Job Ops also has modules for full Field Service Functionality along with advanced finite capacity drag and drop scheduling. This solution is built in the same code base as MAS so it looks and feels like the rest of the solution and uses the same data.

Mark Chinsky at Clients First has just posted a one hour demonstration video you can watch without providing any registration information that salesmen typically use to call you with moronic questions like “hey I noticed you watched our video – so do you have any questions or should I just write up the order”.

Enjoy the video in peace and quiet.

Click here to view the embedded video.

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This conference, termed “Meeting of the Minds” , is sponsored by The 90 Minds Consulting Group - a 100+ member organization which I helped found back in 2005.

The 90 Minds Consulting Group is an independent collaborative organization where consultants from across the country share knowledge around topics that in turn help their customers derive greater value from their ERP software.

Some examples of the knowledge sharing:

• At least half a dozen members are experts on scripting within Sage 100 ERP (formerly Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200)
• The group regularly polls all members on when the latest release of Sage product is relatively bug free and safe to install
• At least half a dozen members are experts on the popular Job Ops third party manufacturing solution
• Joined by a common online social platform , group members exchange inquiries about technical support issues which allow them to bypass the official support avenues of the software publisher – and ensure a higher level of support.
• Feedback on experiences with third party solutions – including which ones to embrace and which to avoid.

The group was formed (and continues to thrive) based on an awareness that simply providing a help desk level of support is no longer acceptable to most customers. Customers were asking for opinions on various solutions to software issues that could not be answered simply by browsing a relatively static knowledgebase.

90 Minds Consulting Group Announces Inaugural Meeting Of The Minds

90 Minds Members

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From what we can see the beauty of Connected Services is that there is no modification of the underlying Sage software. Rather than create an enhancement that then requires updating each time you load a new Sage version – these Connected Services will hook externally to your Sage data (with your permission).

This will allow for much simpler future upgrades and a potentially greater number of useful services to choose from.

Sage Connected Services Listing

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Customers upgrading to 4.5 will receive a FREE fully functional SageCRM 7.1 user and server license, and one Sage ERP MAS Intelligence Report Manager License. Intelligence now includes new Reporting Tree capabilities and enhanced report distribution. 4.5 is so flexible, you can choose to remain on your current system, or move to Sage ERP MAS 200 SQL*, running on a Microsoft SQL Server database.

Also incorporated in 4.5 are the 37 enhancements provided through downloadable Product Updates since Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200 4.4 shipped last year, in Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Bank Reconciliation, Inventory Management, Job Cost, Paperless Office, Payroll, Sales Order, as well as additional system-wide features and functionality.

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The program issue was:
Daily Transaction Register doubles the amount of one or more invoices from Sales Order Invoice Journal

Until Sage issued their program fix the only workaround was to preview the posting registers before updating.
Possible Workaround:

• Expand Modules, Sales Order, Main, Daily Sales Reports/Updates
• Preview the Daily Sales Journal and exit.
• Answer No to Print the other reports (Gross Profit, Sales Recap, etc..)
• Answer No to Update the Daily Sales Journal

• Expand Modules, Sales Order, Main, Daily Sales Reports/Updates
• Print the Daily Sales Journal as well as all subsequent reports
• Answer Yes to Update
• Print the Daily Transaction Register – it should reflect the correct detail and total information.

More

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When a customer has 64-bit OS systems, they naturally want to install 64-bit versions of MS Office. All seems fine until one decides to connect to their 32-bit ODBC and are greeted by the “Specified DSN contains and architecture mismatch”. This happened to me – from a 64-bit version of Excel running on a 64-bit OS, selected Data, Other Sources and then selected SOTAMAS90*. (Note the asterisk). Once selected the message displays about the mismatch.

Is there any way around this? It seems that you need a method to tell the 64-bit programs that when they want to use a specific 32-bit ODBC they need to go through SYSWOW64 and call the ODBCAD.EXE. However, I’ve not found any options to force it to the 32-bit ODBC.

The short answer is that 64 bit ODBC drivers are not yet available for Sage 100 ERP .

What most users have done is uninstall any 64 bit apps (usually Microsoft Office 64 Bit) and installing their 32 bit versions.

