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You have invested a lot to build a core strategy as an envisioned future for your business. With Argus, you can achieve continuity and higher success through a solution that allows you to supervise what’s happening in your business, and make wise decisions that influence your profit margin and business liquidity.

Argus provides solutions for each trader and manufacturer that help them gain market share, operate at peak efficiency, achieve customer satisfaction, and ultimately be first class in their industries.

Attain Greater Control

Argus finance components offer customers a comprehensive overview of company business from any perspective they wish. At the same time, they can follow and control each financial transaction in detail. These components simplify accounting, enhance control capacity at all levels of the organization and support change processes—whatever business our customers are in.

Argus General Ledger provides a solid base for financial analysis and reporting by gathering and recording financial events from all the systems and subsidiaries within a corporate group. Currency handling and voucher updates are all facilitated with the module. Internal ledgers in parallel with the official General Ledger, together with periodic cost allocation functionality, offer powerful simulation capabilities.

The budget functionality allows for an optional number of parallel budget versions that can be compiled into one to ensure support for decentralized budgeting.

Powerful budget simulation options are also available throughout the entire code string. Integration with Argus Consolidated Accounts allows any number of subsidiaries to be handled. The system can also handle a dual base financial currency system.

With Argus ERP Finance, SoftMachine delivers a flexible, best in class software solution to the challenges faced by business in today’s economy. Argus helps companies to support their enterprise financial information needs, from transactions to reporting and collaborative commerce.

Change is a constant, and successful businesses find strategies to face new challenges and take advantage of the opportunities they present. In finance, it’s a constant quest to achieve higher performance, optimize internal functions, and enable the whole enterprise to focus on core components.

In order to use resources more efficiently, you need high quality information about manyaspects of your company’s performance. By analyzing your financial profile you can setrealistic goals and help to enhance predictability. That requires flexible financial reporting tools that show you the big picture across multiple business units, and the specific detail of deeper analysis, or for legal periodic results.

With advanced business modeling, state-of-the-art functionality, Argus ERP financialsolution goes far beyond conventional financial information systems.

The general ledger lets you record financial transactions at an individual company or group level, creating flexible chart of accounts with easy-to-use segment structures.

Flexible legal and management reporting capabilities are also available thanks to close integration of financial statement structures and financial data from the financialreporting system to the Crystal Enterprise reporting tool.

Argus ERP finance helps make your company’s financial performance more predictable. It offers advanced control over traditional finance functions, advanced financial planning and analysis, and helps you manage relationships with different players in your financial supply chain: customers, suppliers, alliances and banks.

Argus General Ledger acts as a repository of all your financial transactions across thesystem. Although a lot of the transactions may actually come from other integratedArgus modules, Argus’ user friendly interface makes it easy to enter new transactions aswell as reverse existing ones.

Financial Management

• Generate flexible legend and management reporting.

• Gather and record financial events from all your systems and subsidiaries.

• Obtain periodic cost allocation functionality• Handle a dual base financial currency

system.• Create flexible chart of accounts with

easy-to-use segment structures.

Budget

• Allows full-year budgeting by month, year or percentage for the prior, current and next fiscal year.

• Tracks budget history for all previous fiscal years.

• Automatically calculates account budgets for the prior, current or next fiscal year, based upon prior or current year actualize as well as budgets from other periods.

Increase Your Profitability Margins

Immediate Response Argus ERP handles 2 basic types of events: ad hoc and those that are expected to occur on a given date. For example, if a customer uses up to %90 of the credit allowed, or an invoice that’s due has not been paid, the system will immediately alert those responsible – a typical ad hoc event.

Alternatively, the credit controller may have allowed 14 days extra credit. In that case, it’s important to check that the payment has actually been made on time. Information can also be send as an e-mail, an SMS message or directly to a hand held computer. The system is so flexible to ensure swift access to critical information. This works thanks to one of many great features found in our Argus Data Import/Export Service utility, which sends messages when certain events occur or when predefined limits are exceeded.

