Sage Third-Party Applications Conference (STAC) 2021 Event Details
June 24, 2021
by Jared Bollier, Digital Marketing Assistant
STAC: Sage Third-Party Applications Conference is back for another virtual event in 2021!
WHAT'S STAC
STAC stands for Sage Third-party Application Conference.
This online conference is scheduled for July 22, 2021 at 9 a.m. PST / 12 p.m. EDT and offers sessions with valuable business advice on key topics, presented by Sage and third-party experts.
WHY ATTEND
The virtual online event will include conference sessions with valuable business advice on key topics, presented by Sage and third-party experts.
Attendees will have opportunities to interact with the presenters, product experts, attendees and have your questions answered.
WHAT To EXPECT
Session topics include:
Automating accounts payable, inventory optimization, leveraging automation to drive your business, business intelligence and many more.
There will also be a virtual exhibit hall where attendees can get information on any of the solutions showcased and interact with the experts of many third-party add-ons for Sage software.
STAC EVENT AGENDA
12:00-12:05 pm EST
Welcome Message
SPEAKER:
Nancy Harris, EVP and Managing Director, North America
Recommended for: All Attendees
12:05-12:25 pm EST
Extending the Value of Sage
SPEAKER:
Aziz Benmalek, EVP, Partners & Alliances , Sage
Recommended for: All Attendees
12:25-12:30 pm EST
BREAK
12:30-1:10 pm EST
Stop Wasting Time – Go Paperless with AP Automation
SPEAKER:
DocLink by Altec
Recommended for: Sage 100, 300, and 500 customers
Do you think your AP department is still trapped by paper? How straightforward is it to locate what you want, when you require it, regardless of where you work?
Stop wasting time — DocLink can help you become paperless and reduce manual, paper-based procedures in every department, including:
- Accounts Payable – invoice processing including 3-way matching, audit prep
- Accounts Receivable – invoice, supplemental documentation delivery
- Human Resources – onboarding processes, access & delivery of employee documents
- Operations/Facilities Management – service requests, builds
Sage Inventory Advisor – Where It Fits
SPEAKER:
Sage Enterprise Intelligence
Recommended for: Sage 100, 300, and 500 customers
Inventory is a valuable asset for manufacturers, distributors, and retailers, and it must be handled effectively to maximize earnings on every sale.
And, given the problems posed by Covid-19, your supply chain requires assistance now more than ever, especially in terms of stock levels. Your ERP contains critical information that you can use to create a more balanced and profitable warehouse.
Join this session to learn how to boost fill rates, cut excess stock, and produce smarter purchase orders to improve your bottom line.
Coming soon
SPEAKER:
Sage Inventory Advisor
Recommended for:Sage 100 customers
1:10-1:15 pm EST
BREAK
1:15-1:55 pm EST
Automate Account Receivables in Sage with Credit Hound
SPEAKER:
Credit Hound by Draycir
Recommended for:Sage 100 and 300 customers
Credit Hound’s sophisticated collections management software automates the accounts receivable process, helping you decrease late payments by proactively informing customers of future payments and following customers who have late or outstanding payments.
Join this session to discover how your organization can:
- Automate the A/R process
- Spend less time on collections management while getting more cash owed in
- Get customers to pay you quicker
- Reduce the amount of outstanding customer payments
- Minimize bad debt
Coming soon
SPEAKER:
ProcessWeaver Shipping
Recommended for: Sage 300 customers
All-in-One: Wholesale, Marketplace, and E-Commerce Order Fulfillment
SPEAKER:
SPS Commerce Fullfillment (MAPADOC)
Recommended for: Sage 100 and 500 customers
Learn how you can leverage SPS to integrate EDI, e-commerce and marketplace channels into Sage for truly streamlined order to cash automation.
Payments with Paya – The Ease of Integration
SPEAKER:
Paya
Recommended for:Sage 300 customers
Attend this session to learn about payment solutions from Paya, including:
- Paya overview
- Implementation Process (Ease of Integrating any Sage Software to Paya)
- Shopping Cart Availability
- Flexible Pricing Options
- Enhanced Gateway – making sure all transactions qualify for the lowest cost possible.
- Knowledgeable Customer Support staff
1:55 - 2:00 pm EST
BREAK
2:00 - 2:40 pm EST
How to calculate the right sales tax rate for every transaction
SPEAKER: Sage Sales Tax (Avalara)
Recommended for: Sage 100 and Sage 500 customers
There’s a lot that goes into calculating the appropriate sales tax rate based on what you sell and where you sell it, but with so many laws to remember, figuring out rates may be difficult. It’s even more perplexing now, given the recent surge in eCommerce.
