Our business is divided into two categories.
One side is Manufacturing for military packaging. We have all types of paper boards and other packaging materials. We may start out with an inventory item one size, use part of it and end up with a finished product and a new sized inventory item from the original piece of board. Currently, none of that side of the business is in our system as it is a tedious task to constantly add new inventory items. Additionally, we are not doing real job costing as data entry with our current system would require too much time.
Our other side of the business is a distribution of specialty seals. Everything is on the system. Most of our product on this side of the business is also purchased from China. The cost of goods are easy to enter, but tariffs are a large part of the cost and entered in one category (not separated to be attributable to each item purchased). Since we receive a shipping report with it in total tariff cost, we are not doing real job/item cost.
We are currently using Sage 50, have 13 users, and know we have outgrown our system. We have a Sage rep that is pushing us to go to Sage 100, but if we are going to spend that much money, then we want to have a better look at what is out there.
