Infor SunSystems

Integrated Financial Management with Professional Advantage and Infor SunSystems

Standing still isn't an option for financial professionals in this dynamic and evolving business environment. You need a fast, focused, adaptable solution to help you successfully manage, what can easily become competing interests, the need to accelerate growth while keeping both cost and risk under control. 

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With Infor and Professional Advantage, your finance department will have the power and flexibility to accommodate your growth, while protecting your business.

 

 

Meet all your financial management and accounting challenges with Infor and Professional Advantage.

 

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Professional Advantage Infor10 SunSystems Products

Professional Advantage has always made innovation a priority. Based on insights from our customers, we have developed software products that enhances the value of leading international software solutions including the Infor10 SunSystems range.

 

We have a strong reputation for the quality of our solutions, both amongst our customers and partners. This has earned us multiple 'Partners' Developer' awards. Our vendors consistently include our modules in their global distribution networks.

 

Our experience as a successful and awarded reseller means that the modules that we develop are seamlessly integrated to and inter-operate with the underlying core SunSystems application. Our understanding of business operations and issues results in a rapid time to value for all our products.

 

Features

  • Seamless integration with Infor FMS SunSystems
  • Modules to address
    • accounts payable - cash management
    • accounts receivable - credit control and collections management
    • web-based procurement
    • multi company operations and consolidations
    • analysis and reporting

Benefits

  • Automation of repetitive finance team processes removes risk
  • Improved accuracy and reduce risks of errors by eliminating re-keying.
  • Save time and costs. Your team can focus on areas that need attention and leave the mundane tasks to automated functions within SunSystems.
  • Eliminating bottle necks caused by paper trails
  • Access to faster and more accurate data through seamless integration to SunSystems.

 

  

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Advanced Inquiry

Advanced Inquiry for Infor SunSystems offers a powerful ad hoc inquiry functionality for interrogating ledgers and iPOS procurement data.

 

With Advanced Inquiry anyone to get a quick answer to both simple and complex queries in a summary or detailed format, saving the finance department's time on handling ad hoc inquiries - especially those of a non-recurring nature. 

 

Features
  • Drill down path on the fly
  • Data can be analyses in summary or detailed levels
  • Inquire of financial ledgers and iPOS procurement
  • Create data hierarchies as you go
  • Select data from over 150 attributes
  • Categorise your data in over 50 ways
  • Save your inquiry for future use
  • Email your inquiry to another user
  • Drill out from any Infor FMS SunSystems transaction to any other database
 Benefits
  • Works on your data out of the box - No presets required
  • Fast extraction speed of any inquiry tool for Infor FMS SunSystems
  • Department and cost centre balances for entire ledger at your fingertips
  • Link to other data sources: Contract & Service Billing (CSB), iPOS, Bank Reconciliation, Receipting, SunSystems Collect

Improve your cash management with Bank Reconciliation for Infor SunSystems

Bank Reconciliation for Infor SunSystems allows you to import, reconcile and manage your organisation's most import asset - cash in the bank. This powerful tool offers a range of automated, flexible and scalable options to suit any business.

 

Import and reconcile electronic statements from multiple bank accounts. Bank generated journals (ie. bank fees and interest) can be matched with your own criteria. Bank Reconciliation will also detect and avoid duplication of bank statements automatically.

 

By implementing Bank Reconciliation for SunSystems you will be able to reduce or even eliminate time consuming tasks, such as rekeying, which allows your staff to work more effective.

 

Features
  • Daily verification of cash in the bank
  • Electronic import of statements for an unlimited number of bank accounts
  • Automatic detection of duplicate bank statements
  • Automatic generation of bank initiated transactions, such as bank debits, standing charges or bank fees
  • Set your own user-defined matching rules to improve automated matching results
 Benefits
  • Improve fraud prevention through  early detection
  • Save time, reduce risk and improve accuracy through automation
  • Improve staff effectiveness through significantly reducing rekeying tasks
  • Compatible with over 100 bank formats and growing. Includes the major banks in Australia, New Zealand, Asia and UK
  • Professional Advantage can also develop additional bank format upon request

Collect

SunSystems Collect provides companies with unparalleled credit management and debt collection functionality.

