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One factor of success in today's nonprofit and corporate environments is assuring that the right information gets to the right people at the right time. That's where TRAVERSE Accounting Business Software for Windows comes in. The one-click, seamless integration with Microsoft Office products lets you import a TRAVERSE report into an Excel spreadsheet -- headers, footers, and formulas. You can also move the report into Word and then send it wherever it's needed, whether across the aisle or across the world.

Written in MS Access and MS SQL, TRAVERSE is based on the feature set of the award-winning OPEN SYSTEMS Accounting Software.  TRAVERSE is designed for use in a diverse marketplace with multi-currency, multiple tax-locations, long address lines, and date and currency formatting features. TRAVERSE runs under Windows 2000, NT, and XP.

TRAVERSE is a perfect fit for your organization whether it consists of 3 people or 3,000. There is bundled package pricing for the smallest organization, mid range solutions for the medium sized firm, and Client Server using SQL Server for those organizations needing extensive feature sets.  TRAVERSE eBusiness solution is available for organizations that wish to enhance their applications further.

NEW FEATURES OF TRAVERSE v10.5

The following TRAVERSE accounting software applications are available for both nonprofits and small businesses: 
Accounts Payable

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You need a strong financial management system in order to meet the demands placed on your business.  One that's designed to provide vital information quickly and easily.  TRAVERSE is the system you need.

TRAVERSE was developed with SQL Server, Microsoft Access, and Visual Basic. It provides a seamless interface to Microsoft Office products like Word, Excel, and Outlook, as well as HTML language for the Internet. You'll be connected to all members of the Microsoft Office family, making it easier to share your information. TRAVERSE provides multilingual and multicurrency capabilities, making it the software of choice for business across the globe.

Data entry in Accounts Payable can be done with the mouse and/or keyboard and tab stops can be individualized for quick entry. You can view historical data for an unlimited number of years in detail or summarized, and you can view and select payables to be released for payment. As with all Open Systems products, source code is available.

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Accounts Receivable

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TRAVERSE provides the features you want and the tools you need to run your business more effectively.  Source code is available so that you can customize the software to meet your unique needs.  TRAVERSE was developed with SQL Server, Microsoft Access and Visual Basic, so the user benefits from a seamless interface to Microsoft Office products such as Word, Excel, and Outlook as well as HTML language for the Internet.  Working with the tools you're already familiar with makes training a breeze!

Accounts Receivable offers multilingual and multicurrency capabilities. You can use a mouse and/or a keyboard for navigation and data entry, and you can customize by user which fields to stop at on data entry screens. Historical information for an unlimited number of years can be viewed in detail or in summary.

There are other advantages to working with a product developed with Access. Its built-in intelligence sense what you want to do and produces the results you are looking for. Routine tasks become automatic; complex jobs become efficient and manageable. TRAVERSE manages your financial information quickly, easily, and effectively.

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Advanced Financial Analyst

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Advanced Financial Analyst is a state of the art reporting tool that provides access to your general ledger data directly from Microsoft Excel, the most popular spreadsheet in the world.

There are two primary components to Advanced Financial Analyst: Author and Analyst. Use Author to design report templates. Begin with an existing template or start from scratch. Place entire rows and columns of information in the worksheet with user-friendly wizards. Build in filters that allow users to specify report criteria when viewing the report. Add drill down capability to a report by simply checking a box. Or, create a data source to be used in conjunction with Excel pivot tables. Author makes template creation easy thanks to innovative programming that was done using 100% Microsoft tools.

Use Analyst to view reports using your templates. Simply open the template, select any filter criteria and run it. The report is automatically generated with new data from the selected period. This means your time is spent analyzing data, not entering it. And, because your data is in Excel, you have a full complement of tools available to you. Perform 'what-if' analysis. Create charts and graphs. Or, distribute the information in native Excel, HTML or text formats. Because your data is in Excel, it's all extremely fast and easy.

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Advanced Information Analyst

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Organizations tend to grow and prosper as they gain a better understanding of their environment. Advanced Information Analyst helps you understand increasingly complex problems in today's fast-paced organizational atmosphere, taking your TRAVERSE accounting data and turning it into powerful information to help you make better, mission critical decisions.

