Line 200 offers easy and effective integration with web technology via the Web Enterprise suite of products. For companies who recognise the businesses potential of the internet, Line 200 provides a total solution with a robust and seamless link between web transactions and the back office systems. Line 200 delivers a real-time means of transacting and creating value by connecting buyers with suppliers quickly and efficiently, as well as providing a low cost access solution for remote employees.

Sage Line 200 provides a number of key benefits:

Lower administrative Costs
Line 200 is a system that may be configured to meet the needs of your business today and into the future. The clear and concise screen and menu structure can be easily tailored, and can therefore be quickly changed to meet the needs of each individual user. This ensures that data is handled much more efficiently.

Informed Decision Making
Line 200 allows you to standardize the management information throughout your organisation, providing enhanced decision-making capabilities through the use of accurate and timely data. It not only provides integrated information systems for the monitoring and control of day to day operations, but also a wealth of information to assist in longer term tactical and strategic planning. This information is stored in an open format, allowing almost any reporting or query tools to easily access any part of the business management system.

Reporting for All
The Line 200 solution gives your organization powerful, flexible management reporting tools enabling you to streamline your business and implement change. Seagate Crystal Reports is provided as the system reportwriter for Line 200. This market-leading desktop reporting and analysis tool allows the production of presentation-quality reports with flexible analysis and formatting to meet all of your reporting needs. Generating new reports is an easy process as you follow the step by step guidance. Reports are also available over an Intranet, so allowing easy access to all of your information across your company.

Visibility
Line 200 provides both financial control and immediate visibility of the organisation at all levels. Access is available to information from the final consolidation through to the source transaction using the extensive drill around facilities. External attachments such as spreadsheets, documents and web page addresses can be recorded against customers, suppliers and individual transactions allowing Line 200 to become a central well-organised information repository.

On Line Information
Ensuring that information is literally at the end of your fingertips is essential when managing any organisation. With real time financial information from Line 200 it is possible to manage your finances proactively 

The key to financial planning is the integrity of the information held within your financial system. The ease of capture and access to information ensures that the process of financial planning becomes a routine activity rather than a perpetual headache. With Line 200, it is possible to perform period and year-end close activities quickly, no matter how complex your organisation is. By being more effective in closing your books, it frees up more time to carry out valuable financial reporting and analysis.

The General Ledger
The General Ledger is the central repository for any organisation's financial information, providing a database for organisation wide transactions that can be enquired upon and reported on in any number of ways. By accommodating the complete financial picture for your organisation, the General Ledger is essential to the integrated financial system, and to the strategic decision making of the organisation.

The Data Repository
All financial transactions ultimately end up within the General Ledger. This facilitates access to on-line information to measure the pulse of the business as well as providing the source for standard balance sheet and profit and loss reporting. The General Ledger has many reporting and enquiry features allowing fast data access to large transactional volumes.

Flexible Code Structure
A default view of the General Ledger is defined when creating the chart of Accounts. Pre-formatted trial balances and audit trails in both detail and summary are then immediately available.

Accounts Receivable
Accounts Receivable provides effective debt management, ensuring that cash flow is optimised and that an organisation's overall balance sheet remains healthy. It is simple to use, yet extremely flexible, having the ability to cope with a variety of customer requirements, whether a simple account or one with complex customer hierarchies. It manages sales and debtor activity, providing up to the minute information regarding aged debtor analysis.

Dynamic Sales Integration
When integrated with Sales Order Processing, Accounts Receivable ensures effective automated invoicing. It minimises data entry, reduces billing errors and allows focus on the resolution of individual queries enabling organisations to be more proactive in their Customer Relationship Management activities.

Effective Debt Control
Debt control is simple but effective. With Line 200, the enquiries provided give easy access to transactional information, aged summary and any associated queries, all from a single screen. With the addition of the drill down and attachment facilities available, the credit controller can easily view the original sales order through to any associated documents.

Cash Control
Money management, focused on the effective control of cash flow is a basic premise of an Accounts Receivable system. Line 200 provides easy to use facilities to manage cash entry and allocation. Flexible cash entry methods are provided, with the ability to have separate cash receipts and allocation steps, or have it contained in a single automated process. Full integration exists within the suite of financial modules, including cash management for bank reconciliation.

Comprehensive Customer Analysis
Accounts Receivable provides the ability to target customers effectively. Customer attributes and analysis codes are used throughout the Line 200 product, providing business drivers within Sales Order Processing for functions such as pricing and discounting.

