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Scion Creative Syndicate
Scion Creative Syndicate (SCS) is a design firm dedicated to providing you with dynamic graphic design solutions that will make your audience sit up and take notice. We are an organization of designers, technologists, artists, writers, producers, and strategists who believe that good design is an essential element to any effective promotional campaign.
Our work is honest and our philosophy is simple. We embrace the unpredictable and go exploring for things that inspire us. By believing in and partnering with our clients, we are able to provide them with original design solutions, customized to fit their needs, convey their look and feel, and deliver the right message. Simple as that.

Solutions Based: One of our niches is providing website design and other services to California's charter schools. Along the way, we've developed a secure, web-based
ordering system, allowing teachers and administrators to place orders for materials,
courses, supplies and activities at times and from places most convenient for them. It
was from this "thinking outside the box" mentality where OPS (Online Purchasing System) was born. Providing value on top of great design is what Scion Creative strives for.

Streamline Your Ordering and Accounting Practices with OPS
The Online Purchasing System (OPS) is a proven program for managing your student funds and detailing your accountability. As a sophisticated financial tool, OPS enables school administrators to devolve many purchasing and accounting functions down to the individual student level. OPS fosters local empowerment and accountability.

OPS gives charter school administrators unprecedented control over ordering student materials, classes, individual tutoring, activities and events.

Independent study teachers are able to place orders for each of their students through a web-based, password-protected user interface.

Administrators are able to review and authorize orders before they are placed with vendors. OPS generates purchase orders to be printed out or emailed that contain order details and custom notes specific to the order.

Once teachers or parents mark items received, they are logged into inventory.
The student inventory feature tracks non-consumable items such as text books and equipment in order to facilitate efficient, end-of-year returns.

Administrators and teachers are able to create customized report templates that allow real-time data to be seamlessly exported to spreadsheet programs for analysis and record keeping.

Administrators and teachers can effectively monitor Educational Units (EUs). EUs are subtracted when an order is placed, and can be manually adjusted any time an administrator has knowledge of available funds.

The Result – your teachers, clerks and office staff manage their time much more effectively.

"I want to thank the people at Scion for all their help in making our school purchasing program so workable for us. It has been their diligence and support that is making our job so easy. Thanks to their dedication our purchasing department was able to operate in a smooth flow. There is always someone responding quickly to all our questions and concerns. I look forward to more years of working with them."
~Kathy French, C.O.R.E~

Secure, web-based ordering system allows teachers to place orders for materials, courses, supplies and activities from any location 24/7.
Online request approval and other features give administrators more effective control of funds allocation for teachers and students.
Online, up-to-date database of approved vendors
Customized reports allow administrators and teachers to easily export real-time data to spreadsheet programs.
Customized reports allow administrators and teachers to easily export real-time data to spreadsheet programs.
Integrates with other administrative applications:
• We have an import feature that can sync up the OPS student/teacher records with other student information systems such as "Report Writer" and "Oasis". This eliminates the need for double entry of student information, reducing opportunity for error.
• We also have an export feature that can export a custom designed datafile that will import into your preferred accounting software such as "MIP", "QuickBooks" or "QSS". We can assign sacs codes to each item expense. Periodically export records into school accounting applications in custom formats.
Flexibility to batch pay multiple orders per vendor.
Ability to manage/generate student vouchers
You have the ability to add notes to your orders and student budget adjustments. This aids in the communication between teachers and admins.
Reliable online and person-to-person email and telephone technical support during normal business hours.
OPS does not require a web site, and can integrate seamlessly into pre-established sites.

For testimonials from a few of our satisfied charter school clients, or for more information on how OPS 7.0 can streamline your ordering and accounting practices, call (530) 265.3333 or visit www.ops-online.com

Whatever client needs may arise, Scion Creative will be ready to handle them, both quickly and cost-effectively. Scion Creative Syndicate. Great talent, great work, and very reasonable pricing.