Focus ERP
- Fully Integrated
- Barcode Support
- Multi Currency
- No User Licensing
- Flexible Reporting
- Email And Fax Support
Focus in Windows is a total business package providing flexible solutions for sales, purchasing, stock, accounts, manufacturing, production, contact management and quality control. Focus improves the productivity and efficiency of the day-to-day operations by integrating all of the individual activities with customers, potential customers and other business contacts. All document movements are automated giving total control of document flows and can be customised to provide the business with it's own unique 'look and feel'.
Focus in Windows can be used as a modular package to address specific business needs or as an entire office automation suite of software. It incorporates outstanding ease of use with clear and simple to use screen layouts.
We do not sell Focus on user based licensing model. This means as your business expands you do not need to spend any more money in adding additional users to Focus. Below is a brief outline of the Focus modules. Additional information is available in our information pack. For pricing and any further information please contact us
| Sales |
- Multiple delivery accounts per customer
- Full Euro and multi currency support including triangulation
- Multiple contacts per account
- Any document or report can be attached to an E-mail
- Full drill down from transaction to original document image
- Flexible pricing and discounting options
- Full sales history reporting
The sales module covers the whole sales cycle from quotation to invoice. Management of the sales cycle is made easy by both on screen and report analysis of the status of a sales order. Additionally the sales module includes an estimating system which allows you to build up a quotation based on both materials and labour. This information is transferable to the manufacturing and production modules.
Accurate forecasting and planning can be made using the sales analysis reports; you can analyse sales by customer, region, territory, product groups and many other criteria. Focus includes comparative sales analysis where you can compare sales from one period with another.
| Purchases |
- Multi-Currency, including triangulation
- Full purchase history reporting
- Purchase invoice register
- Suggested payments reporting
- Supplier performance profiling
- Flexible pricing and discounting options
- Budgeting and commitments system
The purchase module manages all your supplier transactions. It includes on screen and report analysis of the status of a purchase order allowing for simple management of the purchasing cycle. Pricing can be maintained on a per supplier basis if necessary.
Supplier performance profiling allows you to quickly judge which supplier can meet your needs most quickly. It allows you to compare price versus delivery performance for each supplier. Commitment and budgeting options allow you to see how much you have spent on a particular project or have been spent by individual departments.
| Stock |
- Stocked and non-stocked items
- Multi Location
- Serial and batch tracking
- Preferred supplier per part
- Procurement profiling
- Barcode label printing
- Decimal and factored quantities
- Quarantine Locations
The stock module is a full multi location, multi bin stock tracking system. Using the powerful reporting features it is possible to track serial and batch parts from Goods received to Sales delivery.
The procurement profiling system allows you to keep your stock at an optimum level so that the needs of your customers and production line are met. If you are a manufacturer it will also profile the component requirements for your manufactured items.
| Contacts |
- Multiple contacts per customer
- Multiple Contact Types
The contacts module allows you to keep a record of all contacts made with a customer. The type of contact is user definable allowing you to define sales, credit control and other contacts
| Accounts |
- Sales Ledger
- Purchase Ledger
- EC VAT
- Cash Book
- Bank Reconciliation
- Cost Centres
- Project Codes
Unlike some of our competitors we do not consider EC VAT, Multi currency support and a Cash Book to be additional features that our customers should pay extra for. We consider that these features are part of the core requirement for a modern accounting system.
Focus offers a flexible approach to building a chart accounts allowing you to reflect the structure of your business. As well as supporting cost centres Focus also supports the use of project codes. Project codes allow you to group transaction together for a particular project either for a customer or an internal project such as building refurbishment.
| Fixed Assets |
- Straight Line, Variable, Percentage, Fixed Term Depreciation
- Link to purchase invoice
- Multiple Categories
- Multiple Locations
The fixed asset modules allow you to effectively manage your assets. It supports all the common methods of depreciation and allows you to alter the method of depreciation mid term.
The module also supports asset extension. This allows you to link maintenance or additions to the original asset.
| Manufacturing |
- Prints all your shop floor documentation
- Prints materials requisitions/pick lists
- WIP costing
- Records actual times, with variance analysis against the standard times
- Flexible Bill of Materials and routing for base assembly or individual job
- Integrated shop floor data collection
- Materials requirement planning
- Job Costing
The manufacturing module offers a flexible approach to managing your shop floor. Works Orders can be generated from a standard bill of materials and altered on the fly to meet specific requirements.
With integrated shop floor data collection you can monitor the work in progress in real time. Shop floor data collection gives you highly accurate costing analysis.
| Production |
- Job tracking
- Time recording
- Electronic Clocking & SFDC machines
- Records actual times, with variance analysis against the standard times
- Automatic calculation of piece rate, bonus, overtime and holiday pay for specified pay periods
- Reports to analyse trends in efficiency, utilisation of individual operatives and/or departments
- Access Control
The Production module incorporates Time & Attendance (T & A) with the production processes being carried out in manufacturing. Focus on Production provides real time information on the employee, Production, Process, WIP as well as more typical information associated time and attendance. If T & A is not being used and a manual system of time recording is in place, employees can be created on the system and updated against the manually recorded information. This module can be used as a stand-alone system linking into existing Payroll packages.