News Release
26 May 2011
MultiTAS Business Manager – Upgrades Going Live
Infoplex is pleased to announce the release in early June of a number of enhancements to its MultiTAS Business Manager Plus software.
The upgrade will be extremely useful for customers, especially those involved in manufacturing, supplying large retail multiples or selling on Amazon.co.uk. They also aim to streamline the functionality of the software and ensure greater efficiency for customers.
BoM (Bill of Materials) software is normally required by companies who manufacture and assemble products in-house. MultiTAS Manufacturing option includes BoM and has works order processing features - a works order tells your manufacturing team what to make, when and what quantity. To help track progress, works orders include the option to assign a work in progress percentage. So, as products are being made, the manufacturing team can update their works orders.
To help with planning your production schedule, MultiTAS Manufacturing includes new powerful Product Requirements reporting - requirements based on outstanding sales orders and works orders up to 12 months ahead. By showing projected stock levels at the end of each period (weeks or months), you can see at a glance where material shortfalls arise and take action accordingly.
As part of the upgrade, BoM will now appear under Manufacturing in the menu of MultiTAS Business Manager Plus if enabled. It will also introduce another new feature: a visual display of all outstanding works orders, seen in a calendar format. This can be viewed each day and will have a button for each works order due to complete that day. Each button can be clicked to view further detail about the job. This will allow businesses to see at a glance what is due for completion on any day.
In addition, EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) features have now been incorporated within MultiTAS Business Manager Plus together with full multi-currency support. EDI is often an essential for any business trading with large multiple retailers such as Tesco, Homebase, John Lewis etc who all place their orders via EDI. The software allows orders to be placed in EDI, imported into TAS; invoices are created in TAS, exported out and then issued to the buyer via specialist EDI software. MultiTAS also handles ASNs (Advance Shipping Notes).
The final enhancement is the introduction of support for online channel sales systems – initially this will be for Amazon.co.uk only, but, subject to demand, it is planned to roll out support for other channels in due course, such as eBay and Play.com. The new features will let you create your product/price file for upload to Amazon, import sales orders and payments downloaded from Amazon, automatically creating customers, allocating cash and accounting for Amazon’s commission in the process.
MultiTAS Business Manager lets businesses enhance their TAS accounting system to gain the benefits of packages that cost £/€ thousands more and these upgrades make it an even better proposition.