Advanced Information Analyst uses the latest online analytical processing (OLAP) technology to produce reports and graphs that afford a new level of insight. OLAP enables you to easily and selectively extract and view data from different points of view. You can analyze data by interacting directly with it rather than by viewing static paper reports. Get fast answers to questions such as: Are our sales promotions (or fundraising appeals) working? Are we attracting new customers? New donors? Are we managing our inventory properly? Advanced Information Analyst allows you to visualize your business information in charts, decomposition trees, perspective views, or grids for easy comprehension.

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Bank Reconciliation

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TRAVERSE Bank Reconciliation application helps you streamline and improve the reconciliation of bank statements with general ledger bank accounts. It makes important updates to TRAVERSE General Ledger and receives timely entries from the other applications.

TRAVERSE was developed with SQL Server, Microsoft Access and Visual Basic. As a result, the user benefits from a seamless interface to products such as Word, Excel, and Outlook as well as HTML language for the Internet. You'll be connected to all members of the Microsoft Office family, making it easy to share your information. In addition, TRAVERSE provides multilingual and multicurrency capabilities.

With Bank Reconciliation, you'll know which checks have been cleared, which transactions are outstanding, which bank accounts contain what amounts, and exactly where your money is. Find errors and record differences between your books and the bank easily with two types of reconciliation from the Reconciliation Report--book-to-bank and bank-to-book. Reconciling is fast and simple. You can clear transactions with a single mouse click--line by line with a specific range of checks or all at once. If you make a mistake, reversing a selection is just as easy.

You need to make the best decisions about the day-to-day operations of your business. TRAVERSE Bank Reconciliation gives you the accurate information you need to make the most of your cash. Using multiple bank accounts for Accounts Receivable/Sales Order deposits and Accounts Payable/Purchase Order checks gives you the flexibility to receive money and to disburse money from different accounts.

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Bill of Materials/Kitting

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The success of a manufacturing or distribution organization depends on your ability to supply existing customers and attract new customers with the right products at the right time for the right price.  TRAVERSE Bill of Materials/Kitting can help you do just that.  It is a fully integrated application that allows wholesale and retail distributors as well as light manufacturers to define, build, and sell "kitted" inventory items based upon a Bill of Material-like formula.  Bill of Materials/Kitting is fully integrated with TRAVERSE Inventory and Sales Order.

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Budget Matrix Enhancement

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Are you creating your budgets in Excel and then re-entering them into TRAVERSE once they are approved? Save yourself the extra time and effort by using Budget Matrix Enhancement. The Budget Matrix Enhancement allows you to create and maintain your budgets and forecasts using all of the features of Excel, before automatically importing them into TRAVERSE General Ledger. 

You have the flexibility to spread an annual budget evenly over 12 months, based on percentages recorded on the spreadsheet, or based on the actuals in TRAVERSE.

You can also export actuals (either a full year or partial year) to Excel to begin a new forecast or budget cycle. 

Audit reports are available for the import and export processes, as well as for invalid GL Accounts.

The application provides complete flexibility for the transfer of data between TRAVERSE GL accounts and your Excel spreadsheet. Multiple Excel columns and rows may be placed into a single GL account when importing and multiple GL accounts may be summarized into a single cell on the spreadsheet when exporting.  Mapping tables define the structure of the Excel spreadsheet. The GL account segments may be entered into the mapping table or entered directly into Excel with the associated data.

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Customer Relationship Management

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A marketing department needs to provide strong leads to the sales group; this may involve a number of activities designed to initiate a relationship with prospects, including advertising, telemarketing, direct mail, special events and more.  TRAVERSE Customer Relationship Management (CRM) gives you seamless control of your marketing programs and lets you do an online analysis of their effectiveness.

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Digital Dashboard

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Now included with System Manager, Digital Dashboard gives you an executive snapshot of key business indicators.  You can personalize Digital Dashboard using over 35 pre-defined business metrics.  Each user can choose which objects to view and whether to show data graphically, in text, or with a combination of both.  User settings also include the ability to set an automatic refresh interval to ensure timely, accurate information.  Dashboard objects can show individual company or consolidated data in multi-company environments.

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Direct Deposit

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TRAVERSE Direct Deposit makes payday easier for everyone. Your employees don't need to worry about getting their paychecks to the bank in time--and then waiting in line when they get there. Direct Deposit, a TRAVERSE Payroll companion module, makes life a whole lot easier. The greatest benefit of all is something else Direct Deposit provides for your employees: peace of mind. They'll know that their paychecks will be deposited directly into their bank accounts in a reliable and consistent manner.  And, you'll get more productivity on payday.

