Integrated Sage Software Business Management Solution Lights Up Profits for Litecubes
Award-Winning Sage MAS 90 ERP & ACT! by Sage Combination Helps Improve Overall Company Efficiency by 300%
Irvine, Calif. - December 4, 2006 - Sage Software announced today that Litecubes, a leading manufacturer of novelty illuminated ice cubes and party favors, is using an integrated back- and front-office solution from Sage Software to dramatically boost company performance. The integrated business management solution includes two industry-leaders; the award-winning Sage MAS 90 ERP (enterprise resource planning) for automating and streamlining back-office functions, and the award-winning ACT! by Sage, the number one selling contact and customer management solution worldwide. The combined Sage Software solution replaced QuickBooks?and enabled Litecubes to streamline processes, increase efficiencies and grow into a highly profitable multimillion dollar company.
?t a single glance, the system allows us to see what is on a sales order, purchase order, in the warehouse, or on back order. This is information we never had before and lets us run the company smarter,?said Terry Hickey, vice president of sales and marketing at Litecubes. ?hat? more, with QuickBooks we had three separate points of data entry when a Purchase Order came in. Sage MAS 90 has cut sales order processing time by 75 percent, plus overall efficiencies have improved by 300 percent, in large part because we haven? had to hire new people to accommodate our rapid growth.?
Litecubes manufactures plastic, lighted square blocks that resemble the fanciest of ice cubes, plus numerous other illuminated novelties ideal for brightening up parties. The company uses Sage MAS 90 for automating and integrating the back-office operations, including accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, sales orders, purchase orders, bank reconciliations, credit card processing and inventory management. With ACT!, Litecubes users instantly access key contact and customer information, manage and prioritize activities, and track all contact-related communications to help grow productive business relationships. Sage MAS 90 coupled with ACT! has enabled Litecubes to seamlessly integrate important company data to better manage the company? sales pipeline and improve customer service to a growing list of more than 3,000 customers.
?ecause of the tight integration between ACT! and Sage MAS 90, it? much easier to access our data on leads, and turn them into active customers,?said Hickey. ?he system has enabled us to grow sales exponentially, without adding personnel, and we believe it will support our continued growth for a long, long time.?
When Litecubes outgrew QuickBooks, they turned to premiere Sage Software business partner Barsa Technology Solutions for a comprehensive, long-term business management solution. Barsa performed a complete business needs assessment, helped identify a solution that fit, performed installation, data conversion and training, plus continues to provide other quality services.
?ne reason we selected Sage MAS 90 for our upgrade was because of the easy conversion path from QuickBooks via the Data Migrator tool,?said Hickey. ?e were ecstatic that data on our 2,000-plus customers [at the time] converted seamlessly, as did all of our open invoices. We? feared a horrendous upgrade process, but instead found it was relatively painless. We view this as a true success.?
To view more on Litecubes, a featured customer in Sage Software? video library on successful customer installations, please visit http://www.sagesoftware.com/success/SageSuccessStories/m90_lightcube_vss.html.
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