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Sales Order Processing & Distribution Taking orders from customers, assembling those orders, delivering them and billing the customer are the lifeblood of most businesses. Abel Sales & Distribution gives you the power to supercharge your sales and distribution, taking you from the order to the final payment faster and more efficiently than ever before. Features include: - Standard, Back-to-Back and Direct Supply order processing
- Sales management support through provision of pricing, margin information and stock availability information within the order-taking loop.
- Automatic order construction from quotes.
- Automatic backorder management, including full backorder visibility.
- Distribution, including automatic packing slip printing and multiple delivery methods and addresses.
- Stock rental handling
- Fully integrated billing executable from anywhere in your sales and distribution process.
back to top Purchasing & Procurement Maintaining a reliable supply of goods and services for your order fulfilment and requisitions needs keeps your company running. With Abel’s fully integrated purchasing functionality you can achiever supply harmony and cost control while increasing your buying power. Features include: - Purchase Orders can be automatically built from Customer Orders
- Repeating and blanket orders with multiple and preferred suppliers.
- Order in any currency.
- Internet and portal based electronic trading and supply chain management.
- Functionality to calculate suggested reorder quantities, from external suppliers and internal manufacturing centres, based on either demand history or absolute minimum and maximum stock holdings.
back to top Inventory management Maintaining appropriate stock levels in a dynamic demand environment is the key to efficient production and order fulfilment. Abel Inventory gives you a fully integrated and automated inventory management system that will ensure you can keep up with demand. Features include: - Simultaneous multiple stock level management, which can include stock and non-stock items.
- Automatic reorders and replenishments
- Multiple warehouse management
- Inwards Shipping
- Automatic stock transfers
- Handling of manufactured packs, items, products and kits
- Capability to do stocktakes during active trading
back to top Job Processing Job processing has been significantly enhanced to allow the capture of all associated costs against a particularly job and the on billing of these costs in a variety of ways. Some of the highlights are: - Tabulated screen design for accumulation of job data.
- Jobs created and updated free from any standard process controls.
- Advanced search capabilities.
- Serial number searching.
- Analysis codes for trend reporting.
- Cost and consumable tracking
- Work In Progress accounting
- Multiple despatches by job are available with numbering sequences for retrieval and visibility.
- Multiple invoice methods
- Sub-jobs
back to top Manufacturing Abel Manufacturing provides a solid, automated, lean manufacturing solution for small to medium sized manufacturers, taking much of the guess work out of your manufacturing processes. Make-to-order, Assemble-to-order, Make-to-stock and any combination of these processes are all accommodated in the system, allowing you operate an efficient manufacturing operation. Being fully integrated into the Abel system, inputs from other key functional areas such as sales, purchasing and distribution are automatically integrated into your manufacturing decision. Features include: - Auto MRP. Definable maxes and mins can be used to trigger the purchasing of inputs or the production of items.
- Multi-level BOMs
- Shop Orders, with simultaneous displays of expected inputs and outputs, with provision to amend the expected output post-manufacture with output actuals.
- Production requirements reports.
back to top Customer Management Abel Client Management enables your customer records to be accessed easily by the people who need to, providing a single repository for all customer information. Some features include: - Comprehensive records kept on customers, vendors and other entities, including financial and pricing information.
- Mail merging from the database.
- Standard documents such as statements and letters can be stored and printed, either on demand or automatically by trigger from the database.
- Customers can belong to multiple customer and price groups that allow uniform application of pricing and other policies based on the customer
- Email
- Print statements and other customer documents to PDF or Email.
back to top General Ledger The Abel General Ledger provides a flexible, accurate and fully integrated place where all of your financial information is posted to, processed in and reported from. Some of the General Ledger features are: - Soft (user definable) Ledgers, with no limit on the number of ledgers you can have.
- User definable Chart of Accounts, with no limit on the number or placement of cost centres.
- Multiple currency, company and tax
- Automatic intercompany transactions
- Automatic Accrual Accounting
- User defined accounting periods
- No period rollovers. Postings can be made to any past or future period with appropriate security clearance.
back to top Accounts Receivable A vital part of any business is ensuring you get paid for what you’ve sold. Abel Accounts Receivable gives you efficient receivables management, allowing you to quickly and easily monitor and manage your debtors to maintain your cashflow. Main features of Abel Accounts Receivable include: - Automated debtors management
- Full integration with the rest of Abel
- Flexible interchange between Open Item and Balance Forward modes for customer receipting.
- Multiple currency handling
- Automatic building of direct credits from accumulated receipts.
- Miscellaneous Receipts for handling receipts with no specific debtor.
back to top Accounts Payable Good creditor management can maintain strong relationships with your channel participants while maximising the efficient use of your cash reserves. Abel offers solid creditor management with many automatic features that streamline the process. Some of Abel Accounts Payable features are: - Full integration with the rest of Abel
- Creditor management automation
- Flexible interchange between Open Item and Balance Forward payments
- Multiple payments methods, including direct credits, drafts and bank transfers.
- Automatic balances on accrued expenses from invoice.
- Manual and system-generated cheque writing
- Automatic spreading of revenues out to a maximum of 12 months.
back to top Asset Management Abel Asset Management takes the complexity out of managing your fixed assets. With adjustments for depreciation accounted for automatically, you can be reassured that the true value of your assets is always known. Some of the features of Abel Asset Management are: - Manage fixed assets in real time
- Multiple depreciation registers
- Depreciation is calculated a full year in advance, including purchase and disposal adjustments, so that depreciation is shown correctly in the Trial Balance.
- Depreciation can be consolidated to any division or company.
- Management of pooled assets, including part purchases and disposals.
back to top Project Accounting Abel Project Accounting allows projects to be accounted for and tracked inside the main financial system. This enables individual projects to become accountable, allowing measurable financial goals and budgets to be set for them. Some features of Abel Project accounting are: - Full project costing
- Project budgeting
- Projects within projects supported
- Jobs within projects supported.
back to top Cash management Abel Cash Management enables you to keep fully reconciled cash balances on multiple bank accounts on a consistent basis, including accounts in multiple currencies. From your bank statements or from an imported bank file, you can quickly reconcile your bank accounts, maintaining accurate, real-cash balance information for your business. Some features of Abel Cash Management are: - Multiple bank accounts accommodated, including foreign currency accounts.
- The companies overall cash balance reflects the true cash balance.
- Automatic banking of bank deposits from accumulated receipts.
- Automatic “cancel-payment” function
- Automatic or manual cheque writing.
- Automatic creation of payments and/or receipts by due date.
back to top Reporting In addition to more than 100 set internal reports, the Abel Report Writer gives you the ability to easily design and build text reports on the data in the database to suit your needs without needing programming skills or writing code. For more advanced reporting, the JADE Report Writer is available for the design and production of customised colour form reports. The Abel Report Writer features include: - Fast text report processing
- Speedy one-off report production
- Definable report data combinations that allow novice users to build customised reports
- Ability to build basic custom report formats without writing any code.
- Output can be to a printer, to extract to a CSV file format for external processing.
- On-screen WYSIWYG preview.
- Multi-level data sorting and filtering.
back to top For more details about the Abel product go to www.abelsoftware.com
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