| Who
is Innovative Tekniques?
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Innovative
Tekniques, Inc. (IT) is a technology
consulting, sales and support service
organization. We focus on providing software
solutions to real life problems in the small to
medium size organizations. We have been serving
the business community since 1979.
Our years
of computer, manufacturing, service, and financial
experience allows us to bring you total
solutions.
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| Timely Tips: Working
with 1099s |
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ALERE Accounting records 1099
payments to all businesses whether or not they are
identified as requiring a 1099 form. This
allows a company that is changed from
not
requiring 1099 tracking to requiring 1099's
to have immediate and accurate year to
date
payment information.
Each company
location has 1099 settings. Normally, all
company locations would have the same 1099
setting. However, should the occasion arise that a
company requires tracking of two or more types of
1099 information then the locations can be set
separately.
For example, Rent and
Interest payments are received from the same
company. The location one 1099 setting could
be set to Rent and location
two could be
set to Interest. Simply billing the company
by location would properly track the 1099
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Greetings!
Last month we introduced our
email newsletter, Innovative
Voice. We hope that
this is a method to stay in touch
with our client base and potential
customers. Our goal with Innovative
Voice is to introduce
new products, new exciting projects
that other businesses are implementing,
and some tips that could enhance
the processing of your data!!
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Assisting in Controlling
Inventory
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One of the larges obstacles in a business
is controlling inventory!
Do I have too many parts in the
warehouse or not enough? Many of
our clients not only have a manufacturing
area to the business but also a
customer walk-in and purchase.
By spending time implementing
a couple features of ALERE, the
time initially spent will come
back to save time and assist in
controlling inventory.
Wireless Scanners? The
item master of the ALERE Business
Applications has a UPC field.
The UPC code can be scanned directly
into this field from the actual
item. A button can be added
to the inventory screen to print
a bar coded label with your item
number for those items that do
not have manufactures' bar codes.
The Sales Order would have a minor
modification to allow the scanning
of both item numbers or the UPC
code. The Sales Order process becomes
quicker due to the operator
not needing to enter the item
via the keyboard.
We have an added bonus.... physical inventory....
the dreaded counting of inventory!!!!
The scanners have a "physical count
" mode which allows the scanner
to be taken into the warehouse
to take physical counts. The UPC
code, or the label that was printed
with the item number, can be scanned
and the quantity entered into the
scanner. The scanner can hold
up to 1,000 items without downloading
or going back to the workstation.
The inventory is then downloaded
to an excel worksheet, processed,
and updated into the inventory adjustment
screen in ALERE with a push of a
button.
Are these scanners expensive? The scanner
is a Metrologic MS9535 Voyager
BT which currently retails for
$340 without memory and $357 with
memory. The additional $17 allows
for the scanner to be utilized
in taking inventory!!!!!
The Zebra LP2824 bar code label
printer retails for $228.
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| Important
Update on Sage Products |
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Innovative Tekniques,
Inc. is committed to our
clients, and as of this
month, we have renewed our service agreement with
Sage through the next year.
Our Sage client
base remains Pro 6.0, an earlier
version of Pro, or Vision Point. We have made
the decision that this is the last year we will be
renewing our service agreement. This is due
to
the agreement not
covering or supporting the earlier versions
of the products mentioned above.
We will continue to support you
with our knowledge to the best of our ability, but
it is important to understand that the
authors of the software no longer
support these versions. Our
understanding is that there will be no new
releases of the Vision Point product and the last
release of the Pro Series will be released within
the coming year.
Recommending an upgrade to our
client of a product that is no longer going to be
moving forward would be a disservice. A
conversion program is
available for all Sage products
moving to ALERE Business Applications.
Please click here for any questions
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| TIW SEMINARS |
For those interested or
if you received a certificate for a "Free" seat
for renewing your 5 user SMA license, please mark
your calendars for the remaining TIW seminars for
this year:Accounting
- November 10 and 11 from 9:00
AM to 5:00 PM
Manufacturing
- November 12 and 13 from 9:00 AM to
5:00 PM
To enroll, call
Barbara at 1-800-286-2550 Ext 1 or
Chris
Mohr at 610-258-5161 Ext 717.
Questions or
Comments?
We are available and as
always, we appreciate your
feedback. Please tell us what you think.
You can reach us by phone (800) 286-2550
x 1 or by email at blorah@innovativetekniques.com
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