aSa.Studio

aSa.Studio v26.4 is scheduled for release in Q4 2006/Q1 2027

Development plans are subject to change: Anticipated features may be altered or moved to different versions.

New Module! Accounts Payable

• New aSa.Studio Financials module manages your vendor payments. 

Now a Full-Featured Module! General Ledger 

• Automatically record and report your financial transactions.
• You can export GL data in summary format: one line for each GL account per transaction.
• Improved GL to Business Central connections.

General Enhancements

• Custom invoice fields are now available in dashboards and inquiries that use the Invoice Line Inquire dataset.  
• Correspondence Log – Record notes associated to a customer, job, or other record. Reply to other employees’ notes. See the entire text thread on a single screen. 
• When you import an item that is associated to an end prep product, the EP product is now imported/attached to the line.
• Notes and messages from aSa – Essential updates, security notices, and other notifications from aSa may display at the top of your aSa.Studio screen. 
• You can now easily apply a labor price for adding an end preparation to a bar. Changes affect Estimating, Project Pricing, Order, Shipping Ticket, and Invoice.
• You can now group data by computed fields in a dashboard. 
• Added flexibility for pricing end preps and related labor. 
• The system now handles pricing by linear meter.
• Improved natural language functionality of AI Assistants (chatbots). 

Alerts

• The Alerts Group editor now includes a tab for Roles. Set users to receive alerts based on their roles.

Document Management

• When you print the following forms/reports, you can now automatically save a PDF copy to aSa.Studio Document Management: Order Report, Sales Order, Shipping Ticket, and Invoice.

Estimating

• Find/Replace options now include Fab Class.
• New statuses: To improve workflow tracking, you can now mark an estimate's status as Unassigned, Awaiting Submission, and Submitted. 

Field Placing

• For clarity, the Setup Placing Rates screen has been renamed Setup Placing Capacities.  

Inventory Management

• Receipt Summary screen – See an overview of bundles, pieces, and weight for each product in the receipt. 
• When you receive material and begin using it, then later post the receipt, the system now prompts you to “Review and (automatically) post” any unposted transactions associated with the material. 
• Manage and record lot numbers for received material.

Invoice

• Use escalation with progress billings. 

Order Entry

• Create a Transfer Order Request. This initiates a material shipment and transfer from another location within your enterprise.

Processing

• Improvements to shift tracking. 
• On tag shape pictures, an asterisk now displays next to the first dimension on the shape to serve as the "first bend" indicator for the bending operator. 
• In the Reprocess utility, On Demand tags are now marked to make them easier to recognize. 
• Define Safe Working Boundaries (SWB) for certain cutter-bender equipment that includes a trap extension unit. 

Purchase Order

• Product descriptions now display in the current location's default language. 

Scheduling 

• Trailer dimensions defined for the job are now used to filter trailers available for selection in Load Building. 
• Quickly apply various filters to the Load Inquiry screen. 

Shipping Ticket

• You can now reverse a shipping ticket. This resets the shipping ticket’s status and reverses any corresponding inventory transactions. 
• You can now edit custom fields on a posted shipping ticket.

System Manager

• Set up regional settings for your locations: Language and Time Zone. 

Tracking

• You can now enter exact coil lengths on the TouchTracker when used for drawn wire processes.
• Streamlined the process for validating end preparation for bars marked as stock items.