Accounts Payable
Line 200 provides a sophisticated software product for handling an organisations Accounts Payable, allowing you to have full control over cash flow, and immediate access to outstanding creditor information. Accounts Payable provides flexible authorisation control to meet the requirements of business processes. This can be utilised in conjunction with Purchase Order Processing for full invoice matching, or as a stand-alone financial function. Flexible and secure payment methods are supported with full integration to Cash Management for reconciliation.

Order Matching
As part of the integrated Line 200 product suite, order matching is provided between registered Supplier Invoices and Purchase Orders helping to maximise the accuracy and timeliness of settlement. Controls can be introduced, on an individual supplier basis, to ensure that correct business procedures are adhered to.

Comprehensive Supplier Details
The Accounts Payable supplier analysis provides the critical information required to ensure effective supplier management and development. The information entered against the supplier is used throughout the Line 200 suite, for example, to monitor supplier performance

Cash Management With Cash Management, it is possible to keep up to date with your ever-changing bank balances, monitor cash flow accurately, and make informed decisions about immediate expenditure. It allows you to monitor your organisation's financial exposure. Cash Management provides you with the ability to fully reconcile your system with information provided from your bank accounts, whether manual or electronic.

Line 200 Financials
General Ledger • Accounts Receivable • Accounts Payable • Cash Management 

Inventory Control
Efficient Supply Chain Management must ensure that the supply of goods is tailored to fluctuations in demand. Inventory Control provides all the necessary tools and information to enable organisations to minimise their investment in stock and depot resources whilst ensuring a high level of service.

Integrated Stock Management
Line 200 Inventory Control provides real time multi-site views of current and expected stock. Combining this with features such as Perpetual Inventory, location management, stock rotation, obsolescence and quality control, it enables enterprises to have real confidence in the execution of their stock management strategies. Real time views of stock disposition, and order management functions enable businesses to focus and capitalise on a lean logistics operation.

Customer Service at an Acceptable Cost
Inventory Control ensures accuracy in the quantity and value of stock and the cost of replenishing and holding it at any given time. Line 200 provides the capability to source products from stock, manufacture, purchase or transfer to order with full visibility of current and forward orders. Tracking the progress of these orders is crucial in terms of responding to customer queries and quantifying achieved customer service levels.

Recording and Analysis of Movements
Inventory Control is able to monitor the movement of stock, down to individual batches and lots, within a centralised stock holding facility or across networked distribution centres. This provides a complete picture of demand and supply across the organisation.

Efficient Stock Replenishment
Line 200 provides replenishment based on either fixed re-order levels, or fixed re-order times, ensuring dynamic and responsive demand driven stock levels.

Delivering the Highest Quality
The quality of goods delivered to the end consumer is a major factor in the perceived level of customer service. Line 200 enables quality management and product tracking from supplier right through to the end consumer.

Sales Order Processing and Invoicing
Sales Order Processing and Invoicing within Line 200 is fully integrated with the Financial and Purchasing modules and provides all the necessary tools and information to allow organisations to gain a competitive edge whilst delivering exceptional levels of customer service.

Delivery against Customer Expectations
Sales Order Processing encompasses a range of order methods, non-restrictive order size constraints, customer driven delivery times, goods packaged and labelled to customer specifications, and variable methods of payment. Sales Order Processing also provides all the necessary tools to measure service attainment levels.

Proactive Demand Management
Line 200 Schedule Orders capitalises on value added partnerships enabling suppliers to efficiently manage long term customer delivery contracts. By recording delivery commitments well in advance, enterprises can be proactive in matching their resources to demand, achieving longer term stability in their logistics planning activities.

Full Market Trend Analysis
Accurate and timely sales information is crucial not only for the measurement of overall revenue and costs of sales but also for evaluating market trends. Line 200 Invoicing and Sales Analysis functionality provides fast and efficient financial integration with Accounts Receivables and the General Ledger, together with a data warehouse that can be diced and sliced in numerous ways to meet specific business reporting needs.

Customer Focused Order Capture
Quotation and repeat order management provide a customer focused ordering activity, providing maximum flexibility through the pick and despatch cycle in either a ‘business on account’ or counter sale environment.

Flexible Pricing
Organisations have the option to implement customer classifications/groupings, gross list prices, net pricing or a combination of both with short term promotional pricing taking precedence over blanket prices.

Analysis of Sales and Margin
Line 200 provides accurate cost of sales with full margin visibility. Integration with the General Ledger provides for sales revenue and cost of sale analysis by customer, warehouse, and product.

