1. Key Strengths of Sage X3 Flashcards
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- Key Strengths of Sage X3
Let’s look at the Key Strength of Sage X3.
Since 1999, Sage X3 has continued to expand its Global footprint with over:
- 6000 Customers
- 80 Countries
- 620,000 Users,
- 16 Legislation packs for the following countries:
Angola, Austria, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Brazil, Canada,
France, Germany, Poland, Portugal,
Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain,
Switzerland, United Arab Emirates,
United Kingdom and the United States.
There are more Legislation packs that are available from partners:
Algeria, Argentina, Bahrain, Botswana, China, Czech Republic, DRC, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Hungary, India, Italy, Iraq, Jordan, KSA, Kenya, Kuwait, Lesotho, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Oman, Qatar, Republic of South Sudan, Romania, Singapore, Somalia, Slovakia, Swaziland, Sweden, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, UAE, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Sage X3 by Numbers
Sage Business Cloud X3 provides faster, more intuitive and tailored business management solutions than conventional ERP for organizations looking to retain their competitive advantage by increasing their agility and embracing change.
620,000 EndUsers Worldwide,
6,000 Customers,
1,300 Certified Consultants,
480 Partners Worldwide,
80 Countries,
50 ISV Partners,
18 Industry Verticals supported
16 Legislation Packs.
Sage X3 Vision and Value
Vision: Sage X3 helps product-centric businesses to thrive and stay competitive in the face of growing complexity by transforming how they manage processes, operations and people globally.
Value: Sage X3 provides faster, more intuitive and tailored business management solutions than conventional ERP for organizations looking to thrive and retain their competitive advantage by increasing their agility and embracing change at speed.
Tailored - Intuitive - Faster!
Sage X3 help product-centric businesses embrace change
- Thrive and retain your competitive advantage. Manage your business with a solution that is faster and more intuitive than Enterprise Resource Planning Software.
- Choose the deployment and commercial solutions that fit your business needs.
- Tailor behavior, user experiences and automate business processes and operations.
- Drive improved customer experiences and reduce costs through continuous improvement processes.
Sage X3 Customers can react more quickly to their changing customer demands while maintaining control
With Sage X3, Customers can:
- Achieve faster response time.
- Maintain one system of record.
- Maintain local compliance
- Streamline international transactions.
- Automate tax declarative processes.
Customers can enable their teams to work smarter and more efficiently with a Modular and flexible system that will grow.
With Sage X3, Customers can:
- Configure their solution to support their Industry-specific processes.
- Create personalized user experiences for their teams.
- Build a custom solution by accessing speciality applications.
- Choose to run their Solution in the Cloud.
Customers can stay Competitive in the face of growing complexity using an end-to-end solution to manage their operations and people.
With Sage X3, Customers can:
- Streamline core processes.
- Reduce business complexity
- Drive continous improvements with Quality management.
- Improve Cost management.
- Quickly adapt procedures to changing regulations.
- Stay productive from anywhere with intuitive mobile applications.
Customers can increase their customer satisfaction and remove administrative burden with faster, more flexible and more efficient processes powered by data.
With Sage X3 customers can:
- Generate insight with data
- Give their teams personalized information
- Create customizable scoreboards.
- Distribute consistent reports across their organization.
- Stay compliant with their local data regulations.
Target Market and Industry Overview
Sage X3 Targets Customers with:
- 200 to 5000 Employees
- 35million pounds or 44million USD Revenues.
Sage X3 Works perfectly well for 5 distinct primary business Industries or Sectors:
- Discrete Manufacturing,
- Process Manufacturing,
- Distribution,
- Business Services, and
- Agriculture.
Sage X3 Core strengths is in Discrete and Process Manufacturing with over 60 to 63% of customers in that Sector, followed by Distribution with 20% of our customers.
FITs a Customer’s industry
No matter what the industry, Sage X3 is a fit for a businesses’ multi-legislation and multi-country, multi-site, multi-currency, and multi-language needs, helping businesses stay compliant with all legislation requirements.