With TRAVERSE Direct Deposit, you can give employees the choice of whether or not to participate. They can also choose to have a portion of their pay deposited to their accounts and to receive the remainder as a live check. They may also elect to split deposit numbers between six different bank accounts in up to six different banks.

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Distribution Requirements Planning

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Most inventory problems would be a lot easier to solve if you could only see them coming.  Distribution planning involves managing sales forecasts, creating master schedules, and running DRP.  In short, DRP allows you to balance your future supply and demand.  TRAVERSE Distribution Requirements Planning enables you to plan for the future.  You'll be able to meet market demand and address your company's sales plan, ensuring you're never short of supplies when you need them and never overstocked with unnecessary inventory when you don't.

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eBusiness - eShopping Cart (B2C)

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Automate online ordering processes and remove time-consuming multiple manual entry process by tying your front-end sales and order processing to your back-end system.

TRAVERSE eBusiness Solutions were built using 100% Microsoft technology. These platform-independent, feature-rich, competitively priced solutions for growing businesses allow you to streamline key business processes with TRAVERSE accounting applications.

Maximize efficiency and make it easier to do business with customers, vendors and partners. TRAVERSE eBusiness is your single-source web solution.

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eBusiness - eCustomer Inquiry

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eCustomer Inquiry allows your customers to gain instant response to their questions regarding their account balances, credit limits, and historical invoices and payments.

TRAVERSE eBusiness Solutions were built using 100% Microsoft technology. These platform-independent, feature-rich, competitively priced solutions for growing businesses allow you to streamline key business processes with TRAVERSE accounting applications.

Maximize efficiency and make it easier to do business with customers, vendors and partners. TRAVERSE eBusiness is your single-source web solution.

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eBusiness - eCustomer Order

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Cut costs and tighten your partnerships with your customers. eCustomer Order gives them the ability to place orders online, do inventory searches, create a pending order, and view the status of open orders.

TRAVERSE eBusiness Solutions were built using 100% Microsoft technology. These platform-independent, feature-rich, competitively priced solutions for growing businesses allow you to streamline key business processes with TRAVERSE accounting applications.

Maximize efficiency and make it easier to do business with customers, vendors and partners. TRAVERSE eBusiness is your single-source web solution.

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eBusiness - eSales Rep

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eSales Rep is a powerful tool for your sales force. Full integration to the TRAVERSE back office allows your sales reps to access vital customer information, place orders, and do advanced inventory searches online from any location: home, office, hotel, customer site, etc.

TRAVERSE eBusiness Solutions were built using 100% Microsoft technology. These platform-independent, feature-rich, competitively priced solutions for growing businesses allow you to streamline key business processes with TRAVERSE accounting applications.

Maximize efficiency and make it easier to do business with customers, vendors and partners. TRAVERSE eBusiness is your single-source web solution.

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eBusiness - eProject Cost

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eProject Cost addresses the requirements of companies that need to apply time to a project and make inquiries on those products. Employees with eProject Cost have the ability to update the status of projects easily and conveniently from any location with Internet access, and managers can check on their progress.

TRAVERSE eBusiness Solutions were built using 100% Microsoft technology. These platform-independent, feature-rich, competitively priced solutions for growing businesses allow you to streamline key business processes with TRAVERSE accounting applications.

Maximize efficiency and make it easier to do business with customers, vendors and partners. TRAVERSE eBusiness is your single-source web solution.

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eBusiness - eManager

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Required with all eBusiness applications, eManager handles the overall security and administrative services, which include menu access and new user setup for all eBusiness applications.

TRAVERSE eBusiness Solutions were built using 100% Microsoft technology. These platform-independent, feature-rich, competitively priced solutions for growing businesses allow you to streamline key business processes with TRAVERSE accounting applications.

Maximize efficiency and make it easier to do business with customers, vendors and partners. TRAVERSE eBusiness is your single-source web solution.

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Electronic Banking

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From ACH transactions to direct deposit of payroll checks, TRAVERSE Banking provides a number of features that combine to offer you - and your nonprofit organization or small business - a secure electronic banking environment.

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Enhanced Payroll Tax Reporting

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Boost your productivity gain and eliminate hours of typing with TRAVERSE Enhanced Payrolls Tax Reporting.  Using this highly interactive reporting tool and your TRAVERSE payroll data, you'll get over 300 certified state and federal reports, which can be printed on plain paper or filed electronically through a new optional service called eFile.

