What's New in Sage MAS 90 and 200 Version 4.5?

What's New in Sage MAS 90 and 200 Version 4.5

Sage MAS 90 and 200 Version 4.5 Presentation

Inspired by You.

Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200 4.5 brings compelling value, new features and functionality, and even more flexibility. The enhancements in this exciting release were inspired by you, and are mainly in Accounts Receivable, Payroll, Purchase Order, and Sales Order. If you upgrade to 4.5, you'll also receive a FREE, fully functional Sage CRM 7.1 user and server license, and one Sage ERP MAS Intelligence Report Manager License. Intelligence now includes new Reporting Tree capabilities and enhanced report distribution.

4.5 is so flexible, you can choose to remain on your current system, or move to Sage ERP MAS 200 SQL*, running on a Microsoft SQL Server database. Also included are the 37 enhancements from all Product Updates since Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200 4.4 shipped last year. These enhancements occur in:

• Accounts Payable
• Accounts Receivable
• Bank Reconciliation
• Inventory Management
• Job Cost
• Paperless Office
• Payroll
• Sales Order
• Plus additional system-wide features and functionality

National Account Management

You asked for a more streamlined way to manage your customers who have a corporate or parent company, and subsidiaries or branches. So Sage has incorporated a new type of customer in 4.5, a National Account.

Now you can identify and bill parent companies for goods and services you sell and provide to their branches—while keeping a unique customer account for each entity. Options in Accounts Receivable let you associate existing accounts, and establish the billing relationships you want for each. Then use Sales Order as you normally do to enter National Accounts orders, check credit and inventory, and ship and bill. Efficiently provide goods and services to your customers, and correctly show what’s “Billed To” the parent company using its name and address, and then “shipped to” the branch.

Efficiently Handle Payroll Complexities

Enhancements in Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200 version 4.5 assist with handling the complexities of your Payroll processing and deduction calculations. Five new methods of calculations can be used with a variety of specialized deductions. New features will streamline your Payroll data entry process so you can more easily run recalculations, and do regular imports using standard formats.

You can even use 4.5 to manage your benefit accruals more efficiently when based on hours worked—for salaried, union, and part-time employees. Set the conditions, and 4.5 will compare whatever minimums you establish. Accruals will only occur if the conditions you set are achieved. Rest easy using new Payroll features and functionality in Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200 4.5 knowing that you’re making the appropriate deductions.

Powerful Sales Order Enhancements

Motivate customers to buy your goods and services with flexible pricing enhancements in Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200 4.5. Reward the loyalty of your preferred customers with favorable pricing through price code or ship-to codes. Beat the competition with the ability to establish your pricing by total quantity, by item category, and for the totals purchased by product line. Encourage large purchases across multiple product lines, or by combining specific items, colors, or sizes.

4.5 provides you with maximum pricing flexibility—an unlimited number of customers and item combinations are possible. Be more responsive to marketplace changes and make more sales.

Reward Your Sales Team and Encourage Collaboration

Utilize new commission flexibility in 4.5 to easily establish and maintain default splits between multiple salespeople, and identify the splits by customer. When your customers place an order, your splits will occur automatically—minimizing the time you spend recalculating or overwriting commissions. If you pay multitier commissions, 4.5 will easily use rate tables and ensure your salespeople are paid correctly, even if you use many different commission rates by combinations of salespeople, customers, items, and effective dates.

Improve Your Cash Flow—Streamline Purchase Orders

To minimize the time and effort placing an order for a product you sell but don’t normally stock, 4.5 will create Purchase Orders automatically from Sales Orders.

When your customer buys that item, an order will flow through to the appropriate vendor without your staff having to reenter anything, saving time and eliminating those secondary data entry mistakes. Using the flexible selection criteria, you’ll be able to preset the conditions you want to use so your business processes will flow efficiently, ordering only when you make a sale. Minimize your inventory and keep your customers happy.

Allocate by Lot and Serial Number

New functionality in Sales Order will allow you to select lot and serial numbers when you’re creating a Sales Order.

