This week Sage announced the release of Sage X3 Version 11. This version builds upon Sage X3's strong functionality and technology offering to address the needs of demanding enterprise users for finance, supply chain management, and production management. This version continues to build upon our belief that Sage X3 changes how enterprises compete and grow in today's marketplace with functionality designed to help them run their business faster, simpler, and more flexibly.

From important new features and integrations, to an array of functional improvements and brand new complementary solutions, Sage X3 Version 11 continues to deliver a robust business management solution –without the complexity that typically comes with enterprise ERP systems.

Here are the highlights of Sage X3 Version 11:

New features:

• Project management | Manage all aspects of a project from quoting to planning resources and material, tracking costs and schedule, and analyzing profits.
• Automated bank statements | Improve the efficiency of the financial process by automatically generating the transactions matching open items or unbalanced operations when importing bank statements.

New integrations:

• Production scheduler | Optimize production cycles and control lead times with more flexible graphical production planning and scheduling capabilities.
• E-commerce: Build or customize a comprehensive webstore within days, and manage catalogs, pricing, inventory, customers, and all transactions as part of the Sage X3 core supply chain management processes.
• CRM: Synchronize customer records between Salesforce CRM and Sage X3, and display customer orders in Salesforce using the new Sage X3 Salesforce CRM Connector.
• Financial Reporting: Easily design Sage Intelligence reports, with intuitive Excel-based reporting capabilities integrated with Sage X3 financial management, and automate the running and distribution of reports to teams or individuals.

 Other functional improvements:

• Supply chain management improvements include the ability to optimizing container capacity for shipments, and attach and track documents associated with receiving goods.
• Financial management improvements include a real-time inter-company consolidation process, at the right level of aggregation.
• Production management improvements include the ability to track shop floor activity by team within automated data collection (ADC) functionality of Sage X3. 

New complementary solutions:

• Sage X3 Geode: A new comprehensive Warehouse Management Solution (WMS) meeting the needs of sophisticated distribution operations optimizing all physical flows in the warehouse, from receipts to shipments.
• Sage X3 Data Management and Analytics: Integrate, migrate and manage data across platforms, and get consistent insights from multiple sources. Sage X3 Data Management provides users with a powerful data warehouse for managing information from any source effectively, and offers built-in data models to simplify data migration and reporting.
• Sage X3 Construction: Extend the core Sage X3 capabilities for financial and supply chain management, with a cohesive solution to manage all of construction & real estate business processes—including project management, contract management, estimating, timesheet transactions, sub-contracting, project financial tracking and cash flow. 

Next Steps: 

To learn more about Sage X3 Version 11 please contact your Sage representative or business partner, also visit the Sage X3 product website and download the latest Sage X3 New Features Guide.

As you have an active Sage Business Care plan, you can download your copy of Sage X3 Version 11 by logging onto the Sage Knowledge Base, and explore the Sage X3 Version 11 Browse page.