Modules

1. General Ledger - The Minotaur General Ledger module maintains your company's master ledger, giving you a precise, up to date, comprehensive financial picture. Transactions posted throughout the system are automatically recorded in detail in the General Ledger. Financial Statements are available for any date or period, and can include previous year and budgeted figures and percentages. Control is built into the Minotaur system, with complete audit trails, flexible audit dates with password protection, and user-operated compression programs. The result: Minotaur gives you unprecedented access to complete, accurate, and up to date financial information, enabling you to make the informed, intelligent, and timely business decisions needed to ensure your corporate success.

2. Accounts Receivable - The Minotaur Accounts Receivable module fully manages your customer accounts, maintaining a complete history and receivables status for each. Aged Receivable Lists and Customer Statements can be generated at any time, for any specified date, allowing you instant and accurate data to improve collections and detect payment problems. Customer balances and history are immediately updated as transactions are entered elsewhere in the system. The result: With the Minotaur Accounts Receivable module, you will have fewer collection problems and increased cash flow.

3. Accounts Payable - The Minotaur Accounts Payable module controls and manages your supplier accounts. An efficient business demands accurate cash control and with Minotaur, your whole payables situation can be seen in up to the minute, precise detail. Maintaining a complete bill and payment history, you can instantly see who and what is owed. You can pay suppliers at any time, in any currency. Appropriate transactions entered elsewhere in the system automatically update supplier accounts. Minotaur provides complete, convenient payables management, resulting in more control of your business.

4. Invoice / Order Entry - The Minotaur Invoicing/Order Entry module tracks each customer order, shipment, and sale. Control of your information begins with sales. You can quickly find out who has ordered what, for delivery when, so you do not lose opportunities. You can generate a sales journal printout at any time. With Minotaur you can print various sales documentation, such as picking and packing slips, order acknowledgments, shipping labels, invoices, etc. Minotaur interacts with EDI, electronically receiving orders from customers and sending shipping notifications and invoices. Barcode capabilities allow for highly efficient shipping process. Multi-branch orders from head offices, rebate marketing agreements with retailer customers, budgeting for projected sales of parts; all are made easy with Minotaur. The result: faster, more efficient invoicing means faster payments and a more profitable business.

5. Purchasing - The Minotaur Purchasing module controls the inventory purchasing side of your business. You can track Purchase Orders, supplier prices, and quantities on order. When used in concert with the Inventory and the Invoicing/Order Entry modules, the Purchasing module can calculate quantities to order to meet customer commitments. Built-in lead times will ensure that your purchasing meets your customer or production due dates. Minotaur's EDI capabilities will allow you to interface with your suppliers, issuing P.O.s electronically. With Minotaur Purchasing, you will increase your inventory efficiency and eliminate costly shortages.

6. Inventory - The Minotaur Inventory module keeps accurate track of all the products you deal with, whether finished goods or raw materials. Barcode capabilities, serial numbers, lot control, multiple locations, EDI interface with suppliers, all enhance your control over stock levels. The part file is comprehensive, storing all the information you need about each part and updating it automatically. All transactions and costs are recorded in detail, allowing part histories and inventory valuations at any time, for any date. With the Minotaur Inventory module, you achieve unprecedented tracking and control of your inventory, resulting in lower inventory carrying costs, lower overhead, increased cash flow, and higher profitability.

7. Manufacturing - The Minotaur Manufacturing module is the center of a sophisticated production management system. You can enter multi-level bills of materials, with subassemblies, byproducts, and overhead components. Production runs can be scheduled and monitored, to ensure you meet your due dates. You can print detailed work orders, formatted to your specifications, and track variance and waste. Reports show you what production is required, the status of each production run, cost and waste factor analysis, and detailed cost breakdowns. The result: Minotaur gives you complete control of your manufacturing operation, providing the information you require to react quickly to changing demands.

8. Job Costing - The Minotaur Job Costing module provides the custom job manufacturer or job oriented professional office with a comprehensive job control system that allows for the tracking of expenses accrued to jobs and reporting of job costs and budgets. The fully integrated Minotaur system automatically posts costs from the Accounts Payable, Inventory, Manufacturing, Payroll, and General Ledger module to the jobs, so costs in each area can be easily and accurately evaluated. The result: with control of all your job costs, you can reduce your variable costs and thereby increase profitability, with minimal data entry.

9. Service - The Minotaur Service module allows you to efficiently track the maintenance agreements, services, and support you provide to your customers. You can record workorders for service and log support calls, and workorders can be billed for automatically. With Minotaur, you can fully control your customer service operation, ensuring services are provided efficiently to maximize profitability and customer satisfaction.

