Happy Valentine's Day: Love and Sales Tax

Happy Valentines day! In the spirit of fun and timely content, here’s an infographic we wanted to share with you.

Love and Sales

Breaking News: American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012

The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, signed into law on January 2, 2013, includes what some are calling the most sweeping changes in a decade. Some of the tax provisions affect fixed assets management—many of which expired at the end of 2011, but have now been retroactively reinstated for 2012. CMS is here to help you!

Read More About This ACT.
Learn More about How Fixed Assets Can Help You.

For more information contact Michelle at CMS and let us show you what we can do for your organization.

Trend: More U.S. Small Businesses Cutting Workers Than Hiring

The Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index, a survey of 601 small business owners, shows a net hiring reading of -10 in January. The percentage of small-business owners that increased hiring during the last 12 months dropped to 12% from 14% in November, but those reporting a reduction in job positions slipped to 22% from 26%. While most small businesses were not hiring due to overall business conditions, 81% said they did not need employees, 74% said revenues or sales do not justify hiring more workers, 66% expressed concerns about the economy, 61% cited health care costs, 56% cited new government regulations, 55% cited cash flow and payroll concerns, and 32% said it was difficult to find qualified employees.

With Sage 100 software, we can target areas of improvement within your business, whether is is reporting tools, shipping, business alerts, automation, and much more. If you are running short on staff and feel you are missing business details, call Michelle today at 860.399.4215 x. 202 and let her target your business needs. CMS has the solutions to make  your business more efficient and profitable.

Trend: Domestic Production Makes a Comeback

The next trend in our series focuses on domestic production. According to Entrepreneur magazine, factors like more affordable labor, higher shipping costs, a better financial climate and a surge of homegrown innovation mean the U.S. manufacturing startup universe is experiencing a rebirth. Early this year a New York Times poll revealed that 52 percent of the public thinks it's "very important" that products they buy are made in America. With a surge of domestic production, it is imperative that a manufacturer is on top of their job life cycle. With Sage 100 and JobOps, this is a win-win  solution for automating job management functions for manufacturing. As all manufacturers are aware, it is imperative to be on top of your business and to provide better service to your customers. With better management tools, your company can soar in 2013. For more detailed information, contact Michelle at 860.399.4215 x.202.

Visit: http://www.jobops.com/job_estimating_software_literature_center/jobops_brochure_web.pdf

New Year with New Trends: Outsource Simple Tasks

Happy 2013 from everyone here at CMS. We are happy to have you a part of the CMS family and look forward to a very rewarding and success year ahead.

For the New Year, we will be sharing some new business trends that you may find of value. This is our first installment of our series:

Outsourcing Simple Tasks

As you look for new strategies to grow your business and gain efficiencies in 2013, you may find recent article in USA Today interesting.

In this front page Money section story, USA Today reports how businesses looking for an edge can “free up capital and manpower.” Companies are turning over necessary but mundane tasks to firms like our partner, Avalara, to gain efficiencies and reduce risk. For example, one controller used to dedicate one of its 15 full time employees to manage sale-tax collection and payments – until he discovered Avalara’s end-to-end sales tax technology. Now one person spends just a day on this critical requirement, giving them the rest of the month back to address other important functions.

By outsourcing processes that take time and effort and don’t contribute to building value, precious staff resources can focus on tasks directly related to growth and execution.

Sales tax processing doesn’t need to be hard. Or risky. There’s technology for that. Avalara’s easy-to-use sales tax solution is affordable for the smallest business, yet scalable for the largest.

To learn more, please complete this brief sales tax assessment tool, and we will help you determine which sales tax solution is best for you: http://www.avalara.com/understanding-your-sales-tax-needs.

Free Fall 2012 Users' Meeting & Workshop

Thursday, November 1, 2012 from 9 am to 4 pm
Crowne Plaza - Cromwell Connecticut

Leaner •Meaner • Greener
How to become more efficient, reduce costs, and improve operations with the practical application of new tools

Don't miss out! Register today to attend our free Users' Group Meeting and Workshop on Thursday, November 1st. This full day (9am to 4pm) workshop happens once a year and is open to all Sage 100 Users and Prospects.

Fall Users' Meeting Details

In this exciting Fall Users' meeting , vendor representatives will be in attendance to help you learn about important and relevant topics.

Altec Inc.-Publishers of Document Management and Workflow applications can transform your workplace to a truly "Paperless Environment. Peri-Lynn Silkwood from Altec will be here to show you first hand how you can eliminate filing cabinets and the costly processing time associated with them. Discover an instant ROI with an affordable solution that will reduce paper and increase control.

Kelser Corp-Tired of double talk from your IT department? Tired of listening to terms that you really don't understand? You will not want to miss this session. Andrew Tyler from Kelser Corporation (who is a Sage 100 ERP user) will be on hand to explain and de-mystify such topics as Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, etc. This session will be presented in terms that we all can understand and relate to. Learn about which technologies are beneficial to your company and how to best leverage them.
Sage Sales Tax by Avalara- Learn about how the recent changes in Sales Tax legislation will affect your organization. Coincidently, Shawn Munzert will be travelling in Connecticut that week and will be available to discuss any questions relevant to Sales Tax tracking , liability and reporting. Also, understand how the recent changes in Sales Tax laws will affect your company.

ProClarity- As Your Business Grows....So Must Your Reporting Tools. As we all know, business today is a dynamic environment. Being successful today means being on top of changes as they are happening not after they have happened. Easy access to data is easy access to knowledge and knowledge is power. ProClarity takes reporting to the next level of simplicity. See how you can easily create reports, KPI's, Executive Dashboards etc with the help of ProClarity.

Not a Sage 100 User?

This is a great opportunity for prospects who may be interested in Sage 100 ERP products. Obtain input from actual users and learn more about the product capabilities.

This workshop and sessions are free to all clients and prospects and includes a breakfast and a working lunch and raffles. Registration is required. Please call Janice Florio at 1.800.533.0595 x 202.

Save Time with Sales Order Item Deletion Utility

The Sales Order Item Deletion Utility comes  is now available as a single add-on utility.

The Sales Order Item Deletion Utility allows an item(s) to be deleted from a range of sales orders that are not available to ship. This eliminates the need to manually delete the item(s) from the sales orders in Sales Order Data Entry.

The Sales Order Item Deletion Utility is accessed from the Sales Order Utilities. Upon entering the screen, users will select the appropriate criteria to determine which sales orders to delete the item(s) from.

Once the sales order criteria have been entered the user will select the items to be deleted and optionally the maximum quantity of that item to delete. Users can enter or select a starting and ending item number as well as the maximum quantity to delete. The Add Items button is then pressed to add the items entered to the list of items to be deleted.

When the desired criteria have been entered the user will hit Proceed to begin item deletion process. The item deletion process will scan all standard and backorder type sales orders that meet the order selection criteria entered to see if they contain any of the items in the list of items to delete. If a sales order is currently being invoiced the utility will skip over the order and no items will be deleted. The items from the orders selected will be sorted by item number and quantity ordered (lowest to highest). For each item selected to be deleted, the item will be deleted from orders with the lowest quantities first until the maximum quantity to delete has been reached. If deleting an item will exceed the maximum quantity to delete, the item will not be deleted but rather the quantity ordered will be reduced. After removing an item(s) from a sales order if no other line items remain on the order, the sales order will be deleted. When the process is complete the user will be prompted with the total number of sales orders changed and the total number of sales orders deleted and be returned to the Sales Order Item Deletion screen.

For more information on this product, call Janice Florio at 860.399.4215 x.202.