Long-term relationshipsThe importance of customer lifecycle management increases with the need to extend business into new areas. Faster development of new products, accurate views of future product demands and increased ability to quickly meet new market trends are all made possible through efficient collection of information of interest to the end customer regarding product requirements and after sales services. We believe that customers are retained as a result of superior performance across the entire customer lifecycle and not as a result of superior sales process. Therefore,

Argus Applications focuses on all the customer interaction and management processes along the value chain, involving people throughout the organization (development, planning, support, financials, quality and more) and building customer loyalty.

Invoice Customers

• Retrieve information for competitive pricing

• Differentiate prices• Unique customer contracts• Commitment to functionality

Receive Payments

• Reliable delivery• Shorter lead times• Right skills in the right time

Customers And Receivables management

• Reliable delivery• Shorter lead times• Right skills in the right time

Apply & Aging

• Key figure analysis• Real time Cost/revenue analysis• Swift and accurate financial

follow-up• Customized reports

ApplyingApplying is the process of assigning a specific credit transaction, such as a credit memo, return or payment to a sales document (or other debit transaction). There are three methods of applying in Receivables Management: auto applying, applying a transaction to specific documents and applying a specific amount.

In Receivables Management you can apply credit memos, returns and payments as they’re being entered or after they’ve been posted. Once these transactions are fully applied they’re moved to history.

If you apply automatically by due date, payments are applied first to documents with the oldest due date. If you apply automatically by document number, payments are applied first to documents with the lowest number in this order: sales/invoices, debit memos, finance charges, and services/repairs.

PostingIn Argus Receivables Management, posting updates the balances that are displayed in the Customer Summary windows (so you can view up-to-date information for your customers), distribution accounts (if General Ledger is part of your system), commission information and tax detail records. Your checkbook is also updated when you post, if you’re using Bank Reconciliation. Transactions are considered open until they’re fully applied and paid by the customer. Then, they’re transferred to history.

Transaction-level posting allows you to enter and post transactions individually without ever having to create a batch. Receivables information always will be up-to-date immediately when you post using this method, because transactions must be posted or deleted immediately. They can’t be saved or posted later.

Transaction-level posting is optional and can be selected in the Posting Setup window when you set up Argus. If your system hasn’t been set up to allow individual transaction entry, you’ll be asked to create a batch when you attempt to post transactions. Also, you can post individually a transaction that was previously entered in a batch.

Orient Your Business— And thrive fast

Your company’s most central instrument of control is its payables system. It should be able to handle the company’s entire current financial management model, while offering strategic guidance for the future.

The payables module of Argus gives users a comprehensive overview of the business from any perspective they require. At the same time, it is possible to follow and control each payable transaction in detail. Argus payables simplifies accounting, enhances control capacity at all levels of the organization, and supports change processes, whatever business your company might be in.

The core functions of the system consist of the accounting rules and the accounting system that is integrated with the general ledger. The accounting rules ensure that all payable transactions are checked and handled identically, wherever they occur, thereby minimizing the risk of error and time consuming duplication of work. Furthermore, rules can be changed without interrupting work in progress, and changes need to be made at only one point of entry in the system.

• Automated Invoices. All payables documents are integrated with the General Ledger. Argus offers an integration setup that can be defined and implemented entirely so users only need to work with electronic documentation. A/P automatically calculates due dates, discount dates and discount amounts for all A/P transactions. And the invoice amount can be distributed to an unlimited number of G/L expense accounts. In addition, vendor credit memos, cancellations, adjustments and prepaid expenses can all be entered, giving you total control over your payables. When you need a summary of the new payables, simply print your transactions and edit as necessary. Then, when you’re ready, post the new transactions.

