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Solid Business Central™

Introduction:
Solid Business Central™ is a proven, reliable ERP system capable of handling a high transaction volume with a solid, integrated approach and consistent interface for:

• Mobile Sales, Route Accounting, Counter Sales, Buying and Picking
• Multi Warehouse Inventory Management
• Extensive customer, inventory, and price handling methods
• Exceptional support, including on-line training videos
• External operations, including:
• Solid Journey Plan™
• Solid Visual Analyst™
• Solid EDI™
• Solid Distribution Central™

Features:

Inventory Management Inventory Management

• Product Codes (SKUs)
  • Create millions of product codes with barcodes and numerous other attributes
  • Attributes include taxes, core charges, barcodes, additional SKU (linked part), and re-order quantities
• Product Departments
  • Assign products to product groups, called departments
  • Specialized departments include: regular items with quantity tracking, labor or service without quantity tracking, assembly departments for assembling from lists of items, and special environmental charge for EDI purposes
  • Assign financial results to separate GL accounts automatically
• Multi-warehouse inventory control
  • Create 100's of warehouses each with separate inventory tracking
  • Easily track movement in and out of warehouses
• Pricing
  • Individually priced SKUs with list, cost, and wholesale
  • Automatically apply one of several discount plans to gain pricing consistency:
    • Discount by product department with either:
      • % off for 40 customer groups or
      • % markup from any stored price for 10 customer groups
      • Flexible pricing that creates price groups as % up or down from cost, list, or another stored price
    • Special Price List (SPL):
      • Create a price list, like a specials list or flyer, that applies to any customer, customer head office group, or customer routing group
      • Optionally apply any of: beginning date, ending date, quantity price breaks, suggested retail, or special wholesale to this SPL
  • Invoice level discounts apply a % off invoice with option to have sales person override configured on a per customer basis
  • Sales person override permits or disallows override of individual prices
• Multi-Vendor (configured in Solid Business Central to drive correct sales through Solid Sales Pro)
  • Option to split transactions automatically based on special SKU configuration
  • "Sold by" and "Pay to" as it applies to A/R handling is automatic
  • Inventory balances handled automatically
• Stock Transfers - move inventory between warehouses using stock transfers and stock orders
• Inventory Counts
  • Manual - create manual count sheets or
  • Mobile Computers - count with mobile computers with options for automatic stock adjustments with full audit trail
• Inventory Audit routines- allow for continual monitoring of your inventory quantity levels
• Inventory Purchasing - automatic inventory purchasing based on minimum quantities on hand, minimum order amounts and customer orders

Customer Management and Accounts Receivable

• Customer Groups
  • Group customers by:
    • Head Office grouping with option as to bill to/ship to address
    • Customer Routing group to indicate what group a sales person is responsible for and to limit customers on a mobile
    • Customer Pricing group to assign pricing plans to groups of customers
• Pay by Invoice
  • Apply payments to specific invoices
  • Split payments across multiple transactions where they are members of a Head Office group
  • Over pay, partial pay, and split pay transactions
• Route Management
  • Use simple route management groupings or integrate with Solid Journey Plan™ to ensure route planning and coverage
• Accounts Receivable Management
  • Includes pay by invoice, customer statements, and A/R reporting

Sales

• Mobile Sales
  • See Solid Sales Pro™ for fully integrate mobile computers to handle on-the-road activities that are smoothly and fully integrated
  • Ideally suited to Direct Store Distribution, Pre-Sale, or Mobile Sales via wireless systems
• Counter Sales
  • Full featured counter sales module for ordering, back ordering, sales, and received on accounts
  • Capable of 100's of simultaneous transactions per day on numerous screens
    • Customer Orders - orders taken on office computers and moved to picking system for fulfillment, with the option to close customer orders as invoices while putting unfulfilled items on backorder
    • Invoices - create invoices with automatic with option for manual pricing override
    • Received on Account - receive customer payments
    • Cash Out - handle periodic cash outs for staff with reconciliation printing
  • Provide for automatic assignment
    • Taxes and tax exemptions, cores and core charges, environmental charges, and linked parts
    • Assemblies can be created from a 'recipe' with option to over-ride quantities
• Customer Order Picking
  • See Solid Warehouse Pro™ for fully integrated customer order picking
• Transaction Printing
  • 8 1/2" and 4" invoicing options are both supported
  • Formats include invoices, customer orders, work orders
• Picking
  • Print picking lists to easily pick items in the warehouse, or smoothly integrate Solid Warehouse Pro for a fully automated, wireless picking system

Buying

• Mobile Buying
  • See Solid Warehouse Pro™ for fully integrated customer order picking options via wireless systems
    
• Purchase Ordering
  • Create orders automatically for depleted items and items on order by customers
• Receiving
  • Receive product into inventory, optionally printing shelf labels while pulling special ordered product for customers
  • Receive orders previously created by default
• Pay by Invoice
  • Apply payments to specific purchase orders
  • Split payments across multiple transactions
  • Over pay, partial pay, and split pay transactions
• Transaction Printing
  • Purchase orders and checks can be printed

Accounts Payable & Supplier Management

• See Buying

Reporting

• Numerous build-in reports including:
  • Auto-pick Report - use this report to determine quantities for refill purposes based on transaction volumes and lead times
  • Multi-Warehouse Report - view quantities in all warehouses
  • Stop Analysis Report - see the productivity of your route sales staff in a day, including stop order, amount sold, gross margin, prior stop by customer and summarized by day Bill Transaction Journal - see exactly what was sold in a given period, including warnings on low pricing situations
  • Bill Transaction Journal - see exactly what was sold in a given period, including warnings on low pricing situations
  • Commission Report - easily generate a commission report for each employee, which includes sales, returns, and margin
• Integrates smoothly with Solid Visual Analyst™ for advanced, custom reporting

General Ledger

• Integrated GL operations are supported
• Up to 70,000 GL accounts
• Reports include:
  • Financial Statement - with comparisons to prior periods
  • General Journal
  • Account Reconciliation

System Operations

• Printing
  • Configure printing to print to any networked or local printer
  • Separate configuration for invoices, work orders, reports, and check printing
  • Print to any Windows printer
• Backups - create compact backups very quickly
• General Ledger - use the GL provided or easily print summarized journal entries to enter to your preferred system
• Integrity Check - Built in integrity check is able to recover all balances from computer system malfunction

External Operations

• Solid EDI™ for a complete EDI solution
• Solid Distribution Central™ for centralized reporting most common with distribution associations
• Solid Journey Plan™ ensures customer coverage

Benefits:

• Smoothly integrated system with fast point-of-sale billing screen
• All systems work together to give unification
• Audit trail is easily followed

Now Available as:

• Solid Route Accounting™ - Enterprise Edition

Also Available as:

• Solid Business Central (in this mode, Solid Sales Pro™ and Solid Warehouse Pro™ are not integrated but can be easily added at a later date.)

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