Inspiring Business by Sharing Success
Added by Love Business East Midlands | 17 January 2025
2023 saw PKF SCS win the Sage Customer Success Partner of the Year award, but in 2024, they continued to reach new heights. At the Sage FY25 Partner Kick Off, they were awarded the Sage UKI BMS Partner of the Year 2024. This award covers Sage’s range of ERP products, including Sage 200, and recognises PKF SCS as the top partner in the UKI Sage Business Partner Network for providing and supporting customers with their Business Management System (BMS).
With 19 hires to the team across all departments, including Support, Consultancy, Project Management, Development and Marketing, PKF Smith Cooper Systems have continued to expand their staff. Their business also continues to benefit from the outstanding work being done by the Sage Partner Academy.
Continuing the topic of expansion, 2024 has been a year of organic financial growth for the business. As they enter the final quarter of the fiscal year, PKF SCS is projecting a minimum increase of 15% compared to last year.
Alongside their successes, they have also continued to work very closely with Sage on the development of their new cloud native SDMO product (Sage Distribution and Manufacturing Operations) formally known as Sage Intacct Manufacturing. Their Technical Director, Richard Brewster, along with Sage 200 Consultant, Mike Henderson, were invited to Paris by Sage to meet the Development Team, share their expertise and review the progress of SDMO.
Richard Shared:
“It was a great insight into the architecture of SDMO and where the product is going. It’s clear that Sage are keen to ensure the core functionality is built into the system at this early stage. Once embedded in the database, this functionality can then be expanded without the need to create work arounds, as we’ve seen with Sage 200 and third party add-ons that are hamstrung by the core Sage 200 database schema".
Already recognised as a leading provider of Sage 200 Manufacturing solutions, bringing SDMO into their manufacturing portfolio represents an excellent opportunity for the business. PKF Smith Cooper Systems were the first Sage Business Partner to sell SDMO in the UK, and they look forward to rolling out the SDMO roadmap in 2025.
Finally, 2024 marked PKF Smith Cooper Systems 10-year anniversary. To commemorate 10 years in business, they organised various activities throughout the year for their staff, customers and suppliers. In October, the company hosted a staff celebration party at Pride Park Stadium in Derby, as well as distributed gifts to all employees, and other surprises for clients and suppliers.
Since starting in 2024, PKF Smith Cooper Systems have been at the forefront of the Sage accounting software market.
Chris Smith, PKF Smith Cooper Systems Managing Director, said:
“2024 was definitely another highly successful and busy year for us. The highlight, without doubt, being recognised as Sage BMS (Business Management System) partner of the year for their FY24. We’ve always said we were the #1 Sage 200 partner in the UK and now it seems Sage agree!
As you would expect, we have lots planned for 2025, starting with our biggest customer facing event to date in the shape of our Sage Symposium in February. I very much look forward to seeing what we will achieve next”
About PKF Smith Cooper Systems: PKF Smith Cooper Systems is a multi-award-winning Sage business partner supplying solutions to SMEs nationwide. They are driven by their 'Good Sage Guys to Deal With' ethos and offer development, support and project management services alongside their core Sage solutions, Sage 200 and Sage Intacct.