• Simple Rules. There’s an old rule of thumb for payables: “If you don’t know how to book what you want to buy, then you can’t buy it.” Argus payables can insert business rules directly into the system and make them mandatory for buyers. The interface to our system can be designed and customized to every business needs where information can be tailored to the needs of each user, and mandatory purchasing rules can be fully personalized.

Successfully Manage Just-In-Time Inventories

Argus Inventory is a flexible, comprehensive inventory management system that enables you to increase your inventory accuracy and customer service levels and, at the same time, reduce your carrying costs, labor costs, and inventory write-offs. Argus Inventory helps you make faster, more accurate decisions, which is critical in today›s complex global inventory environments.

Kits are one of the special item types included in Argus Inventory. Use a kit to define a group of items sold together as a unit.

Quantities are not tracked for items you designate as kits. However, current costs are associated with the items associated with the kit, and the quantity sold is tracked when these items are used at the time of sale.

You can use Argus Inventory Control to create complex pricing structures. You can define different pricing for each currency for each inventoried item Inventory Control also helps you to create multiple price levels, which you can assign to items, customers and prospects. If you are using Sales Order Processing or Invoicing, that information is reflected in your sales order and invoice documents.

Warehouse Management Argus ERP gives you real-time information about inventory levels across multiple sites; tools to help you manage daily warehouse operations like inbound, storage and outbound; and visibility of available stock during sales order entry, across your distribution network. Extensive simulation capabilities help you plan for multiple warehouses and make the best decisions about purchases and inventory levels.

Argus Cycle counts guarantee the perpetual accuracy of inventory master files in Argus›s core financial applications. Each time a bin is depleted to a preset threshold, the next picker at the bin is automatically required to confirm the quantity. The inherent benefits of accurate inventory counts are realized throughout the year without a need to shut down operations for dedicated inventory counting. Most auditors accept logged cycle counting as a valid alternative to physical counts.

This eliminates warehouse down time and minimizes actual time spent counting over the year. Any order and line item backorders are reported back to the sales and inventory control systems so that they can be effectively dealt with.

With Argus Inventory you can

• Gain real-time visibility into your inventory to guide swift and accurate decision-making.• Create flexible controls and inventory tracking systems that reflect the unique way you do business today and

in the future.• Strategically track all your demand requirements to maximize your customer service levels.• Design flexible put-away plans, track the physical location and transfer of items, and maintain lot and serial

controls for simplified material logistics.• Simplify third-party label formatting and printing by creating label-specific flat files of your bar code data.• Print bar codes on standard reports for easy reference. Enter and maintain costing information quickly and

easily, and use this information to calculate appropriate valuations easily.

Fulfill Customers Orders Reliably & Accurately

Sales Order Entry allows organizations to achieve high levels of customer service by enabling efficient entry of orders and timely delivery of goods. Sales Order Entry is fully integrated with the Contract Management, Financial and Manufacturing modules and provides all of the necessary tools and information to allow companies to gain a competitive edge by delivering exceptional levels of customer service. Comprehensive analysis of the sales activity, both by profitability and market trends, is key to ensuring business growth and customer service. Invoicing and Sales Analysis provides accurate cost of sales with full margin visibility. Sales Order Processing is fully integrated with the General Ledger.

Processing customer orders is one of the most critical functions in any distribution and manufacturing business. Order entry and fulfillment must be done in a streamlined fashion, accuracy must be high, and the goods must be delivered where and when requested. Your customer service function needs the power and flexibility of inventory, receivables and production information. When you run Argus Sales Order Processing with the Accounts Receivable (A/R) and Inventory Management (I/M) modules, you’ll streamline every step of your order process, increasing customer service levels and reducing inventory.