Our 90 Minds Consulting Group has been tracking this issue since August 2011 and have the following feedback:

- Might be able to in MAS 5.0 but probably pushed to 5.1
- PVX Plus may have a 64 bit ODBC to offer (for a fee) at some point (I think they’re testing)

The present resolution has been to uninstall 64 bit Microsoft and install 32 bit.

Would gladly welcome updates from anyone with different workarounds.

UPDATE: The 64 Bit ODBC Drivers are available from PVX Plus per the following post on the MAS90 LinkedIN group:

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This appears to be a known issue and Sage have a knowledgebase entry :

Multiple form codes appear in Form Code lookup in 4.50 after installing Product Update 1

 According to the entry a fix is pending and hoped for a release prior to or within the next product update.

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Update 1-25-2012: Sage have issued a program patch to resolve this issue

In a post on the MAS90 LinkedIN Group over the weekend Sage have updated their status (click image to view full sized):

Via: 90 Minds Consulting Group

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This was a bogus email and customers should be instructed to disregard it. It appears that Sage may have sent out a notice to at least some partners a few days ago advising them of the fake email.

Here’s a partial copy of the text within the email.

Subject: Annual Agreement Update – Sage Payments

Dear Sage Payments customer, you need to renew your annual agreement
with Sage. Failure to do so will result with your account status set to
-INACTIVE-, only test transactions will be possible. Download your
personal login page from this email and continue.

Sage VT Team 2012.

Copy of Bogus Login:

Via: Sage Payments

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This isn’t as big a change as it may seem since those already owning the software can continue using it. The impact will primarily be for new users who in the past could request a free license key for Knowledgesync simply by paying first year maintenance.

Reportedly these changes go into effect January 31, 2012

via: Sage KnowledgeSync Free Edition Retired

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The Bronze plan is the one used by most of our customers and, until Sage abruptly discontinued it, allowed for periodic software upgrades with no help desk access to Sage.

Under Sage’s Silver plan the additional percentage paid to Sage will be 3% (Bronze was 18% and Silver’s new price is 21% of product SLP). In additional to the benefits Bronze previously offered Sage adds very limited help desk access (5 contacts per year ).

This Sage access is best used for basic front line questions about things such as an error message or a request for a copy of your software unlocking codes. Do not expect them to advise you on best business practices, provide candid opinions on third party solutions  or guide you with non-routine implementation questions. They are technicians working from a knowledgebase, not experienced field consultants with decades of business experience.

Schulz Consulting has a network of 90 fellow consultants working to provide feedback on:

• What is the real world experience with the latest MAS90 upgrade? Is it relatively bug free and  ’safe’ to install (On December 14, 2011 three of our 90 Minds members caught a critical v4.50 error that was causing some daily transaction registers to double during Sales Order updates – and immediately notified our mutual customers to defer upgrades pending a Sage fix)
• Consultants with skills in scripting (our group has 4 of the best Sage scripting consultants in the country), reporting (we have a Crystal Reports export, a Sage MAS Intelligence expert and several BizNet consultants, custom programming (three of our members are authorized to modify Sage 100 ERP source code), manufacturing (we operate a full time 24 x 7 support area for Job Ops manufacturing software and have half a dozen experts), eBusiness
• Unpublished workarounds for issues not document anywhere in the knowledgebase
• Experiences with add-on software from various third party providers – EDI, Bar Coding, Sales Tax – often we provide references for these services that may or may not reinforce a decision to continue investigating them

In short, if you were previously on Bronze maintenance, you will see a 3% increase in the cost of your annual plan if it renews on or after 3/1/12.

If you were on Silver or Gold with Sage – there’s no change.

Schulz Access Agreements for your consulting and systems support remain unchanged.

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Now through January 31, 2012 you can select any of the enhancements from the list below and take 50% off the product price.

