Your sales staff
can prospect effectively with the tools available in Amplexus Advantage.
Most importantly, the flexible pricing schemes and detailed contact notes,
help your sales staff SELL in the office and in the field. You can reward
your hard-working staffers with multi-level, incentive-ready commission
plans.
Automated
Vendor Price Updates*
- Simplify product file maintenance by updating product, costs,
and suggested prices automatically via data file supplied by vendor
- Choose which information to update and which to keep
- Update information using manufacturer/vendor product numbers
which will automatically be converted to your part number
- Use saved template for each vendor to streamline update process
- Access a contact list personalized for each user
- Contact list includes comments, phone numbers, follow codes,
etc.
- Easy contact lookup with multiple search features:
- cross reference by any word in the contact name, phone number,
and e-mail
- cross reference by "sounds like" words
- cross reference by additional user-defined lookup words
- Fax and email to contacts using optional integrated fax and
email system
- Lists can serve as distribution lists for mailings, follow-up,
etc.
- Easily add new contacts "on the fly"
- Print contact report
Job Cost*
- Build a job:
- from your quote or bid
- directly from an orderno quote required
- by adding an order to a job
- Use a preexisting job to create a quote to be sure to bid correctly
- Modify jobs easily:
- Add parts to a job
- Add labor hours to a job
- Link to job cost from order entry
- Change orders become fully integrated with little effort
- Add/change line items in order entrysimply assign the
order to the job
- Monitor costs and materials:
- Add miscellaneous costs to the job directly from accounts
payable entry
- Automatic link between accounts payable and job cost master
- Easily control materials required by your customer
- Track cost overruns on screen and by report
- Rely on estimated cost to complete a job - it takes into consideration
bid cost, revised cost, cost history to date, and remaining
balance to complete
- Manage cash flow requirements with screen display of remaining
cash vs. remaining cost
- See quick summary of the job by phase and/or by task
- Bill by phase and/or by invoice
- Create an unlimited number of concurrent jobs per customer
Quotes
- Copy quotes to sales order or to another customer's file
- Save quotes and use as an order template to reduce order entry
time
- Request for
Quotes feature speeds your purchasing process from vendor
- Use any pricing method for a quote
Pricing
- Sell products in one unit of measure and price in another, e.g.,
sell by the each and price by the dozen with the same part number
- Track costs with multiple cost files for each item - accounting
cost, replacement cost, etc.
- Protect cost, price, and profit information with multiple levels
of passwords
- Maintain separate costs for products by warehouse
- Maintain multiple quantity breaks for each product
- Maintain pricing by:
- Customer Price level number
- Columnar (matrix pricing by customer price level number)
- Detailed Pricing and Standard discount lists both supported
- Contracts by customer, by product or product category with
an expiration date
- Pricing by warehouse location
- Quantity break pricing discounts with support for consolidated
aggregate pricing (example: buy two of one item and three
of another to receive the five lot price)
- Advertised pricing by location with expiration date
- Prices can be
- a discount percent from list
- a markup percent from cost
- based on Gross Margin
- a fixed dollar amount
- Pricing can be customized for the customer, product, or product
category:
- Special add-on discounts by customer, product, or product
category
- Overall discounts can be applied for individual customers
- Date sensitive pricing
- A minimum discount percent regardless of the quantity purchased
- Quantity break pricing can be turned off for selected customers
- Multiple price book formats available
- Price books can be sorted alphabetically, even if products are
not in sorted order
- Quickly change prices for categories and subcategories of products
- Pricing can limit the discount percent to maximum level regardless
of the quantity purchased
- Pricing updates from vendors can be integrated into the pricing
and costing functions
- Automatically track and report all price overrides and highlights
low margin sales:
- password protect selling an item below a specified margin%
set by product category
- Manual price overrides at order entry (with optional password)
Commission
- Calculate commissions by profit by line or a percentage of
gross by line
- Pay commission based on invoice date or collection date
- Track commissions paid on overdue customer accounts with "Decommission"
report
- Customize commission system to meet your needs
- Decrease commission percentage automatically if the product
is discounted below user defined levels (commission take back
based on line item profit)
- Recalculate commissions as necessary if cost changes are made
to the invoice -- even after ship confirmation
- Manually adjust commissions line by line as necessary to process
special situations
- Enter a user defined cost in order entry that will apply for
commission purposes on a single order line only
- Calculate commission while taking into account rebated manufacturing
costs that may apply for sales of a specific item to a specific
customer during a specific time period
- Define different commission rates for each sales representative
on each commission class of product
Sales Force
Automation*
- Use remote desktop technology to access the Amplexus system
from anywhere via the Internet
- Review pricing, sales/product use history, and product availability
at your customers place of business
- Create quotes and orders just as if you were in the office
- Optional PDA-sized application is feature-rich in a small package
Sales Prospecting
- Manage unlimited mail lists of prospective customers
- Assign codes to track prospects through the sales cycle
- Use personalized Contact Lists to maintain
contact with prospects
- Create full prospect records with multiple contacts, comments,
company type, assigned sales person, etc
Sales Route Analysis
Report
- Use report to analyze customer sales history by displaying:
- several weeks or several months worth of purchase history
- last sales information
- new pricing changes
- See four periods of purchase history: weekly, monthly, two weeks,
and two months.
- Benefit from the evaluation of the use-rate of the items purchased
by your customer and projected out-of-stock date based on the
last purchase quantity
- Evaluate more than one customer at a time, including "routes"
(groups of customers)
- Automatically incorporate Increased lead times for special order
items
- Review special sales comments before making a sales call
- Report shows:
- part number /description
- unit of measure
- list price
- four periods of quantity history
- use rate per week or month (calculated)
- last invoice number
- last invoice date
- last quantity
- the current sell price to the customer
- a date if the list price of the product has changed since
the last invoice
- a buy recommendation field and a projected run-out-of-stock
date
- Use calculated price (the same as regular order entry price)
which, includes:
- contract pricing
- quantity discounts
- price by customer pricelist number rules
- most recent price change date
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