BA9228-Business Application Software - II |
ERP
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Financial accounting |
Financial accounting delivers tools and reports that enable you
to manage all financial processes, including:
- Chart of accounts -- Allows you to define all accounts and
their hierarchical relationships
- Journal entries -- Allows you to enter or find manual journal
entries and automatically allocate each transaction to a
project or profit center
- Transaction templates -- Enables you to save time and
prevent mistakes when entering manual journal entries
- Recurrent journal transactions -- Lets you create your own
set of recurrent transactions, including automatic frequency
reminders
- Exchange rate differences -- Adjusts foreign currency
accounts to the changes in your local currency
- Trial balance report -- Displays account balances and
transactions, enabling you to view all your financial reports in
any desired currency and in each detailing level
- Profit and loss report -- Displays income and expenses in the
conventional way used by accountants
- Balance sheet -- Displays assets and liabilities in the
conventional way used by accountants
- Comparative reports -- Allows all reports to be displayed in a
comparative view between months, quarters, years, or any
other period
- Financial reports designer -- Gives you the power to create
unlimited financial reporting templates
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Bank transactions |
Bank transactions help you handle all your financial
processing, with tools for:
- Receipt -- Records any payment term given to you by a
customer, such as checks, credit cards, cash, or bank
transfers
- Payment to supplier -- Issues a payment to suppliers,
allocates payments to open purchase invoices, and
automatically prints the check
- Deposits -- Enables you to deposit cash, credit cards, or
checks to the bank
- Deferred checks -- Automatically displays the deferred
checks that should be deposited that day
- Checks for payment -- Issues checks for vendors,
employees, or other creditors -- and can write and print a
check, and update the creditor balance accordingly
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Sales and Distribution |
From price quotes to invoicing and payment, sales and
distribution helps you complete your entire sales cycle with
the following tools and capabilities:
- Quotation -- Allows you to automatically issue a price quote
to customers, measure gross profit for the quotation, update
stock levels, and report the customer's current balance
- Order entry -- Enables you to enter customer orders,
automatically reserve the item ordered, and notify your
warehouse of the delivery Date
- Delivery notes -- Enables you to order merchandise related
to a quotation and update stock balances
- Returns -- Lets you record stock entry returned from clients
- Invoicing -- Automatically creates the invoice and records
the stock and journal transactions, while issuing an automatic
receipt in case customers are paying any part of their bill
instantly
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Sales Opportunity Management |
Sales opportunity management records every sales
opportunity, from the first phone call to the successful close of
a transaction. Users can enter various details concerning the
opportunity, including the source, potential, closing date,
competitors, and activities. As soon as the first relevant
quotation is created, users can link it with the opportunity to
simplify later tracking and analysis. Capabilities and processes
include:
- Reports Allow you to analyze opportunities by lead source,
territory, industry, customer, and item
- Forecasts Enables you to manage forecasts and view
anticipated revenue by a variety of date ranges, such as
month and quarter
- Lead distribution Lets you view the distribution of leads by
Source over time to identify the most profitable lead
generation Activities
- Activities calendar Offers a highly configurable scheduling
tool that shows activity types, covers workdays, hours, and
holidays, allows multiple users to access the same calendar,
and provides a team dashboard calendar
- Service module Addresses queues and territory
management, allowing you to define team queues, view
service calls by queue, and manage territory hierarchies;
covers service call activities, enabling you to return serialized
items for re-shipment, create credit memos from service calls,
and monitor response and resolution times
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Service Management |
Service management optimizes the potential of your service
department, providing support for service operations, service
contract management, service planning, tracking of customer
interaction activities and customer support. Capabilities
include:
- Service call Enables users to manage, track, and resolve
customer questions and deal with item-related problems
- Customer equipment card Provides service technicians with
detailed information about an item sold to a customer, such as
a manufacturer's serial number, replacement serial number,
and all service call history
- Service contract Allows users to create a regular support or
warranty contract for items or services sold to a customer
- Rate tables Allows you to enter your foreign currency rates
and indexes or auto download rates from the Web, which can
then be used in reports and data entry
- Service reports Enable users to view and analyze data
related to service contracts, customer equipment, and service
calls
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Purchasing |
Purchasing enables you to manage and maintain every aspect
of your vendor relationships. Tools and processes include:
- Purchase order -- Allows you to issue a purchase order to
vendors for materials or services, update the available amount
for the items ordered, and notify the warehouse manager of
the expected delivery date
- Purchase delivery note -- Updates the actual in-stock
amount without affecting the vendor's account balance
- Purchase return -- Records goods returned to suppliers
- Purchase invoice -- Records supplier invoices and
simultaneously records a stock entry
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Warehouse management |
Warehouse management gives you the tools and processes
you need to handle stock merchandise, including:
- Item management Manages all item information, including
name and code, barcode, trademark, measures, prices, and
even the item's picture
- Item query Gives you a quick view of item details
- Price lists Lets you define as many price lists as you need
and associate them with each customer or vendor
- Special prices Records prices for unique customers or from
unique vendors and enables you to set quantity-sensitive
prices that change according to quantities purchased
- General receipt/release from stock Allows you to record a
stock entry or release not connected directly to an AP/AR
document
- Transfer between warehouses Enables you to record all
transfers between warehouses
- Stock transactions Maintains opening balances for stock
items and updates stocktaking data
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Material Requirements Planning |
Material requirements planning (MRP) manages MRP through a
wizard-based process. This process enables users to define a
planning scenario in five easy steps and predict demand based
on forecasts. Capabilities include:
- Define forecasts Allows users to predict demand based on
forecasts, foresee future demand for the product, and adjust
material planning accordingly
- Planning wizard Steps users through the creation of planning
scenarios in five easy steps. Users define the planning
horizon, which can be viewed in weeks or days. Scenarios can
be run for a range of items or item groups. The user selects
the desired criteria in the scenario, such as existing stock
levels, open purchase orders, sales orders, work orders, and
inventory that reached its minimum stock level, as well as
predefined sales forecasts. Once a scenario is executed, the
solution presents a make-or-buy recommendation. Drill-down
options allow planners to view the net requirement
calculations and view the actual documents driving the gross
requirements. Exception warnings and visual cues help users
identify orders that need to be expedited.
- Order recommendation report Allows planners to
automatically select recommended production orders and
purchase orders for automatic creation; if an item needs to be
outsourced, planners can easily convert a production order to
a purchase order
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Business partners |
Business partner management allows you to track and
manage vital information about your clients and vendors.
Capabilities include:
- Cards management Records all information about clients and
vendors, including addresses, contact records, account
balances, and more
- Contacts Records telephone calls, meetings, or any
Interactions between you and your client or vendor
- Opening balances Manages opening balances of customers
And vendors
- Contacts summary Displays your open customer contact
records
- Sales opportunity Records any sales opportunity, from first
call To successful closure
- Opportunity analysis Reports on opportunities in three main
dimensions: by customer, per item, and per agent
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SPSS |
Data Entry – Analytical Tools - Inference |
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