As a manufacturing company, we use Sage to track inventory and payment collections. We also leverage the service center capabilities to process repairs.
Pros
Inventory tracking
Bill of materials
Invoicing
Cons
Needs a modern API
Become a true cloud application
Needs tax rate lookup
Likelihood to Recommend
It is good for small businesses that work in a single location. It doesn't scale well for bigger businesses with multiple locations. It doesn't have a true cloud version and requires a desktop app so not good for those wanting to access it on mobile devices.
Sage 100 is used in the organization as the back office accounting tool for keeping the company's accounts in order, receivables and payables tracked, etc. We use the financial reporting tools and reports to highlight the monthly financials for our executives. We also are in process of utilizing Sage Field Ops in order for our field operations team to be able to collaborate better on their jobs and keep track of all the job details.
Pros
Customer relations - our implementation representative is phenomenal.
Accounting functionality and a plethora of reports.
Job costing and tracking both in Field Ops and regular site.
Cons
The reports take a long time to load and run.
The dashboard could be more easily customizable.
Likelihood to Recommend
Sage 100 has been well suited for running the monthly accounts receivable and accounts payable aging reports. This helps us track our accounts that need to be collected and payments that need to be made. Our field operations team has been slow and unwanting to adopt the Sage Field Ops just because they're resistant to change and technology. It's less appropriate for really detailed accounting reports spanning for long periods of time with all accounts because it takes a very long time to run and process.
Sage 100 is the heart of our business. We use it for pretty much all of our day to day operations such as; order entry, inventory tracking, customer purchase history, historical product data, & pricing. While not limited to these categories, these are what modules are most typically used among our employees.
Pros
Tracks inventory / flags us when it's time to order more product in as inventory is running low
Data filters are very quick and easy to use
We appreciate the simple layout of Sage 100, it's easy to navigate & even if you aren't familiar, it's easy to learn the basics from simply just playing around.
Cons
Sage 100 at times will simply not connect to our server, we get remote support & all is well but, that issue tends to happen 2-3X a year.
Other than the above, I really can't complain. Coming from a more custom U.V. type database that used a whole bunch of codes to navigate, I think Sage 100 is 10x easier to use.
Likelihood to Recommend
Sage 100 is great for referencing customer historical data. - Say a customer calls us and says "man I stopped in your shop a few months ago & picked up some really slick gloves & need more!" - Majority of the time our customer's don't have a part number or, much for us to reference so, we will pull their records & determine what they got previously & get them sorted!
From a business standpoint, I'm not really sure where Sage 100 would be less appropriate? - Perhaps if your a small mom/pop shop or a one man business, it may be more than you need but, I could still see it being beneficial if it is a sales driver.
Our company is a larger conglomeration of multiple related organizations. We have roughly 300 employees, across 10 companies in the US. Our organization needed an ERP solution with a full range of modules from payroll, receivables, payables, and inventory management. Sage 100 was the best fit for our company and we have been using it for well over 20 years.
Pros
Inventory Management, with bin locations, and customizable fields
Full sales workflow from Quote, Sales Order, to Receivables
Payroll module with robust reporting capability
Cons
Database backend, Sage 100 relies on the ProvideX database, which has limited ODBC functionality
Document management. Paperless Office is not a robust solution for Sage 100 and feels like an add-on.
Support. Getting support is tricky, and you will usually have to work with your reseller/support partner.
Likelihood to Recommend
Sage 100 is well suited for medium to large sized businesses. It works great in the manufacturing and b2b sales industry. It's fairly well known with plenty of partners creating integrations that support it. Since it was originally designed for accountants, it has a very attractive and well rounded feature set for accounting departments.
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Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (201-500 employees)
We use Sage100 as a total ERP solution, integrating all critical elements of the business, including: production, inventory management, purchasing, customer information, sales order entry, payables and all general ledger/financial functions. Because it integrates all functional areas of the business, Sage100 offers a seamless approach to managing our business.
Pros
General ledger and financial statements
customer organization
production and inventory management
payables
Cons
payroll and hr functions
need to consolidate steps for running transactions
cost
Likelihood to Recommend
We utilize standard costing for manufacturing our products. Sage100 makes the process easy for setting production jobs, processing completed jobs and having all of that information integrate with the general ledger. When manufacturing consistent products, this process is easy and straightforward. The process may be much more difficult for companies that manufacture products for other people, i.e. job shops. While Sage100 could handle these scenarios, it would users to be continually adding custom inventory for each part made.
