200

Question 1

What is the yearly revenue of target audience?

Answer 1

Between £1m and £20m

Question 2

What are the verticals Sage 200 can support?

Answer 2

It’s aimed at product oriented businesses, like Manufacturing, Wholesale, Construction, Transport, Agriculture or Retail

Question 3

Is Sage 200 a cloud solution?

Answer 3

Trick Question.
Sage 200 Standard is a cloud native solution.
Sage 200 Professional however, has 3 different modes of deployment: Fully on-premise, Cloud with deployment environment preferred by client and Cloud with Microsoft Azure as the deployment environment.

Question 4

Name 2 CRM systems Sage 200 can integrate with?

Answer 4

Sage CRM and Salesforce

Question 5

Give a few examples of integrations available in Sage 200?

Answer 5

Sage CRM, Salesforce, Microsoft Office 265, Microsoft Power BI

Question 6

Name 2 reasons why would a manufacturing company migrate from Sage 50 to Sage 200?

Answer 6

Sage 50 is limited in it’s customization and might not allow the company to run their workflows they way the need to.
Sage 50 provides basic BOM, nowhere as robust as what Sage 200 offers with it’s own BOM or the SICON Manufacturing module.

Note:
Prospect should still consider Cim50 Manufacturing addon for Sage 50 available via Sage Marketplace before moving onto Sage 200

Question 7

What is the vertical Sage 200 Standard can support in limited capacity with comparison to Sage 200 Professional?
Why?

Answer 7

Manufacturing.
SICON Manufacturing module is not available in Standard version.

Question 8

Sage 200 is a ‘Multi’ product. In what aspects is it ‘multi’?

Answer 8

It’s Multi-Location and Multi-Currency but NOT Multi-Legislation.

Question 9

Is Sage 200 suited for international corporations? Explain.

Answer 9

No.

It doesn’t support multiple legislations on one ‘instance’ of 200.

Question 10

Give at least one example of what SICON Manufacturing module can do but Sage 200 BOM cannot.

Answer 10

Barcoding and Warehousing capabilities,
Stock allocation,
Works orders (operation planning),

Question 11

What is BOM, what vertical is it useful in? Give 3 features of BOM.

Answer 11

BOM stands for Bill of Materials.
It’s useful in Manufacturing, especially Light Manufacturing.
It allows company to Manage, Control and Cost stock used to manufacture products.

Question 12

What pains can lack of BOM cause? Think of at least 3.

Answer 12

1. Very slow, tedious and expensive process of tracking stock manually
2. Part shortages
3. Disruptions in assembly process
4. Lack of visibility in the production process
5. Inability to make informed business decisions

Question 13

What is SICON?

Answer 13

SICON is an ISV (Independent Software Vendor) with Sage. 
They provide a very robust Manufacturing module for Sage 200 Professional.
It's suitable for complex manufacturing, unlike BOM.

Question 14

Name a few features of SICON Manufacturing module

Answer 14

Barcoding,
Warehousing,
Job costing,
Works orders,
Life on shelf

Question 15

Does Sage 200 support multi entity consolidation?

Answer 15

Yes it does

Question 16

Explain how advanced reporting and dashboards work in Sage 200?

Answer 16

They both allow for a very high degree of customization and personalization.
Users can create their own custom dashboards to see the general figures of whatever they are interested in as well as drill into them further to see their breakdowns.
This includes multi-entity, multi-currency and multi-location consolidations.

Question 17

Can Sage 200 stop an unauthorized user from viewing sensible data? Explain.

Answer 17

Sage 200 offers a permissions based access.

Super user can assign roles to other users which then dictates what exactly these users can view.

Question 18

How would Sage 200 prevent someone from creating a transaction in a past accounting period?

Answer 18

Sage 200 operates on open/closed accounting period basis.

Once accounting period is closed, a normal user cannot create transactions in that period