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Financial Accounting

In the area of financial accounting, the Katalyst Furniture package ensures you have access to the information you need when you need it to increase the efficiency of accounting. The following functions support your financial processes: Profit and Loss Statement, General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Bank Accounting, Tax Accounting and Asset Management Accounting.

Business Highlights

	Record all business transactions in a fully integrated system.
	Seamless and real-time posting of all sub-ledger items in the appropriate general ledger accounts (reconciliation accounts).
	Real-time population of general ledger and cost accounting areas.
	Real-time evaluation of and reporting on current accounting data.
	Real-time integration of AP/AR with GL.
	P/L, vendor and customer statements are updated in real-time according to any vendor and customer payment activity.

Master Data

Chart of Accounts
Financial Statement Version
Assets
Check Lot Maintenance
Exchange Rates

General Ledger

Chart of accounts
Journal postings
Transaction clearing
Month end closing
Year end closing

Accounts Payable

Invoice and credit note processing
Process outgoing payments
Transaction clearing of open items
Vendor Down Payment
Review and Release blocked invoices
Vendor Statements
Generate aged listings

Accounts Receivable

Invoices and credit note processing
Process incoming payments (Lockbox and manual check application)
General Customer Credit Management
Transaction clearing of open items
Generate aged listings
Customer down Payments
Customer Statements / Dunning

Fixed Assets

Process depreciation
Track Assets Under Construction
Retire assets
Sell assets
Purchase Assets
Depreciation reporting for book and tax

Management Accounting

In addition, the management accounting tool is provided to monitor and control performance relevant information in an environment of complete integration with all operative transactions throughout the company. Accounting maintains a consistent, reconciled, and auditable set of books for use in statutory reporting, management support and as a source for analytic applicationsand helps a company take control of its profitability.

Master Data

Cost Center / Cost Center Groups
Activity / Group Types
Primary and Secondary Cost Elements
Assessment Cycles
Product Hierarchy
Internal Orders

Profitability Analysis

Annual operating Plan {Sales Quantity Budgeting)
Integration of plan and actual with logistics
Contribution Reporting
Company Income Statement

Cost Center Planning

Cost and activity inputs planning
Activity output/prices planning
Automated loading of cost center budgets
Cost center reporting

Internal Orders

Statistical orders for accumulating expenses
Regular internal orders for tracking miscellaneous capital transactions (AUC)
Orders for internal expenses tracking (Marketing and R & D Projects)
Budget internal orders for controlling costs

Product Costing

Standard costing of materials (Finished, Semi Finished , Raw and Trading goods)
Allocation of labor and machine costs
Allocation of overhead costs
Settlement of production variances
Reporting planned vs. actual costs

Planning Aids

Planning by cost center and account
Tools for subsequent year planning
Computation of activity rates based on planned expenses

Period-end closing

Allocations and distributions
WIP and variance settlement
Results analysis (creation of reserves)
Cost center reporting
Profitability analysis
Financial Reporting

Year – end closing

Balances carried forward (Financial)
Update factory calendar (Materials Management and Production Planning)
Update costing versions (Controlling)

Sales

Katalyst Furniture equips your sales organization with tools to maximize productivity for meeting customer demands. Sales order management encompasses Sales Quotations sales-order processing, discount, commissions and promotions management, pricing engine, delivery, billingand payment and enables fast and efficient execution of customer sales orders. Distribution executes delivery to efficiently support and control the actual fulfillment of sales orders. End-to-end requirements for bottlers case-to-cash process including direct-store-delivery.

Business Highlights

	Improve sales execution through on-demand access to key information.
	Improve order fulfillment through stock availability checks.
	Improve trade promotions management and commissions management through access to reliable data.
	Improve customer satisfaction and retention.

Master Data

Customers
Pricing (List and Discounted)
Customer Credit Master
Customer taxability maintenance
Routes

Sales

Sales quotations / Cost estimates
Sales of configurable products (MTO)
Fast entry in order processing (characteristics based)
Sales from stock
3rd party with/without shipping notification
Sales of bought-in item
Down payments
Returns
Cross Company Sales Order Processing *

Delivery

Shipment creation
Assignment of serialized and batched products
Picking and goods issues

Billing

Invoices
Credit memos
Debit memos

* Requires 2 legal entities

Production Planning & Execution

Manufacturing business processes provide the settings needed to use production scenarios such as make-to-order, make-to-stock and process orders. They support generating production schedules that take into account real-time material and resource constraints. Manufacturing processes are integrated with the stock, sales, purchasing and accounting solutions to enable a rapid, flexible response to demand changes and customer requirements.

Business Highlights

	Synchronize production planning and execution with all other aspects of the supply chain.
	Create and manage bill of materials (BOM) easily and quickly.
	Production planning cockpit – characteristic based planning across the supply chain.
	Improve asset utilization.
	Monitor and manage production costs and record any variances.
	Shorten Order-to-Delivery cycles.