QuotationArgus Customer Quotation creates customer proposals and quotations, to which users can add technical information or diagrams as needed. Prices are calculated automatically, with support for multiple currencies and price lists. Once accepted, a quotation can be directly transformed into an order, saving time and eliminating errors. Reminder dates can be set, and users can add information about competitors offers and reasons

Argus Invoicing

• Multi-Site Invoicing• Multi-Currency• Multi-Address Delivery• Measurement Units Level

Pricing• Batch Level and Document

Level Posting• Branch Specific Invoicing• One-click transfer from

quotation to order to invoice• Advanced Terms of payments• Customer BasedP Price Levels• Integration with General Ledger• Integration with Delivery Order

Processing• Multi-Salesman per invoice• Barcode support• Kits Support• Tax calculations, Freight and

Miscellaneous invoice level fees

for win/loss, for a complete picture of how each quotation performs.

Sale OrderArgus Customer Orders effectively handles orders, picking and distribution at one or more locations. Normal transactions, even with large volumes, are handled swiftly and automatically. With Argus Sales Setup, the module supports mobile sales, remote dealers, and order-entry users, providing detailed information on proposals, quotations, orders, contracts, etc. History and analysis capabilities are also featured. Windows-based or web-based, a B2B solution is available via the Internet.

InvoiceArgus Invoicing automatically creates customer invoices for simple, standard invoices with efficient support for deviations. Invoices are written directly on delivery or as collective invoices at specified time intervals. Customer returns automatically create a credit invoice report that is released on authorization. Invoicing functions are linked to accounts receivable in Argus finance components, which control invoice payment. Users can specify currency, with automatic conversion to the accounting currency.

Delivery OrderIf a customer has several ship-to addresses where merchandise is delivered, even though billing is sent to one central office, Argus will maintain those multiple addresses for each customer. The Shipping Lead Time function will ensure that the product is picked and shipped to guarantee timely delivery based on where it is being shipped to, where it is being shipped from, and how it is being shipped. You can also integrate third-party data files using Argus Import Interface to further automate your shipping and tracking processes.

ConsignmentConsignment is a key feature in Argus sales order processing module. You can send goods to customers using consignments documents and the system will automatically generate transfer documents to customer pre-defined sites for future tracking. Off balance sheet transactions can be recorded for tracking availability of items and customer controlling risk factors. Importing from consignments to invoices is also available at any time your customer reports back to you his sales of goods on consignment.

Serial-Lot TrackingInventory parts can be assigned to require lots. If lots are required, it will force you to assign/use lot numbers for all transactions for that part. If lots are not required, it will allow you to use lot numbers, but not force the use of them. This allows flexibility for the level on control you wish to enforce. The system will not allow you to use/sell more of a lot number than is available. Lot numbers shipped and invoiced to customers can be recorded. Documentation (inventory labels, packing slips etc), can all be formatted to print the lot numbers.

Easily create, automate and analyze orders

The procurement function is critical to ensure the necessary materials, supplies, and services are available when required. Maintaining strong vendor relationships, negotiating for favorable pricing and analyzing vendor performance can make the procurement function a profit center in your business. By implementing Argus Purchase Order & Receiving module (P/O), you get an efficient, time-saving tool for automating your procurement functions.

Argus Purchasing handles all types of purchasing activities, from procurement to supplier invoice balancing. Highly flexible, the module enables detailed history provision, origin tracking and statistics for each operating site. Also included is functionality for EDI, consignment stock, receipt and inspection, in addition to follow-up and analysis.

Argus Purchasing enables you to analyze the quality, accuracy and timely delivery of all purchased materials. P/O’s capabilities make it a must within both the manufacturing and distribution environments. It monitors vendor performance and allows you to keep inventory levels low while alerting you to material shortages. And when you combine P/O with Argus Accounts Payable (A/P), Inventory Management (I/M) modules, you have a comprehensive system that optimizes timely purchases with the dynamics of inventory control.

Argus Purchasing immediately updates the quantity on hand and quantity on order amounts in the Inventory Management module for each receipt entered. The receipt date and quantity are entered, along with any rejected quantity and a reason for rejection. Job numbers may also be entered, if applicable, along with serial/lot and bin numbers for the purchased item.

