The Rental Management Industry Coming of Age with Cloud ERP

Cloud ERP for the rental industry, built on the NetSuite platform provides 100% functionality and visibility into the rental industry business operation.


The rental industry outpaced the growth of the GDP by over 4x in 2013 and experts expect the industry to reach 33.5 billion in 2014.  Sererra Consulting Group, headquartered in Irvine, CA has developed a rental management solution on the NetSuite platform that equips companies to rent out euipment or products to customers and effectively track he inventory without it coming out of the balance sheet. The intuitive solution allows complete management of rented inventory, contracts, rental invoicing and even sends alerts for renewal.

Read the full article on rental software.

Working with Intacct: Best Practices on Finance for Small Businesses

If you are a small business owner, you may have find yourself wondering about your cash flow and how to manage it. Since small businesses usually do not have a lot of personnel, it is not always easy to manage financials on top of everything else. READ MORE>

5 Ways Business Intelligence Prepares You For Profit Windfall

Managers and business owners have historically used their own intelligence to run their businesses. It was effective as long as the business was small enough to be managed manually. However, as businesses grow and branch out, they need a little more than the human intelligence of a few people.
In that sense, technology has been really helpful to the business community. Business Intelligence is an emerging concept, which has created a lot of growth potential across the board. It helps to cut costs and improves business opportunities to increase overall productivity and revenues
Here's how:

Business intelligence is based on real data collected over a period of time learn more

You can forecast the future (to an extent) learn more

Find out who your worst clients (and the best) in value are learn more

Monitor staff performance learn more

Assess the risk within your organization learn more

It's a must-read! Go here to read the article from Sererra in it's entirety~

General Ledger Account Reconciliation

The month-end closing process can be very time consuming.

Accounting is complex and there are thousands of ways to combine accounts, departments, locations and other attributes. Many of those combinations are not valid, but in many cases, built-in validation won't prevent a user from entering them.

As the complexity of the chart of accounts grows, the risk of errors increases, and so does the effort required to research and correct those errors - especially if many issues are left to accumulate during the month.

Watch this in-depth interview with the author of some groundbreaking software for Account Reconciliation and Transaction Validation:




This interview covers:
1) What is Sererra Transaction Validation?
2) Why do we need transaction validation?
3) Examples of errors that might occur:
4) How this software solves these problems:
5)Where can the user view the error messages for entries that were created through import or API?
6) How are the validation rules setup and managed?
7) Who has access to the rules? And is there a way to track changes?

We hope this interview gives you some hope for the future of your month-end closing process, and what it could look like.

For more information, visit http://saas.sererra.com/intacct-products/account-reconciliation-transaction-validation

How long does it take YOU to close the books at the end of each month?

Sererra Consulting Group, Irvine CA

If you're evaluating a Cloud Computing solution, we might have some good thoughts for you. 

In this interview, Chance Berry, Director of Business Development at Sererra.com explains some of the major advantages of cloud computing. Chance was instrumental in the creation and success of ERP.com and has grown with the cloud computing industry since the early 2000's.  Chance will be describing how cloud computing makes it possible for small to medium-sized businesses to use the same cutting edge, state of the art technology as enterprise companies.

"Cloud computing allows businesses to do what they are good at."

This makes businesses scalable as turnkey business solutions create the optimum environment for businesses to scale and grow - becoming more profitable.


To get in touch with Chance or any of the experts at Sererra, go to Sererra.com
For more info: Cloud Computing Wiki
-The Sererra Team
sales @ sererra.com

Now that you have Intacct, get your entire team trained 

You have Intacct. You've also had some turnaround. Your business is growing - or at least you have plans to grow. What can you do to get all your team members on the same page? Intacct Training by Sererra.

Simple, Fun, Interactive & Transformational Training for Intacct

Making sure your employees are more productive can be a drag, especially for those employees.  But it doesn't have to be. Sererra's amazing Client Services division is staffed by the top talent in the industry, who bring amazing skill and personality to the table to ensure a positive & refreshing training event.

We'll meet at your place or we can do a virtual training. Follow the link below and get more information about Intacct Training by Sererra.



-Sererra Sales Team
#intacct
@sererra

How to Get the Most out of Intacct Advantage 2013

This October, Intacct will be hosting their annual "Advantage" conference for partners and customers. The conference will take place at the M Resort in Las Vegas, NV, October 21-25 and is perhaps the most anticipated Advantage event so far.