This will allow you to reserve limited-quantity lots or serial numbers for your best customers, or match the product you’ve previously shipped to a specific customer. For example, if you sell material of different types, colors, and grains for home construction, you can reserve a specific large piece that your customer chooses for their remodeling project, to be used at various stages. The lot and/or serial numbers will print on the sales orders and picking sheets to have more reliable processing and communication.

Enhanced Sales Order Integration with Job Cost

The enhanced interaction between Sales Order and Job Cost in 4.5 will provide you with more flexibility when you process and track work-in-progress. Use the additional options to efficiently post invoice costs to Job Estimates, post drop ship costs, and automatically mark the job as complete when you generate the invoice. Information will automatically flow through your system to relieve inventory.

You can choose various methods to update Sales Kits depending on how you want to display a kit and its components, including by the Job Transaction Detail Report. New fields in Customer Maintenance will allow you to establish Default Cost Codes and Defaults Cost Types. You’ll also be able to more efficiently ship and bill work-in-progress multiple times against the same invoice.

Improve Communications and Drive Marketing Using Your Free Sage CRM License

Sage CRM builds upon the Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200 4.5 system’s core functionality by letting you communicate more effectively, collaborate better internally, and compete in today’s marketplace. The new features in Sage CRM 7.1 were designed with end users in mind and include total campaign management, Microsoft Exchange server integration, an Interactive Dashboard, new report charts, and a fully integrated eMarketing solution.**

Sage eMarketing enables you to execute high-quality, targeted, end-to-end eMarketing and drip marketing campaigns quickly and easily. A simple, 3-step wizard helps you create new attention-grabbing eMarketing campaigns with ease. Automatically track open, click, and bounce rates so you can calculate accurate ROI and deliver “hot leads” to your sales team.

For consistent execution, Sage CRM 7.1 total campaign management functionality comes with campaign workflows, so you can map campaigns to your business processes. They enable your marketing team to execute multichannel marketing campaigns and then reuse the ones with the best results.

Sage CRM integration with Microsoft Exchange delivers ease-of-administration as well as a seamless experience. Your Sales, Marketing, and Management teams will benefit from having access to their calendars, tasks, and contact information in real time, across your smart phone, laptop, or desktop PC for maximum ease-of-use and productivity.

7.1 gives you the ability to link multiple data feeds on a single screen with the Interactive Dashboard. Using data “widgets,” the freestyle interactive dashboard gives you complete flexibility. Widgets can be resized and repositioned anywhere on the screen so your data feeds are presented the way you want to see them.

The new look and feel of the report charts provide at-a-glance business insight. Report charts and graphics are now more visually impactful, making it easy for management to see comparisons, patterns, and trends in their data.

**A 60-day free trial of eMarketing is included, after that time additional fees apply.

Intelligence Reporting Trees and Enhanced Report Distribution Capabilities

To stay competitive, you need more than simple General Ledger reporting. Sage ERP MAS Intelligence meets that need with powerful financial reporting and analytics, empowering your staff with meaningful and insightful information from across your business. New features and functionalities for Sage ERP MAS Intelligence in version 4.5 allow you to create and attach Reporting Trees to Report Designer layouts, and distribute meaningful information in the familiar Excel format.

Intelligence automatically consolidates data from multiple companies, divisions, and data sources for in-depth analysis. At the click of a button, the new Reporting Trees allow you to model a reporting structure and view your organization in many different ways. Easily add or change reporting units without changing your financial data—accommodating reporting structures from simple to sophisticated.

Ultimately, you'll improve your workflow and speed up your business processes with Sage ERP MAS Intelligence 4.5, and establish fully unattended, convenient report distribution. In a variety of standard formats, send reports to a file, publish to an FTP site, and send via email. Choose the reports you want to distribute, who will receive them, and customize each email format using your existing MS Outlook profile and address book.

Ready to Upgrade?

For more information about the 4.5 upgrade process, contact us at 800-562-5456, or submit an Information Request Form.