 

Using Collect, you gain access to thorough analysis of debtor days, cash flow and the ability to track collections. You can reduce days sales outstanding, improve cash flow, and minimise collection costs. This will allow your staff to focus on those cases that need their attention most.

 

Features

  • Easily merge data with Microsoft Word to create customised letters
  • Automate sending bulk reminder letters and statements
  • User-defined search sets produce lists of offending debtors for collection activities
  • Automatically close follow-up collection tasks to those transactions allocated "paid" in SunSystems 
  • Remove the need for print and postage by sending promise confirmation, reprint requests, reminder letters and statements via email
  • Categorise one or multiple transactions to ensure the collection status of each transaction is completely visible to the credit control team
  • The credit controller is able to automatically define and schedule any follow up actions via calendars and to-do lists at an account or transactional level
  • Collect allows different collection strategies and priorities for your various categories of debtors

ROI

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Enter your Sales for 3 months
Enter Debtors balances at end period
Enter Number of Days in Sales Period
Days in Sales
Daily Sales Outstanding
Enter Target DSO
Generate extra cash by reducing Debtors

Consolidation

Consolidations is a ledger data aggregation module that allows the automatic consolidation of journals from multiple Infor FMS SunSystems business units.

 

It supports multi-currency conversions, provide inter-company eliminations and produces a detailed audit trail on completion.

 

Features

  • Can run within or across multiple SQL Servers 
  • Data integrity, with full drill down capabilities
  • Schedule processes at any time of the day, even hourly
  • Data driven consolidation - not just a report
  • SunSystems multi-currency compliant including 4th currency
  • Supports different reporting structures catering for chart of accounts, analysis dimensions and financial periods
  • Consolidate some or all business units
  • Multi-level sequential consolidations
  • Inter-company eliminations

Benefits

  • Caters for all corporate models including partnerships, joint venture, partially or fully owned companies
  • Administered by SunSystems users, not external consultants
  • You can rerun any level of the consolidation at any time
  • No more tricky interventionist processes
  • No more rekeying data
  • No more consolidation by spreadsheet
  • Full audit trail
  • Rollback and rerun ability

Contract & Service Billing (CSB)

Contract and Service Billing (CSB) produces your recurring contract invoicing, recurring services invoices and ad-hoc invoices in Infor SunSystem. 

 

Benefits for the CFO

  • Improved analysis and reporting for complex accounting
  • Real-time visibility over invoicing and spending
  • Flexibility to address a wide range of invoicing requirements
  • Provides consistency and control over generation of invoices
  • Revenue recognition over multiple periods
  • Invoice and credit note approvals process

 

Efficiencies for Accounts Receivables

  • Full contract and recurring billing functionality
  • Accrual of prepayments & arrears
  • Multi-currency invoicing
  • Integrates data seamlessly with Collect for SunSystems for debt collection
  • Ability to email invoices
  • Contract review reminders
  • Rollback on contract invoices
  • Bulk import from third party application for invoice generation
  • Contracts can be amended at any time
  • Sundry invoicing option for ad-hoc invoices

Banklinks for Business (B4B)

Banklinks for Business (B4B) connects the Infor SunSystems payables module and your bank for electronic funds transfers (EFT) or internet banking. B4B does both domestic and cross border payments including the EU SEPA standards requirements.

 

Using Banklinks for Business (B4B), you can eliminate the time and costs involved with printing and posting payments as well as the risk of human error and threat of cheque fraud.

 

Features

  • B4B supports CHAPS, Faster Payments, SEPA and BACS
  • Over 250 bank formats for domestic and international payments and growing
  • Key data is fully encrypted with the option of PGP encryption for the bank file
  • Option for multiple payment run consolidation into a single bank instruction
  • Use B4B with eRemit to eliminate the need for cheque preparation and cheque/remittance postage

 

Benefits

  • Added fraud prevention through separation of duties
  • Control approvals at a system and/or business unit level
  • Supports a global payments operation from a shared service centre or payments factory
  • Makes international payments and SEPA compliance painless for your team
  • Handles complexities of multiple currencies and multiple countries, such as payments in different currencies for the same supplier

 

 

ePay - faster and more accurate payments with Infor SunSystems

ePay for SunSystems provides you with automated electronic bank payments with full audit trails. ePay includes EFT, Sundry EFT and Bank Payment Services (BPAY).