Sage 100cloud is used across our organization. We use it to take orders, AP, AR, Billing, inventory, month end, and generate reports. We use the it across our entire company in all departments. It addresses most of our needs.
Pros
AR
AP
Bank Reconciliation
Month End
inventory
Cons
It is unforgiving when a mistake is made
When posting a batch there is no way to preview it first
There is no way to undo an entry
Likelihood to Recommend
I believe in most companies that Sage 100cloud would be useful. In manufacturing, clothing, merchandising and restaurant industries it would work great.
I believe the service industry may find Sage 100cloud not as useful.
We use Sage 100 Enterprise Resource Planning system as our primary accounting and inventory system for the vast majority of our offline non-ecommerce business. It serves as the primary repository for all of our transaction information. We create purchase orders, sales orders, and inventory plans from within the ERP software, as well as manage manufacturing orders.
Pros
The reports are easily customized for management reporting.
The dashboards are also easily customized for at-a-glance data gathering.
It functions much like other databases that rely on a one-to-many primary key relationship. If you understand one database, you understand Sage.
Cons
It's painfully slow even for mid-sized businesses like ours without millions of transactions.
It crashes very, very often and has numerous critical failures.
Unfortunately, it's a local program so that excludes it from being used remotely. You have to be on site for it to work.
Likelihood to Recommend
I assume it has great security and enterprise integrity, but honestly it's not well suited for a company trying to move quickly. It crashes often, needs to be updated frequently, and support is very bureaucratic. It would be better if it could sit on cloud servers with higher up-time and responsiveness.
We use Sage 100 ERP in the accounting department for general ledger accounting and accounts payable. It allows up to keep our general ledger information in one location and generate financial reports easily.
Pros
Sage 100 allows ease of inputting invoices for accounts payable, along with payment of said invoices.
Sage 100 allows ease of inputting journal entries and maintenance of the general ledger.
Sage 100 allows for multiple companies in one location with ease of moving between them.
Cons
Sage 100 does not have the ability to easily choose multiple invoices to be paid in one batch.
Sage 100 is somewhat difficult to initially set up GL for a company.
Likelihood to Recommend
If a company is small with basic needs, then Sage 100 is well suited. If there are multiple companies with complex needs, then there are improvements that can be made to Sage 100.
The suite is used mainly to support other entities and companies. Our consulting company provides services of accounting as a third party provider.
The suite is used to keep accounting books updated, tax reports and legal compliance for all small and medium companies.
Pros
Easy to use
Addresses key aspects of accounting
Easy to maintain
Cons
Access to menu could be improved
Printing outputs
Some screens do not look comprenhensive
Likelihood to Recommend
It is suited for small and medium companies, who don't have much expectation for fancy analysis or graphical outputs. Do not expect cross data analysis, inter-company analysis or analysis over several years.
Sage 100 is being used across the entire organization. We recommended the implementation of Sage 100 because it allowed the organization to benefit in three key areas: (1) Simplify financial dashboards, (2) integrate supply chain reporting to the financial reporting, and (3) automate repetitive financial processes. In more detail, these three key areas were addressed by Sage 100 in the following ways: (1) Prior to Sage 100, the organization created and managed budgets using Microsoft Excel. This was less than ideal because spreadsheet budgeting is prone to errors and the inability to easily and automatically integrate with other departments or budgets. (2) Prior to Sage 100, the organization was unable to manage any aspect of the supply chain until invoices had been received from vendors, which could often be 20-60 days after placing the order. (3) Sage 100 has allowed the organization to automate approximately 35% of financial accounting and reporting processes which has saved the organization 1.5 FTE per annum.
Pros
Simplifying financial dashboards and reporting
Automating financial accounting and reporting processes
Supply chain reporting and management
Cons
Not ideal for fixed asset heavy businesses because Sage Fixed Assets is separate software
Significant set-up time on automated processes. Would not make sense for a small business
Could be cost prohibitive for a smaller business
Likelihood to Recommend
Best suited for an asset light medium sized business. Not appropriate for a small business, or a business with many fixed assets, particularly if those companies already have appropriate supply chain management software in place. Best for a company that is trying to reduce the number of people within finance and accounting department.
