Sage MAS ERP for Electronics & Computers provides a comprehensive software solution for companies that supply components to the consumer electronics industry. A truly integrated solution looks at your business as a whole and weaves unbreakable threads of collaboration, insight, proactive customer service, innovation, financial management, and operational planning all the way through.

Sage MAS ERP for Electronics & Computers provides a solid foundation by integrating world-class business intelligence, financial management, warehouse and manufacturing operations, CRM, sales force automation, tracking of fixed assets, and management of your human resource requirements.

Product Engineering, Quality Control

Quality controls must permeate your work flow model, from product conception, engineering, and testing through to production. Sage MAS ERP for Electronics & Computers is designed to flex with ever-changing needs and accommodate integrated quality control procedures. Sage MAS ERP for Electronics & Computers provides not only the framework for quality and visibility into all of your business activities, but it provides a robust set of flexible tools to bolster and standardize your innovation efforts.

• Engineering Change Management (ECM) provides instant visibility and standard approval methods for changes to routings and BOMs (Bills of Material).
• ECM provides both "effective" and "retirement" dates, and handles multiple approval sequences to control changes to production standards.
• Engineering estimates can be quickly converted into a quote, sales order, or BOM.
• ECM allows you to import BOM information from popular design programs.
• The Product Configurator helps engineers by providing for the creation of custom-designed routings and BOMs.
• The Product Configurator has an intuitive interface that allows you to quickly identify and select configured parts, create new items on-the-fly, and build the item cost and suggested price.

Production Planning and Scheduling

Remarkable product quality and competitive pricing can become overshadowed in the eyes of your customer if you’re unreliable with order delivery. Sage MAS ERP for Electronics & Computers delivers one of the most powerful and easy-to-use Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) modules available today. Working hand in hand with product engineering, quality control, and sales order management, Sage MAS ERP for Electronics & Computers provides the latest in Electronic Date Interchange (EDI), production planning, and scheduling technology.

• Eliminate late orders and lost production time with automated production scheduling.
• Tomorrow’s technology today: Powerful planning algorithms and limitless “what if” scenarios.
• A drag-and-drop schedule board allows you to visually compensate for changes to order priority.
• Confidently expedite an order for your best customers.
• For complex orders, leverage the strength of the Project Management functionality.
• Ensure a true, closed-loop system by utilizing the Material Requirements Planning (MRP) module.
• Account for preventive maintenance schedules on production equipment and increase your equipment utilization percentages.
• Fully integrated Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) logic.

Subcontracting

As a critical link in a supply chain that heavily relies on your ability to come through, you are well aware that the entire supply chain also feels the ripple effect of changes in the retail marketplace. As the consumer demand increases for multi-function electronic appliances, the need for greater collaboration at all levels of the supply chain becomes vitally important. Regardless of your position within the supply chain, consumer trends and changing technology drive the need for businesses to be efficiently managed, always flexible and willing to move into new and exciting areas for growth:

• Electronic Manufacturing Service (EMS Firms).
• Full service solution provider – A one-stop shop for design, sourcing, manufacturing and assembly.
• Re-manufacturer of consumer parts or builders of replacement parts for OEM products.
• Value-add assembler.

Regardless of where you sit within this supply chain, you have niche-specific depth and breadth of expertise as well as proprietary technologies and processes that are needed by OEMs. Sage MAS ERP for Electronics & Computers is a comprehensive business management solution designed to meet the ever changing nature of industry needs and the pressing demands for greater collaboration, higher quality and reliability, guaranteed service, faster delivery, constant process and product innovation, and lower prices.

Warehouse Management

Managing this component of your operation requires a robust and fully integrated solution, and Sage MAS ERP for Electronics & Computers is designed to answer the call.

• Advanced inventory planning and replenishment to control and optimize inventory levels.
• RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tracking when required inside the warehouse or in the supply chain.
• Increased efficiency and error reduction with optional directed picking and put-away.
• Multi-zone, multi-bin, and multi-warehouse management.
• Reduce inventory shrinkage and manual adjustments with system-supported cycle counting.
• Multiple valuation methods, shelf life control, automatic re-order points, and lot and serial number tracking.
• Integrated truckload (TL) and less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping management with rate shopping among major and user-defined carriers.
• Analyze historic trends to determine the right product, in the right quantity, at the right time, and at the right price.

Financials, CRM, HR, & Business Intelligence

Financials

• Strength and reliability from Sage MAS ERP for Electronics & Computers core accounting modules: GL, AP, and AR.
• The foundation of a robust, flexible, and scalable end-to-end business management solution.
• As the hub of the system, the core accounting bundle provides the integration point for all other modules needing to exchange data with GL, AP, or AR.
• Automate paper intensive processes such as AP, AR, and Sales Order.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Proactively seeking new customers, and maintaining strong relationships with the customers you’ve worked so hard to win, is a constant endeavor. Expectations regarding your ability to deliver, and deliver quickly, are high. Staying close to your customers and anticipating their needs shows a commitment that goes beyond a simple customer-supplier relationship.

• Proactively increase your value to your customer base by leveraging the time savings you’ll get with Sales Force Automation.
• With immediate access to all of your customer and supplier data, your reputation for personalized service and reliability can thrive with the set of cutting-edge tools found in Sage MAS ERP for Electronics & Computers.
• Wireless and browser-based, the feature-rich CRM is only a click away, no matter where you happen to be.

Human Resources (HR)

• Comprehensively manage this most critical asset and expenditure.
• Increase retention rates by managing benefits and providing tangible value to your employees.
• Comply with dynamic local and federal requirements.
• Process internal or external payroll with direct deposit.

Business Intelligence

• What you have is data. What you need is relevant information.
• Sage MAS ERP for Electronics & Computers delivers highly customizable and insightful reporting.
• Your options for getting a report, when you want it and how you want it, are almost endless.
• Capture data from endless locations within Sage MAS ERP for Electronics & Computers.
• Extremely flexible, intuitive with superior graphical detail: We’ve set the standard for live dashboards.
• Unleash the “database watchdog” (aka Business Alerts) to keep you informed immediately of situations that meet your custom, pre-defined criteria.