Business Manager Enterprise is a comprehensive ERP framework, encompassing all the business management functions you would expect to find, plus many additional features. BME builds upon the award-winning BusinessMan Enterprise, client server solution, which was developed over a period of more than 25 years. BME has been developed using the latest web technologies, to give you the performance, flexibility and rich feature set you would expect, whilst providing access from all platforms supporting a modern web browser. BME has also been developed using open-source, so that we are not beholden to any other vendors for licensing, deployment or customisation.
BME is primarily provided as a SaaS solution, but we also have the flexibility to offer self hosted or on premise options. Puchase options also include outright purchase for those who do not wish to pay ongoing fees. Full customisation is also a choice we offer, for those companies where an OTS (Off The Shelf) solution is not a good fit. We also try to be as open as possible with our pricing model with no hidden extras or big surprises once you enter into a contract with us. Many companies require you to buy third party add-ons just to give you the basic functionality. This is not our Philosophy.
Features and Benefits
Many organisations have a multitude of disparate systems which do not talk to each other. BME is designed to encompass these entities to ensure there is little double entry of data, enabling maximum efficiency for the execution of your business processes.
BME manages your CRM requirements, in addition to the sales and supply chain. Your inventory can be comprehensively controlled, including the manufacturing process and purchasing requirement for replenishment. Storage locations and logistics are catered for in conjunction with a warehouse management module. BME is one of the most complete business management solutions on the market and includes many features considered as cost options in other vendor solutions.
Project management, helpdesk, jobs, contract and asset management, are part of the product. In addition, HR, graphical scheduling for resources (including staff, vehicles, and any other entity) plus support for multi-company, multi-division and multiple departments are included.
Financially, BME provides top down reporting by Company (Multi-Company version) Division and Department, along with multi-currency support for both sales and purchase.
Document management is a powerful feature available in most areas of the system. Documents of any type can be stored and managed by their version. Once a document is uploaded, it cannot be changed. Any changes need to be saved as a new version. All these changes are tracked, giving you a comprehensive library of changes and additions.
All user activity including data changes are audited in the area the changes are made, and globally within the system audit trail. The Audit trail can be searched, filtered and sorted.
BME also has a QA (Quality Assurance) module, where Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs) can be raised.
These features are particularly relevant if you are currently, or planning to be, ISO-9000 certified.
Furthermore, BME can be fully customized (not just “configured” in a different way, like many other systems). We can customise any area of BME, or create additional features, to meet your unique requirements.
As the system has been written from the ground up by Computech Software, using open source environments, we are not beholden to other organisations for licensing and we are not confined by the limitations imposed by other vendors.
Work in the most efficient way for your enterprise and do not compromise.
BME includes the following modules
Multi-company
- Multi-division
- Multi-department
Multi-currency
- 1 base currency
- Multiple secondary currencies
Prospect management
- Import from CSV
- Quotations
- Opportunities
Suppliers / Vendors
- Multiple locations
- Drop ship
- Authorisation
Estimates / Quotations
- Images
- Text
- Authorisation
- Templates
Project Management
- Waterfall
- Kanban
- Jobs
- Related Sales Order & Quotation creation
- Customers
HR Module
- Staff details
- Vacation
- Qualifications
- Disciplinary
- Training
- Engagement
Document management
- Available in all modules
- Version control
- All document types
Inventory / Stock Control
- Bill of Materials
- Assembly
- Serial Number management
- Lot management
- Multiple images
- Tagging for search criteria
- Multi-level pricing and discount structures
- Location management with warehouse integration
Supply Chain Management
Opportunities
- Multiple quotations
- Multiple costs
- Pipeline
Resource Scheduling
- Schedule resources based on skill set
- Job scheduling
- People
- Equipment
Sales Order Processing
- Linked to Jobs / Work Orders for cost collection
- Other costs, purchase order, inventory, additional
Contract and Asset Management
- Multiple Sites per contract
- Multiple assets per site
- Scheduled maintenance management
- Annual, quarterly, monthly billing
Integration with 3rd party accounting systems
- QuickBooks
- Xero
- Other systems with an API
- Other systems which only have import capabilities
Customer management
- Financials – credit limits
- Order processing
- Quotations
- Opportunities
- Multiple locations / branches
- Unlimited contracts
- Product unique pricing and discounts
Warehouse Management
- Multiple warehouse locations
- Multiple bays with parameters for storage (size, temp, weight)
- Isolation / quarantine bays
Purchase Order Processing
- Preferred suppliers / vendors
- Authorization
- Multiple shipping addresses
- Drop ship
Sales Pipeline Management
- Graphical
- Opportunity tracking
Job / Work Order Management
- Manufacturing
- Assembly
- Field service engineering
- Time management and recording
- Integration with graphical scheduler
- Costs recorded
- Linked to Sales Orders
Accounting
- Integrated ledgers
- Dashboard
- Comprehensive reporting – User custom reporting
- Multi-currency (1 base currency, unlimited secondary currencies)
- Reporting by division and departmental cost centres