Purchase Order Processing
Collaboration and trust between manufacturers and distributors, and their suppliers, is fundamental in building long-term value added partnerships. Line 200 Purchase Order Processing provides the necessary operational controls and management information in order to build Value Added relationships. True partnerships breed mutual benefits and high levels of supplier commitment in terms of price performance, lead time reliability, delivery commitment and product quality. These partnerships are key to synchronising supply with demand and achieving dependable Continuous Replenishment.

Pricing & Discounting Policy Management
Organisations often have a wide range of suppliers with whom they need to negotiate aggressive pricing policies according to their traded business volumes. Purchase Order Processing provides flexible pricing options including the tracking of the latest supplier/product price and the use of supplier price lists.

Purchase Analysis
Purchasing provides for comprehensive order tracking and purchase analysis, enabling organisations to monitor business volumes and supplier/product trends.

Line 200 Distribution
• Sales Order Entry • Invoicing and Sales Analysis • Purchase Order Processing • Inventory Control • General Ledger • Accounts Receivable • Accounts Payable • Cash Management

Purchase Requisitions
Target customer service levels, economies of scale and overall financial commitment are all factors that need to be built in to an efficient purchasing strategy. Line 200 Purchase Requisitioning provides comprehensive financial control over the purchasing process. Configurable requisition authorisation enables a hierarchical process that may involve requisition supervisors, buyers and budget controllers. Costs are minimised by consolidating multiple requisitions for the same supplier into a single purchase order, ensuring an efficiently managed centralised purchasing operation. Purchasing commitment is tracked through to the General Ledger with real-time budget consumption built into the requisition authorisation process.

Comprehensive Authorisation & Control
Purchase Management enables hierarchical control by user, based on the activities performed and maximum values associated with transactions. Entered requisitions can flow through a user configured authorization route, providing maximum flexibility before live purchase orders are raised.

Financial Commitment & Cost Analysis
Accurate detailed information concerning an organisation’s overall financial commitment is vital in maintaining an efficient purchasing operation. Purchase Requisitioning provides complete commitment accounting with real time budget consumption and accruals reporting.

Job Costing
Job costing provides you with an up-to-date picture of the expenditure and revenue associated with specific projects. Working with the Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable.

Using job costing in a financials environment
When using Job costing in conjunction with the ledgers, it is possible to record purchases, revenues, time sheets and payroll items for each job. You are also able to analyse the expenses and revenues posted from Accounts Receivable (invoices sent to customers), Accounts Payable (vendors' invoices) and Inventory Control (stock issues).

Using Job Costing in a Distribution environment.
Job Costing allows you to record purchases, revenues and issues of stock for each job. It is also possible to analyse revenues and expenses posted from Sales Orders, Purchase Orders and Stock Issues.

Fixed Assets
Fixed Assets provides you with control over your assets and their depreciation. It can be used individually or as part of the procurement process with full integration to the General Ledger and template entry from Accounts Payable and Purchase Order Processing. You can record comprehensive information for each asset and any associated attachments to assist the management and tracking of these assets. The system has flexible depreciation methods to meet the requirements of both the commercial and public sectors.

Bills of Material
The ways by which component inventory items can be combined into a finished product are many and varied. Bills of Material are able to accommodate many types of parent component structure to reflect the simplest engineering bill or complex process formulae.

Works Order Processing
Works Order Processing provides real time information within the finished goods manufacturing process. Materials supply can be checked using trial kit prior to the commencement of build. All material movements incurred until completion of the order are immediately reflected in the cost per unit. On completion, costs are automatically moved back to inventory, and build variances highlighted in the many production reports.

Payroll
With Payroll Management, Line 200 provides an up-to-date picture of the calculation of nett pay for employees. It is possible to keep track of employees pay and deductions through to the end of the tax year.

BACS
The BACS module integrates your system automatically with the external banking community, saving you the time and cost of paper based systems. This module is fully integrated with the financial ledgers, and supports multiple payment media. Full security is maintained including the support of passwords by BACSAFE or issued by your bank.

Line 200 Report writer
The Line 200 Report Writer is designed to supplement the standard reports that are available within Line 200. The data can be extracted from any Line 200 module and incorporated into a report. The layout of these reports can be tailored to meet your exact requirements with the reported output either printed or saved as a file.

Web Client
The Line 200 web client options provide a simple, cost effective and secure way to share information with multiple users simultaneously. With the use of the Web Client it is possible to improve the utilisation of the system without additional training, and allow wider business benefits within a secure environment.