This year, Platinum Sponsor Sererra Consulting Group's Solution Architects will be scheduling 1-on-1 appointments with customers offsite during the conference whether or not the customer is registered for the event. Customers who have questions about products, demos, issues or anything else Intacct related should prepare to get some expert advice. (Read the official Press Release here)

Schedule your appointment with a Solution Architect today

You can schedule your meeting today with a Sererra Solution Architect. It's fast, easy and free. Just follow the "GET APPOINTMENT" link below and let us know when you'd like to meet and around what product. You can also see the newly released products for Intacct customers HERE>




Thanks for stopping by,

-Sererra Sales Team

Umbrella Marketing: It just makes sense for Businesses

Successful businesses have something in common - they plan well and think long term. They do think of their short-term gains too, but focus on paths that would drive them to long-term success. Marketing your business right can actually be the difference between success and failure. Some businesses focus on low budget methods of marketing, picking out one or two of those, which appeal to them the most. Others remain undeterred by budgets and prejudices, creating a comprehensive marketing plan that can help them target a wider range of audience and ensure maximum reach.

The Cross Channel Framework

So you have a business that needs reviving. What do you do? Do you spend all your money in getting greater visibility? Plan it well, and you may not have to overstretch yourself or your pocket. Understand that today's marketplace is customer driven and what you really need is to address the customer directly. However, owing to the multitudes of media and information channels present today, addressing your customers directly is certainly no easy task. So what do you do? You plan allocation.

Ask yourself this:  who are my most profitable clients?

What are the Marketing Methods Used in Umbrella Marketing?

Does Umbrella Marketing Work?

Go here to read the full article on Sererra's Blog, we're sure you'll learn some new tricks!

Are you paying too much for ERP?

Many companies now find themselves in an an unworkable situation with their business software. They are paying an expensive bill for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) year in and year out. But instead of an asset that increases productivity and efficiency, ERP applications have become a liability that require too much ongoing cost and complexity to run, which offsets much of the value being delivered.
In the next twelve months, thousands of companies will be faced with replacing equipment in their antiquated IT server rooms, and face similar defects that go from annoyances to damaging obstacles. Or, they will shift responsibilies from client to vendor with a SaaS (Software as a Service) or "Cloud ERP" vendor.
In this FREE whitepaper (link at the bottom), you'll find out why Cloud ERP has become mainstream. Download it now and find out if the SaaS for ERP opportunity is right for your business. You'll get the best research that will help you decide if moving to the Cloud is right for you.

Sererra + NetSuite: Rental Management Comes of Age

If your revenue model includes renting assets to customers, then you know the struggles of managing customers and tracking inventory - especially if you're still using a paper system.
Thanks to technology, managing this situation is simpler than ever. Here’s how:

Intuitive Rental Management Technology

The NetSuite platform lends itself out to vendors to build custom applications on top of it. As such, we at Sererra, created our very own Rental management solution, which you can use to rent equipment, products, and almost any other asset to other businesses or customers. The solution tracks present inventory, contracts, machinery, insurance, and many other aspects related to assets and helps you centralize this information within a single system. The management system isn’t cast in stone, though; It’s thoroughly flexible and easy-to-use.

Rental Management Reloaded

Our Rental Management Solution on the NetSuite Platform comes loaded with features. Starting with a flexible design and a pleasing User Interface, it integrates with NetSuite to help you create contracts and agreements on the fly. You can also send out invoices, process bills, and use many customized templates, statements, and agreements.

Focus on the deals. Leave the rest to smarts

Paperwork, mundane tasks, and countless iterations of work can only ruin productivity. The Rental Management solution is designed to ease away these productivity killers from your business processes and help you determine the most efficient path to asset rentals.
You can control and manage your rental rates, manage multi-location transfers, resolve overbookings, control item availability, and integrate with other Sererra products or NetSuite as a whole.

Cloud-based Integration and Implementation

With assets, it makes sense to lower the cost of ownership or, at least, offset expenses creatively. Our latest software and tools help you achieve just that. We handle efficient implementation, data conversion, training, and deployment to NetSuite so that you can focus on your business instead of paperwork.
Get your assets to work for you rather than the other way around.  Along with functionalities for billing such as to Invoice T statements, rental aging reports, customized reporting, dashboard, and analytics – you have your business on your fingertips.
Equip your business with efficient technology and empower your staff for enhanced adaptability and efficiency. Whether it’s a normal business with assets or even a full-fledged rental business, our NetSuite Rental Management system is just an integration away.
If you’d like to see how Sererra’s Rental management system for NetSuite works, or if you’d like to contact any of our staff, please feel free to leave a comment here or reach out to us.