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To continue my Customer Care Nightmare...(see Part 1 here)

Strike a rich vein of opportunity with these tools for Sage 300 ERP (Formerly Accpac) & increase effectiveness in your mining company.

Yesterday we held a seminar for our clients in the mining industry to show them how to achieve the maximum value from their Sage ERP system.

My washing machine stopped working suddenly and thankfully it was still under warranty. I purchased it at a major department store so was confident the issue would be resolved effectively.

Sage Summit is the premier conference for Sage customers and partners. It’s the destination for learning better ways to leverage the software you already own with the added bonus of discovering new technologies. This year it will be held at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention centre, Nashville TN, August 14-17^th, 2012.

About a century ago, Henry Ford, the pioneering auto manufacturer, once famously quipped that his customers could purchase his immensely popular Model T in “any colour they want – as long as it’s black!” Today, people would be outraged if any car maker tried to limit their choices in such a manner. Why then, do the vast majority of ERP publishers offer such limited options when it comes to how their customers can choose to license their products?

Quick - what is the most important appliance in your home? Some of the most common answers would be a large-screen TV, in front of which you can relax, and be entertained, or perhaps even a stove, which provides one with the means to prepare delicious meals. While these are both good suggestions, I would suggest that the answer lies in a much more humble, inexpensive device – the smoke detector. Just sitting there in the background, this device is working 24/7 to keep you and your family safe, warning you at the first sign of danger (or sometimes if you’re merely burning something on the stove).

MS-Excel has proven to be a very handy, useful tool when used in conjunction with Sage ERP.  Some of the tasks it can help with include: data imports and exports such as GL Budgets or AR Customers; opening and manipulating reports such as a GL Trial Balance; SAI reporting; and Financial Reporter.

What is BI?
According to Wikipedia, ‘Business intelligence (BI) mainly refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/or departments, or by associated costs and incomes.’

Is it time to do some spring cleanup in your database?  Do you have multiple vendor numbers for the same vendor?  Is there more than one customer number for some of your customers?  And, is there history in each account, so that you cannot delete one of them?  Would you like all your vendors and customers to have a consistent naming structure?  Sage has created Vendor Number Change and Customer Number Change utilities for just such situations as these. 

If you are currently running Sage ERP Accpac version 5.5 with Payroll Tax Updates you need to read the following message.