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Mica-Tech, Inc. Tames Accounting Nightmare

Software Arts’ QuickBooks export module allows for one button export of accounting data from pc/MRP’s MRP Inventory system into QuickBooks.

Using the power of pc/MRP and QuickBooks has eliminated our reliance on manual inventory control systems and has simplified how we manage SUCCESS STORY our accounting processes.

Jefferson C. Romney Mica-Tech, Inc. controller Mica-Tech, Inc.

AT A GLANCE:

Customer: Mica-Tech, Incorporated Customer Profile Location: Mica-Tech occupies a unique position in the fields of automatic electric grid control and ubiquitous secure communication. Our goal is to enhance that Camarillo, CA position by continuing to provide the highest level of engineering expertise Industry: and responsiveness to our customers. Manufacturing Our UltraSatNet system provides electric utilities with the ability to optimize Business Challenge: the use of their distribution resources while providing a fail safe way to prevent rolling blackouts. We needed a mechanized system that would enable us to Our UltraSatNet system also provides an uninterruptible, secure and reliable efficiently manage our communication link between first responders in emergency situations, purchasing, manufacturing and between central monitoring locations and remote sites for security control and inventory control functions. monitoring, and other similar scenarios. Solution: Software Art, Incorporated’s pc/MRP complete Business Challenge manufacturing software and QuickBooks Premier Edition. As a new company in 2002, we used QuickBooks for our financial accounting and a manual system for inventory accounting. As our company grew and the Results: number of parts required for new products increased, we found that our manual system could not keep up with our requirements on a timely basis. We now have a much better grasp of and control over our Solution Overview purchasing and inventory management functions. We reviewed several inventory managements systems before choosing Software Arts’ pc/MRP program, which which we found to provide the functionality and support we need at a favorable cost. Our ability to upload pc/MRP transactions to QuickBooks greatly simplifies the clerical effort required to keep our records current.

Business Benefits

With a few keystrokes we are now able to immediately ascertain critical purchasing and inventory information and generate the operational and financial reports we need. In short, the link between pc/MRP and QuickBooks helps Mica-Tech to maintain its position as a leading edge company.