 

Features

  • Supports large range of bank formats for most banks in Australia, New Zealand, major Asia Pacific banks and the UK
  • Integrates with BPAY as well as eRemit to email remittance advice to suppliers
  • Functional security and ability to define your own security settings
  • Caters for GST and VAT
  • Real time update to ledgers

 

Benefits

  • Time savings with ePay can turn a tedious monthly task into an easy daily one
  • Improve your data integrity by eliminating manual processing
  • Strengthen the security and auditability of your system

 

 

eRemit - email supplier remittances for SunSystems

eRemit for Infor FMS SunSystems automates your distribution of suppliers' payment remittances and customers collection advices. Clear and fast advice reduces payment queries from your suppliers. eRemit's electronic remittance also provides a payment run log and remittance reports for a clear audit trail, giving you process transparency.

 

Features

  • Handles large volumes of emails and processes remittance runs when it suits you
  • Emails are automatically sent once released by the user
  • Custom design reports to show your logo and branding, in your choice of email, fax or print
  • Create and send collection advices
  • Maintain a log and archive of all remittances sent
  • Summary reports for the CFO of sent items and total value of payment run

 

Benefits

  • Reduce paper and postage costs by automating remittance advice
  • Save time and effort for the Finance team
  • Minimise payment queries with clear, consistent and quick remittance advice
  • Timing of payment runs to suit your time frames
  • Improved auditability and transparency with summary reporting function and archives

 

 

iPOS eProcurement for SunSystems

Digitising your manual procurement processes eliminates maverick purchasing behaviour, costly administration and risky data inconsistencies.

 

Orchestrating the whole purchase lifecycle from initial request to authorised payment, iPOS brings visibility & control to managers and consistency & predictability to employees.

 

iPOS makes it easy for your team to rapidly request and purchase what they need while preventing non-conforming behaviour and inappropriate spending. Companies can quickly turn the advantages of: improved governance, compliance and audit visibility, into a rapid and positive return on investment.

 

Features

Benefits
  • Purchase-to-pay process automation easing the finance department burden
  • integrates with other systems such as supplier catalogues and marketplaces, third party logistics or asset maintenance systems
  • web-based and mobile device to support your active workforce
  • Purchase Invoice Automation improves paper based invoice management
  • Dashboard provides quick at-a-glance information: identify issues/bottlenecks, track spend, identify savings
  • XMPro for iPOS supports other workflow-based activities with user-defined business rules such as traffic request-review-approve workflow

 
  • Faster, smoother purchase order processing saving time and costs
  • Eliminates unauthorised purchasing behaviour
  • User friendly for easy adoption
  • Access to hard and soft commitments as well as actual spend
  • Visibility and control over budget and spend

 

 

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Intercompany

Intercompany for Infor SunSystems automates your intercompany financial transactions, providing you with greater accuracy and visibility over your multi-company accounting. Intercompany supports large volumes of transactions with auditability and the flexibility to address your business needs.

 

Features

  • Operates for multi and single entity business units with different charts of accounts
  • Preview intercompany transactions before committing them
  • Intercompany transaction automatically caters for all GST scenario, including RITC
  • User-defined balancing transactions

 

Benefits

  • Ideal for shared services environments
  • Handles joint venture accounting because the source intercompany transaction can be split by ratio across multiple entities
  • Improved data integrity through automation
  • Increased auditability through transaction trails
  • High performance for large volumes

 

Receipting

Receipting for Infor SunSystems automates your cash payment receipting, deposit slip preparation and online receipt allocation. Receipting speeds up allocation of funds, eliminates double handling and rekeying data by using cheque scanning and EFTPOS. Internal controls are enhanced by the separation of duties, avoiding teaming and lading, with full audit trail and enforced balancing.

