Sage 500 ERP Support and Insights

Remember that you can use Data Import Manager to import data from any SQL Server data source. In this example I am using an SQL view (vdvBudgetAnalysis_COA) to import budgets from company COA to company SOA. Make sure that in your case it’s possible to map GL accounts between two companies either by column mapping, concatenation, partial column map, etc.

First I will create a view for the budget that already exist…

There are two tasks used to regenerate and replace bill of material items for the selected routings. These tasks are located on the Activities > Bill of Material menu.

BOM Regeneration

Use BOM Regeneration to regenerate the bill of material standard cost for the selected routings. Use this task when a large number of routings and versions are updated, material standard costs have changed, or work center labor and…

What is Bill of Material?

The bill of material summarizes the relationships between the different items used in the manufacturing of the finished good defined in the routing. It contains the cost rollup information, including the materials, outside processing, and fixed and variable manufacturing cost. The bill consists of a parent item and component items that make up the parent.  If the Standard Routing check box is selected…

Sage has many resources to help you get the most value out of your Sage 500 ERP solution. Sometimes, however, having multiple options can be a little overwhelming. Now you can get quick access to all assets by remembering a single URL:

www.SageCity.com/Resources

Not sure which resource is the best one to utilize in which situation? Check out this chart to help you determine which asset to use when:

This script a quick way to check user’s permissions to Sage 500 tasks and security events. It is based on the explicit permissions to the tasks and security events stored in tables tsmSecurEventPerm and tsmTaskPerm. If the records do not exist in either table the task or security events will not be listed in the results set meaning that the user has no access to the task or security event in a particular company. The…

Sage 500 inventory history is tracked in multiple tables and by inventory calendar and fiscal calendar. If you are running into a situation where current quantities on hand and value are different when Inventory Valuation Report is run by different start dates but the same end date then the most likely issue is that inventory history tables are out of synch the inventory transaction detail tables. In order to set them…

DataPorter is based on moving data between spreadsheets and forms. It prepares a spreadsheet to receive data. Data is either copied or entered in the spreadsheet. It then takes the rows on the spreadsheet and imports them back to the form. DataPorter is invoked by pressing the “Alt-F7” key combination. This will launch Excel and create an Office Toolbar.

Sage 500 Metadata is stored in tdpControl table. The…

Tax season preparation is here again. To process 1099 forms for the tax year 2019 in Sage 500 ERP please keep in mind the following:

Sage 500 version 2019

If you are on Sage 500 version 2019 you will not need to install any update in order to process 1099 data for tax year 2019. Your Sage 500 version 2019 is ready to process 1099 data for tax year 2019.

Sage 500 version 2018

If you are on Sage 500 version 2018 and you…

Starting with the October 2019 product update for Sage 500 version 2019 we have made a change to MRP processing user interface. As shown in the screenshots in the Material Requirements Planning Generation form’s Options tab we have replaced in the Selection Options frame one existing checkbox with two checkboxes.

Before October 2019 product update:

Starting with the October 2019 product update:

MRP uses the inventory…

Business Insights Dashboard allows executives to view company financial information from a web browser.

This article is a summary of the settings that need to be in place in order for the Business Insights Dashboard(BID) to work correctly. It may also be useful when troubleshooting a new install of BID. Consult the Internet Applications.pdf located at any machine that has Sage 500 application installed, under C:\Program…

You can use Maintain Business Insights Views / Context Menus to  add a Business Insights Explorer option to the Preview Navigation bar. In the following example a Pick List preview is added to an existing BIE Customers task. You can create your own BIE task after creating a new SQL view and add that new task as a preview to an existing BIE task (where it makes sense).

1. Expand System Manager/Maintenance/Maintain Business…

Manual Credit Card Transaction can be used when a credit card transaction has been entered or updated outside of SAGE 500 ERP and the state needs to be brought into synch in SAGE 500 ERP. For example customers are performing transactions outside of SAGE 500 ERP, usually through a virtual terminal, and expecting a way to integrate these transactions back into SAGE 500 ERP.

In Sage 500 support we also receive the calls…

Sage 500 version 2019 has just been released with several new enhancements and here is more detail on minor entity inactivation enhancement.