Businesses can pre-configure their industry specific conditions, legal settings and pre-set languages, multiple currencies and location in the system.
The Sage X3 Customer Profile:
Business Characteristics
Business characteristics of a product-centric business may include:
- Has Revenues of above 35million pounds or 44million USD.
- Has a high degree of Industry-Specific business processes
- Uses technology for a strategic or competitive advantage.
Has fast growing processes (may be experiencing Acquisitions, new branches, etc.
- Has local, national, and global presence requires scalability.
- Operates in high growth industries like: Manufacturing, Distribution, Business Services, and Construction
- Has complex business requirements, (Internal and External procedures)
- Needs multi-company, multi language, or multi-site organization with expansion into new countries.
- Requires insightful, in-depths reporting across enterprise operations for better decision making .
- Requires integrated solutions such as tax, document management and e-commerce.
- May have regulatory compliance requirements.
The Sage X3 Customer Profile:
Technology Characteristics
Technology Characteristics of a product-centric business may include:
- Needs to unify technologies across the company.
- Desires flexible implementation options (public cloud, private cloud, on-premises)
- Requires customisation for industry-specific work flows.
- Needs a scalable and customisable solution.
- Wants to leverage all the benefits of the cloud to more efficiently manage the business.
- Needs digital transformation of business processes
- Places a premium on data security.
- Has legacy systems that no longer support the business
- Uses old software and have not upgraded systems in 5 to 10 years.
Financial Characteristics
Financial Characteristics of a product-centric business may include:
- A system which supports high transaction volumes
- A need to drive real-time management of business data.
- Requires support for sustained growth with minimal interruption to business
- Needs deep, insightful business intelligence
- Operate in multiple currencies
- Needs comprehensive, inter-company functionality
- Is a maturing business with more than 5 to 10 years in their market
- Multi-country operations require new payment and or reporting methods.
Sage X3 Solution Overview:
Financial Management
- Budgets & Accounting
- Fixed Assets
- Financial Reporting
- Dashboards
Financial Management capabilities of Sage X3 automates the business’ Accounting and financial processes from Jounal entries to Invoicing, accounts payable, accounts Receivable and Procurement.
It reduces the complexity of managing multiple sites, business units and product lines with multidimensional functionality.
It helps business to stay compliant.
It manages fixed Assets.
It gives businesses personalized information with access to live dashboards customized for specific business roles to manage performance and alert them to abnormalities within the business.
Sage X3 Solution Overview:
Supply Chain Management
- Purchasing
- Inventory and Warehousing
- Sales
- Customer Service
The Supply chain management capabilities of Sage X3 enables faster production cycles and response times while efficiently managing the Supply chain.
Businesses will maintain optimum stock levels and deliver on customer commitments by easily identifying dependencies between work orders and material availability.
Businesses effectively manage logistics, control warehouses and track key information.
They will run best in class operations with continuous improvements programs.
Sage X3 Solution Overview:
Production Management
- BOM and Production Planning
- Shop floor control
- Quality Control
- Non conformance
The Production Management capabilities of Sage X3 automates the business’ Production processes and help the business to respond faster to customer demands, improving predictability across the manufacturing process.
Sage X3 customers maintain agile Production cycles with advanced Biil of Materials management, Production Planning and Shop floor control, resulting in reduced costs, improved customer experiences and driving Quality and performance improvements with Non compliance and Non conformance management.
Sage X3 Solution Overview:
Project Management
- Project Definition
- Project Execution
- Time Sheets
- Financial Tracking
The Project Management capabilities of Sage X3 ensures the business knows the actual or why of their initiatives in projects.
It helps businesses to respond faster to customer inquiries and optimize profitability with accurate Project costing and pricing.
Businesses can improve costs Management and gain better control of Project profitability.
This solution includes defining and maintaining Project schedules forecast costs managing times sheets and track Financials.
It ensures accurate tracking of all tasks and dependencies to optimize profitability and keep projects on schedule.
Businesses can consolidate multiple projects and snapshots any financial comparisons as well as report on KPIs such as sales margins, budgets and commitments.
