Sage ERP X3 v6.5 is the latest version of the cost-effective end-to-end ERP that brings together all of the organization’s operations under one software solution and database, easily accessed and utilized from numerous locations and multiple nations.
ERP X3: Designed Specifically for Your Midsized Business
Sage ERP X3 is designed specifically for midsized companies, delivering all the benefits of robust ERP solutions while remaining simple, flexible and scalable.
With Sage ERP X3 your business will be taking the next step by benefiting from:
Integration and consolidation of all business operations
Advanced controls and flexible management through distribution and/or manufacturing capabilities
Real-time dashboards and powerful business intelligence tools for accurate and timely decision-making
Enhanced collaboration across supply chain and interoperability for global management
Advanced security and proven reliability for undisrupted workflow
Sage ERP X3 is equipped to support all business functions, including Sales, Accounting and Finances, Customer Relationship Management, Manufacturing, Distribution, Purchasing, Warehousing, Inventory Management, and eCommerce.
Sage ERP X3 6.5 brings to users improvements in producticity, simplified installation and cloud delivered new features. It includes enhancements for financial, sales, and inventory modules for efficiency improvements. In addition to improvements to the features listed below, users will find enhancements in stock movement functions, sales order manual holds, pricing and restrictions by State code, and tax compliance improvements. Highlighted new features of Sage ERP X3 include:
Features and Functionality Improvements
The new Sage ERP X3 6.5 brings improvements various features and functionalities. New Electronic Management Functionality provides control over document flow, increase in archiving efficiencies, and streamlines document distribution. Poastal Code Enhancements for automatic autocorrect and auto fill features, Product Record improvements for unlimited notes on items in stock or sold, additional Accounts Payable and Receivalble dicount terms.
Business Intelligence - Financial Reporting
Sage ERP X3 6.5 comes equipped with several intelligence features such as out-of-the-box reports (Financial Report, Financial Report by Company, Analytical Budget Report, and Analytical Report) for standard financial reports and analytical reporting. Additional features in the new version included easy-to-use and customize reporting trees and built-in report distribution.
Customer Relationship Management
The new Sage ERP X3 6.5 Advanced Customer Relationship Management (CRM) includes two solutions, Sage CRM and Sage SalesLogix. These are directly linked to the ERP to improve response time and deliver better communication between departments. Sage CRM for Sage ERP X3 6.5 centralizes all information regarding marketing, sales, customer service, customer information, and creates dashboards and reports on this data.
Cloud Services
Version 6.5 of X3 includes additional features and functionalities delivered to users of Sage ERP X3 via the cloud. These include Sales Tax Service, a web-based solution that automatically validates addresses, sales tax jurisdiction, and rate calculation in real time for US and Canada; Sage ERP X3 Shipping, a web-based system that efficiently manages shipping activities by comparing rates and streamlining the shipping process all the way down to printing labels.
Sage ERP X3 customers should contact us or their certified solution provider for assistance with the upgrade.
Sales
Sage ERP X3 delivers businesses control and vision into company wide sales activities. It allows management of sales force assignments and monitoring of sales targets. Encompassing all sales activities, Sage ERP X3 allows for:
Open Item management and follow-up: Aging, risk analysis and statistics, customer hold/release management
Customer reminders
Through use of this software’s sales capabilities, businesses communicate directly with customers by providing quotes, orders, order acknowledgments, contract management, and allocation of inventory goods, while handling shipping and loan of goods prior to invoicing.
Accounting and Finances
Sage ERP X3 enables businesses to connect and track all company financial activities to ensure confident business decisions based on accurate and comprehensive financial information. With Sage ERP X3 businesses gain an advanced tool that includes:
Accounts Payable/Receivable
Bank Management
General Ledger
Cost Accounting and Dimensions
Budgeting
Fixed Assets, including depreciation schedules
Advanced Reporting
Sage ERP X3 manages and tracks financial processes, including quotes to cash, collections and closes while providing visibility, transparency and accountability through proactive management of risk parameters and compliance requirements.
CRM
Sage ERP X3 CRM helps businesses capitalize on customer loyalty and retention, increase sales, and have visibility into the real-time updated status of customer relationships. With Sage ERP X3 CRM, businesses enjoy the following features:
Customer campaign management, including marketing campaign planning and management
Sales force automation
Customer support
Call centers support
Marketing sales and after sales workbench
Sage ERP X3 CRM includes functionality for organizing comprehensive marketing campaigns, managing telemarketing and direct mail activities and setup trade shows, press materials and events.
