With the chaos of year end processing behind you, you might be thinking about an upgrade to Sage 500 ERP Version 2013 released in November. Here are 10 reasons to consider an upgrade to the newest version of your ERP software.
- Reduce risk and reconcile cash receipts faster and easier with new import and tracking capabilities. Take advantage of electronic funds transfer, lock boxes, and other collection methods that reduce manual processing and risk.
- Bank reconciliation enhancements make it easier to review transactions, correct mistakes, and re-print the register as many times as needed.
- Enhancements to period end closing provide the ability to lock down postings to individual sub-ledgers, offering better control over posting of "trailing" transactions after the period is complete.
- Process credit card transactions anywhere, anytime using Sage Mobile Payments and your smart phone.
- Reduce fraud exposure by storing sensitive cardholder data in the secure, cloud-based Sage Exchange Vault.
- New Global Pricing Changes allow you to perform faster and simpler updates to cost and pricing information for items, inventory, price sheets, promotions, and more.
- Improve delivery times and reduce your shipping costs with the new web-based, multicarrier shipping solution in Sage 500 ERP Shipping.
- Increase accuracy of accounting for setup hours with new features in manufacturing operations that include cost reminders and the ability to designate setup hours to backflush always, never, or manually.
- Simplify navigation and get new users up to speed quickly with Visual Process Flows that provide a graphical workflow diagram with links to tasks along the way.
- Enhancements to Customizer make it easier to modify screens and workflow while protecting those customizations from upgrades with new customer controls.
If it's been a while since your last upgrade, you might want to take a glance at the Sage 500 ERP Upgrade Ladder which provides a snapshot of the most significant new features from Version 7.3 to 7.4, and up to the current Version 2013.
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This post is an article that appeared in our Sage ERP 500 ERP newsletter for 1st Quarters 2013. To see all the articles in this newsletter issue, click the thumbnail image below.
