Sage 200 Vertical Module – Manufacturing

Sage 200 Manufacturing is a no-nonsense solution for taking full and effective control of your manufacturing processes. The module will enable you to reduce operational costs; optimise production through streamlining the supply chain; improve productivity via automated purchase and works orders; to always meet scheduled delivery deadlines; to accurately keep track of stock and deliveries, ensuring more effective cash flow management; and improve overall quality control by tracking items through the production process.

With such features as storage and management of multiple versions of Bills Of Materials; flexible build options; full batch and serial number processing; and improved estimates and quotations for multiple batch sizes, Sage line 200 Manufacturing is a comprehensive solution for any manufacturing operation.

The module also features automated purchase and works orders, insightful stock projection, and a planner that facilitates the easy creation of achievable production plans, through the graphical presentation of the schedule of work required to meet demands.

Sage 200 Wholesale And Retail

The Sage 200 Wholesale And Retail module helps control the entire retailing process, including stock purchase, booking stock across multiple locations and branches, marketing, sales and reporting on your business’ performance. Suitable for multi- and single-store companies, the  Sage 200 Wholesale And Retail module is designed to grow alongside your organisation.

The Sage 200 Wholesale And Retail module, which effectively manages multiple branches and stores, will save time and increase accuracy by eliminating duplication of data entry and amendments. It will track traceable items by serial and batch numbers, and greatly improve stock management by helping to define how products are structured throughout your business, as well as providing an accurate level of stock levels.

Sage 200 Wholesale And Retail will also help you to account for pricing promotions, either in one brach or throughout your company. The option to automate pricing promotions also removes the requirement for operator intervention at transaction level.

Get further information on Sage 200 from the experts at DB Computer Solutions. Call today on +353(0)61-480980 or e-mail info@dbcomp.ie