Keep it simple
We like the name 'Sumer' to remind us...
Business is not about technology; business is about business.
The Sumerians had the right idea. They invented writing and money, and they loved trade. They seemed pretty happy about the social and economic benefits all around—maybe that is why most of their statues are smiling.
We too would like to see a more equitable distribution of benefits. As jobs are lost to AI, more people will want to start their own businesses, and expanding opportunity becomes more important than ever.
So, Sumer is designed to be...
- free of jargon,
- free to download,
- free to add users,
- simple to use,
- offering open-source templates,
- requiring no knowledge of IT,
- with data in the cloud based only on data storage fees,
- and with a platform encouraging peer-to-peer Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) community.
Sumer can handle most key small and medium business management tasks...
- Purchase Order control,
- Receiving and sequence coding of raw materials,
- Inventory tracking and control including direct and flush-back materials tracking,
- Customer Orders,
- Tracking, completion, and cancellation of back orders,
- Production control,
- Scheduling,
- Employee time cards and payroll,
- Wholesales and invoices,
- Docket scheduling and control,
- Retail cashiering and point-of-sale,
- Bookkeeping and accounting,
- Full user log and audit trail,
- Instant End-Of-Period inventory posting to accounting,
- Graphic reporting,
- Intra-company communications,
- Cash flow analysis and control,
- Bill of Materials and Process costing and routing,
- and more.
That is only the start . . . because anyone can customize, upgrade, and extend templates with an option to make the new templates available to users.
Open-sourcing means Sumer never needs to stop growing.