MISys Small Business Manufacturing

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MISys Small Business Manufacturing

• Solution Introduction

April 15, 2007 David Brown, VP Marketing802/457-4
600 www.misysinc.com/quickbooks
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Solving Customer Needs
5 min.

• Who We Are
• Manufacturing Information Systems
• Woodstock, Vermont
• PC-based manufacturing systems since 1984
• 7000 installations in 48 countries
• .NET version for QuickBooks released in 2006

• Our Value Proposition
• We turn QuickBooks Enterprise into an
  industrial-strength manufacturing system.

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Target Customer Profile
10 min.

• Who We Talk To
• Prospective users who might purchase QuickBooks
  Enterprise if it had specific manufacturing
  capabilities
• Existing users who might keep QuickBooks
  Enterprise if it had specific manufacturing
  capabilities
• Why People Talk To Us
• They constantly run out of raw materials
• They purchase inventory they dont need
• They dont purchase the inventory they do need
• They dont know what their assembled items
  actually cost
• They cant plan purchasing or production until
  its too late
• Their manufacturing activities are not accurately
  reflected in their company financial statements

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Target Customer Profile
10 min.

• Three Major Market Segments Served
• Make-to-Stock Manufacturers
• Make-to-Order Manufacturers
• Custom Job Shops
• MISys Targets Same Market As Intuit
• Companies with between 20 and 500 employees
• Divisions of larger companies
• Organizational Characteristics
• Maintain a supply of raw materials and WIP
• Assemble finished goods for sale
• Need to plan future purchasing and production

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Target Customer Profile
10 min.

• What Does MISys SBM Do?
• Runs Stand-alone
• Provides manufacturing inventory control,
  multi-level bills of material, revision control,
  inventory planning, and production control
  capabilities.
• Optional functionality for Advanced Purchasing,
  Bin-tracking, Advanced Production, Master
  Production Scheduling, and Material Requirements
  Planning.
• Can be deployed on a single PC, over a company
  intranet, or over the Internet.

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Target Customer Profile
10 min.

• What Does MISys SBM Do?
• Integrates Seamlessly With QuickBooks Enterprise
• Maintains manufacturing subledger for transfer to
  QBES at fiscal period end.
• Replenishes QBES sales inventory from
  manufacturing inventory.
• Retrieves QBES sales orders and creates
  corresponding MISys SBM work orders.
• Plans impending Production and Purchasing based
  on QBES sales orders.
• Forecasts future Production and Purchasing based
  on QBES invoices.

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Target Customer Profile
10 min.

• What Does MISys SBM Not Do?
• Anything That QuickBooks Enterprise Does!
• No General Ledger
• No Sales Orders
• No Customers
• No Sales Distribution Inventory
• MISys SBM Just Does Manufacturing
• But It Does It Really Well!

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Solution Overview
10 min.

• Basic Manufacturing
• The functionality every manufacturer needs raw
  material and WIP tracking, multi-level bills of
  material, automatic back-flushing, work orders,
  cost rollup, with standard, average, or FIFO/LIFO
  costing.
• Advanced Purchasing
• Adds Purchasing capabilities especially geared to
  the needs of a manufacturing business. Tracks
  supplier pricing performance stats.
• Advanced Production
• Introduces custom manufacturing orders for
  creating variants of standard products and
  special one-off items.
• Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
• Predicts impending material shortages based on
  existing inventory, purchase orders, production
  orders and forecasted sales.
• Bin Tracking
• Creates sub-locations for tracking inventory
  maintained in multiple containers.

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Solution Demonstration
15 min.
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Resources Available
5 min.

• To learn more about MISys Small Business
  Manufacturing,
• visit us on the web at
• www.misysinc.com/quickbooksent
• Contact a Direct Sales representative
• Request free product literature
• View our streaming video demonstrations
• Download a free trial version
• Order MISys SBM online
• Register for Basic or Advanced Training

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Recap
2 min.

• MISys SBM is a full-featured .NETbased
  manufacturing control system designed to
  integrate seamlessly with QBES.
• MISys SBM is modular so you purchase just the
  features you need. Start with the core
  functionality of Basic Manufacturing and add
  optional modules as your company grows.
• MISys SBM is based on 20 years of experience
  with over 7,000 worldwide installations of MISys
  manufacturing software in small- to medium-sized
  manufacturing firms.

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Key Contacts
2 min.

• For more information contact
• MISys Direct Sales
• Al Alessi, Manager
• al_at_misysinc.com
• MISys Corporate Management
• David Brown, President
• dave_at_misysinc.com
• MISys Channel Marketing
• Scott Beavers, Manager
• scott_at_misysinc.com
• MISys Strategic Partnerships
• Terry Merrill, Manager
• terry.merrill_at_misysinc.com