Asset Manager

Cash Collection

Control your fixed assets with this graphical and functional system. Asset Manager supports multiple asset books, provides maintenance management, cycle count support and much more, yet is even easier to use than a spreadsheet. Asset additions are fed directly into the system from Fourth Shift and a comprehensive range of reports are included as standard. You can even enter budgeted asset additions and produce depreciation projections for use in financial planning.

Double the productivity of your receivables function with this powerful yet simple system. The Cash Collection system acts as a diary system, reminding you about follow-up calls, but more importantly it pro-actively suggests calls based on various cut-off points in each specific customer's payment cycle. All calls are recorded, so anyone can pick up the collection activity without a hand-over. Copy invoices or statements can even be faxed straight from the screen.

Cash Flow

Purchase Order Tracking

Enjoy instant and graphical visibility of your cash forecast. The Cash Flow Assistant combines information on every invoice and order in your Fourth Shift system with all other cash transactions, such as payroll, taxes, debit orders and so on. Not only can you view your cash position at any time, but you can actually manage your cash flow using the system. You can drill down to each individual invoice or order, and move them to different periods, then instantly see the impact on the summary tab.

The Purchase Order Tracking Assistant provides two key functional benefits. Firstly it manages landed costs typically associated with imported materials, and secondly it gives you much deeper tracking functionality, allowing you to track the delivery status right back into the suppliers plant. As with all Assistant Series products, it can be implemented with almost no set-up and refined gradually over time, you will see benefits from day one in terms of improved control over long lead time items and increased productivity from your buyers.

Purchase Requisitions

Communication Server

The Purchase Requisition Assistant gives you the ability to electronically capture, route and approve any purchase requests. The approval routing is dependent on several factors and user defined tables enable you to define almost any sets you want. Approval requests can be routed electronically and once the final approval stage has been signed off, the necessary purchase order is automatically created in Fourth Shift.

The purpose of the Communication Server is to provide centralized faxing to the Cash Collection module, enable sending of reminder letters from Cash Collection via email messages, enable sending of email messages to alert Users of required actions in the Purchase Requisitions module and to perform Data Extracting from the various applications. Email is available either via SMTP or MAPI (requires default email client configured, usually Outlook Express or Outlook) protocols.