Clients First knows their software, but they are also astute business people, and they really understand manufacturing and distribution in particular.
Jimmy Witcher, COO, Merrick
This particular issue has both Dynamics NAV and general business related articles so whether you use Dynamics NAV or not, there is alot of great content here.
Topics Include:
Microsoft Customer Source
ERP Optimization
Champion Containers, a Success Story
Bio Analytics- Business Intelligence for Dynamics.
General NAV tips & tricks from Chris Young, our resident guru.
Here is a new overview guide of what’s new in the upcoming release of SAP Business One 8.8 scheduled for Q1 2010.
Highlights include:
Full native SAP Business Objects Crystal Reports Integration
All built in forms are now Crystal Based
Most built in reports are Crystal Based
Custom reports can be created and added in seemlessly
Reports provide the ability to drill back into source SAP Business One Transaction screens
Available to Promise (ATP) is available during order entry
A new Accountings Receivable Aging and Accounts Payable Aging Report
Support for embedded Crystal Xcelsius views
An option for a new fresh Look and Feel in the GUI. Users can choose between the classic and new views.
Data Archiving is now available to copy outdated history to reportable tables. This will speed up daily activities since they don’t have to hash through long outdated information.
Changes have been made to the SDK that should allow add-on products to run faster
This version can directly upgrade 2005A/B and 2007A/B installs. The new version is now one version for all localizations which should simplify future upgrades and third party development.
An interesting play as Mint.com has an excellent personal finance solution that really integrates well to your personal finance sources like banks and credit cards.
There are plenty of articles and blogs on the acquisition etc. But what I find interesting is the take on how it shows the rediculous multiples and price per customer are starting to hike back up after the hiatus in the last few years.
An article from Silicon Alley Insider on the issue:
If you use Sage MAS 90, MAS 200, or MAS 500 distribution and accounting software, Clients First Business Solutions, LLC wants to be your go to partner for ongoing service, support, report writing, upgrades and maintenance. (more…)
Are you responsible for closing the year in your MAS 90 or MAS 200 accounting system? Year-end and Period End processing is a vitally important step in keeping your data healthy. Many modules maintain buckets of data by year (year-to-date, prior-year, etc.). These data elements are reinitialized during year-end processing. Lots of other housekeeping is performed during year-end as well. For example, in General Ledger, income and expense account balances are cleared and net profit is posted to the Retained Earnings account.
In modules that are not in the newer 4.x business framework, many monthly ‘buckets’ such as ‘PTD’ fields are not reset until you close a period. Internally MAS 90 and MAS 200 store a separate ‘future period’ bucket to hold that data so essentially you can close up to one month after month end. Thus if today is July 1, and you haven’t close June, you have until July 31 to do so before the ‘MTD’ month to date buckets get distorted. They will get distorted for the current period since they will contain next period data and next period they will be distorted because some of the transactions that went beyond the ‘deadline’ will be missing as well. This isn’t as much of a problem in the 4.x modules as the system has buckets for each month but closing is still important for other reasons.
Closing Order — its Important!
The order in which modules are closed is very important. The period-end and year-end processes performed in one module often write data to another module. To close the modules out of order risks getting this information permanently damaged. Modules should be processed or closed in the following order:
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