Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Sage 100 is used in the organization as the back office accounting tool for keeping the company's accounts in order, receivables and payables tracked, etc. We use the financial reporting tools and reports to highlight the monthly financials for our executives. We also are in process of utilizing Sage Field Ops in order for our field operations team to be able to collaborate better on their jobs and keep track of all the job details.

Likelihood to Recommend

Sage 100 has been well suited for running the monthly accounts receivable and accounts payable aging reports. This helps us track our accounts that need to be collected and payments that need to be made. Our field operations team has been slow and unwanting to adopt the Sage Field Ops just because they're resistant to change and technology. It's less appropriate for really detailed accounting reports spanning for long periods of time with all accounts because it takes a very long time to run and process.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Sage 100 is the heart of our business. We use it for pretty much all of our day to day operations such as; order entry, inventory tracking, customer purchase history, historical product data, & pricing. While not limited to these categories, these are what modules are most typically used among our employees.

Likelihood to Recommend

Sage 100 is great for referencing customer historical data. - Say a customer calls us and says "man I stopped in your shop a few months ago & picked up some really slick gloves & need more!" - Majority of the time our customer's don't have a part number or, much for us to reference so, we will pull their records & determine what they got previously & get them sorted!

From a business standpoint, I'm not really sure where Sage 100 would be less appropriate? - Perhaps if your a small mom/pop shop or a one man business, it may be more than you need but, I could still see it being beneficial if it is a sales driver.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our company is a larger conglomeration of multiple related organizations. We have roughly 300 employees, across 10 companies in the US. Our organization needed an ERP solution with a full range of modules from payroll, receivables, payables, and inventory management. Sage 100 was the best fit for our company and we have been using it for well over 20 years.

Likelihood to Recommend

Sage 100 is well suited for medium to large sized businesses. It works great in the manufacturing and b2b sales industry. It's fairly well known with plenty of partners creating integrations that support it. Since it was originally designed for accountants, it has a very attractive and well rounded feature set for accounting departments.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Sage100 as a total ERP solution, integrating all critical elements of the business, including: production, inventory management, purchasing, customer information, sales order entry, payables and all general ledger/financial functions. Because it integrates all functional areas of the business, Sage100 offers a seamless approach to managing our business.

Likelihood to Recommend

We utilize standard costing for manufacturing our products. Sage100 makes the process easy for setting production jobs, processing completed jobs and having all of that information integrate with the general ledger. When manufacturing consistent products, this process is easy and straightforward. The process may be much more difficult for companies that manufacture products for other people, i.e. job shops. While Sage100 could handle these scenarios, it would users to be continually adding custom inventory for each part made.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Sage 100cloud is used across our organization. We use it to take orders, AP, AR, Billing, inventory, month end, and generate reports. We use the it across our entire company in all departments. It addresses most of our needs.

Likelihood to Recommend

I believe in most companies that Sage 100cloud would be useful. In manufacturing, clothing, merchandising and restaurant industries it would work great.

I believe the service industry may find Sage 100cloud not as useful.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Sage 100 Enterprise Resource Planning system as our primary accounting and inventory system for the vast majority of our offline non-ecommerce business. It serves as the primary repository for all of our transaction information. We create purchase orders, sales orders, and inventory plans from within the ERP software, as well as manage manufacturing orders.

Likelihood to Recommend

I assume it has great security and enterprise integrity, but honestly it's not well suited for a company trying to move quickly. It crashes often, needs to be updated frequently, and support is very bureaucratic. It would be better if it could sit on cloud servers with higher up-time and responsiveness.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Sage 100 ERP in the accounting department for general ledger accounting and accounts payable. It allows up to keep our general ledger information in one location and generate financial reports easily.

Likelihood to Recommend

If a company is small with basic needs, then Sage 100 is well suited. If there are multiple companies with complex needs, then there are improvements that can be made to Sage 100.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The suite is used mainly to support other entities and companies. Our consulting company provides services of accounting as a third party provider.

The suite is used to keep accounting books updated, tax reports and legal compliance for all small and medium companies.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is suited for small and medium companies, who don't have much expectation for fancy analysis or graphical outputs. Do not expect cross data analysis, inter-company analysis or analysis over several years.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Sage 100 is being used across the entire organization. We recommended the implementation of Sage 100 because it allowed the organization to benefit in three key areas: (1) Simplify financial dashboards, (2) integrate supply chain reporting to the financial reporting, and (3) automate repetitive financial processes. In more detail, these three key areas were addressed by Sage 100 in the following ways: (1) Prior to Sage 100, the organization created and managed budgets using Microsoft Excel. This was less than ideal because spreadsheet budgeting is prone to errors and the inability to easily and automatically integrate with other departments or budgets. (2) Prior to Sage 100, the organization was unable to manage any aspect of the supply chain until invoices had been received from vendors, which could often be 20-60 days after placing the order. (3) Sage 100 has allowed the organization to automate approximately 35% of financial accounting and reporting processes which has saved the organization 1.5 FTE per annum.

Likelihood to Recommend

Best suited for an asset light medium sized business. Not appropriate for a small business, or a business with many fixed assets, particularly if those companies already have appropriate supply chain management software in place. Best for a company that is trying to reduce the number of people within finance and accounting department.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Sage 100 was the primary tool used across the organization to provide accounting, sales, manufacturing and distribution teams the information they needed to run the business. Sage 100 allowed visibility across the organization from a single platform that allowed users to make decisions respective to their team and area of responsibility based on the same data set as other managers. Sage 100 allowed users to make rational business decisions based on historical data found within the ERP.

Likelihood to Recommend

For small and medium business in the distribution and light manufacturing space, Sage 100 is probably the best bang for your buck. As a very scaleable system, you can modify the system to meet the needs of a growing business without making gross changes to the core of the system.