We’ll walk you through how to calculate the best rate for each transaction in this session. From state and local tax rates to product taxability, sourcing rules and more, we’ll explain what you need to know to get calculations right.
How to Automate and Enable Hybrid Accounting Teams
SPEAKER: Sage AP Automation
Recommended for:Sage 100, 300, and Sage 500 customers
Finance departments in today’s world have made the transition to hybrid work. The ability for employees to successfully interact while working remotely is critical to your finance team’s performance. Learn how accounting and finance departments are adopting hybrid work to make a bigger impact than ever before.
Join this session to learn:
- The impact of COVID-19 on accounting departments
- How to adapt to the new norm
- How businesses have implemented hybrid work
- The role of AP automation, plus a live demo
Making better business decisions with Sage Data & Analytics
SPEAKER: Sage Data & Analytics
Recommended for: Sage 100 and 300 customers
Now available for Sage 100 and Sage 300, Sage Data & Analytics (SD&A) is a powerful BI toolkit that delivers trustworthy, actionable financial and operational reporting to drive increased revenues, cost savings, and competitive advantage.
Powered by ZAP Data Hub, SD&A empowers businesses with the information needed to confidently make decisions with data, facts, and truth—without hesitation. In today’s fast-paced, customer-centric economy, data is the difference between “just making it” and thriving. That’s why it’s critical to have access to clean, timely data you can trust. SD&A places data-based decision-making at the heart of your business providing a 360-degree view of your business and a decision-making infrastructure that will scale with your business as it evolves.
Immediate SD&A benefits:
- Ready-made analytics in-a-box
- Tangible time savings
On-the-go access tailored to decision makers - Modernization of ERP and all your data
Eliminating reporting pain points:
- Disparate, siloed data, and slow reporting
- Inefficient and inaccurate decision making
- Missed competitive advantage
- Risk, non-compliance, and more
2:40 - 2:45 pm EST
BREAK
2:45 - 3:25 pm EST
True Sky: Advanced Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
e Data & Analytics
SPEAKER:True Sky
Recommended for: Sage 300 customers
Are you wasting too much time on budget administration and making critical business choices based on spreadsheets with connected worksheets, complicated formulae, and obsolete data?
Come discover how True Sky offers you total control over the budgeting process while using the power and flexibility of Excel in this presentationTrue Sky’s user-friendly design, robust data tools, and advanced data and reporting features let you budget in half the time. True Sky connects with all Sage ERPs without a hitch.
“Actionable Insight” Via Sage Alerts & Workflow
SPEAKER: Sage Alerts & Workflow
Recommended for: Sage 100, 300, and 500 customers
Over the past 20 years, the technologies available to help you “mine” your data have increased exponentially—from friendly search technologies and dashboards to advanced business intelligence analytics and reporting. And yet even with all of these tools, you still need to “go get” the information you need; and once retrieved (or displayed), you still need to figure out what to do with that information, who needs to do it and then get it done.
The concept of “actionable insight” uniquely combines data mining, data delivery, and automated workflow to ensure that you have not only insight into what’s going on in your business, but also an automated action plan to address the activities that have occurred.
Attend this webcast to learn:
- What are “actionable insights”
- How Sage Alerts & Workflow can solve for the “who, what and when”
- 10 ways your business can be improved through a system of actionable insight
Coming soon
SPEAKER:
Scanco
Recommended for:Sage 100 customers
Edisoft’s Merchant Cloud Supply Chain Platform
SPEAKER: Edisoft EDI and eCommerce Order Management
Recommended for: Sage 300 customers
Join this session for an informative overview of Edisoft’s Merchant Cloud, an innovative Supply Chain Process Automation Platform that streamlines B2B/B2C order, label, shipment, and invoice processing for Sage Distributors and Manufacturers. If you’re serious about solving any of the following business problems, this session is a must!
1. Use a single, menu-driven Order & Fulfillment Task Process Scheduler to eliminate process bottlenecks in your front and back offices, which is designed for employee cooperation and efficiency.
2. Reduce the time, cost, and testing complexity of field-to-field data mapping for your eCommerce Marketplace (i.e. Amazon, Shopify, etc. ), B2C Web Order Portals (i.e. company website, etc. ), and EDI Trading Partner Connections (i.e. Walmart.com, etc.) by using Edisoft’s simple menus to perform B2B/B2C data transformations.
3. Save time and money by eliminating the need to maintain complicated third-party setups and mappings for your eCommerce Marketplaces, B2C Web Order Portals, and EDI Trading Partners.