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The abas Business Software provides a widely diversified function range both for manufacturing companies, as well as for commerce and the service industry.

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	The abas Business Software provides a widely diversified function range both for manufacturing companies, as well as for commerce and the service industry.

	Functions of abas Business Software

	Purchasing Sales Materials management (MRP) Scheduling Production/ PPC * Costing Materials status evaluation Cost accounting	Group accounting Financial accounting Fixed asset accounting Corridor Controlling Infosystems EDI Other functions
	* not included in abas Trade

	Purchasing

	e.g. requests, purchase order suggestions, purchase orders, blanket orders, receipt of goods, invoice verification, pricing, ...
	The purchasing in abas ERP provides a continuous transaction processing - from the request to purchase order suggestions and purchase orders right up to entering receipt of goods up to invoice verification. Dealing with purchase orders is a central component in purchasing. In the scheduling, purchase order suggestions are generated when stock levels fall below the minimum stock level, which then flow into requests and purchase orders. Outline agreements can be edited. For each purchase order item the purchase order management is linked to the financial accounting and cost accounting via cost centers, cost objects and account assignment.

	Sales

	e.g. quotations, sales order management, sales order production list, outgoing goods, deliveries, invoicing, ...
	In abas ERP the sales process is displayed from the quotation creation via the sales order management and the outgoing goods to the invoicing. Additional functions, such as quotation and revenue statistics, commission calculation, archiving and many more are available. With the sales function in the abas Business Software an up-to-date overview of business relationships with your customers, as well as the sales trends of your products is available at any time. Due to the use of abas ERP the ability to deliver whilst maintaining minimum stock levels can be optimized, the profitability is improved. CRM functions are also available with the customer infosystem.

	Materials management/MRP

	e.g. warehouse management, lot size grouping, bundle management, serial number management, stocktaking, materials allocation, material valuation, lot management, ...
	The objective of the materials management is the safeguarding of the cost-effective provisioning of the company. To reach this target, abas ERP supports you through the optimization of the readiness to deliver and flexibility whilst simultaneously optimizing the capital tie-up in the warehouse.

	Scheduling

	e.g. requirements and stock planning, scheduling, capacity calculation, ...
	The task of the scheduling is to ensure that sufficient material and production capacity is available to process orders on time. The scheduling in abas ERP generates procurement suggestions for purchasing, checks the compliance with due dates and determines the earliest possible final delivery dates. The scheduling is therefore the linchpin in a company.

	Production/Production planning and control (PPC)

	e. g. production suggestions, work orders, capacity planning, acknowledgements, editable sales order production lists, manual production entries, extended workbench, …
	The production functions in abas ERP support you in the organization of the manufacturing of your products – irrespective of the type of production, mass, series, job lot or single unit production.

	Costing

	e.g. preliminary costing, simultaneous costing, final costing, …
	The abas Business Software provides a product and order related costing for the exact valuation of the operating result. The costing can be carried out for products, as well as for sales orders. The costing functions in abas ERP support the exact time scheduling e.g. when specifying delivery times.

	Material valuation

	e.g. valuation by mixed price, planned price, manufacturing costs; entry and entry preview function for the editing of quantities in raw, process and operating materials, unfinished and finished products, …
	The material valuation provides diverse valuation types for the valuation of quantitative movements in the materials management and then enters these valuated movements in quantity as changes in stock in the form of financial entries. The generation of the entry can appear as a preview which has no effect on the financial accounting. The ascertainment of an inventory of unfinished products is also possible. There are also manufacturing costs available besides the valuation types mixed price, warehouse group mixed price, planned price and purchasing price. If the valuation prices are not available at the point in time of a quantity being entered then a revaluation is carried out through a material valuation as soon as the valuation price is available. The material costs determined by the material valuation flow into the cost accounting.

	Cost accounting

	e.g. cost type accounting, cost center accounting with IAAA and according to flexible standard costing, cost object accounting, valuation of production activity, ...
	The cost accounting covers the areas of cost type accounting, cost center accounting and cost object accounting. The cost center accounting includes the IAAA (internal account activity allocation) function. Subsequently to the IAAA there is the option to post the overheads to the cost objects. There are different procedures available for this purpose. The cost center accounting can be structured according to the flexible standard costing principle. With the "Valuation of production activity" module the valuated personnel and machine times of the completion confirmations are posted in the form of statistical entries and then flow into the cost accounting. The cost accounting integrates the data of diverse modules, such as for example, the financial and fixed asset accounting, and using the "Material valuation" and the "Valuation of production activity" module it also integrates data from the areas of material valuation and production.

	Group accounting

	e.g. representation of group relations, determination of intercompany sales, consolidation groups, time related group structure, consolidated advance VAT return, …
	The group accounting of the abas Business Software enables the consolidation of balance sheets of individual businesses and the creation of an annual statement including group reporting. For this, group internal and group external processes are differentiated by accounts.

	Financial accounting

	e.g. chart of accounts, taxes, postings, advance VAT return, account range forms, outstanding items, payments, reminders, evaluations, data export for GdPDU, …
	The integrated abas Financial Accounting encompasses the complete financial accounting management of all financial transactions. Financial accounting provides a clear overview of all financial transactions. This means, for example, that data from several fiscal years can be accessed. By keeping transaction figures from the past it is easy to carry out monthly comparisons, by working with planned and actual figures target/actual comparisons can be made for any user-defined time period.

	Fixed asset accounting

	e.g. fixed assets, fixed asset categories, imputed fixed assets, depreciation, depreciation suggestions, index series, replacement values, fixed asset transactions, asset history sheet, post evaluations for auditors, …
	The integrated fixed asset accounting module in abas ERP can be used in a flexible manner to manage the companys’ fixed assets on an inventory basis, regardless of the industry sector. All necessary evaluations required for an annual statement are available, e.g. the asset history sheet. The abas fixed asset accounting enables a highly informative quantitative and qualitative overview of the available fixed assets.

	Corridor controlling

	e.g. items in the P+L accounts and balance sheet accounts, liquidity planning, risk management, ...
	You want to identify the trend of your fiscal year at a glance? Corridor controlling supports you effectively in business planning and control of the fiscal year. You can see the trend of the leading figures at an early stage and can control them. Decision-making will become easier and more secure.

	Infosystems

	e.g. CRM/customer information system, revenue statistics, transaction figures, plan chart, receipts and issues, procurement status, machine loading, capacity overview, cost accounting master files, EDS, …
	With abas ERP you receive a pool of pre-configured infosystems for various evaluations. If necessary, you can adjust the infosystems and easily write your own company specific evaluations using the infosystem technology. You decide which data is relevant for your company evaluations.

	EDI (e.g. VDA/ODETTE/EDIFACT)

	e.g. forecast delivery schedules, JIT delivery schedules, packing slips, credit notes, invoices, sales orders, sales order confirmation, product price list, purchase order amendment, shipping processing, ESP/VLC processing/consignment stores, packing material management, ...
	With the EDI function in abas ERP (EDI = Electronic Data Interchange), structured business documents can be automatically exchanged between the business application programs of a number of business partners. The application of EDI offers full control of the entire product, data and money flow. abas ERP/Automotive supports businesses in managing the processes in a complex supply chain, and coordinates all stipulated logistical processes between the vendor and the manufacturer.

	Other functions

	e.g. master file administration, production data capture, Intrastat trade statistics, characteristics bars, user bars and selection bars, user-defined variables and keys, text editor/free text management, office communication/internal communication system, system management, command logbook, user-definable database areas for individual requirements, ...
	Various functions supplement the performance range of abas ERP.

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