1. Contract Pricing (Item) – This is where per customer and warehouse you define what a customer will pay for an individual item.
2. Contract Pricing (Product Price Group) – This is where per customer and warehouse you define what a customer will pay for a product price group. A product price group is assigned to an item. An item may have only one product price group.
3. Inventory Pricing (Customer Price Group) – This is where per item and warehouse you define the customer price group. A customer price group is assigned to a customer. A customer may have only one customer price group.
4. Inventory Pricing (Standalone) – This is where per item and warehouse you define the price for an inventory item.
5. Matrix Pricing by Customer Price Group (or by Product Price group) – Once the product price groups and customer price groups are established, this is where you can enter specific price information for a product price group and/or customer price group combination.
6. Product Price Group – If no matrix pricing is established, pricing options can be established when building the product price groups.
7. Customer Price Basis – On the customer record, you can define per customer how to calculate the price of the item. You choose a price base for the customer. The choices are: Average Cost, List Price, Price sheet 1, Price sheet 2, Price sheet 3, Price sheet 4, replacement cost and standard cost. You can also define a percentage to add to the base price for the customer.
8. Standard Price of the Item – If none of the above exists then the standard price of the item is used.

MAS 500 can also establish promotional pricing. Here you can establish a date range for the promotion as well as add items to the promotion. In determining the sale price if a promotion exists, MAS 500 will use the 8-step hierarchy from above and also calculate the promotional price and will return to the sales order the lower of the two prices.

When establishing pricing in the difference variations, MAS 500 gives us the ability to establish an effective date and expiration date. Besides different methods for calculating the price (Eg..Discount %, Discount Amt., Markup %, Markup amt.), MAS 500 also lets us define quantity break pricing if needed.

The different pricing features of MAS 500 allow flexibility to match your current pricing model. The key is defining how your pricing model works now. In most cases, once defined, MAS 500 has been able to fit the needs of pricing products to customers. 

By Ohio Sage MAS 500 Consultant, Jeff Steel

This quick quiz game is the entrance requirement for a sweepstakes:  Sage is offering a one-year subscription to Sage SalesLogix Cloud for up to 15 users!  This prize is valued at $11,700 (and that doesn’t include any cost savings or increased business you experience as a result of using an industry leading customer relationship management solution). 

Test your CRM IQ, challenge a co-worker, and enter for your chance to win a year of SalesLogix Cloud!

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In this position, the consultant will work with clients to implement Microsoft Dynamics GP. Responsibilities will include: requirements analysis, training, report writing, support and timely completion of client deliverables.

Essential Functions & Qualifications:

• Strong business process analysis skills with the ability to translate requirements into solutions
• Passion for technology and client service
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to learn software quickly
• Ability to view the big picture
• Adherence to methodology and standard practices
• Excellent time management skills
• Strong documentation skills
• Results oriented
• Ability to manage multiple tasks

Education & Experience:

• College degree
• 2+ years consulting experience preferred
• Background in business and finance
• Microsoft Dynamics GP experience required, certification preferred

To Apply:

For consideration, please email your resume and salary requirements to careers@socius1.com or mail to Socius, Attn: HR, 7003 Post Road, Suite 300, Dublin, Ohio 43016. No phone calls please. Socius is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Microsoft Dynamics™ CRM provides organizations with a highly flexible customer relationship management (CRM) platform that can adapt, grow and scale along with your business. This release delivers capabilities that fit the needs of real people working in today’s business environment while meeting the requirements of any size business, including global enterprises.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM is built on a commitment to provide organizations with the Power of Choice to make it easy for you to evolve your business unencumbered by technology limitations. Designed with a single unified code base for both on-premise and on-demand deployments, Microsoft Dynamics CRM enables customers to choose the right deployment model for their specific business and information technology (IT) needs, with the flexibility to change deployment models over time if business or IT preferences change.

