The Business Management System (BMS) is a comprehensive and customisable ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solution focussed on medium enterprises including those with franchises, branches or dealerships. The BMS addresses all functionality required for financial management, accounting, tax, customer relations, procurement, inventory and warehouse management, workshop and job cards, manufacturing, wireless barcode/scanner integration, mobile deployment, workflow and powerful interactive reporting.
Company’s switch to Multicat BMS when they have outgrown their off-the shelf accounting and business tools or have special requirements like comprehensive barcode implementations or catalogue requirements.
Multicat started with catalogues solutions in 1996 with desktop Electronic Parts Catalogue (EPC) software used by some of the largest motor vehicle manufacturers in South Africa. This evolved into feature rich online catalogue solutions that are easy to use but can support the requirements of complex parts catalogues with thousands of parts, drilldown assemblies, illustrations, alternatives and serial numbers.
We have a wide variety of catalogue customers in many industries ranging from medium to large enterprises. Customers choose Multicat when their requirements become too complex for spreadsheets and simple databases, or if they require integration into ERP solutions like SAP for sales or procurement.
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Build your product catalogue inside Multicat BMS. No additional software, integration or middleware required
Multicat is used for standard product catalogues to complex vehicle parts catalogues with drilldowns, assemblies, hotspots used by large manufacturers
Publish the catalogue live on the web with the information you want like available stock and prices
Show the catalogue with only contracted items and prices to specific customers
Catalogue web designs are continuously updated in line with latest trends
Customer and Suppliers maintenance is easy from all areas like invoices or job cards provided you have the user rights
Customers can access their account transactions and statements via the web. They can also submit orders or buy directly from the web catalogue.
Send statements or notifications via e-mail or any status update and keep full record of the communication for other users
Divide customers into distribution channel like retail and wholesale. Have discount structures based on product groups per customer or have a customer’s pricing on contract
Have your salesperson create a quote but the manager approve large discounts or credit notes. Get a notification when an account exceeds a threshold.
Configure multi-level workflow approvals on any document or data for example have warehouse approve purchases and director approve large purchases
Receive a internal or e-mail message when a vehicle sale completed or the bank balance exceeds overdraft
Manage system e-mail accounts like accounts@abc.com or jobcards@abc.com from the system such that all communication is visible and shared
Send automated messages to customers on job card progress or reminders
Receive and approve messages and workflow with your tablet or mobile phone
Manage vehicle floorplan
Stock Items & Sold Items
Manage vehicle trade-ins
& costs seamlessly
Easily add pictures of vehicles or
repairs from mobile phone camera
Comprehensive tools and reports to
manage sales reps and profitability
Create repair jobcards for workshop, service plan,
warranty with direct financial integration
Schedule technicians on workshop jobs,
manage time and performance
Easily navigate item details, stock levels sales movement and pricing history as well as catalogue and illustrations
Facilitate smart search by linking items to selected franchise codes
Publish the catalogue live on the web with the information you want like available stock and prices
Perform stock counts efficiently with step-by-step process. Use integrate smart barcode scanners to scan bins and item count with live database update
The system identify fast or slow moving stock that is used to create optimized stock orders
Fully featured accounting from setting up the chart of accounts to Income & Balance Statements
Captures transactions against cost centres and draw reports like income statement by cost centre
Set up complex company structures like branches or independent franchises
Create tax reports like VAT201 reports ready for submission to Receiver of Revenue
Enforce workflow approval on any financial document like journals
Our reports are easy to use and fast to execute
Click on the amount column and drilldown to a detail
Click on the detail report document number to open the document to edit or maintain follow-on functions
Export the report to PDF, Excel or Text or copy a portion of the report to your clipboard
View the report via our web frontend on your tablet or phone
Multicat (Pty) Ltd was established in 1993 and is a well-established brand in the online catalogue software industry of South Africa, Africa and the Middle East. Our online catalogue solutions are used by some of the largest motor vehicle manufacturers in South Africa. Toyota South Africa was our first client and went live in 1996 with Nissan and General Motors following shortly. Today we have numerous catalogue customers in many industries that rely on our online catalogue solutions for sales or procurement with integration to SAP.
Multicat released its first version of the Business Management System (BMS) in 2007. It started as a financial and inventory management solution that integrated with our catalogue solution. It has subsequently evolved into a comprehensive and customisable ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solution focussed on medium enterprises.
We developed all our software in house and have a strong team consisting of software developers and business specialist that develop, implement, maintain and support the software without resellers or agents.