Master Data

Work Centers/Resources
Routings
Bills of Materials
Product Groups
Capacity
Revision Levels
Work Center Hierarchy
Product Versions
Configurable profile
Variant classification
REM Cost Collector

Production Planning

Revenue Planning
Sales and Operations Planning (SOP)
Characteristic based planning
Long term Planning (LTP)
Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
Make-To-Stock Discrete
Make-To-Order
Planning table (Repetitive Mfg.)
Detailed Scheduling
Order combination

Capacity Planning

Capacity evaluation (by work center)
Capacity leveling
Work center hierarchy analysis

Shop Floor Control

Planned orders
Production orders
Component / Capacity Availability Checking
Material issues
Product Receipts
Material Transfers (Pull list)
Product Serialization
Product Batches
Order / Operation confirmations
Production reporting, with automatic back flushing of components
Scrap Recording and Reporting
PP Subcontracting (External processing)
Rework Processing

Purchasing

Katalyst Furniture enables the efficient handling and execution of purchase orders integrated within the logistics process. Purchase requirements can be created manually or automatically via a number of planning concepts tied to material requirements planning. Purchases can be sourced manually from suppliers or can be automatically assigned to suppliers using contracts. The goods receipt function updates the general ledger and inventory (for stock items). In subsequent processing, invoices are matched against the agreed purchase price and quantities delivered within customer specified tolerances.

Inventory Management

The solution includes physical goods movements, planningand inventory management. These tools provide full visibility of inventory levels in purchasing, manufacturing, and sales processes. In addition, inventory transactions simultaneously:

1. Update the physical inventory balanceand.
2. Update the appropriate accounting ledgers to reflect the new status.

Business Highlights

	Improve vendor selection.
	Enhance vendor contract management and maximize savings.
	Leverage batch management for incoming raw materials tracking and traceability.
	Ensure compliance.
	Release locked capital by optimize inventory levels (raw and finished).

Master Data

Vendors
Info Records (Regular , Sub Contract and non material {Production operation sub contracting})
Source Lists
Sub Contract Bill of materials
Material taxability maintenance
Purchase Order Release Strategy (Order type , Purchasing Group, Value)

Purchasing

Quotations
Purchase Requisitions
Contracts / Blanket orders
Purchase orders with/without Quality Management
Vendor Analysis
Subcontracting
Consumable Purchasing
Stock Transfer with/without Delivery
Internal Procurement / Cross Company Stock Transfer *

Materials

Stock items
Non-stock items
Goods receipt
Goods issue
Transfers
Physical Inventory
Dispositions (Scrapping)
Return to vendor
Consigned Inventory

Invoice Verification

Process against purchase order and goods receipt (3- way match)
Process against purchase order only
Process credit and debit memo

* Requires 2 legal entities

Business Intelligence (BI)

Katalyst Furniture creates the tools that deliver business intelligence required to gain real-time insight into your financials and operations. Its allows you to be up-to-speed with your vendors, customers and business performance levels (real-time profitability etc).

Business Highlights

	Covert data into knowledge.
	Manage enterprise wide KPIs in real-time.
	Seamless flow of data from users transactions to management and executive dashboards.
	Enhance control and responsiveness through access to reliable and real-time knowledge on-demand.

Financials

General Ledger Reports
Balance Sheet and income statement listing
Asset Management
Asset Balances
Asset History Sheet
Depreciation Reporting
Acquisition Reporting

Profitability

Product profitability
Sales performance analysis

Cost Center

Plan vs. Actual reporting

Internal Orders

Plan Vs. Actual reporting

Purchasing

Buyer analysis
Vendor analysis
Material analysis
Purchase Order Statistics (LIS)

Accounts Payable

Check Register
Aged A/P reports
A/P Trial balance

Sales

Customer analysis
Sales organization analysis
Sales Order Statistics (SIS)
Credit overview

Accounts Receivable

Aged A/R reports
Payment history

Production

Production Order Statistics (COOIS)
Capacity evaluation
Order Variance Analysis
Order cost analysis
Material Usage
Production summaries by day, by week, by month
Project Systems
Progress reporting
Project statistics

Output Forms

Katalyst Furniture has a comprehensive set of output forms most commonly used in the furniture industry. All forms are part of the delivered solution and are output via a printer.

Business Highlights

	Industry standard output forms.
	Adopt best in class external look and feel for the company forms.

Purchasing and Inventory Management

Quantity Contract
Value Contract
Purchase Request for Quotation
Purchase Request for Quotation Rejection Letter
Purchase Order
Goods Receipt
Goods Issue
Lean Warehouse Transfer Picking Slip
Physical Inventory Count Document
Return Purchase Order Single Item
Return Purchase Order Multiple Item

Sales and Logistics

Sales Quotation
Sales Order Confirmation
Sales Order Confirmation (Billing plan)
Outbound Delivery
Bill of Lading
Invoice
Return Material Authorization (RMA) Request
Return Material Authorization (RMA) Delivery
Credit Memo
Debit Memo

Production

Shop Floor Papers

Finance

Checks
Down Payment Request
Down Payment Final Invoice
Customer Statement
1099 MISC (Withholding tax)