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E-Piece Work Entry

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E-Piece Work Entry is a web-enabled data entry system designed for use at your client site or wherever there is an internet connection. E-Piece Work Entry links directly to your TRAVERSE Personnel Tracking System for information on contracts, customer, jobs and individuals.

E-Piece Work Entry meets the needs of nonprofit organizations that specialize in hiring people with disabilities. By allowing data entry from any location, any time, using an existing internet connection, this web based screen is ideal for field use or multi-location organizations.

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Fixed Assets

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You need to analyze the tax and cash-flow implications of assets before you acquire them. Once you have them, you need to track their validation and depreciation. TRAVERSE Fixed Assets gives you the power to do just that. It will help you make wise decisions about when to buy, when to lease, and how to manage your capital for maximum return. You'll also have the full range of financial aid and management reports you need to manage your investments and meet tax reporting requirements.

TRAVERSE provides the capability for Internet/intranet access and provides a seamless interface to Microsoft Office products such as Word, Excel, and Outlook. You'll have the forecasting tools you need to evaluate leases, amortize loans, and experiment with depreciation strategies before you make a capital commitment.

Keep an eye on your depreciation options with four depreciation books that let you track four sets of depreciation information. You can also retire assets at any time. Track the differences between estimated depreciable and actual service life and calculate the cost or proceeds from the retirement of an asset.

Fixed Assets will help you and your organization stay up to date with tax law changes. Fixed Assets provides a set of IRS-supplied depreciation tables and supports MACRS, ACRS, straight line, sum-of-the-year digits, and declining balance recovery methods. Flexible tables help you make changes easily to stay current with tax laws.

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General Ledger

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TRAVERSE opens the door to a world of flexibility and productivity.  The General Ledger module lets you report, compare, and analyze key information and statements--critical to your company's success.

Since TRAVERSE was developed with SQL Server, Microsoft Access and Visual Basic, it provides a seamless interface to Microsoft Office products such as Word, Excel, and Outlook as well as HTML language for the Internet. You can export reports--including headings, data, and formulas--with just one click! And training is easy because you are working with tools you are already familiar with.

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Individual Tracking System

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ITS, Individual Tracking System, is developed in SQL Server, Microsoft Access, and VBA for NISH and JWOD reporting.  ITS has a direct interface to TRAVERSE Accounting software or can be purchased as a stand-alone module. This module is designed to help Community Rehabilitation Providers manage their reporting needs and Piece Rate Payroll calculations.

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Info Alert

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Info-Alert is a powerful tool that monitors your business data and provides automated alerts when various business conditions are met. Info-Alert serves as a "virtual employee" that attached to your TRAVERSE data and reviews it at scheduled intervals, reporting the information to the appropriate people.

With Info-Alert, you define your own specific set of parameters. When conditions occur that meet those parameters, an alert is sent--via email or report--to those individuals assigned to receive the notification (employees, customers, vendors, etc.). There are many predefined alerts, including those in categories such as Accounts Receivable, Order Entry, Inventory and Purchasing. For each pre-defined alert, you can establish a set of criteria; for example, "Only review customers assigned to a specific sales rep."

Info-Alert is quick and easy to install. Once it is set-up, Info-Alert will run unattended, reviewing your data for information you have requested. Most other Microsoft or ODBC-compliant databases in your office can easily be connected and mapped to Info-Alert to allow you to generate alerts based on your organization specific data. Info-Alert can also be configured to send dunning letters to your customers, send requests to vendors for the status of late shipments, automatically update credit hold flags in your customer record and much more.

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Inventory

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You need to track every aspect of your inventory. You need to know what you have in stock, how much it's worth, and where it's located. You can do it with the TRAVERSE Inventory application. TRAVERSE provides a seamless interface to Microsoft Office products as well as multilingual and multicurrency capabilities. Organizations running Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows NT, and other leading systems will benefit from the great array of features TRAVERSE offers.

TRAVERSE lets you closely monitor inventory movements by tracking detailed inventory history. You can then use the Inventory Movement Report to identify your best products and to understand their purchase/sales cycles. You can even spot seasonal demand patterns. The Valuation Report summarized the value of the items you have on hand and the profit on items sold during the year. With TRAVERSE Inventory, you'll be able to make informed buying and selling decisions, improve customer service, and save money.

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Laundry Tracking System

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LTS, Laundry Tracking System, is developed in SQL Server, Microsoft Access and VBA specifically for tracking the flow of laundry from intake to return delivery.  With its optional scale interface, it will weigh soiled and cleaned laundry and track production by the specific equipment used.  A uniform tracking module with bar codes readers and printers is available to manage the processing of uniforms.

