Sage North America this week unveiled a 2011 upgrade of its manufacturing-specific accounting software targeted at small companies.
The Sage Peachtree Premium Accounting for Manufacturing software, available now, provides business management capabilities beyond standard accounting features, enabling a wider array of users to access needed information, according to the company. The software’s new features include improved inventory and services management, assembly management, and job status tracking. In inventory management, for example, a customizable dashboard lets users sort and filter data by inventory item or service to facilitate research, comparisons, and decision making, the company said. And for job status monitoring, red, yellow, and green coloring indicates, at a glance, the progress of work under way.
Even in small companies — Peachtree Premium Accounting for Manufacturing is targeted at those with one to five users — the universe of users has expanded beyond accounting, Stacy Petrea, senior product and marketing manager for Peachtree Quantum, said in an interview today with Managing Automation.
“This has developed into a kind of ‘ERP-lite’ solution,” she said, “providing a complete business management solution for everyone in the company. Sales can see what items are in stock before they sell them, and purchasing can look to see what’s needed. Everyone has a view into the information they need.”