AP-1046 Division Number by Distribution Line
AP-1076 Retain Paid Invoices for 9,999 Days
AP-1085 Multiple Company Vendor Synchronization
AP-1102 Automatic Next Vendor Number
AP-1109 Budget Comparison for A/P and P/O
AP-1117 Auto A/R Invoice Creation from A/P Inv Entry
APLC Subcontractor License Expiration Checking
APMR Multi-Company Reporting
APMV Master Vendor
AR-1007 Ship To Addresses
AR-1032 Consolidated Statements
AR-1095 Retain Paid Invoices for 9999 Days
AR-1099 Import Into Cash Receipts
AR-1115 Enhanced Credit Checking
AR-1124 A/R Invoicing of Jobs to Multiple Customers
AR-1129 Sales Tax Automation System
AR-1173 Sales Order Deposits On Rec’vble Reports
AR-1205 G/L Segment Subst. by Custom Office UDF
AR-1227 Terms Code Disc. per Sales Code Qty Ordered
BM-1026 Parent Items as Components of Themselves
BM-1043 Alternate Component Order on Picking Sheets
GL-1043 Billion Dollar Support
GL-1060 Daily Amortization Utility for Service Contracts
IMUE Lot/Serial UDF Edit
IM-1042 Customer Specific Item Numbers
IM-1090 Exended Item Information Posting to Job Cost
IM-1099 User Defined Fields In Product Line Maintenance
IM-1137 Always Taxable Item Designation
IM-1203 Extended Description Display in I/M Inquiry
IM-1212 Item Pricing by Customer/Ship To/Warehouse
IM-1217 Additional Pricing Methods in Item Pricing
IM-1220 Apparel Matrix for Inventory and Sales Order
IM-1261 Alternate Calculation of Cost Markup %
IT-1000 Internet Sales
IT-1024 Purchase Control Integration with e-Business Mgr
JC-1000 Inventory Price Transfer
JC-1012 Enhanced Burden & Overhead Allocation Posting
JC-1157 Job Pay Rate Type
JC-1158 Cost and Price Summary Reports By Cost Code
JC-1159 Job Transaction Information Report
PO-1026 Special and Misc. Item Update to Job Cost
PO-1127 Multiple General Ledger Account Allocation
PO-1182 Consolidated Postings to Job Cost
PO-1196 Freight Posting to Job Cost
PR-1006 Washington State Unemployment Report
PR-1030 Employer Taxes (Actual) Posted to Job Cost
PR-1055 Deduction Calculation for Pension Plans
PR-1108 Half Time Due
PR-1131 Update Last Check Date to Employee UDF
PR-1136 Enhanced Payroll Check History
PR-1137 Payable Sick Benefit
PR-1138 Pension Enrollment Verification
PR-1139 Restrict Benefit Earnings to Available Hours
PR-1140 Employee Maint. Benefit Accrual Security
PR-1141 Employee Termination Utility
PR-1142 Reimbursement Earnings Type
SO-1010 Sales Order Data Entry Tracking By User ID
SO-1017 S/O Line Print Suppression
SO-1047 Commissions to use Alternate Cost/Price
SO-1056 Segment Substitution On The Fly
SO-1092 Bill Option Description & Price On SO Forms
SO-1123 Import Utility for Sales Order
SO-1250 Auto Next Order/Invoice Number by Division
SO-1274 Master Orders to Impact on Sales Order
SO-1288 Enhanced Auto Generate Invoice Function
SO-1394 Additional Order and Invoice Number Series
SO-1396 Negative Lot/Serial Distribution in Inv. Entry
SO-1477 Auto Create One P/O from S/O Entry
SO-1500 Enhanced Starship Link
SO-1533 Sales Order Ship Date Restrictions
SO-1547 Pricing by Product Line/Customer
SO-1549 Duplicate Item Checking in Sales Order Entry
SOCM Sales Order Enhanced Credit Memo
TB-1000 Time and Billing Interface with TimeCard and Payroll
TB-1022 Bill Rate By Client/Employee/Work Code
TC-1033 Enhanced TimeCard Options
TC-1036 TimeCard Integration with Union Payroll
TC-1047 Allowable Number of Days Between TC Entries
TC-1049 Duplicate Entry Prevention
TC-1050 TimeCard Entry for Subcontractors
TR-1000 Truck Management – Windows
WO-1000 Bar Code Import into Work Order
WO-1004 Operation Tckt Printing w Range of WO No.
 

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Seven years ago I was one of the founding members of a (then) small group of Sage partners. We initially met at the annual Sage Software conference and kept in touch throughout the year by email. We’d exchange a few messages each month when one of us ran into a touch technical issue regarding MAS90 or MAS200.

Over time our membership grew until 90 Minds Consulting, with membership approaching 90 people,  is now perhaps the largest such Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200 collaborative effort in the country.