Operations Excellence

• Supply chain management• Integrated supply network from

supplier to customer

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Product Leadership

• Product lifecycle management• Sharing product information

with your business partners within the enterprise network

Customer Intimacy

• Customer relationship management

• Ensuring high customer satisfaction by building strong customer relationship

Entering purchase orders is a common routine in many businesses. With Argus Purchase Order Processing, you can enter two types of purchase orders, standard and drop-ship. A standard purchase order is a document listing items that will be shipped to your business to be received into your inventory. A drop-ship purchase order is a document listing items that will be shipped directly to the customer. The vendor will invoice your business and you, in turn, will invoice the customer.

One of the tasks you’ll need to complete to fully define your items is to enter purchasing information for item records. For example, you’ll need to specify the appropriate unit of measure for purchasing items. This task is part of Inventory Control. If you’ve already defined your company’s vendors, you can assign vendors to items. You can designate primary vendors for each item-site relationship you create, enabling you to specify a different primary vendor for restocking the same item at different sites. You also can specify a different default unit of measure for purchases of the same item from different vendors.

A shipment receipt is a document used to record shipments received for purchase orders. You can enter two types of shipment receipts in Purchase Order Processing: shipment/invoice and shipment. Enter a shipment/invoice receipt to record the receipt of goods and services accompanied by an invoice. Enter a shipment receipt to record the receipt of goods and services without an invoice. You can enter receipt transactions in a batch or enter and post them individually. Receipts can’t be saved unless they’re in a batch.

Landed costs systemThis function supports companies dealing with international vendors and others who require comprehensive inventory costing along with all landed costs. The Landed Cost capability enables you to calculate all costs normally associated with purchasing and receiving and any additional costs of the product, such as freight, import duties, customs, and brokerage fees to be included in an item’s valuation (cost).

Use the Purchasing Serial Number or Lot Number Entry window to assign serial numbers and lot numbers for serial-tracked or lot-tracked line items. You can assign serial numbers automatically, manually, or a combination of the two. In order to automatically generate serial numbers, you must first set up the item and its serial number mask.

Raise Your Manufacturing Standards

Argus components for manufacturing provide a simple, highly automated flow for the many trivial tasks in combination with advanced management by exception for the vital few.

This is a powerful, multifaceted solution that supports planning, execution, control and analysis in most types of manufacturing, in all phases of the manufacturing process and for all employees in the organization. Argus Manufacturing is designed with the detailed management of activities and the flow of materials inside the plant - including the workers, materials, machines and time utilized in production.

Its unique features interface with a number of other Argus modules, allows you to quickly and efficiently create job orders and control all aspects of the order without entering a lot of unnecessary data. It provides you the added flexibility to keep on top of internal or customer-driven changes, including changes to quantity and dates, even after release.

What makes Argus streamlined manufacturing solution special is the different ways it can be used to support your operations and the different sized companies it can accommodate.

For very small companies and those running with minimal staff, the entire process of taking a sales order, creating multiple levels of dependent production orders and recording multilevel completions can be accomplished in only three transactions. Yet, the system can also be used by much larger firms with discrete responsibilities in customer service, materials management, production planning and control. And it is parameter driven to allow tailoring of the system to fit your unique environment.

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Work Centers

Specialization allows manufacturers to take advantage of economies of scale and to reduce downtime associated with moving items through the manufacturing process. Tied to the theory of specialization are manufacturing lines or work centers, where employees work in small groups on a specific set of tasks. By allowing you to create a logical, step-by step layout for your work centers, Argus helps you maximize efficiency within your plant.

Operations

Argus manufacturing operations are specific tasks within the manufacturing plant. Examples of manufacturing are assembly, painting, shipping and receiving. Once you have added machines and employees to work centers, you can define the operations that each work center will perform. Argus Manufacturing Operations Setup lets you outline setup time, labor time, machine time, queue time, move time and cycle time for each task.