10. Payroll - The Minotaur Payroll module performs complete Canadian and American payroll management. You can maintain a comprehensive employee file with full detail of each payroll. Minotaur automatically calculates the correct deductions and earnings for each payroll, and records the information for subsequent ROE and T-4 purposes. The result: Minotaur Payroll module enables you to maintain an efficient, accurate payroll department.

11. Advanced Reports - The Minotaur Advanced Reports module takes you beyond normal reporting, to more in-depth, flexible, adaptable reports for any situation. When managing a sales force, you need complete information, presented simply and efficiently. With Minotaur, you'll have all the sales reports that you need: sales by sales rep, product, area, industry, customer, customer type, and by month, with cost, budget, and previous year's comparisons when needed. The bottom line is that you will have the information you need to make the correct decisions that will increase your profitability.

12. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) - The Minotaur EDI module is a comprehensive EDI package completely interfaced to the order entry, invoicing and inventory control modules. Incoming purchase orders are validated and then loaded directly as sales orders. Functional acknowledgements can be generated automatically or manually. Outgoing documents are prepared from the corresponding Minotaur document. Outgoing documents can be prepared from any workstation on the network and transmitted as required. Incoming functional acknowledgements are applied and documents with outstanding functional acknowledgements are listed as a report identifying outstanding FA's by system document number. All aspects of the EDI module are available at any workstation on the network. Coupled with communication software, generally provided by the VAN at nominal rates, this package provides all your EDI needs.

13. Lot Control - Inventory parts can be assigned to require lots. If lots are required, it will force you to assign/use lot numbers for all transactions for that part. If lots are not required, it will allow you to use lot numbers, but not force the use of them. This allows flexibility for the level on control you wish to enforce.

14. Retail Marketing Program - Minotaur's Retail Marketing Program will assist you in tracking your rebate agreements with retailers and it will track both off-invoice and accrued deductions. It can also track those type of programs which fall into neither category (for example your Volume Incentive), where you want to track the programs, but not accrue or deduct from invoice. Rebates can be accrued automatically, based on quantity or dollar sales. The Retail Marketing Program allows you to enter as many Marketing Rebate Programs as you require into the system. You can indicate whether rebates should be calculated on a flat rate per item quantity unit (i.e. a case) or on a percentage of total merchandise sales and you will be able to designate these rebate rates. You will be able to assign the default Credit and Debit G/L accounts that the rebates are to be posted to. Customers can be assigned to a Rebate Marketing Agreement and individual customers can be given special rebate rates if they are different from the standard rates for this marketing agreement. You will be able to run reports which indicate rebates owed to various customers. Rebates can accrue in the General Ledger until they are paid out. The system will be able to track Pick-up Allowances.

15. Food Manufacturing & Distribution - The Minotaur Business System is a powerful tool for food companies. The food industry has many unique requirements, and Minotaur has developed the program necessary to handle these particular needs. Whether it be lot number tracking, rebate marketing programs with customers, direct to store delivery and route based distribution, variable quantity tracking, etc., Minotaur has the features to simplify the complex and unique requirements of the food industry. For food manufacturers and distributors, Minotaur can provide a powerful solution to improve your business efficiency.

16. Beverage Manufacturing & Distribution - The Minotaur Business System is a powerful tool for beverage companies. Our wide experience in the Beverage Manufacturing and Distribution industry has enabled us to create a powerful, usable system. The beverage industry has many unique requirements, and Minotaur has developed a program necessary to handle these particular needs. Whether it be rebate marketing programs with customers, direct to store delivery and route-based distribution, cooler or dispensing equipment tracking, lot control, variable quantity tracking, etc., Minotaur has the features to simplify the complex and unique requirements of the beverage industry.

17. Chemical Manufacturing & Distribution - The Minotaur Business System is a powerful tool for chemical companies. Minotaur's considerable experience with chemical companies has resulted in a system that works well in this industry. The chemical industry has many unique requirements, and Minotaur has developed the programs necessary to handle these particular needs. Whether it is lot number control, variable quantity tracking, detailed production reporting, etc., Minotaur has the features to simplify the complex and unique requirements of the chemical industry.

18. Meat Processors - The Minotaur Business System is an effective tool for meat processing companies, designed to fulfill industry specific requirements. The Minotaur production module supports both one-to-many and many-to-one relationships, allowing primary meat processors to design processes from "carcass to case" and secondary processors the flexibility of planning for and tracking multiple production inputs. In conjunction with Minotaur's Inventory module, there are an abundance of reports available to track inventory throughout your operation. Some available reports are; Inventory Count Report, Inventory Audit Report, Lot Number Item report, Lot Numbers by Item report, QC Lot Number report, and a Cost Waste Report. For meat processors, the Minotaur Business System can provide an efficient software solution to assist with the industries unique requirements.