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Jimmy Witcher, COO, Merrick
Sage started shipping Version 4.5 of MAS90 and MAS200 on September 8, 2011. This new version includes a variety of functional enhancements. Details of these enhancements are in the following pre-release guide:
MAS 200 for Microsoft SQL Server now Available in the Business Framework
This is the first release where new purchasers of MAS200 have the option to use Microsoft SQL Server, version 2003 and 2008. Bringing SQL Server to MAS200 allows for much faster reporting and an easier time integrating potential custom or 3rd party solutions. Note that this doesn’t mean a 3rd party solution should directly write to the underlying MAS200 SQL Data tables. Always do that through either the Business Object Interface (BOI) or Visual Integrator which ensures the integrity of the accounting transactions within the system.
Remember that the SQL Version will not support the non-business framework modules such as payroll, work order, MRP or Job Cost.
Highlight of Enhancements for MAS90 and MAS200 Version 4.5
Payroll
Enhanced Benefit Accruals, More Deduction Calculation methods
Automatically create Purchase Orders from Sales Orders
There was basic functionality of this in prior versions of MAS90 and MAS200 but this gives much more automation and granular control to those companies that wait to get an order from a customer before creating a purchase order to their vendor or supplier
Price Level by Customer and Product Line
This gives an additional granularity level in using the 36 available price levels because now instead of it being a single level for the customer, you can say if a custom buys say, tires, any tire, they get “good pricing” which is 10% off list, but if they buy headlights, they get “best pricing” which might be 20% off of list.
Family Pricing.
I.E. if you by 10 or more markers you get a discount, BUT now you can mix and match colors. They don’t have to be the same exact item number to group up for quantity pricing.
Enhanced Sales Order integration to Job Cost
Distribution by Lot and Serial Number
This is a long standing feature request. You can now ‘allocate’ a specific lot or serial number during Order Entry, not just invoicing. This means the warehouse picker no longer has to be the one to choose which serial number or lot to ship to a customer. Especially useful for companies that might sell something like carpet where the person taking the order wants to ensure the customer gets more from the same lot so that the colors match better.
Split Commission by Customer
The ability to setup, up to 5 salespeople associated with a customer. Previously, MAS 90 and MAS 200 supported split commission, but only as a manually entered, per order, setting.
Commission by salesperson, by customer by item.
Now at the intersection of a specific salesperson, selling to a specific customer, a specific item, you can setup a specific commission. Of course you can set it up less granularly than that as well.
Sage MAS Intelligence Improved
Some performance improvements and the ability to handle Reporting Trees. A concept more advanced GL users were used to in FRx.
Free Sage CRM Server and user license.
Now all users can install Sage CRM and one single user free to see if you like the solution. If you do, simply purchase additional user licenses. No need for a separate installation of the old MAS90/200 EES which conceptually goes away with this release.
What’s new in prior versions of Sage MAS90 and MAS200?
This MAS90 and MAS200 blog post we published earlier shows you what was added with each prior release of MAS90 and MAS200 so if you are on a version older than 4.4, you can get a feel for all of the new functionality you will receive.
Upgrade your MAS90 or MAS200 Now!
Call us at 866-677-6290 or email us at info@clientsfirst-us.com to talk with an expert on what it would take to upgrade your current version of MAS90 or MAS200 to version 4.5.
MAS 90 Support and MAS 200 Support: If you use Sage MAS90, MAS200, or MAS500 distribution and accounting software, Clients First Business Solutions, LLC wants to be your go to partner for ongoing service,help, support, report writing, upgrades and maintenance.
Shipping now, Sage MAS Intelligence (SMI) which works with MAS 90, MAS 200, Sage Extended Enterprise Suite, and MAS500, is explained and demonstrated in this recording that the California office of Clients First recently put on for our clients. This solution is the replacement for FRx that Sage is offering now that Microsoft has discontinued Frx.
The video explains both the similarities and differences between the previous solution, Microsoft FRx and SMI.
In a nutshell, SMI is a solution that is embedded into Microsoft Excel that can directly read and understand MAS 90/200/500 data files. It’s designed to walk a user through creating not only financial reports and statements, but other types of non-financial reports such as dashboards, analytics, KPI’s and even traditional reports such as an AR customer aging.
Come watch and listen in this segment which gives an overview and demonstration of the system. In a forthcoming blog, we will go into a deeper demonstration of the solution so that you will be able to watch these videos and start to feel comfortable managing and designing your own reports.
If you have any questions on this product feel free to call us at 888-222-8827 or contact Jeff Banks at jbanks@clientsfirst-us.com for more information or to arrange a one on one demonstration.
The Clients First MAS 90, MAS 200, MAS 500 Sage MAS Intelligence video presentation
Recently shipping Dynamics NAV 2009 (Navision) provides for significant improvements to the overall solution
As part of Microsoft Corp.’s commitment to providing leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions to midrange organizations worldwide, the company today unveiled Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 at Directions EMEA 2010. Because of the investment in architecture for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, customers are able to take advantage of the benefits of the software-plus-services vision through the R2 release more quickly than scheduled, including built-in integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM and online Payment Service. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 customers will benefit from the following:
Microsoft Dynamics CRM integration. Today’s fast-paced business environment demands instant access to customers and vendors. Microsoft is providing built-in integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Benefits of customer relationship management (CRM) integration include eliminating redundant data entries, keeping information up to date in both ERP and CRM solutions, and providing salespeople with the ability to quickly access detailed business information about contracts, pricing and product availability. Customers can choose between integration to on-premises Microsoft Dynamics CRM or Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online with the option to migrate to either option over time.
Below are two videos explaining the details of the new Sage MAS 200 SQL 4.45. This is a completely new SQL product for the MAS product line relative to the old MAS 200 SQL 3.74. It uses the business framework and is much faster and more efficient due to the normalized data structures used within MAS200’s Business Framework introduced in 4.0.
The first video is a powerpoint and presentation on the solution and the second is an actual product demonstration.
Note that this version is ONLY available for sale to new MAS90/200 customers. You cannot buy it if you currently run MAS90/200. This is because they haven’t written a data migration utility yet.
In addition it only works with Business Framework modules. This means if you depend on either payroll, work order, MRP (Material Requirements Planning), or Job Cost, even when the conversion is available, this won’t work for you.
Currently there is no integration with Sage CRM (i.e. Extended Enterprise Suite), fixed assets and it is not yet compatible with Sage MAS Intelligence or FRx. This means you financial reporting will be limited to the standard financial reports in the GL.
Sage should have most of these issues (other than the old modules that we don’t believe they are ever going to upgrade) addressed in version 4.5 which is slated for Q3 2011.
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