Integrated Applications Provide the Complete Solution

Evolving software applications are promising to transform customer relationships by improving awareness throughout your organization. Not only is our goal to connect businesses to their customers, but also to ensure that a business is connected from the inside out.

MAS 500 enables a level of integrated customer relationship management (CRM) that equips companies with the front office capabilities they need to manage the demands of today’s competitive business environment.

eSalesforce and eCustomer
In a competitive economy, empowering your employees with the tools they need to provide superior customer service will set you apart from the competition. An easy-to-use Web-based application, eSalesforce provides complete customer account management, whether your employees are in the office, at home or on the road. The eSalesforce module puts all the customer information they need, such as order, shipment, credit, payment and commission information, in one place. The eCustomer module provides similar functionality to your customers, reducing telephone calls and enhancing their ability to keep track of their business with you.

SalesLogix Sales
MAS 500 integrates with its sister product line, SalesLogix, to provide even more customer-centric solutions. These solutions manage all aspects of your sales cycle and standardize key sales functions by automating activities such as account and opportunity management, quotation and proposal generation, scheduling, forecasting, and reporting. They also provide sophisticated analytical tools and full-scale marketing campaign management to identify the most profitable customers and shorten the sales cycle.

SalesLogix Support
With the costs of acquiring new customers 5-10 times higher than retaining them, support solutions designed to build lasting relationships and customer loyalty can have a tremendous impact on your bottom line.

Integrated Back Office Applications Provide a Complete Solution

Through its superior utilization of SQL Server technology, MAS 500 can deliver key business benefits, deep financial functionality and outstanding usability via powerful back office solutions. These include industry-leading financial management and project accounting solutions, as well as advanced inventory, distribution and manufacturing capabilities.

Operating at the core of MAS 500, fully integrated financial software provides you with insightful information gathered from your data and presented with advanced analysis capabilities and presentation-quality reporting. The financial series includes the following modules:

• Accounts Payable

• Accounts Receivable

• Advanced Consolidations

• Allocations

• Cash Management

• eExecutive

• FAS Asset Accounting

• FAS Asset Inventory

• Financial Reporting

• General Ledger

• Multicurrency Management

• WebReports

These scalable and flexible applications come with an easy-to-use graphical user interface and streamlined customization capabilities that can reduce data errors and integrate multiple processes on the desktop.

Advanced reporting capabilities, including the ability to track key performance indicators, publish reports to the Web and drill into data, empower your managers to make real-time decisions. Moreover, eExecutive allows management to review top-level financial and performance information in an online format — anytime, anywhere.

With MAS 500, you can reduce inventory carrying costs while optimizing product availability for superior customer service. With the ability to analyze and report up-to-the-minute information on your inventory, MAS 500 can help anticipate change, even manage inventory across warehouses. Advanced forecasting features integrate with automated supply chain processes to minimize overhead and material costs. 

Modules available include:

• Advanced Kitting

• eOrder 

• Inventory Management

• Inventory Replenishment (with forecasting and automated procurement)

• Product Configurator

• Purchase Order

• Sales Order

Designed by industry experts, every aspect of distribution system integration has been considered - warehouse management, shipping, supply chain management and e-commerce. These solutions integrate your sales demand requirements with your supply chain to manage all aspects of sales, inventory management, and automated procurement.

Cutting-Edge Manufacturing Technology

When demand hits, it’s crucial that manufacturing is ready and able to deliver. MAS 500 provides a complete solution that represents the next generation in manufacturing software — delivering the information you need in the format you want and transforming it into valuable business intelligence. This insight translates into every aspect of your business, including customer service, vendor performance and production quality. 

Manufacturing modules include:

• Advanced Manufacturing

• Advanced Planning and Scheduling

• Engineering Change Management

• Estimating

• Light Manufacturing

• Material Requirements Planning

• Product Configurator

• Shop Floor Control

One of the key advantages of the manufacturing solution is the rules-based advanced planning and scheduling system. The APS module allows companies to manage multiple production schedules by facility, conduct what-if analysis of the manufacturing process, and manage machine and tool resources in real time. Advanced, industry-standard scheduling rules help companies meet critical deadlines while providing enough flexibility to handle real world demands such as last-minute priority jobs and unexpected machine downtime.

Effective project management enables professional services firms and corporate IT departments to achieve operational excellence through the unique ability to control people, projects and budgets with exceptional flexibility. Project Accounting’s comprehensive rate matrix and estimating facilities, with the added capability for remote time and expense entry (offline or via the Internet), generates more revenue at a lower cost, eliminates wasted hours and produces more bottom-line savings. The MAS 500 project accounting modules support best-practices project management.

Project accounting modules include:

• eTimeSheets

• Microsoft Project Link

• Project Accounting

Market Leading Human Resource and Payroll Management

Accurately administrating a company’s work force is vital to its success and growth. Best Software recognizes this vital need by offering powerful human resources (HR) solutions:

• Abra Payroll

• Abra HR

• Abra Attendance

MAS 500 Abra HR allows companies to manage information based on their unique HR structure and needs. Data is entered just once and shared with the entire system - leaving time to address other strategic business issues. Payroll is fully integrated with HR allowing benefits administration and attendance plan management to automatically update with payroll processing.

Abra Attendance offers easy setup, management and monitoring of multiple variations of employee attendance plans. You can enable automatic recording of incident-based time off (jury duty, bereavement, etc.) as well as regular time off (vacation, illness, and holidays). This information can then be used both for employee reporting and payroll calculations.

Accurately administrating a company’s work force is vital to its success and growth.

Customization Tools

World-Class Development Tool Kit

MAS 500 customization tools provide a foundation for Visual Studio.NET business application development - the basis of MAS 500 itself. Designed to significantly reduce the cost of developing customized business applications, these components allow you to improve system efficiency by easily modifying screens and forms, developing additional controls for your system, and programming with the original source code.

• The Customizer module gives you the ability to easily modify screens and forms to match your specific business processes, improve staff productivity, and achieve the desired look and feel. It also enables you to add industry-specific features, even if you lack extensive programming knowledge, without making changes to source code.

• MAS 500’s Application Framework lets you finish your development tasks faster and at a lower cost. It provides Visual Basic controls, wizards and utilities to solve housekeeping issues, including concurrency, user interface, security models, data handling, and more. With housekeeping issues handled by the Application Framework, your developers are free to build add-on programs or interface controls to MAS 500, saving you development time and money.

• MAS 500 Source Code, for code development and implementation, is available if required.