Delivering all the features you would expect from an industry standard software solution, Sage PFW ERP offers a complex chart of accounts and multicurrency capabilities, integrated budget management, advanced allocations, support for hard and soft consolidations, and support for interdepartmental data access and processing. 

 Paints and Coatings

From its earliest versions to the current release, Sage PFW ERP has always been recognized as the industry standard for technical completeness and functional richness. Helping you respond to an increasingly competitive marketplace driven by rapid technological change, demands for faster order turnaround, pressures to increase batch yields and efficiencies, and industry consolidation is what Sage PFW ERP does better than any other product available.

Paints and coatings companies need more than just process manufacturing modules like Laboratory, Formulas, and MSDS/Compliance. That’s why Sage PFW offers a wide variety of other features and capabilities, all integrated to work together seamlessly. You can use Sage PFW to automate manufacturing, integrate sales with customer resource management (CRM), improve human resources with an integrated human resource management system, and manage all of your financials, from standard accounting to multicurrency and multicompany requirements frequently needed in an international marketplace.

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Paint and Coatings Modules

Rapid Technological Change
Pigment and color houses, resin suppliers, additive, solvent, and specialty chemical contributors, as well as equipment and application manufacturers are continuing to challenge conventional formulations and manufacturing techniques with new PVC concepts, solubility parameters, and color theory, to name but a few technology drivers.

As we break down the rigid barriers of high solids, waterborne, radiation, and powder, the rich laboratory and formulation development features of Sage PFW help our customers fine-tune and adapt these technologies to today's market requirements and pricing objectives. Once those formulations have been developed, the software's premier capabilities in production, material planning, and finance, assist paint and coatings manufacturers to move these products to market quickly and with minimum wasted motion.

Highlights of some of the features that help Sage PFW ERP customers deal with changing coatings technologies include:

• Formula Management with intermediates support (multilevel)
• R&D support with formula optimization
• Automated Formula Revision Tracking
• Regulatory compliance including MSDS and OSHA support
• Lot/Bin/SSCC tracking with full recall and traceability
• Multiple Lot picking strategies with automation
• Comprehensive Inventory Management
• Quarantine and expiration date awareness
• Robust Quality Testing and Control
• By-product management
• Product Costing
• "What if" physical properties analysis
• Automatic reformulation based on target physical property values and cost
• Comparative properties analysis
• Standard physical properties
• Unlimited custom physical properties definitions
• Vendor quality management
• Electronic Data Interexchange (EDI)
• Material Requirements Planning
• Contract management
• Support for formulation and batch size adjustments for ingredient potency
• Monitor Key Performance Indicators for batch quality, vendor performance, perfect order fulfillment, currency fluctuations, outstanding payables, days inventory in transit with business alerts

Rapid Turnaround of Customer Orders
Sage PFW software is specifically designed to allow you not only to be faster and more accurate in operations but also to be able to react flexibly to customer needs.

"One-stop" order entry provides same screen access to:

• Customer history
• Contract data
• Custom pricing tables
• Production data
• Inventory data
• Substitution data

Advanced material planning features:

• Material shortage analysis wizard
• Seven different methods of automated batch sizing
• Automatic unit of measurement for formulation and batches
• "Backflush" material requisitioning
• "After-the-fact" purchase order processing for expedited purchases
• Option for formulation adjustments on batch ticket
• Automated Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) maintenance and printing
• Support for Rework

Convenient Industry Consolidation
For some years now the worldwide coatings market has been experiencing massive consolidation. Though growth opportunities are still developing, with technology switches driven by environmental considerations, and growth in mature markets is expected to remain in line with the overall economic growth, large companies are increasingly pressuring midmarket companies by combining with competitors.

Long-Term Partnerships
As you go through the selection process to decide upon the software solution for your paint and coating business, it’s important to look for a company that will be able to support your investment for the long term. With more than 5.8 million customers worldwide and more than 25 years of experience working with small and medium-size businesses, Sage provides paint and coating manufactures not only world-class products but also world-class support, training, financial stability, and technical expertise upon which to grow your business for years to come.

As the provider of Sage PFW, the world's most widely used PC-based process manufacturing solution, Sage understands that paint and coating companies need more from an ERP vendor than just a list of features. They also need a business partner that can help them deal with being first on the firing line of industrial consolidation.

Paint and Coatings Modules

Costing 
Quickly and easily adjust production costs to calculate how changes affect total product cost in order to maximize every last penny.

Formulas
Track all aspects of your formulas with this powerful module, which also provides tight security so your secret ingredient information can only be accessed by authorized personnel.

Labeling
Save time and ensure accuracy by automating your entire labeling process, including shipping, product, receipt, finished goods, and drum labels.

Laboratory
Transform ideas into products using powerful, reliable computerized formulation, which lets you perform "what-if" scenarios to analyze how changes impact physical formula properties.

Inventory Pro
Access up-to-the-minute information on materials, containers, costs, and finished goods, in order to operate with unprecedented efficiency and profitability.

MRP
Determine precisely when and how much material to purchase based on a time-phased analysis of sales orders, production orders, current inventory, and forecasts.

MSDS/Compliance
Eliminates the complexities of MSDS processing by keeping your business in full compliance with virtually all government and industry reporting requirements.

Order Entry Pro
Build or improve customer satisfaction and keep your customers loyal for life with quick access to all up-to-date customer information.

Production
Minimize downtime and maximize production while enhancing quality, service, and product safety using powerful automation capabilities that expedite scheduling, simplify batch sizing, and improve inventory accuracy and costing.

Purchasing Pro
Manage your purchasing processes efficiently to reap the benefits of lower costs, expedited deliveries, and enhanced vendor relationships.