SunSystems Solution With more than 20 years of experience, the SunSystems solution has been implemented by over 18,000 customers in 194 Countries. SunSystems is a truly global solution for all your distributed financial and business software needs, with the tools to manage operations in local, global and in 30 language variants. Focusing to extend financial management: Business software SunSystems Architecture Your organization is unique and so are the challenges that it faces, which is why SunSystems continues to be the right choice for businesses all over the world. Our open solutions provide the flexibility and scalability that are required in today’s ever-changing economic climate, ensuring that your ownership costs and business risk are kept to a minimum. The SunSystems Difference Powerful financial management At the heart of the SunSystems solution is a single, integrated ledger that combines the functionality of general ledger, sales and purchase ledger, project ledger, cashbook and user-defined ledgers. This provides a powerful, real-time financial transaction processing engine that lets you see the immediate impact of any financial posting, giving you greater visibility into your business. Analyzing your business The SunSystems solution provides tremendous flexibility in the ways you can analyze financial and business information. “Analysis dimensions” are set up to reflect organizational activity such as departments, accounts, products, regions or lines of business. There is no need to prescribe a data relationship in advance, as the analysis dimensions are created and maintained independently of each other, and are linked through transaction processing and validation rules. This means you can add new analysis dimensions or change existing ones as your business changes, providing unrivalled flexibility without implementation complexity. Managing business performance Using SunSystems, you can quickly highlight problems within the operation or low-performing areas of the business, and therefore take positive action to turn things around. The unique combination of flexible analysis capabilities and integrated business analytics means that SunSystems delivers powerful reporting coupled with real-time alerts in order to highlight areas that need immediate action, anywhere within the business. The total solution SunSystems Take a look at the solutions that have made SunSystems the first choice, worldwide, for organizations that need to think in more than one dimension: - A comprehensive Financials Suite, incorporating a single, integrated ledger, full multi-currency and support for the Euro. - A Debtor Management offering called SunSystems Collect, for flexible account handling, superb credit management and debt collection. - A full suite of Order Fulfilment modules (including Sales Management, Purchase Requisitioning, Purchase Management and Inventory Management) to manage key aspects of business across your entire enterprise. - SunSystems Analytics, including SunSystems Vision for analysis and reporting, providing management information at your fingertips, and SunSystems Report Server, a server-based system for generating, managing and securely delivering SunSystems content to website users. The Report Server Extended Use option offers all the benefits of Report Server in terms of scheduling, organizing and managing reports together with server side execution, but information can be generated from a combination of SunSystems and other related data sources. In addition, a new set of solutions have been delivered as part of the SunSystems Analytics Applications suite to extend your financial management for consolidation, planning, budgeting and forecasting. - SunSystems PSA (Professional Services Automation), a suite of products enabling service organizations to manage resources, improve utilization, track billing and monitor opportunities. - Collaborative Commerce offerings, to enable your disparate business systems to share data - ultimately giving you all the information you need to power your business decisions. - SunSystems Payroll for all your payroll and personnel requirements.   SunSystems Financials Suite Financial accounting is at the heart of almost every organizational decision. The measure of success and failure in the business world is based upon data that is collected, measured, and analyzed from the finance and accounting process. SunSystems understand this and our financial modules are specifically designed to provide you with immediate access to all your information, so that decisions can be made when they should be, enabling true financial management. Components: Accounting Integrated Ledger, sales and purchase ledgers, facility for transaction entry to the ledger and reporting requirements of the organization. Corporate Allocations Support for apportioned and fixed percentage allocations, fixed amounts and iterative charging. Full support for inter-company processing. Budget Management Central collation and control of budget spreadsheets used in financial accounting. Manages all aspects of enterprise-wide budgeting, forecasting and planning. Through developing a budget data warehouse, Budget Management handles the process of automatic consolidations, iterative amendments, status logging and the distribution and resubmission of workbooks using e-mail.   