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Manufacturing - Bill of Materials

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The key to a successful manufacturing software implementation begins with the Bill of Materials. A bill of materials (BOM) defines the product structure in terms of materials and provides an optional connection to plant resources such as machinery, tooling, and labor defined by a bill of routing. The Bill of Materials application provides a solid base for production activity to be defined, tracked and reviewed. It also enables more advanced software such as MRP and CRP to be properly utilized. TRAVERSE Manufacturing Bill of Materials provides the means to start.

The software functionality provided gives you the tools you'll need to define both the simplest and most complex bills of materials. Designed to allow you to start simple and build from there, the maintenance of the bills of material provides advanced features such as detailed routing, multiple routing definition, mixed unit of measure, cross group costing, scrap tracking, and total visual documentation.

Revision numbers, effectivity dates, and drawing numbers help to further define BOM. You can set up simple, material-only bills quickly and with minimal work. You'll also find that the sophisticated feature set built into this product is comparable to software that is priced substantially higher. 

Features like a text file import enable you to bring engineering bills directly into your current BOM database. Standard cost maintenance, component replacement, BOM change history, and a variety of inquiry functions give you automated update abilities and quick access to vital information.

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Manufacturing - Material Requirements Planning

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Most manufacturing problems would be a lot easier to solve if you could only see them coming. Materials planning involves managing sales forecasts, creating master schedules, and running MRP. In short, balancing your future supply and demand. TRAVERSE Material Requirements Planning enables you to plan for the future. You'll be able to meet market demand and address your company's production plan.

With TRAVERSE Materials Requirements Planning, you produce a Master Production Schedule to plan the manufacturing of finished goods in order to meet the expected demand from your sales forecasts. Next, you use MRP functionality to determine the raw materials you need and when you need to purchase them in order to fulfill the production goals based on the Master Production Schedule.

At the heart of the system is the MRP report, a time-phased glimpse of the future demands for material components and assemblies. Combining the best of both worlds, this report features two formats for users: one for those who prefer bucketless reporting and one for those who prefer the standard MRP report based on daily, weekly, or monthly summaries.

Forecasting can be a challenge, but the TRAVERSE software tools make the job easier than ever. Forecasts can be automatically created for individual parts and assemblies based on current history using multiple methodologies. Forecast flexibility is built in at every step of the process.

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Manufacturing - Production

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Production is where it all comes together. Your software must be able to tell you today's production status, what is going to happen next, and what happened yesterday. The TRAVERSE Manufacturing Production application is up to the test. Online inquiry into existing production orders shows percentage complete based on time and materials and gives you detailed information on the status of each production process.

Once created, production orders can be edited via the visual editor in a drilldown manner for the flexibility many manufacturing environments require. Activity recording can be imported from an external source such as an automated time care or bar code data collection system, or it can entered manually.

A variety of worksheets can assist you in this process. Each one has a specific focus in terms of what to pull, which operation to run, and where to go next. Special worksheets help to expedite subcontracted processes.

Visual tools such as videos and pictures are readily available to assist in the process. A sophisticated dispatch process allows you to set the productions sequence to keep things moving smoothly.

Extensive variance reporting enables you to see when, where--and, most importantly--why variances took place in terms of time, usage quantities, and final productions.

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Manufacturing - Routing and Resources

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The labor, machinery, and tooling elements of manufacturing can be as crucial as the component materials you use. These are the elements that can cause production to come to a crawl and cause costs to far exceed projections. The TRAVERSE Routing and Resources application provides the functionality to define these important pieces of your manufacturing software solution.

Working with the Bill of Materials module, the Routing and Resources application defines elements such as work centers, labor, machinery, and tooling. In terms of costs and times, these elements make up the process side of the manufacturing bill of materials.

By breaking down the process in the labor types, machine groups, and tooling, Routing and Resources enables you to define operations as a combination of these elements. Routings are then created as a set of step-by-step operations and can be used in the Bill of Materials application without needing to be recreated every time.

The system allows for the definition of queue time, setup time, run time, wait time, and move time. All times are dined in terms of seconds, minutes, or hours. Overlap logic is used to determine the rate of pass-through. Flexibility costing algorithms can be set up for labor and machinery. Overhead methods can be unique for each work center.

Routing and Resources also provides a sophisticated base for future customization with a comprehensive tooling database, labor and machinery pricing algorithms, and a complete shop calendar feature.

