ASSIST 2K is designed for wholesale distributors and manufacturers that require flexible and user-friendly interface from their accounting software.
Our lot control software, document / image archiving software, inventory software, landed cost software and CRM software are especially well fitted to companies that require lot controlled inventory, import / export capability, special customer contract pricing and software than can support a large numbers of transactions. We understand that your purchasing, manufacturing and sales history are important to your business, so we think you should keep it for 5, 10 or more years.

RLA is very interested in helping you to stay current with new features and functions added each year. We are continually working to improve your business competitiveness. Please click here to see the latest features just added to ASSIST 2K. If you drill down a little further, you can see the features that have been added over the past few years. I think you will agree that each of the previous releases added some very useful new functionality to ASSIST 2K. It also shows that we have a proven record in keeping ASSIST 2K current.
ASSIST 2K comes with everything you expect from a good accounting and operations software package. Here are some of the great system-wide features in the newest release:
  • Source code: Control the future of your software by owning the source code. Have your product customized by RLA, by yourself or by any other third party. Don't conform your business to the software, conform the software to your business.
  • ASSIST2K implements a data history structure that allows you to keep multiple periods open while still processing current business. Reports can be run for a prior month while the current month activity goes forward. There are no necessary month-end or year-end updates.
  • Graphing: You can see your sales history in a bar, line or pie chart. Graphically compare multiple years of revenue side by side. You can do this by item, by customer, by salesperson and so on.
  • Document / Image Archiving: Link JPG, PDF, Word, Excel files and web links to records within ASSIST2K. Use it to store pictures of your items, certificate of conformance documents, testing documents or signed delivery documents. These can then be called up within your browser. No more leaving your desk to go to the filing cabinet.
  • Vessel Tracking: Track your incoming POs on the water, anticipated delivery dates, vessel names etc.
  • PO Containerization: Receive multiple PO and multiple PO lines in the same container, amortize the freight over the contents of the container.
  • Multiple unit of measure quantity displays: Allows the system to display warehouse inventory quantities by case / carton or by each. Allows you to toggle between display in 1) case & fraction of case, 2) case / eaches or 3) eaches (current type of display).
  • System Alerts: Ultra-backoffice communications. This feature allows ASSIST2K to notify users / customers / vendors when certain inter-application events occur. Such as if a sales order does not ship then notify the salesperson, changing the production order will notify the purchasing agent and so forth. Clients are already dreaming of the system automatically e-mailing or faxing their clients with overdue invoice notices.
  • Windowing Capability: "Command" feature allows you to interrupt whatever you are doing and open a temporary window to check stock, run a report, enter an order, or do virtually anything you need to do. Hot keys allow you to jump right to the Item and Customer researches.
  • On-line Help Text: We provide field-by-field Help Text that you can pop up when you need some more information on an entry screen. This documentation is user-maintainable and can reflect your special instructions and procedures.
  • Universal Searches: All master codes and document numbers (e.g. Purchase Orders) are searchable in multiple ways.
  • Job Streaming: You can set up a series of reports and updates to automatically run unattended. Save the report definitions and have the reports waiting for you when you come in.
  • Report Generation: Reports allow control over sort order, multiple range selections, aging columns, timeframes, paging and sub-totaling. Save your report definition and have the report come up that way each time you run it.
  • Copy Features: Master file and transaction files have extensive "copy-from" features, saving you entry time. For instance, you can create a credit memo by copying from an invoice or create blanket orders to multiple ship to addresses.
  • Maintainable Default Settings: Master file and transaction files have maintainable defaults for entry fields. Preferences on report formats and selection options can also be saved for easy re-use.
  • Unlimited Remarks Text: Virtually unlimited free-form public and private text space is provided on master files, and transaction header and lines files.
  • Data Exporting: You can move data into a Windows application like Microsoft Excel or other ODBC / SQL compliant applications.
APPLICATION FEATURES:

  • EDI: Send and receive documents electronically (with 3rd party EDI software).
  • Integrated Quotations: Enter quotations and easily convert them into sales orders.
  • Kitting: Automatically handles kit components when you enter the kit line item on a sales order.
  • Automated Confirmation of Shipments: Let your UPS Worldship / Fedex shipping manifest system automatically enter freight charges, tracking numbers and confirm shipped-as-is sales orders. Eliminates unnecessary front office data entry.
  • E-mailing and Desktop Faxing of Documents: E-mail your forms or working with 3rd party faxing software, you can fax forms directly from your computer.
  • Vendor-managed Inventory: In conjunction with EDI, track and control your inventory on your customers' shelves.
  • Lot Control: Track and trace inventory quantities by lot or multiple bin locations.
  • Item Cross-referencing: Set up customer item codes, alternates, substitutes, recommendations, and MSDS links.
  • Bar-code Integration: Use bar-code technology to simplify physical inventory, departmental order tracking, shipping and receiving.
  • Integrated Sourcing: Track your vendors' quotes to you, and easily convert them to purchase orders.
  • Purchase Processing: Manage your outside processing through the Purchasing system.
  • Purchase Order Automation: Automatically create purchase orders from your stock replenishment report.
  • Complete History: Complete, unlimited detailed history for sales invoices, purchase receipts, A/P, A/R, and G/L transactions.

    And this is only a partial list. If you are interested in seeing a demonstration of any of these capabilities, call us now for an appointment.
    • GENERAL FEATURES

  • Portability: ASSIST2K runs on many platforms, including Red Hat Linux, Suse Linux, Unix, SCO OpenServer, SCO Unixware, HP-UX, AIX, Sun-OS, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Vista and Windows 2008. This means you are not locked in to any particular hardware or operating system or, if you choose Linux, forced to pay for operating system user licenes (it's basically free open source).

  • Scalability: ASSIST2K easily accommodates 5 users or 500 users. And per-user pricing means that you only pay for what you need, when you need it.

  • Flexibility: ASSIST2K provides you with the means to implement your most demanding business rules, whether it's a complicated pricing structure or a stringent reporting requirement. We deliver both a graphical user interface (GUI) and a character user interface (CHUI). You decide what is best for you. And because we deliver the ASSIST2K source code, if you need a modification, you can have it done by us (gladly) or anyone else you choose. Consider it an insurance policy that makes certain your ASSIST2K software will never grow obsolete.
  • Reliability: RLA has continuously refined and improved ASSIST2K since the version 1.0 release in 1988. The current version represents a mature software technology that has a proven track record of success.

  • Dependability: the satisfied clients of RLA tell the story. We provide dependable on-going service to keep your business on the competitive edge. We can help you identify and implement the technologies you need long after you have installed ASSIST2K.

  • Usability: When RLA first developed ASSIST2K we were guided by our in-depth experience with the real-life business problems you face every day. The focus was on productivity enhancement. And as fast as our clients were faced with new business challenges, we added new features they could use to meet those challenges. The new release of ASSIST2K proves the wisdom of this ongoing cycle of use and improvement.

    No one else can offer you the quality, integrity, and depth of experience you will find from the folks at Rennie, Lindsey and Associates, Inc. Contact us at 877.886.1642 and see!

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