Sage MAS 500 ERP is a highly reliable, robust and integrated series of enterprise applications covering all areas of business, including financials, distribution, customer relationship management (CRM), manufacturing, human resources, payroll, project accounting, financial reporting, electronic commerce, and more.

The products are designed exclusively for companies and leverages Microsoft tools, technology, and architecture to provide a flexible, scalable, and full-featured enterprise management solution.

Sage MAS 500 offers market-leading functionality in a variety of areas. Its distribution capabilities are extensive, supporting multiple warehouses, forecasting, and automated procurement. The outstanding manufacturing capabilities include routings, bills of material, work orders, MRP, scheduling, job costing, and labor reporting. An out-of-the-box customer self-service application gets businesses up and running quickly with an integrated, powerful Web site for order taking and account inquiries.

In addition, the Sage MAS 500 design integrates with other applications, including Web sites and e-commerce applications, allowing customers to fully support their e-business plans with Sage MAS 500. These strengths combine with many others to provide a complete accounting and business solution.

Financials
Sage MAS 500 offers deep financial functionality and superior usability. Integration of multiple processes, easy access, data error reduction and streamlined customization are only a few of the benefits of Sage MAS 500 financial software. Integration with Microsoft Office, BackOffice, and the Internet, combined with its exclusive optimization for the Windows and SQL Server platform, makes it an ideal solution for the ever-changing needs of today’s growing businesses. The Sage MAS 500 Financials module includes: General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Purchase Order, Multicurrency Management, Cash Management, FAS Asset Accounting, FAS Asset Inventory, Advanced Consolidations, Allocations, and Financial Reporting.

These modules can improve your cash flow, customer satisfaction, and access to up-to-the-minute data. They also offer a way to streamline your accounting processes, save time, increase the integrity of your data, and provide the means for instant analysis and presentation-quality reporting on a host of important issues that affect your decision-making and profitability. The modules provide extensive benefits and are fully integrated with the other Sage MAS 500 modular solutions.

Project Accounting
Effective project management enables professional services firms and corporate IT departments to achieve operational excellence through the unique ability to control people, projects, and budgets with exceptional flexibility. The result helps generate more revenue at a lower cost, eliminate wasted hours, and produces more bottom-line savings.

The Sage MAS 500 Project Accounting module allows project managers to optimize project profitability. Project managers can track actual vs. estimated costs through forecast completion, which helps prevent cost overruns and generates bottom-line savings. Project Accounting also integrates Microsoft Project Link, providing managers and finance departments an end-to-end project management solution. The Sage Timesheet module is a browserbased time and expense entry and project cost management module that connects a remote workforce through the Internet in real-time.

Distribution
In today’s distribution environment, many factors can jeopardize your profitability. Optimizing inventory levels can mean the difference between improving profits and going out of business. The Sage MAS 500 Distribution solution is an integrated series of modules designed to give you everything you need to control your inventory levels—and their effect on your profits. Incorporating Inventory Management, Warehouse Management, Sales Order, eOrder, Purchase Order, Advanced Kitting, Inventory Management, and Inventory Replenishment modules, you can customize your software system to fit your specific requirements. Accurately forecasting and managing for every eventuality, the Distribution is ideal for distributors with multiple warehouses in a variety of industries.

Designed by distribution experts, Distribution can ensure on-time delivery to your important customers, maximize your productivity, and deliver advanced capabilities for tracking, managing, and replenishing inventory throughout the entire distribution cycle—from automated purchasing to stocking, all the way through to sales. With an eye on improving your profitability, the system helps you reduce carrying costs, maximize cash flow, and enables you to buy smarter.

Manufacturing
The Sage MAS 500 Manufacturing solution was designed with the flexibility and expanded capabilities to handle unique business requirements for various industries, including metal fabrication, machine and equipment manufacturing, electronic or electric equipment assembly, high-tech products, stamping, injection molding, furniture and fixture production, wood products manufacturing, and more.

Fully integrated modules can help you optimize your processes and secure your profit margin by tying manufacturing data back to the core financial modules that serve as the base of the Sage MAS 500 system. Manufacturing modules consist of Advanced Manufacturing, Light Manufacturing, Material Requirements Planning (MRP), Estimating, Engineering Change Management, Shop Floor Control, Advanced Planning and Scheduling, Product Configurator, and Project Management.

