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Blytheco Home | Sage Software | Sage MAS 500 | Features
Sage MAS 500 software offers market-leading functionality in a variety of areas. Advanced CRM features focus organizations on their customers while ensuring accountability in their sales team. Sage MAS 500 offers flexible manufacturing and distribution solutions. An executive information portal provides Web-based access to the executive on the go.
An out-of-the-box e-commerce application gets customers up and running quickly with an integrated, powerful, workflow-optimized website. These strengths combine with many others to provide a complete solution for the small enterprise market.
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| New Features in Sage MAS 500 version 7.0 |
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Improved support for distribution and manufacturing companies |
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| Sage MAS 500 7.0 builds upon the award-winning features of previous versions with enhancements specifically for small enterprise business owners in distribution and manufacturing. |
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New Warehouse Management Module |
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| The new warehouse management module enables distributors to dramatically increase productivity in their warehouse with advanced bin management tools, new wave and zone picking methods for businesses with larger warehouse operations, and more streamlined inventory transfers for extended supply chain operations. |
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Enhanced Bin, Serial and Lot Distribution |
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| One of the most common obstacles facing distribution customers involves the assignment of serial and lot numbers. Sage MAS 500 7.0 enables users to manually or automatically define a range of serial or lot numbers for inventory transactions such as inventory picking, receiving and manufacturing materials. User-defined masking capabilities can be used to create meaningful naming conventions for lot and serial identification. |
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Streamlined Sales Order |
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| For faster data processing, sales order entry has been completely revamped, including support for extensive personalization of the order entry screen. In addition, new capabilities support will-call orders, streamlined picking and payment processing directly from the order entry screen. |
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| Phantom BOM/Routing – Sage MAS 500 7.0 supports phantom bills of materials and routings to satisfy the varying needs of manufacturers. This industry-standard feature is supported throughout Sage MAS 500 7.0, including MRP, and facilitates the use of common bills of material for engineering and manufacturing. |
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| Enhanced Decimal Precision – Manufacturers in growing industries, such as pharmaceutical and high technology, require a high level of decimal precision. Sage MAS 500 7.0 delivers up to eight decimal places for quantities and up to five decimal places for price and cost, giving manufacturers the benefits of improved inventory management and much more accurate costing. |
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Comprehensive business intelligence and analysis
With its new Business Insights Explorer (BIE) module, Sage MAS 500 7.0 introduces a new paradigm in ERP usability and work-flow improvement. The newest member of the Sage MAS 500 Business Insights suite, BIE takes inquiry, drill-down, drill-around and analysis to a new level. New and current users will immediately reap benefits from the extensive set of usability and customization features, which produce significant gains in real-time workflow efficiency and reporting capabilities. Business Insights Explorer includes the following core features:
- Preview - With preview functionality, users are able to locate a specific entity or transaction in a spreadsheet style interface while viewing related entities and transactions in a secondary spreadsheet view. For example, the customers view includes the ability to preview open invoices, orders and projects in addition to the customer address, contact and balance information.
- Manage - With the task management options provided by BIE, users have an easy mechanism for quickly accessing key Sage MAS 500 7.0 tasks for the entity being displayed. For example, when viewing a customer, the tasks for updating the customer information or creating an order are all readily accessible. When the Sage MAS 500 7.0 task is loaded, the appropriate context is passed from BIE, limiting extra keystrokes and improving productivity.
- Analyze - With Business Insights Analyzer (BIA), users have the ability to organize, graph and format summarized information. Contextual mappings have been configured within BIE that enable users to jump directly to specific BIA views for detailed analysis such as sales history or project profitability.
- Explore - With explore users can greatly enhance work-flow efficiency and customer satisfaction by quickly and easily accessing all pertinent and related data for an entity or transaction being viewed.
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| Web-Based
Applications – Sage MAS 500 software demonstrates its commitment
to Microsoft’s
technologies by developing powerful Web modules, including
eSalesforce, eCustomer and eExecutive. These applications
provide your salespeople, customers and senior staff with
the information and system access they require. |
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Powerful
Performance - Sage MAS 500 was designed and built from the ground up for Microsoft
platforms, and takes full advantage of the power offered by
Microsoft SQL Server and the Windows operating system. Developed
with Visual Basic and Visual C++, it’s object-oriented architecture
is designed to facilitate complete integration with industry
specific workflow, imaging, and office productivity applications.
