Benefits at a glance

• Cuts costs by minimising your investment in inventory, improving stock management and optimising transport resources
  
• Helps you develop and maintain market share by offering telesales support, enhancing service levels and providing flexible ordering/payment options
• Maximises the value of your supply chain and supports you in building strong partner networks
• Keeps your finger on the pulse with business alerts
  

Build market share through exceptional - and profitable - customer service
Sage Line 500 Distribution supports you in the drive to deliver levels of service that exceed customers' expectations, while closely managing your costs. It provides the necessary integrated processes and information flows to help you supply total quality in terms of products, service and after-sales support.

The order processing options within Sage Line 500 Distribution give you maximum flexibility in fulfilling customers' individual requirements on ordering and payment methods, order size, delivery times and packaging and labelling.

At the same time, comprehensive reporting and evaluation of market trends, analysed by product, market sector and geography, give you a clear picture of where your best opportunities for profit lie.

Companies handling large volumes of orders over the telephone will be interested in the new telesales module, which can handle a multitude of requirements, including mail order and counter sales, in a variety of industries.

Focus your supply chain and your resources on customer satisfaction
Supplying excellence in service demands strong partner networks that are concentrated on continuous improvement in customer service. Sage Line 500 Distribution helps you manage a seamless flow of information and goods from supplier to end consumer. You will reduce inventory and manage stock to satisfy your customers in a cost-effective way.
Sage Line 500 Distribution keeps you fully in control, even in multiwarehouse environments, with real-time multisite views of current and expected stock and extensive inventory management features.

Create an effective purchasing strategy to reduce your financial commitment
An efficient purchasing strategy balances high customer service levels with minimal financial commitment. Through its extensive support for purchase requisitioning, Sage Line 500 Distribution helps you create a centrally managed, flexible purchasing operation that keeps you fully in control.

Be fully alert to significant events
Being able to react quickly to occurrences or conditions that could potentially affect - or harm - your profitability or service levels is vital for sustained success. Sage Line 500 'sounds the alarm' by alerting your nominated person to respond to predefined business events, by your choice of eMail, phone, SMS, pager, fax, or over the web when configured to work with business alerting software.

Powerful resource management
Whether you require support for an agile manufacturing organisation or for a batch engineering machine shop, Sage Line 500 Manufacturing gives you tight financial control of associated material and processing costs and real-time valuations of both completed operations and Work in Progress. You receive every assistance in managing the complexity of resources involved in manufacturing, encompassing both your own shop floor and subcontractors.

Maintain maximum productivity, with efficient shop-floor management
Sage Line 500 Manufacturing monitors and reports in real time on issues and events on the shop floor that could affect your productivity. You benefit from readily available detailed, focused information on work in progress and on predefined events such as the frequency of machine breakdowns or absenteeism.