Here are some thoughts about how we moved from a handful of people to several dozen – and in the process had to adapt our collaborative efforts to manage our growth.

Online software and technology makes it easier than ever to share ideas, technical inquiries and just socialize with colleagues across the state or even the world.

In 2005 a group of accounting software colleagues started sharing information via email groups.

We met at the annual Sage Software conferences, exchanged email addresses and kept in touch throughout the year.

We would exchange email when one of us encountered an unusual technology issue. This allowed for second opinion sharing.

Our first foray into this type of collaboration was simple email. From there we progressed to group email. And lastly (where we are today) is online collaboration software (Yammer or Socialcast are examples).

Here’s how we progressed:

1. Large email list that everyone had to hit “reply all” for

Pros: Available to everyone
Cons: Does not scale well for large groups, no ability to have different subgroups

Problem: You forget to hit reply all and start having private conversations. Soon half the group doesn’t benefit from the collective wisdom of everyone because email conversations become private (depending upon if someone forgot the reply-al).

This works well for small groups (under half dozen people). As the group grows you may become increasingly frustrated with simple email exchanges. Personally I always forget to hit “reply all” and my patience is short for this type of communication.

2. Graduated to Group Email (Yahoo Groups)

Pros: No need to “reply all”
Cons: Does not scale well for groups that have multiple types of members (interests) – such as technical, marketing, management

This is a free service from Yahoo. Google has one too. You can setup a group and obtain one email address. When members of the group send an email to that address everyone gets a copy of the email (yeah – no more ‘reply all’)…

This free group is nice because if members want to only read messages online (as opposed to having them sent to their inbox) they can go online and set their individual group options (one option is usually to read messages only online versus individual emails).

Problem: Too much email. Our group grew and grew to 1,500-ish email exchanges per month. That was WAY too many for us to have in our inboxes and still be noticing client emails, etc.

Problem: The group worked great for on-topic stuff but when discussions strayed (think politics) there would be some days I’d have 100+ emails about the latest candidate or celebrity gossip that someone in our group was hung up on.

Problem: Logging into Yahoo was too many clicks to get to the point where I could begin reading and replying to emails. We also couldn’t create special interest groups — all email replies were going to the entire group. For example our manufacturing experts were being hit with emails from our marketing experts. And our marketing exerts were reading technical information that wasn’t in their area of expertise.

3. Graduated to online collaboration using Socialcast (where we are today).

Pros: Scales well, can establish separate groups, can establish external groups so non-members can have limited participation, highly configurable for notifications, can still interact via email

Cons: Some platforms are free though only for company email domains, lock in of data

Early last year a small group of us (about three or four people) started using Socialcast which is an online collaboration platform somewhat similar to the old computer BBS (bulletin board system) of the early 1980′s.

This platform is operated on what’s often termed a “fermium” model. You may setup your own groups provided that everyone joining has the same company email address. If the company wants to take on administrative control or add features such as admitting non-company participants then there’s a fee involved.

Socialcast allows us to create separate interest groups for our members (presently about 90 Sage consultants across the United States).

In the past using email or email groups we were sending email to everyone in the group — no matter what their level of expertise – now with Socialcast we allow our members to join groups based on their interest.

We have these groups available for our members:

- Business of consulting
- General discussion & chit-chat
- Job Ops
- MAS 90 & MAS 200 Routine
- MAS 90 & MAS 200 Urgent (Configured to send all 90 members an email for any new post)
- Sage CRM
- Sage news and discussion

Here’s The Payback of Collaboration

For a nominal annual fee which covers the cost of our collaboration platform each individual member is connected to a nearly real-time support system. Since our consulting members are often working weekends, holidays and late nights – this extra access to support is invaluable should an invariable issue be encountered during the consulting project.

Our group also regularly provides opinions about:

• Various third party add-ins for  MAS 90 or MAS 200
• The readiness of various upgrades and product updates for customer use
• Second opinions on specific industry usage of MAS90 or MAS200

This group grew from one simple activity – collecting business cards at educational conferences and keeping in touch with those people who regularly attended the conference.

The next time you’re at a trade show, conference or even a seminar – consider whether starting your own version of a collaboration group might be beneficial. Start small and take advantage of the free or low cost resources that can connect your contacts and provide you with a great depth of resources that you have locally. In return you can offer your customers and exceptional customer experience that they won’t be able to obtain elsewhere.

