Sage X3 is a solid product with years of stability, customer successes and enhancements. Like any software application, though, Sage X3 doesn’t address every need or requirement for every business. Sage X3 customers often look to fill the functional gaps with third party add-on solutions.
Sage X3 has a vibrant third party solution community including products that are ‘Rock Star’ endorsed by Sage, ensuring that development, connectivity, testing and compatibility criteria meet, and exceed, Sage’s development standards.
So, here are the top 5 add-ons for Sage X3 as ranked by RKL eSolutions customer requests and installations.
Document Management
Document Management solutions manage, track and store the documents behind everyday business transactions throughout the operation. Storage protocols provide easy-to-find location utilities and security to protect critical information. Integrated workflow processes with Sage X3 means documents are linked to transactional and masterfile records for audit traceability and end-user analysis.
Hosting
The web-based architecture of Sage X3 provides deployment options for companies contemplating on-premise, private or public hosted installations. Sage X3 customers that choose Cloud hosting models do so to minimize the IT investment and resources required to support Sage X3 on a daily basis. Other advantages of hosted solutions include cybersecurity defense protection, disaster mitigation, and decreased IT expenditures in software and hardware.
EDI
EDI used to be reserved for Big Box Retailers but even small businesses are finding ways to leverage EDI to automate transactional processing like Purchases, Sales and Advance Ship Notifications. Companies that utilize EDI can eliminate manual data entries, errors and automate communications throughout the Supply Chain.
Budgeting & Planning
Sage X3 delivers budgeting and operational planning capabilities that meet the needs of most companies. However, some financial officers desire advanced budgeting capabilities to allocate capital expenses and operational budgets by company-specific algorithms like headcount, square footage or utilization, to name a few. Today’s CFOs, Controllers and Financial Planners often turn to excel to manage the planning formulas, budgeting periods and comparative analysis tools to manage this information outside of the GL. There are several budgeting & planning add-ons for Sage X3 depending on your requirements, price point and user interface preferences.
Formulator
Process manufacturing companies with labs and quality techs typically desire formulation software in non-production modes. Formulator provides a solution tailored to formulating chemists, food technologists, and lab technicians managing regulatory and compliance data. It delivers standard templates specific to industry transactional and compliance requirements for rapid deployment that integrates your lab with accounting and production. Formulator automates the creation of items, formulas, costing, testing, labeling, and performance details across the lab.
While these add-ons represent the most common requests we get from our Sage X3 customers, there are dozens of other business applications available. The team at RKL eSolutions maintains a directory of carefully vetted, third party solution providers that we recommend to our customers.
Throughout the year, we host webinars to educate our customers about potential add-ons to address the most common business challenges our customers encounter. We also strive to offer our customers choices, when possible, of multiple solution providers.
If you have a specific requirement, contact your account manager or submit a request to sales@rklesolutions.com. We would be happy to explore your specific need and potential solutions to extend your Sage X3 investment.
