Sage MAS 500—Distribution Modules

The warehouse-centric design of Inventory Management lets you track costs and sales histories by warehouse, and use multiple bins in the same warehouse for a single inventory item. With this feature, you'll be able to quickly locate the items your customers are requesting. It also allows you to continue taking orders during inventory cycle counting, ensuring that your business continues to operate at peak efficiency - saving your company valuable time and money.

Inventory Management Module Overview

This module allows you to price inventory items based on customer class, location, discounts and more. Each line item can have its own ship-to address, salesperson, tax rate, ship date, ship-from location and drop ship. By adding the Sage MAS 500 Multicurrency module, the Sales Order module can also accommodate multiple currencies, allowing you easy access to global markets. It all adds up to unsurpassed pricing flexibility.

Purchase Order manages the physical receipt of materials. It gives you the ability to track received goods by matching the delivery receipt with the invoice and the original purchase order. You're assured of tighter tracking, and more accurate inventory control within your warehouse.

MAS 500’s eOrder module will empower your salespeople with a level of efficiency, productivity, and customer service that is sure to boost sales. With eOrder, you can keep your sales team in the field and help them maximize their selling opportunities. eOrder empowers your salespeople with real-time remote access to critical customer account information and the ability to perform essential sales activities, including placing orders, checking order and shipment status, as well as managing invoicing, payment, and credit history.

Do you distribute products and have a need for advanced kitting functions? Do you assemble products before shipping them? If so, then Advanced Kitting is the perfect product to help you manage production and kit assembly without material issues. The streamlined Advanced Kitting system allows distributors, assemble-to-order industries, and other light manufacturers to concentrate on other critical business issues without getting tied up in complex manufacturing processes.

Significantly improve your ability to meet demand and reduce inventory-carrying costs with the Inventory Replenishment module. This can be done by incorporating such factors as seasonal cycles, sales history and lead times to determine the appropriate order point for inventory. You can also specify order points and override unusual demand when creating inventory forecasts. This sophisticated replenishment system helps you maximize return on your investment by accelerating inventory turnaround, while still keeping an adequate stocking level of the products your customers demand.

To achieve and maintain strong customer loyalty, it’s essential to get your inventory in the hands of your paying customers as quickly and economically as possible. MAS 500 allows you to do just that with StarShip, an innovative add-on module. StarShip, built by V-Technologies, integrates tightly with MAS 500 and makes the entire shipping process more fluid. StarShip helps your company become a more competitive
distributor and even has the potential to reduce shipping and shipping-related expenses
of small parcel shipments.

Pain-free Customer and Vendor Returns with Formalized RMA Processing.
To stay competitive, virtually every company needs to process customer returns. As today’s customers demand a more specialized level of service, tracking and resolving these returns can be an increasing challenge. The Sage MAS 500 ERP Sales Order module includes advanced tools to manage customer returns. It also includes a formalized Return Merchandise Authorization process to help companies implement return and replacement policies with ease. Built-in return features make it easy to process returns. You can determine which bins to place returned items into, restrict returns to valid lot and serial numbers, optionally charge restocking fees, issue replacement items, or credit customer accounts. RMA and returns processing gives you an accurate record of items shipped before returns are received, and one more opportunity to build 100% customer satisfaction.

Manage inventory transfers, stocking locations, and wave and zone picking with Warehouse Management Sage MAS 500 ERP provides industry-leading inventory and warehouse management capabilities for wholesale distributors, manufacturers, and other companies who buy, stock, sell, or manufacturer products. The Warehouse Management module is an extension of the Inventory Management and Inventory Replenishment modules providing advanced features, including bin tracking, three-step inventory transfers, and both wave and zone picking. Three-step inventory transfers utilize in-transit warehouses and replenishment logic to drive demand backward to source warehouses while tracking supplies as they move from warehouse to warehouse within the internal supply chain.

The ongoing evolution of computing technology continues to provide new solutions to old problems at a rate that can exceed even the most forward looking technology leaders. One of the most recent technologies that has generated a tremendous amount of excitement is Wi-Fi or Radio Frequency (RF) networking. For distribution and manufacturing customers of Sage Software, the low cost of Wi-Fi solutions allows them to consider an advanced infrastructure for their warehouse that previously was not an option. Sage MAS 500 has seized this opportunity with the release of Warehouse Automation. Warehouse Automation will provide Sage MAS 500 customers a wireless solution for warehouse personnel who need to perform tasks such as order picking and cycle countsand instantlyfeed that back into Sage MAS 500 with proper validation.