SunSystems Collect SunSystems Collect provides you with a debtor management system for flexible account handling, with superb credit management and debt collection facilities. It delivers thorough analysis of debtor days and cash flow, close monitoring of debtors and the ability to track collection quickly and easily. Components: - Provide flexible account management for unparalleled credit management and debt collection - Streamlining collection activities to improve task management and automation - Record and inquire on key aspects of debtor information   SunSystems Order Fulfilment SunSystems provide Order Fulfilment functionality to help you take control of your business in a constantly changing world. We enable control through the processing capability and flexibility of our software, delivered with the expertise of our service organization. Fulfilment components: Sales Management SunSystems provides full sales order management through its Sales module, which delivers complete functionality for Sales Invoicing and Sales Management. In addition, there are options to deliver profiling specifically for customers, and Advanced Pricing. The solution ensures that organizations can streamline the sales, order and distribution operations, in order to deliver high levels of customer service. Purchase Management SunSystems delivers powerful facilities to manage and simplify the purchasing process. The Purchasing module provides components for Purchase Invoicing, Purchase Management and Budget & Commitment Control. In addition, there are options for Advanced Pricing and for Product Profiles, delivering profiling specifically for suppliers. The solution delivers the ability to analyze and report on a comprehensive database of supplier information, in order to improve buying power. The Purchasing module can also be used with SunSystems i2i Purchase Requisitioning, to provide a full procurement solution. Inventory Management SunSystems provides the capability to manage inventory, ensuring full visibility of product, intermediate and raw material items, while also delivering lot and batch control. The Inventory module comprises of Inventory Management and Inventory Traceability, with additional options, Costing, Delivering Landed Costing and Cost Analysis and Product Profiles. The solution enables greater control over inventory levels, without forfeiting essential customer service levels.   SunSystems Analytics The SunSystems foundation module makes full use of your analysis dimensions, providing comprehensive report writing facilities to support your operational requirements. Further to these facilities, additional SunSystems solutions provide a suite of analytical and application services to enable finance and business users to make the most effective use of SunSystems and other corporate data in monitoring, analyzing and planning business operations. Components: SunSystems Vision – exploits the powerful analysis capability of SunSystems to offer power users comprehensive financial inquiry, reporting and analysis. SunSystems Vision is designed to provide real-time close interaction with the SunSystems and other applications, allowing users to navigate data in a business context. Vision Summary: - Enhanced enterprise management reporting and analysis - Reduced processing time of monthly report generation - Replacement of poor and unsupported legacy reporting - Expense savings and productivity gains - Increase report access, distribution & user acceptance - Empowerment for self-service reporting SunSystems Vision allows you to: Vision XL-allows information from multiple data tables to be incorporated into Microsoft Excel to produce a single report. Data prepared in Excel worksheets can be transferred directly to SunSystems applications. Vision XL components: accessing SunSystems Data within Excel, Comprehensive Enterprise Reporting and Analysis, Automate Processes with Macro Builder, Powerful Reporting Capabilities and Secure Access and Control. Vision Executive- Multiple levels of accounting information can be viewed on screen as your analysis progresses from summary to increasing level of detail. You can drilldown, expand or breakout by department, region, branch, cost centre or even individual transactions. Inquiries are easily defined with built-in guides to locate relevant data, enabling selection to be made at the click of a button. Reports can be standard, customizable or ad-hoc. Vision Executive makes it easy to send your report anywhere you need, in the most suitable format. Publish your reports to the web, e-mail them, export them to Microsoft Excel or HTML, or simply sand them to print. Vision Alert- is an easy to use, highly flexible means of automating designated reporting tasks, on an event-or time-driven basis. “Alerts” are created that enable Vision Alert to make automated, conditional responses to specified conditions in Vision reports. Vision Alert components: Powerful Automated Exception Reporting, Reporting Casting, Local Area Network or Wide Area Network Vision Word- enables management and statutory reporting and delivery of memoradums and other documents using SunSystems data with formatted narrative content. This mean that textually rich financial documents can be created automatically on a regular basis.   