Features

Overview of Functionality

  • Sales Order Processing (‘SOP’)

    • Customer account set up and maintenance
    • Multiple delivery addresses
    • Generation of quotations including cost build up of manufactured products from components and process times
    • Easy conversion from quotes, to orders, to sales invoices
    • Flexibility to start from a quote, an order, or simply generate an invoice
    • Copy and edit of orders and invoices
    • Credit note and refunds with option to restock returns
  • Stock Control

    • Bills of material (component make up) for manufactured products
    • Process routings (where and how long to produce) for manufactured products
    • Automatic prompt to revalue products where a component cost has been amended
    • Multiple stock locations
    • Serial Numbering/ Batch Traceability
  • Material Requirements Planning (‘MRP’)

    • On-screen schedule of future stock movements bringing together sales / works order demand, purchase / works order availability, current stock, and minimum stock requirements
    • Option to include projected sales demand
    • System generated ‘suggested’ purchase and works orders
    • Easy creation of purchase / works orders
  • Works Orders & Scheduling

    • Works order (instruction to make products) creation and maintenance
    • On screen interactive works order scheduling
    • Print Job Cards including stores requisition and routing instructions
    • Update stock produced and issue of component stock on completion of works orders
  • Customer Relationship Management (‘CRM’)

    • Contact set up and maintenance
    • Record interactions with contacts and set up reminders for future interactions
    • Easy conversion of contact prospect into a customer record
  • Purchase Order Processing (‘POP’)

    • Supplier account set up and maintenance
    • Quotation request from up to three suppliers
    • Easy conversion between supplier quotes and purchase orders
    • Receive goods against orders to ensure correct stock update
    • Reporting actual cost of purchases against expected
  • Accounting & Payroll

    • Hierarchical accounts structure to ensure correct financial reporting and tax calculation
    • Transaction templates to minimise errors due incorrect account mispostings
    • Easy set up of standing orders and direct debits to minimise manual input
    • On screen bank reconciliation
    • Employee hours booked to works orders, projects, and departments
    • Flexibility to run payroll for all or just a few, or even one, employee at a time
    • Fixed asset register and automatic calculation of depreciation
    • Automatic calculation of goods received not yet invoiced accruals
    • Automatic calculation of project work in progress
    • Calculation of VAT on standard, cash, or fixed percentage basis
  • Settings & Set Up

    • User set up with customisable menu access
    • Customer and supplier import utilities
    • Opening balance input form
    • Customer, Supplier & Stock data import

Security

Security of your business system and data is of particular importance and unless you have a dedicated inhouse IT function it is costly and time consuming to ensure that you are running the latest and most secure software, and that regular backups are taken.

With our cloud based ERP application:

  • the user can control who sees what area of the application;
  • our servers run Linux operating system to eliminate problems with viruses;
  • our servers are backed up daily, weekly, and monthly, and the last two copies of each retained (*);
  • our servers are located at a secure UK based data centre;
  • connections between the user machines and our servers are encrypted to prevent interception of data flow.

The recommended browser for our application is Mozilla Firefox.

(*) Note: we nevertheless recommend that you take regular backups of your data by clicking on Settings, Backup, and then downloading the backup file to a safe location.