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THIS
MONTH'S FUN FACT
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July has
National Gummi Worm Day
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Hans Riegel invented gummi bears (the first
gummi candy) and gummi candy during the 1920s. Riegel was
the owner of the German candy company Haribo. Haribo went on
to manufacture the first American made gummi candy in 1982.
In 1981, another German gummi candy manufacturer called
Trolli decided to made the first gummi worm. Gummi worms
have become the most popular gummi candy ever made. Brite
Crawler, the number one sold gummi worm, is two inches long.
Edible gelatin is the basic ingredient in gummi candy.
Gelatin is also found in soft caramels, marshmallows,
foam-filled wafers, licorice, wine gums, pastilles,
chocolate coated mallows and a host of other sweets, because
it gives candy elasticity, the desired chewy consistency,
and a longer shelf life.
Gummi candies are a blend of corn starch, corn syrup, sugar,
gelatin, color, and flavorings. The ingredients are weighed,
mixed, and pumped into a special candy cooker, a 128 foot
long stainless steel coil that cooks the candy by steam
outside of the coil. Then the cooker pumps the gummi into a
vacuum chamber to remove excess moisture. From the vacuum
chamber the gummi moves on to a mix station where colors,
flavors, acids, and fruit concentrates are mixed into the
gummi stock. Next, a starch moulding machine pumps the gummi
stock into starch filled mould boards that shape the gummi
candies. After curing, the gummies are removed from the
moulds, packaged, delivered, and sold.
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Spotlight on Using Alphanumeric Check Numbers
Before version 4.20, the only way to enter a
wire transfer in Accounts Payable was to use a valid check
number. With version 4.20 and later, Accounts Payable accepts an
alphanumeric check number. This saves a check, and allows better
tracking of wire transfers through the Bank Reconciliation
module. The steps for using alphanumeric check numbers are
below.
Expand Modules, Accounts Payable, and Main.
Click Manual Check Entry.
Enter the bank code in the Bank Code field.
Enter the wire number in the Check Number
field. Begin with an alpha character, for example:
W00001.
Enter the date in the Check Date field.
Enter in the amount of the wire transfer in the
Check Amount field.
Enter the vendor number, or select it from the list,
in the Vendor No. field.
On the Lines tab, distribute the amount
against invoices or expense accounts.
For the portion of the wire transfer to be
distributed against an expense and not a vendor invoice,
select the Create G/L Distribute icon, then select the
account numbers and amounts for distribution. Click
Accept.
If you have not distributed the entire amount or have
over distributed, you see the message "The general
ledger distribution invoice is out of balance. Do you
want to change the invoice amount to match the
distribution." Select No if you need to correct
the distribution, or Yes if you also have
invoices to apply to this wire.
For the portion of the wire transfer distributed
against existing invoices, click Select Invoices.
Select the invoices and click Accept.
If applying to a new invoice, type the invoice number
in the Invoice No. field, and click Yes in
response to the prompt, "Is this a new Invoice."
Enter the Invoice Date, Invoice Amount, and Discount
Amount.
Click Accept to open General Ledger Distribution and
distribute the expense.
Click Accept.
Click the Printer icon.
Print and update the manual check register.
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Summer
2008
Promotion!
Extra savings when you "Add a Module" this summer.
Orion and SAGE are offering a great promotion this summer to help
you add any MAS90 module to your existing system. Purchase any
standard MAS90 module and save 20% during July and August.
During September this promotion will step down to a 10% savings.
For example, Payroll users looking to add the Direct Deposit
module (yes it is now its own MAS90 module) can do so for $995.00
(a savings of over $200).
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Manufacturing Services 1. Inventory Management
2. Bill of Materials
3. Materials Requirements Planning
4. Work Order
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Services 1. Job Cost
2. Sage TimeSheet MAS 90 Edition
3. Business Alerts
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Distribution Business Productivity 1. Inventory
Management
2. Purchase Order
3. Sales Order
4. Return Merchandise Authorization |
Productivity 1. Accounts Payable
2. Business Alerts
3. Visual Integrator
4. Direct Deposit
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Please note that this promotion only applies to standard MAS90
modules and does not apply to 3rd party modules offered through Sage
MAS90. The following products do not qualify: Credit Card
Processing, StarShip, Sage, Abra, Fixed Assets, ACT! by Sage,
DynaLink, F9, and FRx. Also note that all promotions are calculated
off of the product portion of the sale and do not apply to
maintenance. Maintenance is calculated based off of full sales
list price. These offers cannot be combined with any other offers.
For more information
contact Jim Steele at 248-893-1060 or jimsteele@orionbas.com
Promotions here are valid through September 30th, 2008.
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Virus warning from
UPS 
A large majority of our clients deal with UPS. I
recently got a bulletin from UPS with a virus warning.
I am passing it along for your information.
We have become aware there is a
fraudulent e-mail being sent that says it is coming from UPS
and leads the reader to believe that a UPS shipment could
not be delivered. The reader is advised to open an
attachment reportedly containing a waybill for the shipment
to be picked up.
This e-mail attachment contains a virus. We recommend that
you do not open the attachment, but delete the e-mail
immediately.
UPS may send official notification messages on occasion, but
they rarely include attachments. If you receive a
notification message that includes an attachment and are in
doubt about its authenticity, please contact customerservice@ups.com.
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This month's Windows Tip :
Hiding Data (Excel)
Using a sheet's Protection feature to hide data is
overkill if you just want to hide a cell or two. For a quick hiding
method, right-click the cell that contains data you don't want
anyone else to see. Choose Format Cells from the context menu and
select Custom from the Category control. Then, type three
semicolons, in the Type control, and click OK. Excel will hide the
data in the newly formatted cell or range. However, you'll still be
able to see the contents of the cell in the Formula bar.
To unhide the data, simply apply a different format. |
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