Seminars

Sage 200 Accounting and Commercial Systems – the flagship mid market accounts solution

This session will introduce you to the Sage 200 platform – the Sage solution for small to medium sized organisations. Focusing on the core accounts and commercial modules, you will learn how Sage 200 flexes to meet your specific operational requirements while providing management with concise, in depth and accurate KPI’s and management information instantly.

Topics covered include:

Financial Reporting

Ledger Management

Departmental budgeting and reporting

Multi location stock control

Warehouse Management

Sales and Purchase Order Processing

Presented by Sage you will soon see how you can improve the profitability of your business by increasing efficiency and productivity. This seminar covers a variety of activities and will be of interest to MD’s, FD’s and management involved on warehousing, stock control and order processing.

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Sage Manufacturing – powerful yet easy to use manufacturing control solution

Many manufacturers believe computerised manufacturing systems are either too expensive or too complex for them. The Sage Manufacturing seminar will dispel both of those fears. Sage Manufacturing is incredibly powerful and yet, through superb design and innovation, easy to use.

Topics covered include:

Bills Of Materials

Job Estimating

Production and Capacity Planning

Works Order Processing

Materials Management and Optimisation

Forecasting

Many companies currently manage a large part of the production process through disparate systems including spreadsheets and manual records. This seminar will not only show you how Sage brings this all together, but it will also show you the massive benefits you will gain from a centralised system where information is shared and processed to improve efficiency.

Presented by Steve Barritt of Sage, you will be meeting one of the key people at Sage for the design and development of the system.

This seminar will be of most benefit to Managing Directors, Production Directors and Managers.

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Sage Construction – the job costing system for the construction industry

In the competitive world of the construction industry, it is essential to maximise your profitability of each job and each stage of each job. You can only do this if you estimate the job accurately in the first place and control and monitor your costs as the job progresses. The Sage Construct session will demonstrate how the system enables you to do just that.

Presented by Sage, you will see how a job is estimated and set up within Sage Construct to reflect the job itself and to allow you to monitor progress and profitability by each project phase and activity.

The seminar will also cover:

Client billing

Applications and Retentions

Sub Contractor Management and CIS

Job Costing and Work in Progress reporting

Presented by Sage this seminar will show you how to identify the least and most profitable job types, activities and even personnel and take the right action at the right time. Managing Directors, Project Managers and QS’s will find this session a must.

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Sage CRM – sales, marketing and customer service

CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is still not fully understood by a large proportion of businesses today even though every business needs it. CRM is all about how to attract new business opportunities, turn the opportunities into new customers and sales and also it’s about how to retain those customers once you have won them over to you.

David Beard of Sage will demonstrate how Sage CRM will automate and invigorate your marketing department, your sales teams and your customer services people.

The session will include:

Marketing campaign management and control

Campaign success analysis

Campaign Return on Investment analysis

Sales Process automation

Sales Opportunity management and monitoring

Sales team management

Customer service

Customer complaints and problem management

CRM is simply about generating more business and keeping your customers happy and with you. This session is for anyone interested in improving the sales, marketing and customer services performance of your business.

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Sage Retail – from POS though to re-ordering and accounts

In tough times, Sage Retail will help retailers maximise sales revenue through efficient operation, optimised stock management and the management of promotions and offers. Through integration to Sage accounts, this session will also demonstrate how improved operational efficiency can contribute to improved profitability.

Whether you have just one retail outlet requiring one till or a multi location business with the need to manage stock and ordering across multiple locations, Sage Retail has the solution.

The session will cover:

Till Sales and reporting

Stock Control and Warehouse Management

Promotions and Offers

Integration to accounts

Cash and Account order processing

This session will be presented by Nigel Dawes of Sage and will be of interest to anyone interested in improving the efficiency of the retail front end operation or the behind the scenes management of stock, purchasing and sales order processing.

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Web Design and Optimisation

SpinDogs are dynamic web development, design, and online marketing specialists. They have a range of content managed web solutions to a range of international clients. As a leading search engine marketing specialists, SpinDogs not only deliver great looking, functional web solutions, but can help you promote and make the most of your online presence. This session will illustrate the potential of well designed websites and also demonstrate the Content Management System which would enable you to keep your website right up to date yourselves.

Free search engine snapshots to all attendees - a report displaying your websites current performance in Google leading to suggestions and tips on how to increase your websites exposure and convert more visitors into business! spindogs

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E-commerce for Sage 200 and 50

Shopfront for Sage 200 and Sage 50 is a fully featured seamlessly integrated e-commerce system allowing you to trade on line thereby potentially opening a whole new stream of sales revenue for your business. Real time synchronisation means stock levels are always up to date, orders are processed immediately and customers can even see the status of their accounts and orders. Integration with Sage means that features such as account details, delivery addresses and pricing for account holding customers are all utilised by Shopfront.