SunSystems Report Server Provides web-based delivery of information to customers, suppliers and partners, enabling SunSystems information to be easily embedded within intranets or connected to the extended enterprise.   SunSystems Analytic Applications Support a range of performance management functions, including enterprise planning, subsidiary management and consolidation. SunSystems Custom Business Intelligence Leverages the powerful DecisionWare business intelligence platform from MIS AG, to deliver unique solutions for customers' business intelligence requirements.   SunSystems Professional Services Automation (PSA) SunSystems PSA is the Professional Services Automation (PSA) solution that offers a comprehensive, collaborative and knowledge-enhancing approach to managing your most valuable assets - your manpower and your client projects. Whether your clients are external, third party organizations or internal departments of your own organization, SunSystems PSA can be deployed to manage the efficient delivery of the services you provide. In addition to enhancing your client relationships, you gain vital intelligence on the operational costs you incur, fulfilling the requirement for project accounting and activity-based costing. SunSystems PSA maps onto a service based company structure and allows for collaboration throughout an organization via modules including: Information delivery: e-Reporting and publishing, Vision for SunSystems PSA Integration to Financials: SunSystems PSA Integration Components Project Administration: Project repository and multi-currency manager Time & expenses: Web and rich client time and expense manager Billing & re-charging: Billing and intra and inter company charging Resourcing: Resource Manager and MS Project interface   SunSystems Introduction to Collaborative Commerce Connect to enable integration of SunSystems with your other business applications. This allows you to share core business data with web applications or portals, front office system for other external applications. These offerings provide the following business benefits: The integration capabilities enable you to design web applications that need real time access to the SunSystems, where located both locally and remotely. It enables you to exercise SunSystems functions and logical components from within other application environments. This mean that the capability, business rules or logic that are implemented in SunSystems don’t have to be replicated in external applications. By utilizing XML-an industry standard mechanism-platform is provided for sharing data and processes with suppliers or customers. The published interfaces will continue to be honoured as underlying functions are developed and changed, which means that you don’t have to keep updating the interfaces you have developed.   SunSystems Payroll SunSystems Payroll is a comprehensive, easy to use, accurate solution for all UK payroll and personnel requirements. It provides you with flexibility in how you input and maintain payroll information and employee details, as well as methods of payment. Additionally you can increase the visibility of the information stored in your payroll solution by using the comprehensive reporting capabilities. This solution is available in the UK only Key features at a glance - Allows for different payment periods and methods within one company - Calendar tool enables pay periods to be set, flagged and reviewed - Handles multiple payslip and cheque designs - Provides employee profile templates - Documents can be embedded against employee details - Caters for holidays and leavers (including P45 forms) - Statutory year-end P35,P14 and P60 forms produced - NI, Directors NI, SSP and SMP capabilities - Cater for tax credits and student loans - Online revenue submissions using the e-Submission Utility - Flexible reporting capability - Employee and employer pension calculations based on up to 3 different LEL/UEL criteria - COMP, COSR, AVC and stakeholder pension schemes catered for - Integrates with SunSystems nominal ledger Components: - Flexible payments: pay in any combination of cheque, cash or BACS with payslips - Record creation and information storage: standard employee details, photographs, word documents, spreadsheets and payslip image - Compliance with legislation: produces forms, cater for tax credits, student loans, and calculate for tax, NI, PAYE, SSP, SMP tables - Reporting capability: analyse the payroll, departmental totals, and output a different file formats - Pensions: based on 3 criteria such as COMP, COSR and AVC (Contracted Out Money Purchase/Contracted Out Salary Related/Additional Voluntary Contribution) - Personnel: includes training, absenteeism, holiday disciplinary and job history details Copyright 2004 © S & A. 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