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 Visual Z-Bake
Visual Z-Bake is a software package written specifically for the manufacturing and distribution of food items in general and baked goods, in particular. Our product has been on the market since 1987 and has undergone numerous revisions. With hundreds of satisfied users all over the United States, Canada and Australia Visual Z-Bake has withstood the test of time. It has turned into a well-known, well-received and well-supported product like no other in the industry.
Available Modules
Compared to the regular accounting software meant for most general businesses, Visual Z-Bake is designed to exclusively accommodate the very special needs of bakers. Visual Z-Bake consists of eight modules, catering to just about every aspect of baking operation: from inventory control, purchasing and costing, to order entry and billing. However all such modules enjoy charecteristics as detailed below:
- Accounts Payable
The Accounts Payable module permits user-defined check formats (top stub type) and allows reconciliation of an unlimited number of checking accounts. Invoices may be selected and paid by discount, due date, invoice or vendor number. Both manual and voided checks are accounted for. It will also display or print 24-month vendor purchase histories and generate recurring payable. Included is Business Status Report, which provides immediate real-time status for Current Balance, Net Cash Forecast, Approved-to-Pay, and Period-to-Date Payable, Payments and Discounts/Adjustments, plus more than 20 other key business measurements.
- Accounts Receivable
The Accounts Receivable module accommodates the entry of manual invoices, credit memos and cash receipts. Its reports include open receivable aging, registers of invoices and cash receipts, and stale product returns analysis. Finance charges are calculated and statements are printed for customers with open balances. Inventory of goods is adjusted by entering wastage, purchases and bake lists. To facilitate such adjustments, the system allows the use of six units of measure for each product.
- Sales Order - Retail
The Sales Order - Retail module is designed for bakeries producing a high volume of specialty cake orders. This module organizes the order-taking, planning, scheduling, and delivery aspects of such operations. It prompts the operator for all the relevant questions concerning entry of a cake order. The total price of the ordered product is calculated by adding the cost of options to the base price. Sales orders/receipts and "What-to-Bake" lists are printed immediately after the order is entered.
- Sales Order - Wholesale
The Sales Order - Wholesale module maintains databases for products, product categories, customers, customer categories, routes and salespeople. Standing orders are combined with regular orders to provide the baker with a baker's sheet, route load sheet, a packing report/spreadsheet and a driver's sheet. In addition, invoices are printed by route and in sequence of stops.
- Inventory Control
In addition to all features in the Product Formulas and Costing module, the Inventory Control module allows entry of a daily list of goods sold or baked. When these recipes are defined, the system maintains a running inventory of ingredients and finished products. Adjustments to inventory are made easily. Reports include physical inventory sheets, inventory on hand, inventory transfers and recommended reorders.
- Point of Sale
The Point of Sale module allows a personal computer in a Local Area Network environment, or a terminal in a Client/Server environment to be used as a cash register. The program tracks sales by departments, products, users, time of day, and terminal. POS includes both summary and detailed "X" and "Z" reports, accommodates cash receipts and credit cards, coupons, and other modes of payment.
- General Ledger
The General Ledger module maintains a separate chart of accounts for multiple companies. This module will record complete audit trails, generate three types of budgets, and calculate over 16 key business ratios. It also provides General Ledger and financial reporting for up to 13 fiscal periods and consolidates charts of accounts for multiple companies. It includes Statement of Cash Flows Report, which provides information regarding cash receipts, cash payments, investments and financing activities.
- Payroll
The Payroll module will calculate and maintain payroll and labor distribution for hourly, salaried, commissioned and per-unit employees. It automatically posts payroll for salaried employees. As many as eight user-defined deductions for each employee, including pre-tax deductions for pension plans, cafeteria plans, and 401(k) plans, are automatically calculated. Payroll checks are generated in user-defined formats. The U.S. version of the Payroll module calculates Federal taxes, state, and local taxes for all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington DC. W-2 forms can be printed on magnetic media and on paper in IRS-required format.
- Purchase Orders
This module is a complete Purchase Order processing system. It analyzes latest prices paid for each item purchased, and recommends what to order, when to order, in what quantities, and from which vendor. This module also prints purchase orders that are then sent to vendors. Reports include inventory reordering, back-orders, and purchase order status by item, vendor and buyer. Displays 24-month vendor and 36-month item purchase histories. Performs mass cost/price changes on selected inventory groups.
- System Manager
The System Manager module combines utilities and system wide functions into one program (i. e., Z-Bake users no longer need to enter and exit their individual modules). It allows the user to change customer, product, ingredient, and recipe identification numbers, and provides expanded Business Status Reports for receivable, payable, sales and purchases. Furthermore, it facilitates restoring essential data concerning business status at the time of previous backup, and includes daily average and cumulative figures in the Business Status Report.
- Product Formulas and Costing
The Product Formulas and Costing module maintains files on customers, ingredients, packaging materials, as well as on labor, finished and unfinished goods. Detailed costing and materials requirement planning reports can be printed from production lists. Customer anniversary dates are maintained for sending reminders and generating more sales. Changes in costs of ingredients are automatically reflected in product costs.
- Forecasting and Statistical Analysis
The Forecasting and Statistical Analysis module allows users to edit at least two weeks in advance the orders scheduled for future dates. The process entails re-writing details of a company's invoices for periods that may span years. The computed data is then used to create the forecast (production reports can easily be printed from forecast data). When customers call in with their orders, the forecast orders are replaced with the actual orders. As a result, the quality of forecast orders and report figures improve dramatically with time.
- Financial Reporter
The Financial Reporter module provides easy reconciliation of spreadsheets and General Ledger when data is added or revised. It enables graphic analysis and presentation of accounting data.
- Crystal Report Writer
The Crystal Report writer for your presentation-quality reports from virtually any database, flexible analysis and formatting capabilities, or advanced interactive reporting over the web. It offers a lot of great features such as fast and easy report creation, flexible distribution wherever you need them with design control features and interactive analysis for in-depth investigation. It has capability for porting to 30 different types of database system, ODBC and SQL.
- Goldmine Contact Manager
The Goldmine Contact Manager manages your contacts with easy-to-use and innovative tools. See what you've said to your contacts and see what the rest of the team is saying. Just drag-and-drop any files to link related documents to a contact such as faxes and emails.
- Options/Add-ons
- Multi-Warehousing
- Contract Drivers Settlement
- Consolidating Sales Orders
- Lot Item Tracking
- Two Periods Open in AP
- Longer AP Check Stub
- GoldMine to Zbake Link
- Enhanced Password Protection for Payroll
- Auto Faxing and E-Mailing
- Data Transfer to Excel
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