The Project Accounting module seems to be an after thought with not much in the area of increased functionality. A basic needed change is full integration into Sales Order so that customer credit limits are recogized when entering new projects as well as the usage of the Sales Order multiple ship to addresses and information when performing time entry. When performing time entry, the customer name, project description, and ship to should display so that personnel entering time could verify they are entering against the correct project. There should be a posting date sensitive WIP report that you can use to reconcile to your GL account balances. This was a basic report in the Mas200 Job Ops module.
by: Robert F. | over a year ago | 2 - Manufacturing
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Our company also relies on Project Accounting for managing hundreds of projects. Each project has different billing rates and sometimes includes shipping and billing manufactured products. When we purchased Mas500 we were promised that Project Accounting would meet all our needs. Now that we know how it works we realize we will never be able to utilize some of the functions (like billing on cost plus projects because the actual costs will not tie to the GL for items received on PO’s that have not had AP vouchers processed). I agree that Sage needs to take a serious look at updating this product. With a few changes this product would open doors for increased sales for companies who are project oriented, especially government contractors.
Everything we do is project based. We as well would like the Sales Order module to be linked to Project accounting. The fact that project items that are shipped out does not optionally link back to Project Accounting perplexes me. It seems like a logical link.
I split off the sales order functionality need as a separate request:
https://www11.v1ideas.com/SageERP/MAS500/Idea/Detail/2588