The manufacturing solution offers streamlined integration of routings and bills of material, which enable improved lead time calculations, more accurate material plans, and better resource allocation. The solution gives a real-time business snapshot, a critical competitive advantage that provides manufacturers with the ability to ship more products on time to their customers, making it the clear choice for manufacturing management.

HR and Payroll
Sage MAS 500 HR and Payroll delivers a powerful, yet flexible, enterprise-wide HR solution for managing employee and business relationships, and overseeing the processes related to government compliance requirements and certifications. The modules offered include Abra HR, Abra Payroll, and Abra Attendance, which smoothly integrate HR and payroll information with the many facets of your business operations.

CRM
Sage MAS 500 provides the tools to better understand your customer, close more deals, and help you profit from the relationship. By giving complete customer information to sales and support people, requests and leads from customers are managed effectively and accurately. By automating key activities, providing essential analytical tools, streamlining your company’s communications, and managing intelligence, you can attain new levels of efficiency with benefits that range from improved employee teamwork and more satisfied customers to a shorter sales cycle, more sales revenue, and higher profitability.

Business Intelligence and Reporting
Sage MAS 500 provides other valuable system components that can offer substantial benefits in running your business by enabling you to monitor key performance indicators efficiently and effectively. Sage MAS 500 Alerts is one of the most popular Sage MAS 500 modules. By sending e-mail notifications to you and your specified personnel when something significant happens in your business, Alerts can solve problems before they start and help you satisfy your customers far more consistently. Alerts uses standard or customizable early warning messages that announce critical events in your Sage MAS 500 system, including credit holds, inventory thresholds, priority client transactions, urgency levels, and more.

The eExecutive module is included as standard with Sage MAS 500, and offers busy executives a customizable, Web-based, real-time overview of vital business operations as well as user-defined key performance indicators. Using the data available in Sage MAS 500, your firm’s senior staff can make better business-critical decisions in any environment with up-to-the-minute information.

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Available Modules

Business Insights Explorer, another standard module, saves time by giving you access to all system inquiries from one central location. Expansion of inquiries in Business Insights Explorer provides better access to sales, customer, inventory, projects, production, and other information you depend on. Users also have the ability to export the detailed information displayed in Business Insights Explorer directly to an Excel or Word template for additional report formatting, mail merging, and analysis.

Business Insights Analyzer can help you make better business decisions by providing you with insights into your business data. Business Insights Analyzer is an intuitive, easy-to-use analytics tool included with Sage MAS 500. Information is provided in a logical grid format with powerful filtering, grouping, and sorting capabilities that let you organize the data in the way most appropriate to the task at hand. You also have the added flexibility of analyzing each view using the included Excel pivot tables and charts.

Additionally, you can view and generate all standard reports through Microsoft Internet Explorer with the Sage MAS 500 Web Reports module. These reports are created with the same high level of security as with the standard output of any Sage MAS 500 module that offers reporting. Crystal Reports® is the powerful report writer that is used throughout Sage MAS 500 for formatting and printing presentation-quality reports.

Customization
The Customizer module gives even novice programmers the ability to easily modify screens and forms to match your specific business processes, look, and feel, and improve staff productivity without making changes to the source code. Application Framework provides faster development at lower costs through Visual Basic controls, wizards, and utilities that solve housekeeping issues, including concurrency, user interface, security models, and data handling. Module Source Code is available for purchase with Application Framework, and allows more complex enhancements and changes to be made.

Implementation Tools
Sage MAS 500 dramatically reduces implementation costs by providing an organized workflow of the steps required to configure the system combined with tools to facilitate the migration of data from your previous system. The configuration steps can be assigned to any user and integrated into Microsoft Outlook. At each step, you can select whether to import data using powerful import utilities, load it from a spreadsheet, or copy information from an existing Sage MAS 500 company. Whatever your choice, the legacy data is validated as it is loaded into the system, ensuring the migration is smooth and complete.

Customers upgrading from Sage MAS 90 and Sage MAS 200 ERP systems or Platinum® for Windows by Sage Software have the added advantage of product-specific help for each migration step. The help information explains the differences between the two systems in terminology and functionality, assisting the customer in their understanding of the new system.

Sage MAS 90 and 200 customers are also provided with data migration tools that extract data from the old system. For example, when needing to configure the Sage MAS 500 Accounts Receivable module, Sage MAS 90 and 200 customers can streamline the conversion process by automatically extracting the data from their old system.

Overall, Sage MAS 500 lowers the burden of switching enterprise systems, enabling customers to focus their resources on the important task of leveraging Sage MAS 500 features as effectively as possible.