 

Features

  • Automated cheque scanning and EFTPOS avoids rekeying
  • Allows for cashier or teller style processing
  • Automatic collation of multiple receipts with multiple payment methods
  • Remote receipting for offline processing
  • Allocation to multiple bank accounts
  • Receipt number audit control with full audit trail

Benefits

  • Process large volumes of transactions quickly and efficiently
  • Reduced manual processing lowers administration costs
  • Data accuracy with improved cash availability
  • Increased level of internal control and reduced risk of fraud

 

 

XMPro for SunSystems

A major challenge for companies is ensuring people comply with the business rules defined around how things should be done. XMPro for SunSystems provides consistency and certainty by implementing approved process rules across your workforce in a user friendly and appealing way.

 

XMPro for SunSystems is a scalable solution with a portfolio of pre-built template processes that can be implemented "as is". Each template adds business control and certainty to key processes that manage the data in Infor SunSystems such as request and approval of new supplier and customer details, updating bank details and maintaining Analysis Dimensions.

 

XMPro for SunSystems can be quickly and easily modified to more closely reflect your own business needs. You can also add completely new processes within your system framework to address other management and operational challenges throughout the organisation. Gain all the flexibility and control necessary to rapidly extend or plug gaps between any of your existing systems, not just Infor SunSystems, and to automate any number of manual processes. 

 

Features

  • Assorted templates with the option to add your own processes
  • Validate data against internal systems and external data sources
  • Actions can trigger simultaneous workflow for multiple teams, such as operations and finance
  • Fully visible and auditable process tracking
  • Full integration to Infor SunSystems and will integrate to other applications such as payroll and asset management
  • Familiar user look and feel with web-browser, mobile device, Sharepoint and Outlook deployment options

 

Benefits

  • Ensure compliance to business rules
  • Automating manual processes saves time, cost and minimises bottlenecks
  • Gain consistency and certainty, making your processes more efficient
  • Visibility and transparency to identify issues needing to be addressed quickly
  • Scalability allows you to add many other processes as required

 

 

Custom Development

Professional Advantage's focus has always been making everyday tasks easier. This has informed the development of our enhancement products for a range of finance and ERP systems.

 

However sometimes you may need to build custom designed solutions to specifically support how you work and what your business requires. Our dedicated in-house team of technologists can design and build custom applications to address those requirements.

 

Contact us to see how we can help you.

Features

  • An integrated financial management system that includes a single integrated ledger, budgeting & forecasting, business intelligence and reporting, cash management, procure to pay
  • Enterprise-wide integration
  • Real-time financial transaction processing
  • Business rules built in
  • Powerful analysis and reporting capabilities
  • Develop and manage your own reports
  • Fully integrates with Infor10 ION BI and Professional Advantage  enhancement products

Benefits

  • Eliminates manual processes and rekeying and the associated risks to data integrity
  • Freedom from spreadsheets
  • Flexible analysis capabilities and integrated business analytics
  • Improved reporting
  • Visibility and auditability
  • Future-proof, supporting business growth and change in your business
  • Manage multiple business entities and currencies
  • Increased business controls and efficiencies
  • Facilitates improved decision making
  • Flexible and user friendly

Whitepapers

  • 7 tell-tale signs you have outgrown your accounting system
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  • Cost Control and Labour Management
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  • Accounting and reporting requirements for the oil and gas CFO
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  • 7 Deadly sins of software selection
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  • Electronic Purchasing booklet
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  • Jump starting eProcurement
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  • Change Management
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Brochures

Factsheets

  • Infor SunSystems - Advanced Inquiry
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  • Infor SunSystems - B4B
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  • Infor SunSystems - Bank Reconciliation
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  • Infor SunSystems - Cash Desk
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  • Infor SunSystems - Collect
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  • Infor SunSystems - Consolidations & Intercompany
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  • Infor SunSystems - CSB
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  • Infor SunSystems - ePay & eRemit
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  • Infor SunSystems - Receipting
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Customer Stories

