Sage 100

Sage 100 ERP 2015 - I noticed several 90 Minds members in one of the Sage Summit sessions I attended. It was the session that asked for suggestions of features that could be ""quickly"" added to the next release. There was some discussion of beefing up (aka making it usable) the drop ship orders in So and PO so that inventory history is retained. Does anyone know if this is a ""for sure""? I have a big prospect that I believe is close to signing up. There biggest concern is there is no history retained for drop ship orders, which has grown from 24% to 65% of their business in the last 5 years. I believe this to be a trend as many companies are cost saving by scaling back on brick and mortar.

If the only time they would use the Generate PO function from Sales Order is for drop ships, you can setup a warehouse called DS, and use it instead of the traditional Drop Ship. In the Generate PO options (in PO Options), you can choose to have the customer's shipto address copy over to the shipto on the PO for ALL types of POs, not just drop ships. This gives you visibility of the item coming in and going out AND is great at prompting you for an order that should be invoiced and has not been because there will be QOH of the item in the DS warehouse.

Or in other words - don't trust Sage to do anything about it.

That's what they are doing now. They have 3.74 SQL on an Applianz server (not me). This is a fairly recent ROR that has been dutifully paying maintenance for many years but has been walked down the path to hell by the previous reseller. Customizations galore including programs written in SQL, VB strap ons and other crap. They have seen recent demos of Dynamics GP, and Epicor. My solution is to bring the server in house and do the 3 conversions necessary to get them to Sage 100 ERP Premium. They are tired of having the DS warehouse and are requesting a ""real"" solution instead of a workaround.

Tip: Find out there budget first because I suspect you're going to need some type of third party. I would not trust Sage to add it.

I actually really like the ""work around"". It has all of the functions needed for the DS (copies address over to PO), yet gives you all of the tracking in inventory. On 3.74 they're not going to have that option to copy over the address, though, I don't think.

@BethBowers I like it too. I will mention the address copy feature. @WayneSchulz I gave them a ""value pricing"" quote of $50K... and the more dig into it I probably should have said $100K....3 conversions.... if you don;t catch it after the first conversion you get to do it all over again.

Confirmed that it is a ""No Go"" for v2015. A ""Maybe"" for v2016. From Diane Coffman @ Sage. ""I'm so sorry but not for 2015. It is on the short list for 2016 but cant even promise that.

Thanks for checking Jeff.

Decision Tree For New Features: 1. Does it require programming? So sorry. Not on our plan. 2. Can it link out to a basic app that we can sell to Sage 50 entry level users but nobody else? Yes! Roadmap. High Fives! 3. Does ERP X3 have the feature or do we fantasize it will within 2 years? So sorry. Not on our plan.

LOL...Agreed.

JobOps does this.

Apparently drop ship history has been on the short list for a while. Here is @WayneSchulz post from 2008 with the same rhetoric.

Now that's fricking depressing. Why'd you have to remind us of everything we've had dangled in front of us and never received, @DougHiggs ? That's just mean.

I'm not trying to be mean... but it is very depressing... and I guarantee that Sage 100 will never have multi-bin.... because X3 has it.

Erika Jelovsek reminded me that the entire ""short list"" was on the short list for a very, very long time.