Accounting
Empower Your Organizations Financial Future
Streamline your accounting with intelligent inventory management, and seamless AP and AR
All your organizations financials in one easy to navigate product
Manage all your organization’s accounting and inventory management workflows in one package. ALERE provides users with a seamless environment that eliminates redundant data entry, interlinks related documents and offers instantaneous access to your organization’s financial health.
ALERE’s vertical integration provides users with a unified user experience and eliminates the need for expensive, often fragile integrations between different vendors’ products. That user experience, in turn, provides better accounts payable, accounts receivable, and inventory traceability, as users will not need to move between multiple software products to research or retrieve documents related to any one activity.
Best of all, ALERE is designed to scale with your business, allowing you to add new modules and functionality without significant reconfiguration or building additional integrations. Whether your organization is a budding enterprise or the market leader of your industry, ALERE helps you better understand your company’s financial health and manage your operations responsibly.
Real-time functionality and reporting
ALERE provides a comprehensive, real-time, as-of-reporting system for all facets of your business. ALERE features real-time reporting that improves operational efficiency and strategic decision-making by delivering immediate access to financial, inventory, and manufacturing data, even within the current period.
For users, the absence of reporting delays reduces the effort of everyday tasks such as answering questions about order status, calculating available to promise dates, managing inventory, and aging payables. Managers benefit by having a means to delve into current data and efficiently audit current transactions to find and correct errors.
Finally, instantaneous access to current information enables businesses to respond promptly to market changes and internal issues, which assists in evaluating and minimizing risks while seizing upon opportunities.
Tame your inventory
ALERE helps users better manage their inventory with an array of features and functions designed for better visibility, traceability, and planning.
ALERE’s real-time functionality provides sales teams with immediate access to the current quantity of materials both on hand and allocated. By utilizing real-time information, sales representatives can accurately gauge the quantity of inventory available for immediate shipment and allocate inventory to their orders. For longer lead-time items and companies that regularly utilize blanket orders, an item-specific MRP function is available to plan the amount of inventory that can be sold and must be held to fulfill known future demand.
ALERE features a bucketless material requirements planning (MRP) engine for companies managing extensive inventories and those running make-to-order or mixed-mode operations. The MRP system provides users with a comprehensive view of current and future material requirements and automates the creation of purchase and work orders.
Organizations may also add ALERE’s integrated barcoding system to quickly manage inventory processes such as shipping, receiving, transfers, location lookups, physical inventory, and more. Barcoding drastically reduces data entry friction, increases inventory accuracy, and improves the end-user experience.
ALERE supports standard, average, FIFO, and LIFO inventory costing methods. Lot costing is also available to organizations that maintain a perpetual inventory and wish to cost inventory purchased for a specific project but wish to do so without the hassle of FIFO.
Module List
ALERE’s accounting modules offer real time insight into your organizations inventory, orders, and finances.
As organizational grows and needs evolve, additional modules can be added into existing ALERE environments without a costly effort.
Manager Module
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Sales Module
All aspects of selling are included in the Sales module. Here a quote can be initiated, turned into a sales order, released as an invoice, and payment received and posted. Each sales document contains a complete history of its life accompanied by all the associated general ledger postings that were generated. One uncommon feature of an ALERE sales document is the ability to save it in a “pending” state for later release. This saves uncounted hours of reentry time and makes the entire sales process much more efficient and flexible. Other unique facets of the sales process are its ability to handle the securing of an order, accepting returned items, and providing credit all within one document.
Accompanied by mass processing functions for releasing, picking, invoicing orders, providing customer statements and automatic emailing notifications and orders, the Sales module delivers tremendous efficiency.
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Sales Order Configurator Module
Improve the performance of sales order entry with a sales order configurator. This will ensure the accuracy of orders by verifying the correct features and options are offered and the correct finished good part numbers are used. Dependency, where one decisions leads to subsequent choices, can be multiple levels deep. This assures that even the most complex products are supported completely. The result is a faster, cleaner order entry with improved customer satisfaction. Not having to rely on highly trained staff to enter the orders is a beneficial byproduct.
The Sales Order Configurator is powered by modular and variable BOM information so that it is always accurate, up-to-date, and requires no additional effort to create or maintain.
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Purchase Module
All facets of purchasing are included in the Purchases module. In it, a requisition can be submitted, turned into a purchase order, released as a payable when received, and finally, paid. Each purchases document contains a complete history of its life accompanied by all the associated general ledger postings that were generated. Similar to the Sales module, an uncommon feature of an ALERE purchases document is the ability to save it in a “pending” state. This saves uncounted hours of reentry time and makes the entire purchasing process much more efficient and flexible. And, each line on a purchase order can also handle the placing of an order; controlling the return of items, and recording credit all within one document.
Adding to the Purchases module’s capabilities are recurring orders, batch accepting of orders, mass payments, automatic emailing notifications and orders. This module will increase the efficiency of the purchasing staff.
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Inventory Module
Inventory is at the heart of many companies and managing it is a strong-point of ALERE. Everything to do with creating inventory items, mass shipping orders, mass receiving orders, transferring inventory, physical inventory, and adjustments to inventory occurs in this module. Inventory can be store at location, store and bin with extensive lot, serial, and trait traceability as needed for the items. Customer and supplier part numbers may be used interchangeably which smooths the order and purchasing processes. A real-time log reveals all the ins and outs of inventory movement and the impact of outstanding sales orders, purchase orders, and work orders are clearly shown as part of the future activity. Drop shipments are controlled seamlessly from customer orders through vendor shipments.
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General Ledger Module
ALERE's general ledger is real-time and transactionally driven. The combination of these features drastically reduces the burden and costs associated with period closings and increases the accuracy of reporting.
The modules extensive reporting includes “As of” reports and a custom financial report generator, providing the ultimate in managerial control. Budgeting is available native to the chart of accounts or through an unlimited number of spreadsheets for comparative and "what-if” analysis. Since an ALERE installation can host multiple companies, company consolidations are also supported.
Creating a superb chart of accounts is effortless with ALERE. ALERE's chart of accounts can be graphically constructed from a single screen using ALERE’s Treevision technology and incorporates document management functions, enabling notes and supporting documentation to be attached to journal entries.
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Explore ALERE further
Additional accounting functionality including features such multi-currency, analytics, web shopping carts, and commissions, are offered within the Extensions subsection.