Sage MMS Overview

Sage MMS (Mid Market Solution) is Sage’s latest mid-range business solution, built on the .NET platform. It is a powerful accounts and trading solution with unrivalled usability and customisation capability.

Straightforward to implement and easy to learn, Sage MMS offers the ideal solution ‘out of the box’ to many companies with complex business processes.
Sage MMS is also an ideal upgrade path for many Sage Line 50 users who are experiencing rapid growth.

Sage MMS meets needs across your business:

Accounts and Finance
Sage MMS flexes to your business, allowing you to budget by cost centre and department. Powerful consolidation of multiple companies – even with different nominal structures and operating currencies - means your system can grow with your business. Alerts and batch entry features ensure rapid, error-free data entry, while in-depth reporting and graphical analysis ensure you are always in control

Nominal cost centre and departmental analysis. You can attribute costs, analyse budgets and produce management reports, e.g. Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss, by department and cost centre.
Group budgets make it easy for you to manage your subsidiary companies. Sage MMS includes multi-company consolidated financial reporting and group budgeting capabilities.

Customers
Deal effectively with customers by storing all details and maintaining effective credit control. If a significant number of your customers need to deal in a foreign currency, Sage MMS gives you the tools to meet this need – effectively.

Comprehensive customer record stores all the details of your customers for easy retrieval, with instant links to their sales orders.
Price Book allows you to trade with your customers in a fully flexible way. Unlimited – and currency aware – price bands for each product can be used along with unlimited discount schemes; pricing ‘communities’ can then be created to link in to them.
Credit Management. A range of credit tools are supplied including debtors' letters, statement production, provisions for doubtful and bad debts, and the ability to place customer accounts on hold.
Prioritisation of orders. You can decide which orders will be fulfilled first, either manually, on a ‘first come, first served’ basis, by prioritising your customers, or by scheduling against deliveries.
Repeat and Duplicate Orders cut down on processing time. Quotations and pro formas can be easily raised and converted to orders or invoices.
Multiple delivery addresses can be quickly chosen - allowing you to fit in with your customers’ needs.
Rapid sales order entry. Choose a customer, choose a product, enter a quantity and hit ‘Save’. For simple or batch order entry you will soon appreciate the speed and efficiency that Sage MMS gives you.
Full sales order entry option. Switch to full order entry for complete flexibility over each sales order – change delivery address, discounts, record cash with order. Add further stock items, non-stock items, additional charges, and comments to the order. Modify any attribute of an existing line item such as the quantity, price, delivery date, and allocation.
Trade Counter sales order entry completes the sales order cycle in one swift routine, allowing you to offer a quick service your customers.
Mix order entry types within your business to suit your needs.
Profit Analysis. You can authorise individuals to view the margin of a sales order line – assisting in price negotiation.
Discount Analysis. Instantly see how a price has been calculated, even if your business has a complex pricing and discount model.
Better customer service. Sage MMS is packed with many more features to help you offer the best service to your customers – and therefore keep your competitive edge. For example, custom search categories allow you to quickly locate products to meet your customers’ requirements. You can quickly locate and call up any sales order, drilling down to see the exact status in terms of invoices, allocations and dispatches made. Unlimited alternative stock items allow you to suggest alternatives if the chosen item is out of stock.

Suppliers
Maintain consistent, controlled relationships with your suppliers. Store full details of your purchases and benefit from tools to help you make best use of your credit terms with your suppliers.

Comprehensive supplier record. Store all details of your suppliers for easy retrieval, and drill down to related Purchase Orders.
Flexible terms of business.
Automated payments. Sage MMS will suggest which payments to make in order to benefit from early settlement discounts
Purchase Order authorisation allows you to set limits for supervisor approval.
3-way order matching. Check that each delivery matches your purchase order and supplier invoice, including where there are multiple order and delivery note numbers.
Full Back-to-Back ordering allows you to run a lean supply chain. You can drill down from POs to related Sales Orders and vice versa.
Suggested Orders. Sage MMS can automatically compile lists of what you should order, based on shortfall (by warehouse, if necessary) and what’s required for back-to-back orders. The system will then generate reports to assist in negotiation if required, and create consolidated Purchase Orders for you. The whole process can save you a significant amount of time.
Order Consolidation. Save paperwork by consolidating multiple POs into a single invoice.
Returns and credits allow you to manage return of goods to your suppliers.

Stock Control
Sage MMS allows you to organise and closely manage your product lines. You can manage different stock locations completely independently, in terms of replenishment, sales, reporting and stock takes. Custom search categories and wildcard searches will assist you in managing large numbers of product lines. Serial and batch controlled items can be managed, and you can buy and sell in different units of measure.

Multi-location stock makes it easy to work with stock held in different locations. You can run each location independently in terms of stock levels, purchases and reporting.
Serial numbered items. You can control high value items, or other items that require a unique ID.
Batch numbered items. You can track items that need to be purchased, stored and sold in batches.
Organise your stock. You can organise your products into Groups for reporting purposes, and create custom search categories to help you quickly locate items during order entry.
Alternative stock items. You can specify unlimited alternatives to each item to ensure that your customers are never disappointed.
Stock takes. Sage MMS allows you to run cyclical stock-takes, and only on items meeting your chosen criteria - saving you time.
Unlimited suppliers. You can manage multiple suppliers for full flexibility, while recording a default supplier and cost for each stock item to speed up your purchasing process.
Units of measure allow you to buy stock in bulk and sell in smaller quantities, so you can maximise your purchasing power without difficulty.

Sage MMS can be customised for your business, and integrated with industry-specific software available from Sage Developer partners

Industry-specific requirements. For the construction industry, Sage Construct Advanced links to Sage MMS. Third-party solutions linking to Sage MMS are also becoming available for other industry-specific applications, such as manufacturing, retail and services.
Fully customisable. Sage has an extensive national network of developers who can tailor your Sage MMS program to specifically suit your business or industry needs.

SONAL COMPUTERS are well placed to offer a suitable Sage solution from the budget cost Instant range to the fully integrated, feature rich Line100, which is capable of extensive amendments. All products are supported by Sonal Computers, equally well versed in discussing accounting matters or computer systems.

Sonal Computers are able to offer the following services : Supply Sage software, installation and configuration, On-site training to suit your particular requirements, Additional support to that offered by Sagecover ( telephone hotline ), Assistance with Report formats and Report Generator, Help with upgrades, Review of use of the software, Day to day input of data and documents (book-keeping on Sage), Sage Payroll - either as a bureau service or at the clients' premises, Add-on packages to Sage.