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Mobile Order

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TRAVERSE Mobile Order is designed to allow you to efficiently capture customer orders anytime, anywhere with a mobile PDA device.  The information captured about customers and orders is more valuable because it's shared with the award-winning TRAVERSE accounting platform.  It decreases order-entry time and eliminates double data entry, allowing you to perform many key tasks outside of the office.

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Mobile Warehouse

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Mobile Warehouse makes a number of the TRAVERSE Warehouse Management picking and receiving functions, along with other Inventory functions, available as an application running on a Pocket PC-compatible handheld device.  Mobile Warehouse is installed on a handheld and used on your warehouse floor to record receipts and shipments and track item movement.  Since the handheld connects directly to the TRAVERSE server via web services, the actions you record on the handheld are automatically entered into TRAVERSE, ensuring that your inventory is always up to date.

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Multicurrency

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TRAVERSE Multicurrency capabilities allow you to develop and maintain productive relationships with foreign customers and vendors while handling transactions in any number of currencies.  Exchange rates are continuously changing, but with TRAVERSE you can easily manage your accounting procedures by defining as many currencies and rates as you wish.

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Not-For-Profit

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TRAVERSE Not-For-Profit (NFP) provides organizations with a cost-effective solution and a robust set of features frequently requested by not-for-profit organizations. TRAVERSE NFP gives you total integration to the General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Payroll modules. As with all TRAVERSE applications, source code is included.

Many nonprofit organizations choose TRAVERSE because of its capability to seamlessly export any report with the click of just one button to Microsoft Office products such as Word, Excel, and Outlook. With TRAVERSE Not-For-Profit, you can easily email your budget or financial statements to the board. Since TRAVERSE General Ledger has a flexible chart of accounts that handles up to seven segment categories and 30-character alpha-numeric numbers, you can create unlimited funds, programs, grants, activities, departments and divisions all in one place. The Not-For-Profit General Ledger module also has a feature to tag an account as active or inactive so that your chart of accounts does not show inactive accounts, grants, or activities.

NFP organizations track restricted, temporarily restricted and unrestricted funds and also need to provide reports on the activity of these funds. TRAVERSE NFP tracks these funding activities and automatically creates due to/from entries as part of the process. Reports are easily formatted with the powerful built-in report writer. The cross-fiscal year reporting for financial reports and grants--conveniently located in the general ledger--is another feature that will save you valuable time.

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Payroll

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TRAVERSE Payroll keeps you current with government reporting requirements while giving you total flexibility. In addition to printing checks, you need to maintain detailed records with clear audit trails, track sick and vacation days, and keep up to date with tax law changes.  TRAVERSE Payroll can handle it all. It also enables you to analyze payroll expenses and employee productivity as well as control costs and review expense distribution.

TRAVERSE was developed with SQL Server, Microsoft Access and Visual Basic, so you can have a seamless interface to Microsoft Office products such as Word, Excel, and Outlook as well as HTML language for the Internet. You can export reports--including headings, data, and formulas--with just one click!

With this module, you can produce detailed reports to help you plan and generate a budget. Manage your expenses efficiently by tracking FUTA, SUI, Medicare, and Social Security, as well as earnings by department. You decide whether to calculate scheduled deductions as a fixed amount, a percentage of gross pay, an hourly rate, or a declining balance. W-2s are stored on magnetic media and you can easily produce W-2s-printed on forms to meet federal requirements.

TRAVERSE payroll enables you to have the flexibility to set up your payroll according to your terms. Define pay codes for regular, overtime, double-time, sick, vacation time, or any other payment method for hourly employees. Unlimited user-definable deductions are allowed per company, as well as taxable and/or nontaxable earning codes and an option for fixed federal, state, and local withholdings.

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Personnel Tracking System

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ABS Personnel Tracking System (PTS) provides a robust full featured human resources management system with integration to the TRAVERSE Payroll module.  It allows you to manage the entire workflow process from new employee hiring, orientation, benefits, performance, compensations, reviews, and training.  This application is written in Microsoft SQL with source code providing flexible and powerful reporting capabilities.

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Point of Sale

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TRAVERSE Point of Sale (POS) is a computerized retail management system that combines a user-friendly interface with exceptional speed and flexibility. It is integrated with TRAVERSE Sales Order for a fast, efficient means of entering sales and controlling inventory. TRAVERSE POS enables your computer to operate as a cash register, offering far more capabilities than a traditional register. Additonally, it's much more efficient and easier to use.

