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Increasing the Business Value from
your Line 500 System
Sage User Network - Birmingham 11June 2009
Mike O’Riley; Anya Wagenaar
Sage Professional Services - who we are
Sage Professional Services - who we are
Professional Services Group
Manager – Mike O’Riley
S1000
L500
BI
CRM & SLX
S200
Construct
Retail
UK and international focus 25 strong
Staff in continental Europe and across the UK
Over 200 years combined experience with Sage products and Services
Complex
Projects
Sage Professional Services – what we do
• Reduce time to value and help you get the best from your Sage investment
• Keep a long term relationship with you in whatever form you want
• Jobs range from 1 day to multiple 100’s
• Full System implementations, upgrades, migrations, enhancements, specific
training, usage advice
• Sage core product and customisation/personalisations, integrations to your in
house systems, Sage added value modules, integration of selected 3rd party
components
• Use our Accelerator project methodology
“Sage Professional Services – Does exactly what it says on the tin! –
From designing a comprehensive CRM system to implementing it well
within agreed business deadlines, the consultant was dedicated and
thorough, making the experience exceedingly smooth and painless. A
truly professional service which has led to the end line user having a
system that matches their requirements exactly.”
Stuart Coles, Applications Software Specialist. Quintech Computer Systems
Tried and tested solutions - practical examples
• Quick run through of 4 examples where customers have applied simple to
complex changes to their L500 system to gain business advantage
• Highlight some other potential areas of benefit
• Please ask questions though time is tight, we can carry on discussion in
the breaks
• Over to Anya……………
Document Scanning
Customer:
VisitScotland - Edinburgh
Profile:
Scottish Tourist Board, offices and website
Issue:
Lack of accessibility to purchase invoices for sign off in decentralised
purchasing department
Document Scanning
The solution:
• Central scanning and storage of documents for use by several hundred
staff in head office and satellite offices
• Actual invoice rather than posted item available for viewing/approval by
invoice authorisers / budget holders
• Phase 2 posting by authoriser / budget holder
• Storage of documents in .pdf format
• Functionality makes use of standard Line 500 TCR installation
Document Scanning
Document Scanning
Development effort
2.5 weeks, comprising development, test, installation and training
What did VisitScotland say?
“We’re very happy with the solution that was delivered to us –
it does exactly what it says on the tin”
Derrick Thomson – Project Manager
Sales Order Pricelist Update
Customer:
Tosoh Bioscience N.V. - Belgium
Profile:
Multi-national developing reagents, instrumentation and software for the
molecular biology industry
Issue:
Due to the nature of the industry, price fluctuations occur regularly,
resulting in many pricelist and promotional price updates which were
taking a lot of time using the standard pricelist maintenance program
Sales Order Pricelist Update
The solution:
• Significantly less keystrokes: no F8 Add or multi-select boxes
• Enhanced stock information in product browse
• Option to update price per product or product group
• Retain product – customer relationship
• Facilitate simpler promotional price entry
• Automated updates to sales orders awaiting production
Sales Order Price List Update
Sales Order Pricelist Update
Development effort
3 days, comprising development, test, installation and training
What did Tosoh say?
“We use this application every day, it makes life a lot easier!”
Frank van Opstal – IT Manager Tosoh Bioscience
Purchase Order Receipts Automation
Customer:
R&D Systems Europe Ltd. - Abingdon
Profile:
European representative of R&D’s Biotech Division, distributor of
biotechnology products
Issue:
Purchase order receipts are delivered to R&D on an Excel spreadsheet,
hundreds of lines long, all of which were manually entered in Line 500 –
a daily, arduous job.
Purchase Order Receipts Automation
The solution:
• Spreadsheet upload facility
• Validation on product / customer / order line quantity
• Provides feedback on missing items / discrepancies via report
• Receives the correct order lines
• Updates order with additional information such as lot numbers,
datasheet information, and expiry dates (added to batch queue)
Purchase Order Receipts Automation
Purchase Order Receipts Automation
Development effort
3 weeks, comprising development, test, installation and training
What did R&D Systems say?
“The automation saves us on average 18 hours each week !”
Carole Donne – IT Manager
Formula Entry
Customer:
RPC Cobelplast N.V. – Belgium
Profile:
Part of the RPC Group; RPC Cobelplast is the world leader in co
extrusion of multilayer sheet used for form–fill–seal applications
Issue:
RPC Group roll-out of Sage Line 500 would not have been possible
without a facility to administrate product formulae and pricing structures
based on Bill of Material / Route information.
Formula Entry
The solution:
• Product version controlled formula administration system
• Automatic generation of Line 500 Bills of Material / Alternative BOM’s
• Automatic generation of Line 500 Routes / Alternative Routes
• Facility to calculate sales price for custom made products
• Facility to produce formulae based on more than one bridge (link
between machine and formula)
Example: Formula Entry
Formula Entry
Development effort
6 weeks, comprising development, test, installation and training
What did RPC say?
“Our price calculation process would be incredibly complex and very
time consuming without it, so we use it every day ”
Philippe Mees – Project Manager
System Control
Used by:
SAGE Professional Services & Support
To alleviate:
Repetative implementation tasks, and provide enhanced system
administration and setup checking facility
System Control
The Solution:
• Enhanced user activity functionality
• System key compare facility
• Cross server project copy & compare facility
• Print to file facility to freeze & report on status
• Simplified report copy functionality – across different servers
• Database trigger & view control
• Database sizing information
System Control
.. AND A FEW MORE EXAMPLES
Purchase orders:
• Purchase Order Price Control
• POP Invoice Enquiry from Purchase Ledger
Production & Manufacturing:
• Works Order Archiving
• Product Label Printing
Sales Management:
• QAS Integration
Treasury and Cash:
• Bank Statement File Format Conversion Tool
UK VAT Reporting functionality
• VAT reports per VAT Box in line with
HMRC guidelines
• Flexible configuration to allow use of
current VAT setup
• Compliant with European Tax project
• Available on all currently supported
platform/database combinations
Current delivery scheduled for this summer!
THANK YOU
• Hopefully this has stimulated your thinking
• Please catch up with us during the event
• Pack contains
– The slides
– Some useful information
– Some goodies
– A feedback form please complete before you leave, and return to us
And finally if you’ve got any business issue or problem and
would like to discuss further please contact us
Contacts
Mike O’Riley
• [email protected]
• +44 (0) 7717 224 609
Anya Wagenaar
• [email protected]
• +44 (0) 7841 496 016
Arie Koppenhol
• [email protected]
• +31 653 878 724
Or mail: [email protected]
Was your interest peaked?
Please provide contact details if you would like us to call you to
discuss your requirement:
Name:
…………………………………………………
Company:
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Mail & tel.no: …………………………………………………
Interested in:
SOP pricelist update
Auto POP receipts
POP price control
POP invoice enquiry
WOP Archiving
Cashbook file format tool
System Control
VAT reporting
Scanning
Formula Entry
Label printing
QAS integration
Other, pls specify ……………………………………………………
Increasing the Business Value
from your Line 500 System
Sage User Network - Birmingham 11June 2009
Mike O’Riley; Anya Wagenaar