Financial Management for Food & Beverage ERP

Cash Flow Forecasting

• Understand your current cash position, forecast short-term cash flow, and monitor cash receipts and disbursements
• Create multiple cash flow forecasts for different time periods
• Deliver role appropriate cash flow information via role center screens
• Analyze cash flow and take action quickly

Cost Accounting

• Gain greater visibility and insight into how your business is performing by monitoring budgeted and actual operating costs, departments, products, and projects
• Synchronize cost information with the general ledger and allocate costs to different cost centers and objects
• Spot budget variances as soon as they occur and take appropriate action

Costing

• Ability to automatically allocate costs from production cost centers to work centers and products for ingredients, direct labor, and overhead
• Setup as many cost drivers as needed and link them with the supply chain
• Allocate cost from work centers to products with a number of methods like quantity, time, or weight
• After the execution of the product costing, you can analyze the cost of products to their cost components, which are defined according to your needs
• Alternate cost worksheet supports the ability to maintain, track and compare costs over time using definable cost factors
• Item charges and document charges allow you to accrue expected costs; item charge assignment functionality then allows you to associate realized costs against items or documents for reconciliation; handy for freight, duty, storage, and other associated costs
• ‘What-if’ analysis for purposes of sales quotes or pricing
• Standard cost worksheet for standard cost updates
• Analysis reports
• Item budgets
• Jobs management and resource management

Financials

In addition to the billing, invoicing and budgeting functionality present in leading accounting software, Aptean Food & Beverage ERP incorporates data from other departments such as sales, costing and manufacturing into a single system, providing for more accurate and consistent accounting.

• Billing and invoicing
• Accounts payable and receivable
• Budgeting
• Fixed asset management
• Inter-company consolidation (multiple business lines)
• Customer credit management
• Custom approval workflows (new)
• Cost analysis
• Cash flow forecasting
• Multi-currency
• Payroll integration
• General ledger provides ability to set up a company and post to the general ledger including setup of chart of accounts, general journals, tax facilities, recurring journals and source codes
• Full data export to Word or Excel using style sheets and adding links to external documents
• Allocations, budgeting, account schedules, consolidations, responsibility centers and XBRL financial reporting standards, change log, intercompany transactions, dimension, bank reconciliation, and multi-currency support
• Accounts payables is integrated with general ledger and inventory and is required for the configuration of all other purchasing and payables granules
• Accounts receivable is integrated with general ledger and inventory and is required for the configuration of all other sales and receivables granules
• Support for electronic funds transfer, MICR encoded checks, positive pay, and other advanced features
• Track assets such as buildings, machinery and equipment posting various fixed asset transactions: acquisitions, depreciation, write-downs, appreciation and the disposal of assets. 
• For each fixed asset, you set up depreciation books in which depreciation methods and other conditions used for calculating depreciation are defined

Reporting

• Support for tactical and operational reporting
• Detailed reporting in real-time via Excel reduces user’s learning curve and removes the dependence on IT departments for report writing
• Schedule reports for automatic distribution via email
• Easy-to-use report designers that integrate Excel functions like charting, pivot tables, and conditional formatting
• Add-on: Aptean Business Int