More than an ERP

Take control of your entire business, fromsupply chainwith Sage X3

Take control of your entire business, from supply chain to sales with Sage X3.
Software for established businesses looking for greater efficiency, flexibility and insight.

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Solutions Benefit

Sage X3 helps businesses thrive and stay competitive in the face of growing complexity and competitive pressures. This complete business management solution transforms how you manage operations, processes and people, allowing you to respond faster to changing customer demands.

Sage X3 is faster, more intuitive and tailored than the conventional ERP. Sage X3 is available through multiple cloud deployment options giving you the flexibility to choose the service offering that works for your organization.

Thrive as a global business

• Achieve faster customer response times by running an agile, connected organisation across multiple companies, business units and sites all on the web.

• Maintain one system of records across all operations for accurate planning, forecasting and reporting.

• Maintain local compliance with multi-currency, multi-ledger, multi-legislation and multi-language functionalities.

• Streamline international transactions and invoicing, adhering to local banking formats, local tax requirements and consolidate foreign operations for simpler financial reporting .

• Record your VAT to assist with VAT submissions to SARS.

Gain faster business insight

• Generate insight with data across multiple areas and sources and create consistent analytical models.

• Give your team personalised information with access to live dashboards customised for specific business roles to monitor performance and alert them to abnormalities in the business.

• Record and navigate up and down the audit trail to manage risks.

• Distribute consistent reports across the organisation, trigger alerts and workflows based on Key Proformance Indicators (KPIs).

• Stay compliant with local data regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

• With Sage X3 the information comes to you.

Tailor your experience

• Enable your team to work smarter and more efficiently with a modular and flexible system that will grow with your business.

• Configure your solution to support your industry-specific processes and needs, from manufacturing and distribution to business and financial services.

• Create personalized user experiences (dashboards, process flows, approvals, reports, enquiries) for your team using powerful configuration capabilities.

• Build a custom solution by accessing specialty applications built by Sage’s vibrant partner ecosystem and develop new applications using industry-leading development tools within Sage X3.

• Choose to run your solution in the cloud, as a Sage service, on your partner’s data center or on your own infrastructure. Having the best of Cloud but with the freedom of on-premise.

Intuitively manage operations

• Stay competitive in the face of growing complexity and uncertainty using an end-to-end solution to manage your operations and people.

• Streamline your core processes to improve the management of your business across finance, procurement, manufacturing, inventory, sales, asset management and customer service.

• Reduce business complexity using easy-to-use business applications that are tailored to your specific business needs.

• Drive continuous improvements with quality management, non-conformance capabilities allowing you to identify issues, reduce costs and improve customer experiences.

• Improve cost management and gain better control of project profitability by having access to the right information.

• Quickly adapt procedures to changing regulations and compliance requirements. You have more freedom to change the processes than with other ERP(Enterprise Resource Planing) software.

• Stay productive from anywhere with a web GUI (Graphical User Interface) and intuitive mobile applications allowing you to check inventory, take customer orders, approve purchases and view key performance indicators. 

Faster, more Intuitive and Tailored

• Retain your company’s competitive advantage and thrive by increasing agility and embracing change at speed.

• Reduce administrative burden by automating key accounting and finance tasks such as processing orders, invoicing, inter-company transactions and managing journals.

 • Enable faster production cycles and faster response time, while efficiently managing the supply chain.

• Spend more time focusing on new business services and driving out inefficiencies.

• Partner confidently with us as a Sage business partner. Sage, a champion of business builders for over 30 years that now serves over 3 million customers across 25 countries.

• Operate efficiently with a local partner, backed by a global partner network and services teams offering world-class support.

Solutions Capabilities

Sage X3 has been around for many years and has a footprint across the globe. This means you as the customer are provided with an ERP solution that has rich capabilities.

Financial Management

• Financial Management includes General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cashbook & Fixed Assets.