Machines

Argus provides a variety of options for tracking machine operating costs, overhead costs and warranty information.The Machine Definition Setup is used to enter all the information you will need to track equipment at any location in your company. Argus allows you also to enter basic cost and overhead information which you will use in a standard cost system. A machine may be any tool or device that you use in your manufacturing process.

Overheads

Manufacturers will incur some costs of manufacturing, no matter what their product is. These Overhead costs can include such things as uniforms or work gloves for employees, or periodic preventive maintenance for machines. You can include overhead costs in your actual or standard costing calculations by establishing what those costs are in advance, and entering them in the labor code/Machine overhead default setups.

Routing

Argus routing makes it easy to create and customize operations for any item that you produce. Clearly documented procedures, Updated as requirements change, help your business to run smoothly and control costs. Argus Routing is a series of steps outlining how to manufacture an item. Routings include the operation to be performed, the sequence of these operations, the work centers, employees and machines involved.

Labor Codes

Many manufacturing facilities have tiered compensation structures. Jobs requiring a higher skill level or more education are compensated at a higher rate than jobs with few or no prerequisites. By Using Argus labor code definition feature, you can define labor codes and link positions to these labor codes. You can also assign costs to each labor code, to be used in a standard costing system.

Empower Business Excellence

There are two primary factors that determine how useful your human resource is. First, you need access to large amounts of data that are accurate and up to date. Second and equally important, your IT support must be easy to use. Only if these two factors sync do you have a human resource system that can seriously improve and simplify operative and strategic human resource management. This is exactly what Argus Human Resources offers, in a manner that is unique. The key is the intelligent way we design and use the system. In our solution, all the processes in human resource administration are integrated with each other in a common database.

Apart from giving you the freedom to organize your human resource planning the way you want it, Argus saves time since data only need to be entered on one occasion in one location to afford access to everyone who needs it. You are also supported throughout the entire human resource management process, from time and attendance (Attendance, Absence, Overtime, Business trips) to payroll administration and expense reporting.

Argus HRMS offers total compensation solutions via several integrated applications— Payroll, Time Management, and Advanced Benefits. This dynamic package provides the only data-configurable definitions for compensation components and related calculations. The system establishes regular earnings, premium time, and deductions; benefits eligibility; and statutory calculations—all set by the end user. The result is that your organization can respond more rapidly to the ever-changing trends in compensation and benefit policies. You can set up deduction and benefit cards that will be used as default entries for entering employee deductions and benefits. These cards also can be used to apply changes to several employees’ deduction and benefit cards at once and can be assigned to employee classes.

A deduction is an amount that can be withheld from an employee’s net, unit or gross pay. For example, donations to a charity, union dues and contributions to retirement plans could be set up as deductions.

A benefit is an amount paid on the employee’s behalf, but never directly to the employee. Benefits can be taxable, that is, the employee can be taxed on the value of the benefit received. Benefits can be calculated from net or gross pay or a deduction, as an amount per unit, or as a fixed amount. You can automatically create many of the payroll transactions for your employees during the process of building checks. If you have a group of employees who receive a regular salary, the build checks process creates transactions for the salary pay for you, along with transactions for the applicable taxes, benefits and deductions.

With Argus HRMS You can use the Payroll Mass Transaction Entry utility to add similar pay transactions, transaction required deductions or transaction required benefits quickly when the same transactions apply to a range of employees as well as exclude individual employee records from a mass transaction entry.

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Argus ERP is a stable and proven solution that enables you to have accurate information and control for planning, production, delivery, sales and service, promoting customer

centricity throughout your business.

It gives you deep functionality for your core business processes and a foundation on which you can extend your business information systems – capturing data from manufacturing to distribution and helping you to turn them into knowledge that can

benefit many areas of your business. No company can afford lengthy and costly software implementations. Argus ERP is an ERP architecture that helps you implement

more quickly and speed your time to market.

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