Sage 50 Manufacturing Accounting 2014

Summary: Features like unit of measure conversions and bill of material revisions give it just enough flexibility to be useful to smaller manufacturing companies.  Even though this is excellent small business accounting software, in my opinion since it isn’t designed to handle WIP, it’s a stretch to call it manufacturing software.  (The Manufacturing and Distribution versions of Sage 50 have the exact same features.)  But then again, I don’t know of any true manufacturing software at this price. If you need real manufacturing features, you should check out Sage 50 Quantum - Manufacturing Edition which allows you to manage raw materials, work in progress, and finished goods.

Features Gained:

• Quantity Discounts - you can set up as many different discount tables as you want. And within each one you can have up to 5 different quantity breaks.  Quantity discounts get assigned to items (not customers) and can work in conjunction with price levels.
• Work Tickets - Basically this provides a very simple version of a work order to help track the production of assembly items.
• Multipacks/UOM Conversions - Each inventory item can be assigned a stocking unit of measure, purchase UOM, and selling UOM.  That allows you to, for example, purchase an item by the case but sell it as each.
• Ability to revise Bill Of Material - Assembly items have a bill of materials attached to them so that Sage 50 knows which components make up the finished good.  In the lower versions of Sage 50, that BOM is set in stone.  But in Premium for Distribution, you can create a revised BOM with an effective date.  Any assembly transactions on or after that date will use the new BOM.
• Specialized Crystal Reports - see table for list of reports