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Nonprofit Organizations

Businesses in the home appliance industry, from manufacturing to distribution, are all feeling the effects of the new realities of the global economy. In addition to innovation and new product management combined with shorter product lifecycles, manufacturers must be on top of government and industry regulations, tight supply chain management and more. Retailers need to successfully manage various payment options and credit scenarios for both suppliers and customers, enable marketing campaigns and customer loyalty schemes and manage stocks and deliveries. Priority offers you a proven solution to increase productivity and profitability and meet the growing demands of this industry. Priority will help you manage vendors and subcontractors, track and maintain procurement, operations and material management. Business Process Management features allow you to set up rules and conditions, and to receive alerts or notifications when certain conditions are met. The Warehouse Management System will enable you to find the components you need and deliver items in the most timely and efficient manner possible. Every aspect of your business can be interconnected with the Priority system, including purchase planning and requisitions, production control, delivery schedules and shipments, contracts and billing. Manufacturing operations, finances and administration can be unified within the same program, providing consolidated information for quicker and more accurate analysis, and more efficient processes

Nonprofit organizations have special requirements that are essential to any ERP program they choose to run their operations. Always faced with the challenges of working under resource constraints, while minimizing operational overhead and managing organizational spending, non-profits also have unique accounting and fundraising demands with unique business and reporting challenges. With Priority you can effectively manage your organization to meet these unique challenges, addressing such issues as advanced budget planning and accounting, human resources, reporting, development activity, project management and fundraising campaigns. Priority's end-to-end enterprise solution will help you integrate data from many different sources, automate processes and ultimately provide better services for the beneficiaries of the organization.

Issues & Solutions

Graphic Interface for Assigning Technicians

Priorityoffers a fully integrated graphic calendar, in which you can define alerts and constraints, and which can be synchronized with MS-Outlook. Use this calendar to set up meetings, schedule appointments for technicians and sales people, and assign resources.

Managing Long-term Contracts with Set Payment Dates

Priority contains a unique utility for managing long-term contracts, which have an agreed price and fixed payment schedule. The agreements can be linked to varied exchange rates (in the dual currency package), and are invoiced automatically when a payment date is reached.
In a multi-customer environment, billing can be arranged in advance with the customer via a standing order, and charged to the customer's bank account or credit card.

Automatic Inter-Company Transactions

Priority allows you to define inter-company transfer accounts in the General Ledger to enable automatic transfer of inter-company transactions, including the option to automatically record transactions in the second company's ledger, provided this company is included as a database in Priority.

Using MS Word Templates to Format Documents in Priority

Priority resolves the common need for customized documents for external use by using MS Word templates.
You can design customized document templates in Word, add company logos, and, most importantly, implant "smart tags" for data exported from Priority in the appropriate places within the template. Once you have saved the template to the template library, you will be able to print documents in the new format.

Branch Management in Priority

Priority enables you to define and manage the company's branches. Each branch can be linked to an area, enabling sales analysis by branch and by area. Each branch can be linked to the branch warehouse, and its inventory can be managed by the desired inventory levels, as defined for the branch.WMS Warehouse Management Solutions are also available.

Each employee is linked to the branch in which they work. Document numbering can be defined separately for each branch.

You can produce reports summarizing sales by branch (at the order, shipping document, or invoice level), determine separate numbering patterns for each branch's documents, and attach a separate logo to printed documents for each branch.

System access can be limited by user branch, so that each user can access only data related to their own branch or to other branches for which they have been given privileges.

Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Profit Centers

Priority's profit center module enables measurement and analysis of profit centers in the organization by up to 5 different dimensions. For example: dimension 1 - analysis by activity sector, dimension 2 - analysis by department, dimension 3 - analysis by project, etc.
Each dimension is a kind of independent system of revenue and expense, receiving input directly from financial transactions (or partial transactions). A single financial transaction can take part simultaneously in all 5 dimensions operating in the system, according to predetermined rules, or when recording the transaction, or retroactively.

Authorizer Lists for Purchase Requisitions

Authorizer Lists for Purchase Requisitions: Purchase Requisitions (PRs) go through a round of electronic authorization according to PR amount and any other conditions that require authorization.
Priority enables you to create a list of authorizers, which can be activated by PR amount or by business rules defined in the BPM utility, in order to route the PR to the proper authorizers.

Automatic Inter-Company Transactions

Priority allows you to define inter-company transfer accounts in the General Ledger to enable automatic transfer of inter-company transactions, including the option to automatically record transactions in the second company's ledger, provided this company is included as a database in Priority.

Cash Flow Forecast

You can run the Create Provisional Entries program to record open orders, unpaid goods received from vendors, and unbilled shipping documents as provisional journal entries. These entries can then be included in the Cash Flow Forecast.
Using the Cash Flow Forecast Sums form, you can add sums to the cash flow that are not based on invoices or orders (e.g., salaries).

Avoid Deviation from the Purchasing Budget

Priority allows you to activate online budgeting from the very first stages of purchasing. Upon generating a purchase requisition, users will be asked to specify the budget item for which the desired part or service is being requested. Before the PR can be passed on to the organization's purchasing department, the following conditions must be met:
The budget allows for orders to be placed
The user is authorized to place orders for the specified budget item
This mechanism accompanies all subsequent purchasing stages, right up to final authorization of the order and submission to the vendor.

Data Privileges

Data Privileges: How to prevent two users with identical form, report and column privileges from accessing data that they are not authorized to view, such as sales data for another branch or salesperson, or confidential accounts.
The solution to this issue is a data privileges utility that enables you to hide confidential data from users, even if they are authorized to work in the relevant form. Priority supports data authorization by branch/sales representative, as well as the definition of secured accounts, customers, and vendors.

Cash-Based Accounting

Priority offers a comprehensive utility for managing business transactions on a cash basis, including pro forma invoices and journal entries, which do not affect the ledger balance or appear in financial statements. You can perform separate reconciliations for pro forma entries and for regular entries, and you can run customer credit reports and aging reports that take pro forma transactions into account.

When working on a cash basis, you do not debit the customer's account in the ledger until after receiving payment for services rendered. Consequently, you cannot use regular invoices to bill the customer for these services. Instead, you record a pro forma invoice after performing the service and prior to receipt of payment; the sales invoice is recorded only after receipt of payment.