Manufacturing
Sage ERP X3 offers users full support for planning, scheduling, and production control activities. With built-in functionality for different manufacturing modes, Sage ERP X3 equips users with the following manufacturing capabilities:
Workplan and manufacturing analysis, including cost accounting
Sage ERP X3 Manufacturing Management suite is designed to deliver manufacturers with the tools necessary to attain product and process consistency, while scalable to match customer demand.
Distribution
Sage ERP X3 is multi-location application that incorporates all distribution processes, including warehouse management systems, designed for businesses with complex distribution strategies and requirements. It includes industry-specific functionality such as:
Pricing, promotion, and contract management
Advanced order fulfillment and inventory allocation
Complete shipping and routing solutions
Flexible planning and replenishment
RF data collection
Sage ERP X3 distribution application integrates fully with sales, inventory, purchasing, CRM, and accounting functions for full control and tracking of business wide activities.
Purchasing
Sage ERP X3 encompasses the entire supply chain process for all business operations and provides access to the latest information about businesses partners and products. It enables businesses to deliver:
Short-to-long cycle process among: RFQs and responses, contract and blanket orders, PO, receiving/returns, invoicing
Purchasing requests
Supplier rating and classifications, statistics
Free pricing criteria and rules
Budget control tools
Open item management and tracking, including dispute procedures and level and payment approval
Sage ERP X3 purchasing application allows users to leverage the embedded analytical tools to monitor all exchanges with suppliers to ensure quality assurance, compliance with delivery dates, and purchase costs.
Inventory and Warehouse Management
Sage ERP X3 offers full end-to-end functionality for inventory and warehouse management, equipping businesses with real-time monitoring and tracking of inventory and warehouse assets. Users of Sage ERP benefit from:
Location management: dedicated, suggested, or random storage for single/multiple item location
Stock management by physical location, lot and sublot, quality status, serial numbers, expiration dates, potency
Consigned inventory and third-party inventory
Inventory replenishment with or without MRP
Forward and backward traceability, including Intracompany movements
Sage ERP X3 inventory and warehouse management applications are designed to operate in multiple sites, multi-warehouse, and multi-location management environments.
eCommerce
Sage ERP X3 expands businesses eCommerce strategy to the next level. Fully integrated to the business wide suite, Sage ERP X3 eCommerce works together with Sage ERP X3 CRM and Sales Management. Businesses enjoy the following benefits:
Increase sales by reaching new clients online
Reduce cost of sales by streamlining sales process
Provide better service to customers and increase loyalty
Encourage profitable buying behavior
Monitor and track online activities
Sage ERP X3’s eCommerce function is equipped with additional features for customer management, product management, inventory and shipping.
Food & Beverage Industry
Sage ERP X3: The Missing Ingredient for the Food & Beverage Industry
Sage ERP X3 allows businesses to effectively take on the management challenges that come with being a food and beverage processor or distributor and stay on top of legal requirements for the industry. Sage ERP X3 enables companies to fill out customer orders, manage recipes, control inventory, plan and manage production, while staying up-to-date and compliant with all complexities that stem from increasing government regulations.
Food & Beverage Industry Process-Specific Functionality
Sage ERP X3 delivers advanced functionality in manufacturing, distribution, warehousing, customer relationship management (CRM), and accounting. Users of Sage ERP X3 enjoy all benefits from application features that address the needs of the food and beverage processor or distributor like:
Recipe management
Shelf life management
Sophisticated pricing and contract management
Product packaging
Highly repetitive and high volume process flows
Catch weight management and by-products
Weighing scales
Operational Excellence Focused Functionality
With industry specific functionality, Sage ERP X3 cultivates cost reduction and customer service improvements. In harsh economic times where it’s difficult to pass costs on to consumers, this integrated ERP solution is specifically tailored to mitigate the risks of production errors, waste, spoilage, recalls, safety issues that can compromise operations. Features like multi-site planning, finite capacity scheduling, user-defined workflow, real-time business intelligence, and integrated automated date collection (whether on the web or desktop) enable managers to deliver operational excellence.