Sage MAS 500 was designed for Microsoft SQL Server from its
inception and
developed to support the latest features of current
Microsoft releases. If your business software and Web site are
critical to your success, you can benefit from the power of
the business management performance leader—Sage MAS 500. |
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True
multi-tasking - Sage MAS 500 allows the opening of many
forms during a session, and also allows many different processes
to run simultaneously. |
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Sage MAS
500 Customization Tools – World-class customization tools
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foundation
for Visual Basic and Microsoft SQL Server business application
development—the same toolkit used to build the Sage MAS 500 product
line. Designed to significantly reduce the cost of developing
industry-specific VB/SQL business applications, these components
allow you to improve system efficiency: |
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Customizer
gives you the ability to easily modify screens and forms, even
if you lack extensive program knowledge, to match your specific
business processes, improve staff productivity, and achieve
desired look and feel without making changes to the source code. |
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Application
Framework lets you finish your development tasks faster and
at a lower cost. It provides Visual Basic controls, wizards,
and utilities to solve housekeeping issues, including concurrency,
user interface, security models, data handling, and more—allowing
your developers to be free to build add-on programs or interface
controls, saving you development time and money. |
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Module
Source Code, for code development and implementation, is available. |
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Customization |
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Workflow integration - If your business processes require sharing accounting
data or reports, third-party workflow products can be
utilized to readily access Sage MAS 500 data. |
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Drill-downs
and drill-arounds - Users can "drill-down" to track a transaction to
its original source, or "drill-around" by using a
right mouse-click to activate context-sensitive links between
related screens of data in most Sage MAS 500 forms. |
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Navigator - Our powerful search engine makes finding data easy, whether
you prefer to key in your search criteria manually, or use the
mouse as a high-speed browsing tool. |
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Sage MAS
500 - An essential tool that allows manual or automatic generation
of business letters, e-mail or spreadsheets using Sage MAS 500 data.
In fact, any file can be attached to any entity residing in
the data. |
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Database-enforced
security - In the Maintain Users task one login can be created, and maintained,
for SQL Server and Sage MAS 500 access. The security system in Sage MAS
500 is structured around Security Groups in which access can
be defined by task - such as Maintain Accounts - with one of
four permission levels: Excluded, Display Only, Normal or Supervisory. |
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User-definable
fields - Sage MAS 500 software includes extensive user-definable fields
throughout the system. Many of these can be configured to contain
a preset range of values, which can greatly expand reporting
and tracking capabilities. |
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Batch
processing - All transactions are posted in batches, which can be put on
hold, set as private to one user, and verified using control
amounts. |
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Flexibility
Sage MAS 500 maximizes user flexibility and scalability, and
allows straightforward integration with other applications.
Many aspects of the system - including menus, lookup windows
and reports - can be customized without programming. If you
require increased functionality, you can add any custom features
you may need using Visual Basic. The Sage MAS 500 open architecture
can result in shorter development cycles and lower customization
costs. |
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Customizable
Reporting
Reporting is an area in which SageMAS 500 systems shine.
Crystal Reports® is the embedded graphical report
writer and accompanies the System Manager module. In addition,
FRx Advanced for Windows, the premiere graphical financial report
writer, is bundled with the General Ledger module. These report
writers offer a selection of preconfigured reports which can
be customized and modified, then saved so that they can be run
at any time. |
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Reporting
power
Every report in Sage MAS 500, including agings and registers,
is written using Crystal Reports, the presentation quality report
writer. The General Ledger Graphics chart pictured here presents
Total Profits data in graph form; users can choose from a variety
of similar graph formats or customize their own. |
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User-Friendly
Help
Most of the documentation on Sage MAS 500 tasks and procedures
is contained in online help, eliminating the need for multiple
copies of software manuals. Form level help that describes the
current task and options is available on each screen. Field
level help is available for each field contained within a form.
This help feature describes the field and includes information
on values the field should contain. A right mouse click on any
field will always reveal this What's This? help, along with
any drill-down or drill-around capabilities. |
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Online
help
Sage MAS 500 is an application rich in user-friendly online help.
Every Sage MAS 500 form contains form level help and every field
contains What's This? help functionality. Much of the help dialogue
contains shortcuts that will automatically start the task on
which you are inquiring. Following the step by step instructions
can then allow you to easily complete that task once it is started. |
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Additional
System Capabilities
A number of additional features and tools accompany the Sage MAS
500 system. These are available in most modules. |
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Sage MAS
500 automatically embed Sage MAS 500 data in your business
documents |
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Memos
- attach memos to Sage MAS 500 entities |
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Auto
numbering - number customers, vendors, batches, etc.
automatically |
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Renaming
- rename the ID's associated with Sage MAS 500 entities |
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Deferred
printing - defer and manage print jobs for report
printing after the fact |
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Report
export - export any report in a number of different
formats |
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 Sage MAS
500 Overview Brochure-Small (PDF 760 kb) |
| What
are the Differences between the Advanced, Standard and
SBE Versions? (PDF 98 kb) |
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Sage MAS
500—Key Strengths
Sage MAS 500—Modules
Sage MAS 500—Previous
Versions Feature Lists |
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