SunSystems is a portfolio of integrated financial management and business intelligence applications, which help decision-makers gain a broader perspective on the business, and provide the ability to analyze the operational detail. For more than 20 years, SunSystems have delivered global, low-risk solutions that are designed for rapid, low-cost deployment, helping our users to meet the demands placed on the finance function.

SunSystems is a used by a quarter of the Fortune 500 and 75 of the FTSE100. During the past 20 years, the SunSystems solution has been implemented in over 18,000 sites, in more than 190 countries, with the tools to manage operations - locally, globally and in 30 language variants. The solutions that have made SunSystems the first choice, worldwide, for organizations that need to think in more than one dimension:

• A comprehensive Financials suite, incorporating a single, integrated ledger, full multi-currency and support for the euro.
• A Debtor Management offering called SunSystems Collect, for flexible account handling, superb credit management and debt collection.
• A full suite of Order Fulfilment modules (including Sales Management, Purchase Requisitioning, Purchase Management and Inventory Management) to manage key aspects of business across your entire enterprise.
• SunSystems Analytics, including SunSystems Vision for analysis and reporting, providing management information at your fingertips. In addition, a new set of solutions have been delivered as part of the SunSystems Analytics Applications suite to extend your financial management throughfor consolidation, planning, budgeting and forecasting.
• SunSystems PSA (Professional Services Automation), a suite of products enabling services organizations to manage resources, improve utilization, track billing and monitor opportunities.
• Collaborative Commerce offerings, to enable your disparate business systems to share data - ultimately giving you all the information you need to power your business decisions.

A surprisingly large number of companies continue to rely on non-integrated spreadsheet based systems for their planning, budgeting and forecasting activities. Prone to manual transcription errors and completely unauditable, this over reliance on spreadsheets is the primary cause for a disconnect between business strategy and operations.

SunSystems Extended Financial Management has been designed to address these issues. Quicker and more accurate budgeting and forecasting cycles; extra time to concentrate on value-added finance functions and easy alignment of strategy to operations are now all possible with the SunSystems Extended Financial Management solution. Our unique combination of financial management; reporting and performance management applications will help you meet the ever-increasing demands placed on the finance function and ensure you deliver even greater value to the business.

• Better budgeting and forecasting quality to improve plans
• Superior risk management and appreciation of how internal and external factors affect business strategy.
• Greater commitment by operations to meet performance targets.
• Enable the finance department to spend more time on value-add activities.
• Superior alignment between strategy, budget and operations.
• Deeper appreciation of the factors that underpin business performance.

SunSystems Expense is a complete web-based travel and expense management solution.

SunSystems Expense is a web-based, self service application which provides a comprehensive travel and expense recording, approval, tracking and management information solution. This can be easily adapted to meet your organisation’s expense policies and rules to produce dramatic results for your organisation by reducing costs, increasing employee productivity and improving business performance.

• Increase employee productivity
• Improve expense policy compliance
• Provide a rapid return on your investment
• Keep your expense and employee information secure

• Configurable expense forms
• Expense rules and policies
• Online submission and approvals
• Unlimited data analysis
• Automatic upload of electronic transactions from Credit Card providers
• Custom workflows and approval processes
• P11D and VAT information

Seamless Integration
Data can be accessed in real time from both SunSystems as well as other operational systems, reducing the need to hold information such as project codes, cost codes, job information and rates in more than one place. SunSystems Expense provides comprehensive data import and export facilities allowing information to be easily transmitted to your existing payroll and HR systems.

Intelligent Web Architecture
The application architecture extends the capabilities of leading Web browsers to deliver intuitive and simple to use functionality, while eliminating the need to install local software. This architecture dramatically reduces systems administration time and cost and provides simple access for employees whether they are office or home based

SunSystems Time is an advanced time capture and management system available providing a foundation for billing, business intelligence and resource planning. SunSystems Time is a comprehensive Web Service-based solution, designed to be deployed to large numbers of employees to provide a quick to i mplement and easy to use time capture and management solution.

Key Benefits

• Quick to implement
• Low cost of ownership
• Integrates with current systems to protect and add value to existing investment.
• Rapid return on investment using proven solution

• Flexible timesheet entry
• Time entry rules
• Custom calendars and work patterns
• Unlimited data analysis
• Custom workflows and approval processes

Flexible Workflow Management
A flexible workflow facility enables the system to match any approval and authorisation requirements at any stage of the workflow process.

Business Intelligence
Using information captured by SunSystems Time and the system’s advanced management information and reporting tools, organisations are able to develop an accurate understanding of how their investment in people’s time is being utilised. Improved business intelligence and management information enables organisations to make better decisions and have a clearer understanding of resource management needs.

Seamless Integration
Data can be accessed in real time from other systems, reducing the need to hold information such as project codes, cost codes, job information and rates in more than one place. The system can integrate with resource and project management applications such as Microsoft Project™ to provide complete business solutions. The system enables organisations to define their own data analysis, input and validation rules to attach to time related information

In a highly competitive and constantly changing environment, controlling purchasing has never been more important.

SunSystems Procurement is a complete, comprehensive, web-based spend control and management solution, designed to be deployed to large numbers of employees to provide visibility and control over purchasing activities.

It enables employees to manage their own purchasing requirements within the rules and policies that are defined for their organization.

Empowering Employees And Purchasing Professionals
Purchasing professionals are freed from labor-intensive administration and processing, enabling them to focus on managing suppliers and the purchasing strategy. SunSystems Procurement empowers employees by enabling staff to manage their own purchasing requirements within the rules and policies that are defined for their organization. Users are able to drill down to a transaction to gain an accurate and immediate picture of where the transaction stands; from requisition, to purchase order, to goods received through to supplier invoice and payment.

Rapid Deployment
The system can be deployed quickly to any device with an Internet browser and is simple for employees to access and use regardless of their location and payment.

Flexible Workflow Managemnt
A flexible workflow facility enables the system to match any approval and authorization requirements at any stage of the workflow process.

Fast And Easy Requisitioning
For employees using a web browser via an Internet or intranet connection, employees are able to use SunSystems Procurement to enter requisitions or to track their progress in the purchasing cycle. Users are able to drill down to a transaction to gain an accurate and immediate picture of where the transaction stands, from requisition, to purchase order, to goods received through to supplier invoice and payment.

Requisitioning

• Easy to use browser-based screens
• User definable requisition types
• Free form data entry or select from catalogues
• Budget checking and commitment accounting
• Attachments such as scanned documents, emails, images to aid the approval process

• Create PO directly or compile from one or more requisitions
• Manage approval process
• Link to local or web-based supplier catalogues, price books
• Set up call-off or blanket orders
• Produce orders in a variety of formats such as PDF, HTML and XML

• Goods receipts and returns may be entered and matched against orders
• Users may reject delivery of items and record comments
• Goods inwards can be linked to certain suppliers to ensure this process is not required for specific suppliers such as utilities etc.

• Invoice details can be entered manually or imported via document scanning
• May be subject to further approval prior to payment
• Quick and simple Invoice matching process

• Browser-based inquiry system
• Immediate visibility to purchasing information based upon user definable parameter selections
• View all requisitions or purchase orders placed over the last month with all associated values
• Powerful drill-down facilities from summary level to detailed transactions