Traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP) software solutions provide an automation platform that connects the functional areas of your business—accounting, distribution or warehouse, and manufacturing. Modern ERP software solutions have evolved to also include sales, marketing, customer service, and business analytics—through business intelligence and real-time key performance indicator (KPI) dashboards. Sage 300 ERP solutions (formerly Sage ERP Accpac) deliver the best of both worlds—providing you the freedom to choose between on-premises and online deployment options. Both will help you interconnect processes from each functional area of your business securely and in real time, bringing front-office and back-office operations into alignment.

The newest release of Sage 300 ERP is must-see ERP. Like no other solution, it simplifies and improves your ERP experience with easier access to information, streamlined processes, and increased mobility. Highlights of the 2012 release include new Sage Visual Process Flows, a graphical process-oriented interface, making it easy to move about the system. Additional new customer-requested features help you complete transactions more efficiently. Enhanced Intelligence Reporting and Sage CRM functionality help you stay connected, collaborate successfully, and reach your business goals by improving visibility into your business, simplifying forecasting, and mobilizing your workforce.

Six ways Sage 300 ERP 2012 helps you work smarter.

1. Improve productivity
 Easily navigate your system more efficiently with Sage Visual Process Flows, a new interactive graphical interface that illustrates the steps required to complete tasks and that you can customize to follow your business processes.

2. Save time when processing payments
 Capture a single preauthorized payment during shipment entry or invoice entry. You can also capture and invoice multiple preauthorized payments in a single batch.

3. Simplify software updates
 Sage Advisor helps you keep your system up to date so you can get the most benefits from using the latest enhancements for your system. Set notification options, review available updates, and decide to download and install them.

4. Find information faster
 New inquiry functionality in Inventory Control, Order Entry, and Purchase Order provides you with greater business visibility and insight. In PU1, find important help information and instructions faster, use new Guides, and additional French- and Chinese-language content.

5. Make the best decisions possible
 Benefit from comprehensive reporting that utilizes the new financial report designer and reporting tree capabilities in Sage 300 ERP Intelligence Reporting. In PU1, easily drag and drop pieces of a financial report into Excel using enhanced Intelligence Reporting.

6. Streamline shipping and reduce costs
 Sage 300 ERP Shipping by SmartLinc is an integrated, web-based, multicarrier shipping solution that ensures you deliver on time, every time for your customers