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Temporarily work around this by adding an “x” to the end of the url as shown below:

via: 90 Minds

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For employees with CT withholding codes:

If the period ending date in payroll data entry is in 2011 and the current payroll quarter is in 2012 — when you go to run the payroll tax calculation you may notice that some CT employees have no CT tax withheld unless they have an override amount in their employee maintenance screen.

I was able to resolve this by changing the period end date so it falls into 2012 and recomputing the payroll taxes.

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After some debate about potential ways to accomplish this task – Dawn Anastasi - of C&G Consulting offered up this best practice:

Yes that is possible, you want to turn off the quantity checking in S/O first of all. Second, you want to turn OFF the setting in Role Maintenance for “allow to exceed qty on hand” on tab #3.

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CT DRS 2012 Withholding Tables

CT W-4 for 2012

CT 2012 Withholding Forms and Tables

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Provided your pay is regular each period the Connecticut withholding tax tables appear to work just fine. When payroll is different weekt to week (as may be the case with vacation or holiday pay or year end bonus) then the CT Withholding tables (provided by the state) may inaccurately withhold too much.

According to the Courant:

Because the increase in state income taxes began in August, but was retroactive to the beginning of the year, state income tax withholding is designed to both take out the right amount for the current pay period and for the first two-thirds of the year. But when employees have higher pay than usual, many payroll systems assume they’ve been earning that amount all year.

Even the state of Connecticut had overwithholding issues, with Department of Transportation workers after Tropical Storm Irene. The state did not make a fix to its software, because the same thing happened again in December, for corrections officers who received holiday pay and overtime.

“Those employees have been refunded where possible,” said Tara Downes, spokeswoman for the state Comptroller.

The good news: no worker, no matter how plumped up his check is with overtime or bonuses, will see this glitch starting Sunday. That’s because the systems will no longer be trying to calculate retroactive withholding.

via: Hartford Courant  and State of CT Withholding Tables for 2012 (PDF)

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Sage provides a full explanation of their PEP program here.

From their site:
We collect information about your usage of the software program, the hardware used to run the program, and statistics about your company. We also collect the serial number of your product so that we can identify trends over time for a given installation. We do not collect financial information from your company information. For example, we may be interested in how many Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200 customers use “Enter Cash Receipts” versus “Apply Payments and Memos”, but we will not collect any information contained in the individual transactions.

Examples of the data collected:

• What version of Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200 is installed?
• What auditing features are enabled?
• How often is the “Shipping Data Entry” screen used?
• How many transactions are in the system?
• What is the serial number of the product being used?
• What is the operating system running Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200?
• Does the company use finance charges?

We are interested in aggregating usage data so that we can identify areas of the program that we need to improve. We may also use the information we gather to create offers that suit your individual needs. As we continue to gather and analyze data, we may change the types of data we collect to better achieve the goal of improving our products and services. Those changes will be transparent and will not affect your work.

How often will I be sharing this anonymous information with you?

We anticipate that the information will be shared once per day.

How is data sent and stored?

All information will be sent automatically via the Internet. Once you join the Product Enhancement Program you don’t need to do anything else. Data transmission takes place in the background, without disturbing your current tasks, and should not affect the performance of your computer. Data is encrypted during transmission using SSL and is stored securely. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.

Will you be sharing this information with other companies?

Sage will use this information for internal purposes only.

How long will the Product Enhancement Program run?

The program will run indefinitely or until you choose to discontinue participating. To opt out of the program, please click Product Enhancement Program from the Administrative Tools menu. Once the study has been turned off, no more data will be collected or sent. You can join or drop out of the program as many times as desired.

Here’s The Step-By-Step Instructions To Opt-Out From The Sage Product Enhancement Program

Second, from the administrator screen select the last option “Sage Product Enhancement Program – Change your Participation In The Program”.

Finally, remove the check mark next to the participation.

Note: At this time it appears that you must opt-out each time a product update is installed as some users have reported that when they install the product update they find that they have re-enrolled after specifically opting-out.. Tested installing Sage ERP MAS 90 v4.50 PU2 after opting out on PU1 and the Opt-Out for PEP remained (as it should have) after the PU update.

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