  • Unilodge Australia
    Unilodge bed down Infor SunSystems during time of change and growth with Professional Advantage
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  • Patersons Securities
    By using SunSystems CSB Patersons now process invoices in real time, and have reduced the entire month-end process including invoice creation, revenue and commission calculations, by 70 per cent
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  • Go Outdoors
    By automating processes Go Outdoors were able to halve the amount of time taken for bank reconciliation process and focus on putting more time into finance functions that need personal attention
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  • Mental Illness Fellowship Victoria
    Mental Illness Fellowship Victoria, improves funding reporting efficiency by 500%. Winner of Professional Advantage Business Improvement Awards – Planning and Reporting category
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  • FuturePlus
    FuturePlus implements Infor FMS SunSystems and improves business controls and processing efficiency. Winner of Professional Advantage Business Improvement Award
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  • Kimberley Land Council
    Kimberley Land Council improve outstanding purchase order values by 50%. Winner of Professional Advantage Business Improvement Award - Spend Control category
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  • St Luke’s Anglicare
    St. Luke's confidently selected Infor FMS SunSystems, an advanced financial management solution, which is used by thousands of not for profit organisations around the world
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  • Transatlantic Reinsurance Company
    Reinsurance Company giant automates global invoice processes with Professional Advantage
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  • Brooklands College
    iPOS eProcurement transforms the purchasing process for College
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  • RCT Homes
    RCT Homes pioneers the way for social housing accounting using iPOS eProcurement for SunSystems
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  • NIDO Petroleum
    NIDO Petroleum Ltd selected Infor Performance Management (Infor PM) from Professional Advantage to enable them to perform efficient forecasting, budgeting and reporting
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  • Shadforth Financial Group Limited
    Shadforth Financial group were in search of a broad based financial management system. With the help of Professional Advantage they implemented Infor SunSystems solutions
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  • Anglicare Central Queensland
    Anglicare Central Queensland chooses Infor FMS SunSystems to manage extraordinary growth
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  • Wandle Housing Association
    Wandle Housing Association makes procurement as efficient as the rest of its accounting approach
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  • Frontier Services
    Frontier Services eliminates the 'fragile final mile' of spreadhseet budgeting with MIS Budgeting, Forecasting & Reporting
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  • Celtel
    Celtel saves $23 million in first year with iPOS and Four Business Solutions with the help of Professional Advantage and iPOS procurement solution
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  • Caritas Australia
    Infor FMS SunSystems delivers external transparency & accountability which are the foundations of all not for profit organisations
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  • Shoalhaven City Council
    iPOS eProcurement delivers spend control to a large Regional Local Government
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  • LawCover
    Faced with growing business pressures, LawCover required a flexible financial solution, which would provide detailed management reports on a timelier basis
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  • AIH Group
    Infor FMS SunSystems serves up a quality solution in hospitality. Australian International Hospitality Group (AIH Group) is a leading tourism operator within the hospitality sector
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  • Grant Samuel
    Since selecting Infor FMS SunSystems from Professional Advantage, reporting processes have improved along with confidence in the accuracy of these reports, due to increased data controls and security
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  • Summerland Credit Union
    Since implementing Infor FMS SunSystems, Summerland has reduced its month-end processing from 12 days down to five and eliminated the manual processes that were previously required
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  • Raven Housing Trust
    iPOS eProcurement transforms the purchasing process for Raven housing trust
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  • Queenslanders Credit Union
    In order to continue its growth, QCU implemented a back office platform to enable efficient processing, meet compliance requirements and offer effective reporting
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  • Royal Institute for Deaf & Blind Children
    Royal Institute for Deaf & Blind Children (RIDBC), is one of Australia's premier providers of educational services to children with hearing and/or vision impairment
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All Recorded Demos

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Infor SunSystems Support

At Professional Advantage, we understand your success depends on how effectively you can put your finance solution to work. We know the importance of being there when you need us. Our dedicated Infor SunSystems support team is the largest and most experienced in Australia.

 

We provide the following support options:

eService

Our Online Client Support Centre offers you internet access to log support calls, review the status and history of your calls and search our extensive knowledge database.

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Interactive Support Service

Our Helpdesk has the ability to directly view what you're seeing and/or doing by logging into your system using a standard internet browser. GoToMeeting works with existing firewall technology, password protection and encryption to protect sensitive data.

 

24 Hour Service

If you have an urgent problem after normal business hours, you may dial the support hotline number and you will be given options to divert your call to an on-call Support Consultant.

Ph: 1300 658 608

 

Service Postcards

Every week, an email is automatically generated and sent to you detailing the status of current issues logged with the Helpdesk.

 

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