Sage ERP X3: Product Highlights - Business Enablers

Sage ERP X3 Workflow enables companies to automate the flow of information within and outside a business based on company-specific work practices and procedures for handling important and exceptional events.

Unlike traditional systems that come with pre-defined workflow processes, the extensive parameterization available within Sage ERP X3 makes it possible for companies to define any business event and condition to initiate workflow messaging and/or trigger processing. It makes it easy to automate traditional paper-based and task-intensive processes such as purchase requisition signatory approvals and credit manager reviews of orders placed on credit hold.

Automated workflow enables you to:

• Trigger an event (initiate processing, send e-mail, etc.) based on user actions such as printing, creating or editing records, deleting data or based on the result of an inquiry
• Trigger the dispatch of e-mails (including attachments), allowing the recipients to take action by simply clicking on the embedded option button (for example: approve or reject a purchase request)
• Provide users with work schedules based on customized processes or workfow circuits
• Trigger workfow circuits based on batch processes such as data imports or exports

Benefits:

• Helps streamline business operations
• Facilitates internal/external flow of information while simplifying controls
• Fits your own rules and procedures for handling key and exceptional events via simple and intuitive parameterization

Sage ERP X3 provides your company with integrated Business Intelligence tools to promote effective management reporting and decision-making.

Powered by leading Business Objects technology, Sage ERP X3 Business Intelligence allows users to analyze their business performance on the fly and build compelling reports by simple drag & drop of the aggregated data that are updated in real time with the flow of day-to-day operations. Business intelligence is fully integrated within the Sage ERP X3 system and does not require maintenance of a dedicated datawarehouse.

The system also integrates an interactive User Portal and Dashboards that display real-time, actionable indicators helping users monitor their daily business.

Benefits:

• Monitor your key performance indicators in real-time
• Manage by exception
• Simplify set-up and maintenance with a built-in datawarehouse

Sage ERP X3 provides companies with a unique dual approach to moving companies into the world of e-business, one that gives them a choice of technologies with which to extend their business operations externally and dramatically reduce the cost of doing business.

The web-native approach makes intrinsic use of Sage ERP X3’s capability of running the application using a standard Internet web browser. This provides significant cost savings since the application can be easily and inexpensively deployed to remote offices or subsidiaries, even under secured access to key business partners for conducting e-business.

The SOA approach also facilitates communication with the outside world via published Web Services in industry-standard format (XML, UDDI, WSDL, SOAP). It opens Sage ERP X3 business rules and data for seamless connections to web storefronts, trading exchanges and other application systems.

Benefits:

• Expand your business online while keeping one single coherent management system
• Accelerate communication exchange and develop profitable relationships with partners

Sage ERP X3 allows businesses to automatically collect and utilize data end-to-end across their operational areas. The system takes data entered on the shop floor and warehouse from automated input devices, verifies its accuracy, and passes the data to Sage ERP X3 for immediate update.

It also takes care of all the prompts on the collection devices, manages the entire network of devices, even ensuring that data is saved during system downtime.

Automated RF Data Collection works with any ANSI-compatible device, such as radio frequency (RF) hand-held devices and fixed station terminals. It creates and prints barcodes as well.

Benefits:

• Speed up and simplify remote data entry
• Ensure data integrity and accuracy