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The one test for any ERP
Can you trace the number on an invoice back to the work that produced it?
Payroll, locked step by step
Attendance, leave, pay and the bank list, each stage locking the one before.
English and Arabic, same invoice
A tax invoice in both languages, with 43 currencies and 19 country tax regimes.
One system for businesses like yours
Construction, trading, retail, logistics and manpower supply on one system.
Start with what you need. Add the rest later.
Fourteen modules, switched on one at a time as the business grows.
A few riyals an hour is the whole business
Billed rate, hours worked and worker cost, frozen at the moment of deployment.
Seed to sale, and the margin per hectare
Every cost stays with the crop it belongs to, so margin per hectare is a result, not a guess.
Rent is billed once. Not twice. Not never.
A lease creates its full rent schedule, and each month is invoiced one time.
Count the cash first. Then see the number.
A blind close at the till: count first, compare to the expected amount second.
What has the job cost? Today, not after it closes.
Budget, cost to date and margin for a project, as of this morning.
Three questions for any ERP vendor
What can't it do? Can I trace a number? What happens when I add a module next year?
Sign for the delivery. The stock count moves.
Receiving goods is one action that signs the note and updates the stock card.
The exchange difference shows up by itself
Invoice in one currency, get paid at a different rate, and the gain or loss appears automatically.
Save the invoice. The books already know.
Saving an invoice updates the books, records the VAT and refreshes what the customer owes.
The first week of the month shouldn't go to reconciling
Remove the carrying of numbers between systems and month-end becomes a review.
Quotation to invoice. Nobody retypes.
A quotation turns into an order and an invoice, carried forward instead of typed again.
Five tools. Five different answers.
Sales, purchasing, stock, finance and HR each report a different number for the same month.
Is this one customer, or four?
The same customer typed four ways in four tools, versus one consistent record.
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