• Multi-company: Ability to manage several companies in the same database. It enables an organization to share the same repository while dedicating some data to one or several site/companies.

• Multi-site: Ability to manage several structures within a company, due to business, organizational, or geographic needs.

• Multi-currency: Ability to manage transaction currency. The amounts in this transaction currency are translated into a ‘ledger’ currency.

• Multi-ledger: Ability to define several ledgers for one company. Ledgers can be shared or dedicated.

• Multi-legislation: Ability to manage several companies located in different countries. In this case, local rules are applied depending on the context. These rules can be defined using user-designed settings.

• Close periods for a single module, a single company or multiple companies at once.

• Have from 1 to 9 ledgers to report on. Manage Dimensions with a validity date range.

• Have the power of reporting from 1 to 9 Dimension Types.

• Close journals independent of period closure.

• Fixed or Variable Recurring journals.

• You decide on the document numbering sequence for journals, invoices, payments, orders etc.  

• Automatic VAT calculation and reporting. Withholding Tax management.

• Automatic inter-site and inter-company transaction management.

• Recurring invoice management with alerts, workflows and traceability.


Supply Chain Management

• Manage your products, customers and suppliers by Category and Statistical Groups.

• Rapid creation of a product inheriting the default management rules and values for the category.

• Manage products as stock, non-stock, services or Fixed Assets.

• Configurable pricelists by customer or supplier, with easy export and import for mass changes.

• Retail sale orders generated automatically from purchase orders for inter-company transactions.

• Configurable purchasing cycle:
Purchase Order, Receipt and then Invoice.
Purchase Request, RFQ (Request for Quotation), Purchase Order and then Invoice.
Purchase Order and then the Invoice.
Process a Direct Invoice.

• Advanced Purchasing Costs enables users to foresee the purchase costs for international imports using incoterms.
 
• RFQ (Request for Quotation) Management for multi-product and multi-supplier: Tender comparison, manage responses and reminders, price list generation.

• Workflow engine incorporated into the process

• Approvals by electronic signatures.

• Attaching documentation such as proposals, proof of banking details, BBBEE certificates etc.

• Use MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning) and MPS (Master Production System) to drive suggestions for purchases.

• Detailed traceability by lot or serial number.

• Manage multiple warehouses, multiple locations.

• Manage stock in dedicated locations per product.

• Quality Control for receipting, manufacturing and deliveries with expiration management.

• Manage minimum, maximum, EOQ (Economic Order Quantity) quantities.

• Manage stock by status: accepted, quality control, rejected.

• Stock valuation by: standard cost, FIFO (First in, First out), LIFO (Last in, First out), average cost, last price.


Manufacturing

• Bill of Material design with Revision Management.

• Single level and multi level Bill of Material.

• Work center management to manage and control machines, labour resources.

• Manage routings from stores to manufacturing to finished goods warehouse.

• Plan works orders, schedule, mass schedule

• Manage and record non-conformance.

• Full traceability on lot-numbers, from raw material components to finished goods.

• Weighing scale integration.

• Automated Data Collection using handheld scanners.


Project Management

• Integrated into all Sage X3 processes, Project link with quote, purchasing, sales, work order and MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planing).

• Product Breakdown Structure (PBS) and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Multi-level description of the tasks, preparing the operational and manufacturing process.

• Multi-project consolidation.

• Financial follow-up function to monitor the budget and expenses of projects.

• Stock allocations on project tasks.

• Employee assignments (to assign employees to an operation).

• Time entries to enter the time spent on a project at the operation, task and budget level and separate grouped time entry lines into separate, individual lines.

• Revenue recognition rule attached to the project: Free percentage of completion (Entered), Cost-based percentage of completion (Calculated).

• Periodic Revenue recognition process: Calculation of a proposal, Ability to adjust the result by authorized users, Validation and automatic posting.

Sage X3 – Product Tour

Please click on the short video below for a product overview tour of Sage X3: