 De
Facto Software is pleased to announce the release of version
5.1 of de Facto S5 Accounting and ERP software.
The latest release of de Facto S5 features a number of enhancements
which provide the user with increased functionality. Further
enhancements focus on ease of use, leading to greater efficiency
of operation and consequent gains in productivity.
Some
of the key developments in v5.1 are:
Sales
Order Processing - Logistics Enhancements
Credit
Hold Warning
A new feature has been added to S5 v5.1 to enable an e-mail
to be sent to a predetermined e-mail address whenever a Sales
Order is put on hold. A new event can also be created as a
consequence if required.
Contract
Costing
This feature allows an unlimited number of templates to be
set up in a matrix form, similar to a spreadsheet. Each can
then be set up to display data and calculate different pricing
scenarios for the user to compare and evaluate.
When
inserting a sales quotation an existing template can be assigned
or a new one inserted specific to the quotation. Called the
'Standard Cost Details' window it will then use the cell
calculations to pull through the data and values relevant
to the products in the quotation. The data in 'cells' may
be amended as necessary to create the required pricing structure.
Columns are then selected to be the selling price, intended
cost price and intended supplier. These values are then updated
to the quotation detail line selling prices, overwriting
any existing values, and the Haggle window.
Returns
Flag on Transport Allocation Window
de Facto S5 v5.1 now has the capacity to recalculate the 'Free
Capacity' to deduct drop offs from the total capacity within
the Transport Planning Unit and Transport Planning Extra Unit
values (eg. Gross Weight and Pallets). This provides precise
functionality for handling drop offs and collections. As each
transport request is assigned to a load and updated the Assigned
Transport Allocation and Transport Load windows will show the
maximum free capacity of the vehicle available at that time.
The
Transport Allocation window displaying assigned loads now
also shows the Sales Transaction type as a 'Collection' or
'Drop'.
Enhancement
to Alternative Products
The current feature whereby a product can be flagged as an
alternative to another specified product has been significantly
enhanced. The new functionality allows the alternative products
to be automatically added to a Sales Quotation. It further
allows products in a Sales Quotation to be flagged as alternatives
to another 'on the fly'.
This
enables the Sales Quotation to be raised for a product to
also include a list of alternatives, more expensive options
but quicker delivery, or a cheaper 'own brand' alternative,
for example.
Packaging
Sales Order packaging has been enhanced to enable 'packs within
packs'. For example, products on a sales order can be packed
into boxes, the boxes may be shrink wrapped together and
then palletised for despatch.
Packaging
items may now be categorised as consumable and flagged as
waste, or marked as returnable. Returnable packaging can
be added to the order as a chargeable rental item.
Sales
Ledger - Financials Enhancements
Sales
Ledger Cash Allocation
A new facility has been added to S5 so that you can now lookup
any other customer account from the Sales
Ledger Allocation Screen, in the same currency. This will
then add to the allocation window any Sales Ledger transactions
with outstanding amounts. The cash can then be allocated to
outstanding invoices from that other account. The mechanics
of this cross
account allocation will be the same as the current payment
group allocation process in terms of ledger postings, but without
the requirement to have a formal payment group structure.
There
will be a global parameter in the Sales Ledger parameters
to enable this feature, the default setting will be for it
to
be disabled.
An
example of this is where the situation exists where an LEA
may pay sales invoices raised against an individual
school, this situation could now be handled by the standard
payment groups as defined above. There also exists the situation
where
an invoice may be paid by other organisations, invoices
on
that one account may be paid, over time, by a number of
different organisations, the current solution would require
ongoing
maintenance of the payment groups.
General
Enhancements
BACS
IP
A new BACS file format compatible with the Import and Export
function with
NatWest Bank PLC Payaway has now been added to de Facto S5.
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