Responding to demand from mid-market companies worldwide, ACCPAC has released version 5.2 of its ACCPAC Advantage Series accounting system.
Version 5.2 boasts dozens of functional enhancements aimed at midrange ERP market, including improvements in the Order Entry (OE), Inventory Control (IC), and Purchase Orders (PO) modules that make it easier to manage the entire order processing cycle. The System Manager (SM) module has also been upgraded, giving administrators tighter control over the security of the entire accounting system.
"This, together with customers having the freedom to choose from a variety of databases including Oracle, IBM DB2. Micosoft SQL Server and Pervasive.SQL, and to deploy on Microsoft or Linux operating systems, makes version 5.2 an attractive option indeed," says Jeremy Waterman, managing director of ACCPAC Africa.
New features support entering orders, shipments and invoices separately, allowing businesses to allocate various components of the order process to different company personnel.
"The system now recognises and maps manufacturer's item numbers to IC item numbers, including UPC codes, ISBN numbers, and shortcut codes that can be used to speed up data entry," says Waterman. "The OE and PO modules allow users to enter the manufacturer's item number instead of the IC item number when processing transactions."
OE clerks can include multiple orders on a single shipment and include multiple shipments on a single invoice. In addition, users can specify the shipping method for each item to allow items shipped with the same method to be grouped and printed on the same packing slip. The shipment tracking number for each detail can also be specified.
"Furthermore, users can create an order by simply selecting and copying details of existing customer orders," Waterman says. "They can also commit a quantity to a specific order to ensure the quantity is guaranteed to be available for shipping. Discounts can also be specified on each detail of an order, shipment and invoice.
"Finally, when deploying ACCPAC Advantage Series over the Web, a single administrator can easily implement all of these functions globally, regardless of the number of users and/or locations," Waterman concludes.
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ACCPAC International, Inc, a subsidiary of Computer Associates International, Inc (NYSE: CA), provides small and mid-size businesses a broad range of end-to-end business management applications designed to enhance customers' competitive advantage. Product lines include ACCPAC Advantage Series, ACCPAC Pro Series, ACCPAC HR Series, ACCPAC Business Analysis Suite, ACCPAC eTransact, ACCPAC Exchange, ACCPAC CRM, ACCPAC Warehouse Management System, ACCPAC ePOS, Simply Accounting, FAXserve and ACCPAC Messenger.
Based in Pleasanton, California, USA, with offices in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, Mexico, the Middle East, the Netherlands, SA, Southeast Asia and the United Kingdom, ACCPAC has more than 500 000 customers and more than 6 500 channel partners in more than 130 countries worldwide. For more information about ACCPAC and our products, call 1-800-945-8007 in North America, or visit ACCPAC at www.accpac.com and www.accpaconline.com.
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