{"id":141,"date":"2014-01-09T11:52:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T11:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sec-consulting.co.uk\/?page_id=141"},"modified":"2015-07-26T18:52:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T18:52:06","slug":"sec-business-manager","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sec-consulting.co.uk\/?page_id=141","title":{"rendered":"SEC Business Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Software packages for small businesses typically\u00a0solve limited issues and can leave you with\u00a0multiple islands of data and expensive\u00a0integration projects that never work or information that has to be manually re-entered or batched into other applications\u00a0or systems. This wastes time and money.<\/p>\n<p>The SEC Business Manager (SBM) is our flagship business management suite\u00a0and\u00a0takes the\u00a0burden off the small business by providing\u00a0a comprehensive solution that allows you\u00a0to focus on running your business.<\/p>\n<p>The SBM is both a job\/business management and invoicing application and business accounting application\u00a0together in one package \u2013 this is what we believe sets it apart from the competition. Essentially it allows each\u00a0user\/worker to use the system within their own area and use that information to provide \u201cthe big picture\u201d to\u00a0accounting, administration and managerial staff.<\/p>\n<p>SEC Business Manager gives you a\u00a0complete view of your company. All data is\u00a0updated in real-time enabling a complete\u00a0snapshot across all areas of your\u00a0company from accounting and sales, to\u00a0fulfilment and support.<\/p>\n<p>Raise an estimate, follow that estimate\u00a0through status changes to a scheduled\u00a0job, as the job is completed an invoice is\u00a0raised, printed for dispatch or emailed?\u00a0the choice is yours. Track stock and\u00a0consumables, add them to invoices with\u00a0correct mark up, assign different\u00a0customers different discounts \u2013 it&#8217;s all there, and if it&#8217;s not there, it&#8217;s extendible.<\/p>\n<p>The SBM has been developed in close partnership with several companies in the Hampshire area, this is what they\u00a0have\u00a0\u00a0to say:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>&#8220;We saw the an early prototype of the SBM and instantly saw the potential. Being an early\u00a0adopter we were\u00a0able to shape and mould the SBM development to best fit our business\u00a0which has really paid dividends to our\u00a0productivity. Additionally, the recently added cost controls have really helped us get on top\u00a0of our job costing and profitability, especially during the current downturn.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>&#8211; John Puncher MD JP Electrical Services Ltd<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To date the SBM has the following features (and more besides):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fully real-time environment with jobs, invoicing, debtor and creditor details updated in realtime in a fully\u00a0multi-user environment.<\/li>\n<li>Workflow allows job processing to be processed by separate individuals (purchase ledger, job entry,\u00a0invoicing etc.).<\/li>\n<li>Effectively manage suppliers and customers and instantly asses liability and monies owed.<br \/>\nComprehensive document and attachment management system allowing and attachments to be attached to\u00a0jobs, customers, supplier and employees and be instantly searchable and retrievable.<\/li>\n<li>Comprehensive array of management reports allowing you to instantly see the status across various areas\u00a0of the business.<\/li>\n<li>Instantly review and distribute invoices ready for printing or emailed direct to customer accounts\u00a0Job sheet production system.<\/li>\n<li>Instant VAT calculations at any time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Future roadmap features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Web based architecture allowing a true access anywhere, from any device model and offered in a shrink wrapped, fully managed solution.<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;In the field&#8217; employee location tracking and job assignment.<\/li>\n<li>Vehicle tracking and location (using Google maps) with the ability to locate the nearest operative to an emergency callout.<\/li>\n<li>Urgent job alerting system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s what the software does. Here&#8217;s what it does for your company.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gives you total control on job costing and profitability.<\/li>\n<li>Allows instant visibility of monies owed and amounts owing &#8211; and when.<\/li>\n<li>Allows instant traceability from, who worked on what job, to where particular materials where used.<\/li>\n<li>Send invoices, job completion notices, job costing sheets, remittances and customer statements with a click\u00a0of a button.<\/li>\n<li>Set up alerts for job cost overrun, low profit warnings and job due\/overdue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We will shortly be looking\u00a0looking for a further 4 development partners to help us continue and grow the product and develop a web based hosted and managed version (SBM 2.x), if you are interested to hear further how the SBM can streamline the running of your business or see a working demonstration of the current release then please drop us an <a href=\"mailto:info@sec-consulting.co.uk?Subject=SBM%20partner%20interest\">email<\/a>\u00a0today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Software packages for small businesses typically\u00a0solve limited issues and can leave you with\u00a0multiple islands of data and expensive\u00a0integration projects that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":60,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-141","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sec-consulting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sec-consulting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sec-consulting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sec-consulting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sec-consulting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.sec-consulting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/www.sec-consulting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141\/revisions\/302"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sec-consulting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sec-consulting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}