Whether you're a smaller job shop or a larger make-to-stock manufacturer, you face many of the same business challenges: efficient management of the assembly process, constant optimization of inventory levels, and fulfilling customer orders--all while maintaining a firm grasp on key financial details. With Premium Accounting for Manufacturing 2005, you get powerful yet flexible tools designed specifically to help you meet these and other challenges involved with your manufacturing operations.

Product Features:

Premium Accounting for Manufacturing 2005 combines powerful assembly and inventory management tools, advanced operational reporting, and the rock-solid core accounting features that have made this software the choice of hundreds of thousands of small businesses. The result: an accounting solution tailor-made for the challenges of operating a profitable manufacturing business.

• Assembly Management Features
• Inventory Management Features
• Core Accounting Features

Assembly Management Features:

Advanced Bill of Materials (BOM) Processing
Create advanced BOMs of up to 300 components that can be modified even after an assembly line has been sold--meaning there's no ned to set up a brand-new assembly just because some components have changed. And all BOM changes are automatically logged in an on-screen revision history.

Work Tickets
Allows for detailed tracking of the labor and materials needed to complete assembly jobs. Track due dates, completion times and avoid overcommitting components by removing in-process components from inventory.

Assembly Planning Report
Displays bill of materials components for a selected assembly item and a specified number of units to assemble.

Publication Schedule Report
Helps priooritize build jobs by detailing assembly items on open sales orders.

Component Pick List Report
Details bill of materials information for a selected assembly item.

Deficient Components List for Assemblies Report
Displays deficient bill of material components for a selected assembly item and a specified number of units to assemble.

Assembly Item UPC/SKU Labels
Print assembly item inventory labels for warehouse organization.

Inventory Management Features

Track Item Detail
Track extensive detail on each of your inventory items, such as price levels, tax types, weight, cost method, item type and more!

Serialized Inventory Tracking
Assign serial numbers to specific individual inventory items when creating transactions and maintain detailed records for tracking, recall and warranty purposes. You can also track actual cost of each serialized item for more accurate profit measure.

Item Attribute Sets
Easily create and track inventory items in a product line by defining attributes such as size, color or any attributes you define. With this functionality, you can automatically create and maintain Item Attribute sets, and your reports and lookups will reflect this for easy cross-selling, tracking and maintaining.

Auto-Creation of Purchase Orders based on Stocking Levels
You can automatically create purchase orders based on minimum stock levels, re-order quantities and quantities on sales order. You no longer have to manually fill out purchase orders every time your inventory gets low!

Inventory Trend Analysis with the New Inventory Section in Peachtree Today®
This feature allows you to see information on inventory without running multiple reports. You will have the ability to see fastest/slowest selling items, as well as an inventory cost trend graph which displays revenue, cost and gross profit percent by period.

Buy and Sell in Multi-Quantity Units
You can buy and sell inventory in units other than 1. When it comes time to purchase components or ship finished goods, you can now set up shipping units that match the way you do business, which can save time and improve the accuracy of your inventory counts.

Multiple Costing Methods
You have the flexibility of tracking your inventory with a choice of various costing methods including Average, LIFO (last in, first out) and FIFO (first in, first out) costing as well as specific unit costs for serialized items.

Stock Status by Location Report
This more detailed report shows the current quantities on hand, current quantities on sales orders and purchase orders, and a history of the item.

Item Sales by Customer and Purchase Order Number Report
This report displays item sales by purchase order number.

On-Hand Detail Report
Details purchase information for inventory items.

Core Accounting Features

• Easy Startup, Easy to Learn
• Standard Accounting
• Analysis and Reporting
• Time Savers and Customization