The Sage 200 suite

Sage 200 consists of a number of fully integrated modules. You can build on the basic Sage 200 Financials platform to suit your business requirements.

This help system covers the following parts of Sage 200.

Configuration

This is where you set up Sage 200 the way you want to use it and enter settings for each module in the system.

Accounting System Manager

Use this to set up common information across the Sage 200 modules. This includes your company details and currency exchange rates.

Financials Modules

The Sage 200 Financials modules include the core accounting ledgers of Sage 200. The Sage 200 Financials modules can be used on their own, or integrated with other Sage 200 modules.

Nominal Ledger	This is the core of the financial system. Information from all other modules is accumulated here. Use it to set up your chart of accounts A list of all the categories a business uses to analyse income, expenditure, assets, liabilities and capital, together with the way such categories are assigned to the Balance Sheet or Profit and Loss financial statements.. It updates the accounts for all revenue and expenditure, assets and liabilities. You can also use the Fixed Assets feature within Nominal Ledger to record and manage your tangible long term assets, such as land, buildings, furniture, machinery or equipment and vehicles. Depreciation and disposal of assets make postings to the Nominal Ledger.
Sales Ledger	Use to maintain details of your customers. Record and monitor your transactions with them and control their debts.
Purchase Ledger	Use to maintain details of your suppliers. Record and monitor your transactions with them and control your debts.
Cash Book	Use to keep track of money in your bank accounts (in any currency), as well as your petty cash account. You can set up direct debits and standing orders. You can use the Cash Book to reconcile your bank statements.

Commercials Modules

The Sage 200 Commercials modules automate the delivery of your customers orders with effective stock management.

Stock Control	Use to maintain the details of your stock, whether raw materials, finished goods or both. You can record all goods received, exactly where items are located, who supplied them and at what price.
Sales Order Processing	Use to record all goods and services ordered by, invoiced to, supplied to and returned from your customers.
Price Book	Use to maintain different prices for specific customers, product groups or items. For example, you can apply discounts based on quantity ordered.
Purchase Order Processing	Use to record the full details of all goods and services ordered, invoiced, received from and returned to your suppliers.

Sage 200 Project Accounting

Use Project Accounting to maintain and manage your projects effectively. You can allocate cost and revenue transactions to projects.

Sage 200 Manufacturing Modules, including Bill of Materials

This is only applicable to Sage 200 Professional deployed on-premise.

You can use Bill of Materials on its own or as part of Manufacturing. If you are not using Manufacturing, you will only be able to use Bill of Materials for production.

If you are using Bill of Materials with Manufacturing, you will need to follow some guidelines to ensure that the modules integrate correctly.

To read more about the guidelines and see how to set up your system to integrate, see Integrating BOM and Manufacturing.

Bill Of Materials	Use to create Bills of Materials for your manufactured products. Use Bill of Materials sub-assemblies for a multi-level structure.
Estimating	Use to produce estimates for one-off jobs.
Planning	Planning is split into four modules: MPS Master Production Schedule (MPS). The planning of production (usually end item production), to satisfy current and forecast sales orders. The sum of MPS items must equal the agreed sales and operations plan for the items over each planning period. Planning periods are normally a month or a four week period. Items planned within MPS are exploded by MRP (Materials Requirements Planning) to produce the material and capacity requirements. - Use to create a Master Production Schedule. MRP Materials Requirements Planning (MRP). MRP recommends purchase orders, transfers and work orders to balance supply and demand. - Use to create Materials Requirements Planning. Sales Forecasts. Make to Stock.
Works Orders	Use to create and manage works orders.
Operation Times	This is an additional module that forms part of Works Orders. Use to monitor the time taken to complete a task and control productivity.
Manufacturing System Manager	Use to set up commonly used settings, run system wide utilities (such as importing). You can also enter information in registers for use across more than one Manufacturing module.