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Cost Management

Drive cost savings with ERP

You can count on SYSPRO to help with Cost Management

It’s easy for costs to get out of control in a manufacturing or distribution business – particularly if you don’t know it’s happening. Money and time can be wasted with redundant processes, too much manual work and piles of paperwork. Spending days or even weeks trying to sift through spreadsheets won’t cut it as you strive to compete in a changing global market.

Learn how cost management software from SYSPRO can help you significantly reduce costs across your operations. From sales and R&D to inventory, warehouse and customer management, SYSPRO empowers your team to drive profitability and grow your business beyond what you thought possible.

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The value of ERP to maximize margins

Subtle cost shifts in any operational area can quickly change a profit to a loss, particularly in small-margin, high-volume businesses. An ERP system helps you work more efficiently, quickly and accurately. It provides the visibility needed to control costs and enhance customer service.

If you really want to get costs under control for your manufacturing or distribution business, SYSPRO cost management software across your operations can help by enabling:

Cost savings of at least

95%

of businesses have shown an improvement in business processes. This is largely due to a faster, more reliable, and user-friendly system.

7 ways to smarter cost control with SYSPRO ERP

Automate quoting and easily manage pricing variations and trade promotions from a single system – in any currency. Leverage Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Web portals to streamline order-taking as well as customer support. Create alerts to automatically notify you of customer issues so you can speed up resolution. Drive efficiency and manage bottlenecks by automating business processes like accounts payable.

Integration with CAD and CAM systems saves you the time and cost of double data entry – not to mention minimizes errors. You can also accurately track and analyze R&D costs against budgets by project, so you can identify at a micro level where you might be losing money.

In your business, you need to purchase raw materials wisely and maximize inventory turnover so it’s not losing money sitting on the shelf. With SYSPRO’s integrated scheduling, inventory forecasting and Materials Requirements Planning solutions, you can order just what you need, in response to demand, reducing both costs and waste. Leverage automated alerts in the warehouse, too, to warn you when supplier costs are out of bounds.

To squeeze costs from your plant or shop environment, you need automation, along with advanced planning, scheduling and forecasting. SYSPRO ERP Software can help you manage material, labor and scrap during work in progress, so you can make the most of your resources. With “what-if” modeling, you gain full visibility into product cost details and margins.

If you really want to evaluate the profitability of each product, take a look at Activity-Based Costing. ABC enables you to assign pre- and post-production costs with the business processes where they originated, for even more accurate reporting on overhead.

When shipments are wrong, it can be really expensive. Not just to the bottom line in the short term, but customer and supplier relationships can be affected long term. By automating business processes, SYSPRO ERP for cost management takes care of the mundane, routine tasks that need to happen at speed, consistently and correctly every time. This enables your team to focus on exceptions and solving more strategic issues.

As your business grows and changes, you may have disparate data and technology sources that inhibit your ability to get a single accurate (and fast!) version of the truth. How much time does your team spend pulling together reports manually from multiple sources?

SYSPRO’s customizable dashboards provide you with the most important data you need to make decisions, in real time. Imagine you could automate some of your required regulatory reporting. If time really is money, we can show you how to achieve significant savings.

Unlike other ERP providers, SYSPRO can help you get implemented fast with our proven deployment methodology so that you can minimize disruption and realize ROI quickly. And, by accessing our industry-built frameworks, you benefit from industry best practices, whatever your product lines.

We also offer flexibility so you can implement on-premise or in the cloud, helping you emerge your investment.

Business critical financial solutions from SYSPRO

Accounts Receivable improves receivables management by facilitating accurate invoice processing and ageing, timely statement delivery and revenue collection as well as efficient credit management. It provides extensive control of customer and credit management information.

Accounts Payable facilitates improved cash flow and relationships with suppliers by providing timely, accurate and efficient control over invoice processing, bill payments, analysis of available discounts and tracking of purchases. The Accounts Payable system provides an efficient method for recording purchases and supplier invoices as well as making expense distributions.

The General Ledger is the central repository for collecting and analyzing your financial information, combining power and flexibility with ease of use, to give you the critical information you need to make timely and informed business decisions and manage your business more effectively. The system’s extensive drill-down capabilities enable you to view everything from detailed journal entries to original source documents.

Cash Book allows optimal cash management by providing system-wide bank reconciliation, as well as tracking information on cash inflows and outflows. It provides a daily means of recording details about sundry deposits and withdrawals, maintaining Cash Book bank balances, reconciling and adjusting entries, and printing online checks.

Assets Register provides up-to-date, real-time information pertaining to the value of all assets within the organization by keeping a record of depreciation and current asset values. It also contains a facility which evaluates the remaining worth by tracking income and expenditures derived from assets.

Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) system improves multi-currency payment efficiency and provides an accurate, current picture of your cash flow. Furthermore, it reduces the risk of fraud and transactional costs associated with beneficiary payments.

Unlike other ERP providers, SYSPRO can help you get implemented fast with our proven deployment methodology so that you can minimize disruption and realize ROI quickly. And, by accessing our industry-built frameworks, you benefit from industry best practices, whatever your product lines.

We also offer flexibility so you can implement on-premise or in the cloud, helping you emerge your investment.

Where ERP saves money

An ERP system helps you work more efficiently, quickly and accurately. It provides the visibility needed to control costs and enhance customer service.

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Ruprecht

“We expect the cost benefits generated by the scheduling and labor modelling components alone to realize improved operating expenditure of around $1.5 million to $2 million each year.”
Frank Patton – Chief Financial Officer, Ruprecht

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