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Sage PFW ERP

Sage PFW (formerly BatchMaster)* is one of the first true process manufacturing applications on the market and continues to be the standard for both developers and end-users. It features a full suite of process manufacturing applications built-in which are ideally suited for process manufacturers in the paints and coatings, specialty chemical, consumer packaged goods, foods, and nutraceutical industries. Worldwide, process manufacturers use Sage PFW to manage nearly every aspect of their operations. From research and development, formula management to MRP, MSDS, and production, Sage PFW improves efficiency and unifies processes within even the most complex manufacturing environments.

Designed especially for the small to mid-sized company transacting business throughout the global marketplace, Sage PFW ERP is an award-winning financial and process manufacturing solution. Sage PFW meets the complex challenges that transcontinental accounting and manufacturing present. Combining a powerful yet user-friendly interface and a web-enabled open architecture, Sage PFW is as functional as it is easy to use. Delivering all the features you’d expect from an industry standard software solution, Sage PFW offers a complex chart of accounts and multicurrency capabilities, integrated budget management, advanced allocations, support for hard and soft consolidations, and support for interdepartmental data access and processing.

Its new money- and time-saving features can help contribute to improving a company's bottom line. Sage PFW ERP 5.7 also offers an improved user interface that includes new fields, expanded field sizes, and other improvements in direct response to customer feedback.

Money-Savers
 1. Streamlined Inventory functionality -- Version 5.7 offers tighter control and improved visibility of inventory items throughout the system with the ability to now designate items as non-active and completely remove them from data entry look-ups, providing more accurate inventory and lessening potential costly mistakes.
 2. Better Receivables management -- The new historical receivables and aged receivables by due date reporting offers new reporting and credit metric tracking that improves business operational insight.
 3. Improved Customer Account management -- The ability to write off small balances of overpayments and underpayments while processing cash receipts helps provide more accurate customer balances and better determine customer creditworthiness.
 4. Enhanced Sales Order Pricing -- Business owners can quickly verify correct pricing by checking price overrides using a new option in the sales order report, which highlights price changes and compares new pricing to original prices.

Time-Savers
 1. Faster Month-end reporting -- Utilizing new bank statement import functionality, version 5.7 provides a faster, more automated way to reconcile bank accounts and complete monthly reports.
 2. Better multiple company processing -- Users can more easily switch between multiple companies and manage workload, reducing the possibility of errors when processing data for two or more companies.
 3. More efficient document processing -- Users can now print and post documents directly from Accounts Receivable, Purchase Order, and Order Entry data entry screens.
 4. Automated installation -- Companies with multiple locations and workstations can quickly deploy version 5.7 and subsequent service packs utilizing a new automated process across their enterprise.

Sage PFW software configurations are modular and fully integrated, providing adaptability today and scalability tomorrow. Written in Microsoft Visual Basic, you can be confident Sage PFW will be running rock-solid for years to come. Sage PFW will manage the unique aspects of your enterprise, organize resources, and provide the visibility necessary to improve bottom-line results.

To learn more about Sage PFW or to see it in action, contact the sales department at Lakeshore Consulting, (312) 254-0800.

* Platinum for Windows by Best (PFW) and BatchMasterPFW are now Sage PFW! These powerful financial, distribution and process manufacturing applications are now one comprehensive solution.

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