What is VAT? UK VAT basics
VAT can be confusing for small businesses. Whether you're not sure what VAT is or you need more help, read this for VAT advice and Making Tax Digital tips.
Ensure the reliable quality your customers demand, while minimising risk.
In a rapidly changing environment, how can you grow your manufacturing business, control costs, and increase profitability?
In the past Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software was effective. Today, Enterprise Management software will help you control business operations, ensure consistent quality, and take advantage of new commercial opportunities.
Respond faster to shifting customer demands and improve the management of fluctuations in purchasing, production, and shipping. Accelerate responses to inquiries and requests with accurate product costing and pricing.
Minimise the risk and scope of a recall by ensuring the consistent quality of your products while maintaining the flexibility to act on any opportunity. Always meet or exceed the high standards of your customers, and adapt to compliance requirements.
Gain control over work order details and deeper insights into your production costs so you can see where to cut costs and save money faster.
In a rapidly changing environment, you can still grow control costs and increase profits. The right solution will help you command every aspect of your operations and unlock new commercial opportunities.
Get accurate project management, live insights and accounting information on your mobile device.
Conquer your distribution challenges to expand your business and control costs.
Mastering the challenges of a highly competitive market dominated by fluctuating metal and energy cost and global competition, while producing high-quality metal products to exact specifications, can be overwhelming. Now, manage resources, production schedules, and customer orders and tie them into your financial systems.
British manufacturing businesses must compete with machinery and equipment suppliers at home and abroad, so profitability is essential. Enterprise Management software will help you save money on inventory control and get more value from employees and assets.
With technology-intensive products and shortening product lifecycles, it's vital to ensure capital investments return revenue to the business quickly. If you want to cut costs and improve cash flow, you need access to detailed information about every aspect of your business processes. Now, make timely decisions based on complete and accurate data.
Many manufacturers are facing challenges like compliance, lack of oversight, and increasingly complex supply chains in 2019. The good news is with Sage Business Cloud you can:
Recent legislation in many parts of the world has given government agencies greater power to intervene with manufacturers’ operations, and to more easily demand product recalls and withdrawals.
Moreover, consumers are becoming ever more demanding of manufacturers, ready to react when their expectations are not satisfied and able to raise their concerns instantly—and very publicly—through modern communications technology. As a result of these factors, product recalls around the world are becoming more and more frequent and manufacturers are facing major disruption, damage to reputation, and overall financial liability.
Getting detailed insight into your business can be a challenge at the best of times and manufacturers who lack complete, accurate, and up-to-the-minute data face significant challenges to making timely decisions. Which product is most profitable? Which supplier has the most delays? How much cash is tied up in inventory excess, and how much could you invest in growing your business? Without the answers to these questions, many businesses end up making poor strategic decisions and costly mistakes.
Managing supply chains is a constant challenge for manufacturers. In addition to staying on top of the key factors—costs, demand forecasting, production downtime, and inventory excess—supply chain partnerships are continually changing. What happens if your supplier’s shipment has been delayed? What if supply costs increase without warning or quality changes? Without a fast, accurate method to track progress or communicate, you may not be able to avoid production downtime or plan an alternate manufacturing schedule without hurting your business.
VAT can be confusing for small businesses. Whether you're not sure what VAT is or you need more help, read this for VAT advice and Making Tax Digital tips.
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