LAKE SUNSYSTEMS NEWSLETTER - September 2007

Welcome to the September 2007 edition of the newsletter for LAKE Customers.

This month, our product focus is on the LAKE Spend Control solution based on the market-leading Proactis software.

Our newsletter also includes the latest LAKE News and highlights some of the most popular Solutions available in LAKE Support Online.

Best regards

Adrian Howard
General Manager
0113 273 7788

IN THIS EDITION

LAKE News:
South Cheshire College

Product Focus:
LAKE Spend Control

Knowledgebase:
SunSystems 5
SunSystems 4
Vision

SunSystems Training:
Latest SunSystems Training Dates
 

LAKE News

Beacon College selects market leading LAKE Spend Control solution

• Proactis Spend Control
• SunSystems 5
• SunSystems Vision

South Cheshire College has selected College specialist Lake Financial Systems to implement a new Spend Control solution based on Proactis and SunSystems 5.

'The set up has been very easy to manage; we went live within Finance only 4 weeks following installation...

.. Proactis is an off-the-shelf product with all the features we need. We should have gone with the LAKE Spend Control solution a long time ago...

.. I trust LAKE to deliver the best solution for the College.'

CLICK HERE to download this news items (pdf format).

PRODUCT FOCUS

LAKE Spend Control is an integrated spend management platform based on the market-leading Proactis, Vision and SunSystems software.

Is Proactis for me?

LAKE Spend Control solutions are good value for anyone wishing to manage non-payroll expenses. Most likely, you are a service based organisation or department. Solutions start from as little as 25 named users.

Examples of user comment:

'Proactis has been really well received. We got a lot of positive feedback. People kept saying that it's a really fantastic system, that it's made a lot of difference.' A4e

'We should have gone with the LAKE Spend Control solution a long time ago" South Cheshire College

'It has definitely made the Supplier Management job
easier' Greater Merseyside Connexions

And, the product breadth?

• Requisitions & Orders
  Initiation of the procurement process... either with full order detail from a knowledgeable buyer, or as a simple statement of need in the form of a requisition.
   
• Catalogues
  In-house categorised lists of goods/services, or portal-based, vendor managed catalogues fully integrated to price-list contracts. Support for external categories (e.g. UNSPSC, NIGP), 'punch out' to supplier web sites and more.
   
• Workflow & Authorisation
  A representation of corporate processes, electronically taking the purchasing transaction through the appropriate authorisation routes according to your business rules.
   
• Document Scanning
  Document imaging, including OCR input, streamlines data flow and tracking in a dedicated Proactis module or as a gateway to your enterprise wide document management system.
   
• Invoice Matching
  A three-way match to ensure you only pay for goods/services you have ordered and received, and with originator-led troubleshooting for mismatches.
   
• Payments
  Automatic pass-through to SunSystems financials for all authorised invoices to ensure visibility of payments for all involved in the P2P cycle.
   
• Management Information
  Dashboard and report based information, specific to each registered user, delivered in a visual metaphor that is the most appropriate to the type of data being presented.
  
  Vision's powerful reporting features are combined with the familiarity and ease of use of the Microsoft Office Suite delivering significant business benefits.
   
• Employee expenses
  Entry and processing "after-the-fact" purchases that still need to be recorded and available for analysis to ensure visibility across all administrative spend.
   
• Stores & Inventory
  Corporate stores for MRO or consumables such as office supplies are all maintained by this multi-location virtual warehouse which can be treated as an internal vendor.
   
• Purchase Cards
  Full integration and reconciliation with both lodge cards and "walkabout plastic" (corporate charge cards). Often used to great effect for high-volume low-value transactions.

CLICK HERE to further information on Proactis.

CLICK HERE to further information on Vision for Proactis.

CLICK HERE to further relevant upcoming events.

KNOWLEDGEBASE

Go to LAKE Support Online

Listed below are titles for some of the most popular Solutions available at LAKE Support Online.

To access the detail of these and other Solutions, select "Customers" from the menu bar at the top of this page and click "LAKE Support Online".

The system will then display the login page which includes a facility to reset your password or register as a new user.

Once you have logged in, select "Find Solutions" from the navigation menu. Solutions are grouped together by product category.

SunSystems 5

• Entering a serialisation for SunSystems 5
• Clearing an Allocation in Progress
• Clearing a Password Violation

SunSystems 4

• Entering a serialisation for SunSystems 4
• Resolving a Work File Error

Vision

• Clearing Locked Users in Vision 6

SUNSYSTEMS TRAINING

Latest SunSystems Training Dates

CLICK HERE to view the current SunSystems training schedule

CLICK HERE for Proactis training