TRAVERSE POS is the perfect solution to improve the profitability of your business. It provides streamlined transaction entry (sales, returns, layaways and quotes) and the ability to quickly locate information through robust reporting and lookup functions. You'll be able to capture complete transaction details at the "point of sale"; transaction history and real-time database records are stored indefinitely, so your valuable data is always just a keystroke away.

When trying to locate a customer or an inventory item, simply type the first few letters of the name you are trying to locate. TRAVERSE POS instantly brings you to the correct place in the list, even if you have thousands of names to search through. Inventory items can be found by scanning with a barcode reader or by typing in the description. TRAVERSE Point of Sale also lets you look up inventory by typing the vendor SKU, product code, or a "preferred name."

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Project Costing

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TRAVERSE Project Costing is both a time billing and a job costing application. It is a fully integrated TRAVERSE application that addresses the needs of companies tracking the progress of projects or jobs.

The general screens allow you to define the structure of the project and to make decisions about what type of project it is, how the project levels will accrue income and costs, and how billing will be handled. The cost screens provide actual project-to-date cost information compared to estimates. The profit screens provide actual project-to-date incomes, cost and gross profit information compared to estimates. The history screen provides incomes, cost, billing and write-up/down information on a month-to-date, year-to-date, and project-to-date basis.

TRAVERSE Project Costing lets you set up projects for billing at either the project level or the phase level. You can also have projects that are speculative in nature and change them to billable projects later. A simple entry screen gives you the ability to enter estimates at the project, phase or task level; it shows both current estimates and the revised estimates.

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Purchase Order

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From the moment you decide to buy through the time the purchase is fully received and invoiced, TRAVERSE Purchase Order gives you the power to take charge of purchase order processing.

Source code is available so that you can customize the software to meet your unique needs. TRAVERSE also provides a seamless interface to products such as Word, Excel, and Outlook as well as HTML language for the Internet. You'll be connected to all members of the Microsoft Office family, making it easier to share your information. In addition, TRAVERSE provides multilingual and multicurrency capabilities, making it the software of choice for business in the diverse and shrinking worldwide marketplace.

Purchase Order gives you the features and functions you need to keep a watchful eye on the goods and services your company receives. You can detect shortages and incorrect invoices so that you only pay for the items you've received. You can specify, confirm, and track every detail of an order you place with a particular vendor. You can indicate how you would like your goods shipped. You can confirm when, how many, and how much. And most importantly, you can track your original order until it is completed.

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Sales Order

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TRAVERSE Sales Order offers a host of features to improve your efficiency and increase your flexibility.

Sales Order helps you keep your customers happy by handling their orders promptly and correctly. Remaining inventory quantities appear on the screen. Backorder information is right at your fingertips so you'll know exactly what's ordered and when it will ship. And, you can print an online invoice or picking slip with just a click.

With TRAVERSE Sales Order, you'll have quick lookup based either on customer or transaction. You can enter, edit, and view invoices from a single screen, and you'll have access to all Accounts Receivable reports and inquires. In addition, Sales Order provides the option for two-way split commissions and multiple tax locations per tax group.

Add, change, or delete codes for your general ledger distribution accounts or set up a selection of different receivable accounts. These general ledger accounts are used when transactions are posted for the customer. Sales Order provides the capability to assign distribution codes to customer records; then when you post transactions that involve the customers, transaction information moves directly to the accounts you specify for the associated distribution code.

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Service Director

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TRAVERSE Service Director is a comprehensive work order and service management system equally well suited for your on-site, depot or internal company needs. Developed in Microsoft Access, Service Director is designed for a wide range of businesses including installation, repair, maintenance service, manufacturing, and construction companies. Developed as a tiered system utilizing 100% Microsoft technology, Service Director allows you to select the product level appropriate for your business needs and budget.

TRAVERSE Service Director's powerful dispatching capability offers your company unparalleled system flexibility. Quick work order entry and scheduling gives your customers fast, efficient call handling. With Service Director's work order command center concept, daily functions are quickly and easily accomplished. Flexible customer invoicing for time and materials is available for a single dispatch or a series of dispatches. As with all TRAVERSE applications, source code is available for company specific customizations.

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Synoptix

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Synoptix for TRAVERSE allows you to easily create reports using specially designed spreadsheets that automatically pull in live data. Synoptix has a direct connection with your TRAVERSE database and enables you to create amazing, detailed and up to date reports for any information you need.