Complete the form below continue reading and to see how businesses have achieved consistent and measureable improvement in their everyday business processes in marketing, sales and customer service through the deployment of Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

In order to be eligible for inclusion in the Order Management Hub Wave, software vendors had to fulfill the following criteria:

• demonstrate an ability to provide support for market-leading industries
• demonstrate a broad business process footprint
• target organizations with 500 or more employees

Each product was evaluated based on 112 different criteria on the current offering, product strategy, and market presence. 

Learn more about how Microsoft Dynamics AX can serve as your Order Management Hub.

Join Socius and Microsoft for a FREE financial and operational process automation Webinar designed to help everyone in your organization seamlessly automating redundant processes and providing tools to enhance existing ones. Learn how integrated tools can help:

• Collect cash faster through advanced and automated collections
• Drastically reduce the amount of time in credit processes
• Understand who your best vendors are and access critical data through integrated systems
• Reduce wasted time on internal purchasing processes
• Provide IT staff an automated “case management” system

Hurry, space is limited – reserve your seat today! Invite your staff or others in your organization that would benefit from these strategies

Register for the webinar on September 22, 2010

Register for the webinar on September 29, 2010

Highlights (Web Client Only):

• Welcome Page Widgets: Coupled with a visual refresh to the Welcome page, v7.5.3 offers new widgets enabling users to further personalize their Welcome page and workspace tabs and share that content with other users. The refreshed Welcome Page gives you quick and easy access to the information you use the most.
• Web Administrator Tool: While this does not replace the current Sage SalesLogix Administrator, it does let you access common administrator tasks via the web, such as managing users and teams, pick lists, products, lead sources, library, teams, users, roles, and more.
• Desktop Integration: Drag and drop attachments and email from Microsoft Outlook, perform mail merge, export to Excel, drag and drop Library files (administrator only), and much more.

For a complete overview and demonstration, please contact us!

Also, Professor Crumblehorn is back with another session to teach us about Cloud Computing:

Some of the improvements that SharePoint 2010 features that help further it as a social solution are its:

• User friendly wikis
• Ability to mine Outlook and Exchange for knowledge
• New APIs allow for customization and extended functionality
• Social computing, search, and content management function better together

These improvements have helped to place Microsoft in the leaders quadrant (along with IBM and Jive) of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace.  Gartner also lists Microsoft as the only challenger in the Externally Facing Social Software market, with a stronger ability to execute their software’s vision than any other product in that market-space. 

To see how Sony is using the social features of SharePoint 2010, view this video:

Ten Things to Plan for in ’11 is designed to provide distributors with practical advice on how to build a profitable business plan for the year ahead. 2011 threatens to be another challenging year for wholesale distribution leaders.

Move toward a better business plan with Ten Things to Plan for in ’11!

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Join us for this exclusive webinar with distribution industry expert, Brent Grover.  He provides insight on what to put in your plan for 2011, providing distributors with practical advice to:

• Develop realistic “SMART” sales forecasts and expense budgets
• Set the “right” company priorities 
• Communicate a clear, consistent message to the organization 
• Achieve a solid ROI next year – even if business isn’t strong

Each year, Accounting Technology and its online counterpart WebCPA recognize the country’s top 100 value-added resellers (VAR) of mid-level accounting software packages. VARs are selected for the list and ranked based upon company and revenue size and growth from year to year, as well as the variety and value of the accounting software solutions they provide. 

This year, special consideration was given to organizations embracing cloud computing technology.  Socius is proud to have expanded their reach into this growing aspect of the ERP and CRM industries.  Socius is equipped to provide their clients and prospective clients the power of choice when it comes to ERP and CRM solution deployment.  The recent release of Sage SalesLogix Cloud added to Socius’ existing SaaS CRM offerings so that they now offer both on-premise and on-demand deployments for all of CRM products that they resell.  As of March 2010, Socius became an ERP hosting partner, able to provide SaaS ERP solutions to clients. 

With thousands of firms servicing this industry, it is a tremendous accomplishment for Socius to be selected among the top 100 VARs.  Along with the VAR 100, Socius has consistently received numerous honors from both Microsoft and Sage year after year.

Download the complete VAR 100 list here