Government Regulations Compliance, Traceability, and Quality Control
Through integration with government regulations (FDA, Bioterrorism Act, HACCP, etc.) Sage ERP X3 eliminates manual procedures throughout manufacturing while gathering and monitoring relevant process information. It minimizes risk of product recall while equipping food and beverage manufacturers and distributors to effectively activate recall procedures at all stages through complete forward and backward lot traceability for every ingredient and end item. In addition, Sage ERP X3 maintains a full audit trail and archive of historical transactions for multi-year periods and with its fully integrated quality control process, rigorously enforces inspections to assure product conformance to any characteristic, operational tolerance or expected results.
Chemical Industry
Sage ERP X3: Chemistry in Business Processes for the Chemicals Industry
Global competition, customer demands, and changing government regulations can leave today’s chemical manufacturers and distributors reeling at the challenge of operating a profitable organization. Sage ERP X3 provides chemical industry specific functionality, flexibility and the ability to react to the changing business conditions to remain competitive in the face of these difficult challenges.
Chemicals Industry Process-Specific Functionality
Is your software solution designed for the chemical manufacturer and distributor’s specific needs? With a proven track record in the industry, Sage ERP X3 integrates advanced manufacturing, distribution, warehousing, customer relationship management (CRM), and accounting functionalities tailor made for the chemicals industry that put you in control of operations, including:
• Formula management • Full component/ingredient and lot traceability • Specific gravity calculations • Unit of measure conversions • Co-products and by-products • Potency management • Quality management • Shelf life management with expiration date control • Certificate of analysis • Product packaging • Highly repetitive and high volume process flows
Operational Excellence Focused Functionality
Sage ERP X3 cultivates cost reduction and customer service improvements. In harsh economic times where it’s difficult to pass costs on to consumers, this integrated ERP solution is specifically tailored to mitigate the risks of production errors, waste, spoilage, recalls, safety issues that can compromise operations. Features like multi-site planning, finite capacity scheduling, user-defined workflow, real-time business intelligence, and integrated automated date collection (whether on the web or desktop) enable managers to deliver operational excellence.
Government Regulation Compliance and Traceability
Minimize reporting costs and ensure that your company is equipped to be compliant to changing government regulations. Sage ERP X3 is the software solution that provides integration with the government regulations like OSHA Hazard Communication Standard, REACH, SARA Title III, ANSI and others, while conveniently and efficiently gathering and monitoring relevant process information.
Manufacturing Industry
Sage ERP X3: The Building Block for The Manufacturing Industry
Sage ERP X3 is designed to help manufacturers bring high quality products to market, every time and on time. This robust business management software solution equips manufacturers with the tools necessary to manage the complexities of economic fluctuations, market governance, and compliance requirements. Sage ERP X3 helps businesses reduce costs and increase profitability by automating procurement, manufacturing, and customer management processes, as well as inventory management, decreasing risk while delivering superior value and competitive advantage.
Manufacturing Industry Specific Functionality
Sage ERP X3 was developed with the manufacturing industry needs in mind, particularly speeding up business processes and reducing lead times. This end-to-end business software solution supports multiple manufacturing modes, including make-to-order, configure-to-order, assemble-to-order, make-to-stock and mixed-mode environments. Sage ERP X3 is a single solution that integrates all business processes into one information system, gathering intelligence and generating value by combining advanced manufacturing capabilities with distribution, warehousing, CRM, sales, and accounting functionality.
Businesses that implement Sage ERP X3 enjoy the following benefits:
Product configuration
Kit assembly
Finite and infinite capacity planning
Multi-level bills of material
Cost accounting
Full component/ingredient and lot traceability
Product packaging
Project management
Radio frequency data acquisition
Increase Profitability by Transforming All Areas of Your Business Sage ERP X3 delivers additional support for manufacturers by integrating distribution operations with goods production. With advanced management of warehousing and logistics, companies realize immediate benefits from real-time data collection from shop floor and warehouse equipment. Track all stages of production, inventory levels, and supplier activities with this integrated business wide enterprise management solution.
Go Global with Sage ERP X3 Take advantage of Sage ERP X3’s multitier, scalable system architecture designed for multiple locations functionality. Manufacturers can integrate their various locations (factories, offices, warehouses, etc) under a single software solution by benefiting from the software’s multicompany management, multisite, multicurrency, multi-BPs address, and compliance to multiple legislations and accounting practices. Sage ERP X3 centralized country-specific parameters, while providing advanced functionality and intelligence for businesses looking to be successful in today’s global economy.