Sage X3 Solution Overview:
Human Resource Management
- Personnel Administration
- Time Management
- Payroll and Expense Management
The Human Resource Management capabilities of Sage X3 is focused on Sage’s Human Resources and Payroll which is localized in 26 different countries.
Most of these are in Africa, the Middle East and Southern Europe.
So this course will now specifically focus on the capabilities associated with that area of the solution.
Sage Business Cloud Sage X3
Supports Compliance requirements in 80 Countries as follows:
Sage X3 is now used in over 80 Countries around the world and support both global and regional compliance requirements.
Here are examples of how we help customers to meet their local and regional compliance requirements.
Click the dots to reveal some of the capabilities Sage X3 delivers to support that particular region’s compliance requirements:
- North America: ACH Format, Reports improvements.
- Portugal: SAF-T improvements
- United Kingdom: VAT box management for UK VAT declaration, Payment practices reporting.
- France: Tax on Company Cars,
Ability to create invoices in non-closed previous month,
Payment practices reporting. - Switzerland: ISO 20022 bank file,
VAT updates 2018. - Poland: Bank and Cash register in the core, Split payments.
- Germany: DATEV export improvements, VAT updates 2018,
GoBD export modifications. - GDPR (28 EU Countries):
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) standardizes data protection law across all 28 EU countries and imposes strict new rules on controlling and processing Personally Identifiable Information (PII). - Australia: BAS and GST Reporting.
Responsive User Experience
Sage X3 provides all users with a responsive user experience regardless of where they are working or what devices or browser they are using.
This is a true device egnostic and browser egnostic user experience.
The page layout adapt automatically to the size of the screen, from mobile to a desktop taking in account the size of the fields and the corresponding titles to get the best use of the available space and works all the pages including classic pages.
A simple page and screen designer that replaces the previous authoring node adapts to the fit of the organization.
This ensures this mobile application framework written in HTMI file and Java script supports mobile applications that are optimized for touch screens and small screens.
The Sage X3 mobile platform supports multiple devices and operating systems including Smart Phones and Tablets, Windows, Android and Apple IOS.
Click on the circles to find out more:
- Streamline all workflows and accelerate the management of business functions from Procurement to manufacturing, inventory, sales, customer service and Financials.
- Access dashboards personalized for each role to monitor performance and get alerted of anomalies affecting your business in real time.
- Analyse the business with customisable scoreboards for each role and navigate up and down the Audit trail to manage risks.
- Access data and process inquiries right from your IOS, Windows or Android devices.
Microsoft Integration
Sage X3 includes a suite of Microsoft office add ins for PowerPoint, Excel and Word.
The simple price of sharing of documents, these add ins provides live links between Microsoft Office documents and Sage X3 data including Excel tables, PowerPoint tables and charts.
The links are saved as part of all Microsoft office documents that can then be circulated reopened and refreshed as necessary.
The add ins are available from Microsoft Office 2010, 2013, 2016 for PC.
They are also available from 365, when installed on a PC.
Sage Business Cloud Sage X3 Vision and Value Question.
Sage Business Cloud X3 provides a ……….,more………Business management solutions than conventional ERPs for organizations looking to thrive and retain their . …. by increasing their agility and embracing……………
Fill in the Gaps.
Sage Business Cloud X3 provides a faster, more intuitive and tailored Business management solutions than conventional ERPs for organizations looking to thrive and retain their competitive advantage by increasing their agility and embracing change at speed.
Knowledge Check
Matching Descriptions with numbers:
Number of Sage X3 Customers
Numbers of Business Partners Worldwide
Number of Industry Verticals
Number of Certified Consultants
Number of end-users Worldwide
Number of countries used in.
Number of Sage X3 Customers - 6000.
Numbers of Business Partners Worldwide - 480.
Number of Industry Verticals - 18.
Number of Certified Consultants - 1,300.
Number of end-users Worldwide - 620,000.
Number of countries used in. - 80.
Knowledge Check
Sage X3 provides add-inns that integrate with which of the following Microsoft applications?
Select all that apply.
PowerPoint
Word
Excel