Instantly create reports and never worry about updating and maintaining them, or the initial hassle of putting them together. Synoptix is easy enough to use on your own, without the help of any IT person. Impress the office with compelling and meaningful charts and tables as you sit back and let Synoptix do all the hard work for you.

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System Manager

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TRAVERSE gives you the tools you're already familiar with and provides a seamless interface to Microsoft products in such as Word, Excel, and Outlook as well as HTML language for the Internet.  It was developed with Visual Basic, SQL Server, and Microsoft Access--the most powerful databases available.  Access has a simple design philosophy, so it is easy to use for everyone--regardless of the level of expertise. SQL Server integrates with the BackOffice family of products, including Exchange and Internet Information Server.

TRAVERSE runs on Windows 98, 2000, XP, NT and Windows Server 2003. Server code is available so that you can customize the software to meet your unique needs. System Manager provides features such as multilingual and multicurrency capabilities, and users can choose keyboard navigation, point-and-click navigation, or both. And, it's easy to move and merge information.

TRAVERSE manages your financial information quickly, easily, and effectively. You can do quick sorts on any field in ascending or descending order with just one mouse click. In addition, TRAVERSE provides password protection by application, menu, function, and database objects. You'll also find table-driven industry specific language sets and such individual workstation options as keyboard controls, toolbars, and language sets.

Minimum Hardware Requirements: Business Edition - Pentium 450 MHz (or equivalent), 256 MB RAM; Enterprise Edition - Pentium 1 Ghz and 512 MB RAM for the first five users and 128 MB RAM for each additional 10 users.

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Warehouse Management

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With TRAVERSE Warehouse Managements, consistently prompt order fulfillment is within your reach.  This application dramatically improves efficiency in picking, packing and shipping orders by streamlining day-to-day activities and maximizing the productivity of your warehouse staff.

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TRAVERSE Prerequisite: Proficiency with Windows features and functions.

Hardware:
CPU (Processor) 500 Mhz minimum; 850 Mhz or higher recommended
System Memory (RAM) 512 MB minimum; 1024 MB recommended; 2048 MB for Vista
Free Hard Disk Space 200 MB
Network Components
(adapters, cabling hubs, etc.)
HP Laser Printer Required
Software:
Operating System MS Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 (XP Home and Media Center not supported), OR Windows Vista Business Edition
Microsoft Office Component MS Office 2003 Standard, Professional or Enterprise with SP2, OR MS Access 2003 SP2 (Runtime included with TRAVERSE) Note: One workstation must have the full version of MS Access 2003 with Office Service Pack (SP2). That workstation must also have Internet connectivity and a CD-ROM drive.
Other Components Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) recommended on all workstations.

Please Note: These are the Minimum hardware to run TRAVERSE. If you operate applications outside of TRAVERSE (ie: Excel, Word, etc.), then additional hardware will be required.
Hardware:
CPU (Processor)* Pentium III 1GHz or faster (Celeron processors not recommended.)
System Memory (RAM)* 1024 MB minimum; 2 GB recommended for the first 5 users.  Add 256 MB RAM for each additional set of 5 heavy users or each additional set of 10 light users
Free Hard Disk Space 200 MB for TRAVERSE programs*
Software:
Operating System Windows 2003 Server (All Editions including Small Business and 64 bit), Windows XP (Professional), see PDF for details on operating systems for SQL Database Edition 
SQL Server Environment MS-SQL Server 2000 with SP3 or later installed (only required for TRAVERSE Enterprise Edition) OR MS-SQL Server 2005 Standard or Enterprise Edition (Only required for TRAVERSE Enterprise Edition)
Other Components SCSI/SAS or RAID based disk system
CD-ROM Drive
Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS)
Tape Backup Drive with Automated Backup Software required
TCP/IP as the Default Protocol on all workstations
Network Interface Card: 100-based T
Recommended Network Cabling: Category 5 or better

Note: TRAVERSE will use MS-SQL Server for the database. Please inform ABS if you are running any other products that use MS-SQL Server.
* Network and Workstation configurations will vary depending on the number of users and the amount of TRAVERSE data and other software applications running. The above requirements are a minimum configuration. TRAVERSE does not support a corporate installation of Microsoft Office. All MS Office programs must be loaded on each workstation.

We strongly recommend Dell, HP or other name brand equipment.
TRAVERSE software requires Microsoft Certified Hardware.

 


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