In a nutshell this enhancement gives you an ability to make Buyers and Reason Codes inactive by adding an active flag throughout the system.

This flag allows the controls in various Sage 500 tasks to filter out those values that are no longer useful for data entry.  Buyers or reference…

If you need to set or change the default value of a check box, you can write a VBScript within Customizer's script editor to select or clear a check box. The construct of the script is the same for all check box default customizations: Form.Controls("[control name of checkbox]").Value = ('0' or '1') [control name of checkbox]: click on the appropriate check box in the form, and note the control name in the Customizer…

Inventory Valuation report allows you to determine inventory value according to a specific date range based on transaction or posting dates. To generate the Past Period Inventory Valuation Report, the user will have to define the date of valuation and base the valuation on either the Transaction Date or Post Date.

Case 'Transaction Date'

We are looking at the QtyOnHand and Value in timInvtCalPerHist for the end…

Inventory Valuation report provides the value of inventory for some or all the inventory items in a warehouse for the prior periods. If you are troubleshooting Inventory Valuation report and need to dig into the tables and data that this report is using here is some helpful information on where the report data is coming from.

If you leave the report in the preview screen all the displayed data is still stored in the work…

If you have  wanted to setup any report in Sage 500 to be printed at a later time, you can use the Deferred Printing option that is available from report tasks. Here is how this works.

Lets say for example you want to setup a couple different reports to run later in the afternoon. The first report is the Aged Payable reports. In this example, we will setup the selection criteria to show us a list vendors that start with the…

In Sage 500 you can add the Data Import Manager job as a task on the user's menu by giving them the ability to run the tasks without granting them access to the Data Import
Manager module itself.

• Launch MAS 500 and go to System Manger>Tools>Task Editor.
• Select 'Add New Task' at the bottom of the Task List window.
• In the Task Editor Window select .NET Standard for the Launch Type and Data Import Manager…

It may be convenient to setup Sage 500 to auto start every time your computer boots, especially if you are using Sage 500 with Windows Authentication.

1. From your Windows OS, click on Start, All Programs and locate the Sage 500 application. Right click on it and select Copy
2. From your Windows OS, click on Start, All Programs and locate the Startup folder from the list.  On the Startup folder, right click and select Ope…

After the Generate Planned Orders has been run, the system will show all the suggested orders to create. The suggested orders is based on the MRP factors that have been selected on the Planned Orders tab. At this time, the work orders and purchase orders will not show up in Work Order Maintenance or Enter Purchase Orders.

If you agree with the suggested orders, you can update all of the suggested orders as Firmed as follows…

If you are interested in finding the name of the SQL view associated to a given lookup view screen, here are a couple of ways

From System Manager, Maintenance, Maintain Lookups and click on the lookup flashlight.
In the Lookup column, locate Vendor and double click to select it
You can see in the Current SQL Command box that the name of the view is vluVendor

The second method to find the name of the SQL view associated…

If you want to be able to set restrictions for users/groups on columns or rows in Business Insights Explorer(BIE) views,  you can with Maintain Task Restrictions.   To access, go to System Manager, Maintenance, Maintain Task Restrictions.  You will need to setup the restrictions for each BIE view AND the user or group being restricted. Lets look at a couple of examples of setting up restrictions and look at the BIE view after…

What is the difference between the Inventory Cost report and the Inventory Valuation report? Why is there an option for both Cost and Valuation in the Cost report?

The differences between the Inventory Cost and Inventory Valuation reports are primarily functionality.

• The Cost report is a snap shot of the cost or valuation at the point in time at which the report is run. If Valuation option is selected the report will…

For those that still print registers or reports to paper, there is a task that can help you manage what gets printed on those reports. There are several sections on the body of report that can be modified. Lets take a look at this task in more detail.

From System Manager, Maintenance, launch the Maintain Report Format task. When the task is displayed, there is a companyid dropdown, a tab section, and a preview section…

The cost tier is an important costing feature provided by IM which allows the system to track the actual cost at which an item was purchased every time. 

Sage 500 stores the cost in table timCostTier. Here is the schema for that table:

A cost tier stores the cost at which an item was added into the inventory and its quantity. The cost of an item is divided into four factors:

Direct Cost, Freight Cost, Sales Tax Cost…