Life Sciences Industry
Sage ERP X3: Bringing Life Back into the Life Sciences Industry
Sage ERP X3 equips businesses in the pharmaceutical industries with the tools necessary to compete in this highly competitive environment. As pressures mount for lower prices and greater regulatory reach, companies must still focus on improving thinning pipelines and managing rising operational costs. As the industry continues to transform, companies can benefit from incorporating all business processes into one software solution through Sage ERP X3’s scalable, flexible, and cost-effective features.
Pharmaceutical Industry Process Specific Functionality
Sage ERP X3 is specifically designed to manage all challenges faced by pharmaceutical manufacturers, while complying with increasingly more demanding quality requirements put forth for FDA-registered manufacturers. By combining advanced manufacturing, distribution, warehousing, CRM, and accounting functionalities, this solution provides pharmaceutical manufacturers with the following features: • Formula management • Weight calculations • Potency management • Full lot control and traceability • Electronic signatures with transaction audit traceability • Quality assurance and control • Sophisticated pricing and contract management • Sub-contracted operations and supply chain control • Advanced order fulfillment and inventory allocation procedures • Product packaging • Post-sale service and support • Extensive product and production history
Sage ERP X3: Designed top Ease Burden of Demanding Regulatory Requirements
Sage ERP X3 helps pharmaceutical companies comply with information requirements for government reporting (such as the Bioterrorism ACT and 21 CFR Part II), saving time and money for businesses. By structuring the software around operational processes, Sage ERP X3 delivers a convenient and efficient way for gathering, monitoring, and accessing relevant process information that eliminates manual procedures throughout the manufacturing process.
Protecting Your Business with Full Traceability and Audit Trail Sage ERP X3 provides businesses in the life sciences industry with the assurance that all business processes and operations are monitored in real-time. Through the software’s complete forward and backward lot traceability and maintenance of full audit trail, businesses have access to a comprehensive historical record of transactions for multiple years. In addition, Sage ERP X3 provides total quality control process through advanced functionality that rigorously enforces inspection to assure item conformance to any user defined characteristics, operational tolerance, or expected results.
Mining & Resource Management Industry
Sage ERP X3 Digs Deep to Add Value to Mining Industry
Sage ERP X3 helps companies in the mining industry face fluctuating demand and cyclical pricing, by setting up and streamlining business processes and uncovering cost cutting opportunities. With this end-to-end business management software, organizations can attain and maintain operations at peak performance levels.
Mining Industry Specific Functionality
Sage ERP X3 is designed to support and organize operations to overcome the challenges that are most crucial for the mining and resource management industries. From improving performance to becoming cost efficient, tracking and processing a high level of transactions, managing capital investments in different periods, and recruiting skilled personnel, Sage ERP X3 integrates all business operations under a single information system.
Sage ERP X3 delivers the following benefits to companies looking to grow in the mining and resource management industry:
Analysis and management of costs at shaft, process, sub-process, and equipment levels
Management and service of capital equipment to increase efficient and decrease costs
Capture of production and exploration data with configurable time periods and units of measure
Management of all financial and accounting requirements for multiple locations in various countries
Workflow, Asset Management & Maintenance, Production & Exploration Data, and Business Intelligence for the Mining Industry
Sage ERP X3 enables businesses in the mining industry to reach the next level of performance. It quickly and efficiently processes simple data entry requests from the mine to the appropriate cost centers or budgets built-in, with comprehensive authorization capabilities. Sage ERP X3 also offers appropriate controls over budgeting and procurement of capital assets, serving as the control center for organizing and tracking maintenance as well as performance information of assets.
Through its production data capture model, Sage ERP X3 allows users to track all operations and costs, including those for shafts, open pits, or tailings, as well as lower level processing like shaft sinking, development waste or stopping. This enterprise management solution has been designed to manage surveying and monitoring activities while capturing geological site survey information. These functions are complimented by Sage ERP X3’s business intelligence capabilities, facilitating the creation of reports that combine actual vs. budgeted data with complete drill down to detail level of production data, key for C-level executive decision making.
