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Microsoft Great Plains Inventory Control – overview for consultant
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Author: Andrew Karasev
Date Added: Monday Mar 07th, 2005
Category: Miscellaneous Microsoft Business
Solutions Great Plains is marketed for mid-size companies as well as Navision
(which has very good positions in
Europe and emerging markets where it
can be easily localized). Great Plains Inventory control is pretty robust and
here we would like to give you highlights on standard functionality as well as
what could be added to its standard features.
Historically Great
Plains Dynamics / eEnterprise was designed with modules structure with very
clear ERP workflow – Inventory control had a link to General Ledger and was
interacting with Sales Order Processing, Invoicing, later on with Purchase Order
Processing (it was some development and unsuccessful marriage with Intellisol
Purchase Order Processing third party module), Project Accounting and
Manufacturing set. Inventory control has addition in the form of Bill of
Materials module (we see the whole spectrum of downsizing manufacturing
companies, who are switching from full-featured manufacturing to Great Plains
Inventory control with Bill of Materials).
Features:
Inventory Allocation
– from SOP Sales Order, Invoice you can automatically of manually allocate
Inventory items
Sales Item, Service,
Misc Charge, Flat Fee, etc – these are types of the Inventory items.
Serial and Lot Number
tracking – serial number is unique, while Lot Number might be assigned to the
lot of items
LIFO, FIFO, Average
with Periodic or Perpetual – these terms should be familiar to accountant
Inventory Class – you
can group items into the class and have reporting in ReportWriter or just
Crystal Reports to summarize by inventory class
Kit – item might be a
set of items – or a kit
Substitute items –
you can have two (GP version 7.5 and 8.0)
ABC Codes – is you
are familiar with replenishment or manufacturing
Accounts distribution
– Great Plains first look if you specify accounts on the item level, then if
these are empty – it look at the class level and then to
Setup->Posting->Posting Accounts
Inventory Count –
this nice feature was added several years ago with version 5.0
Add-Ons:
Barcoding – you have
to check with your Microsoft Great Plains Partner which third party solution
fits to your needs.
Manufacturing – Great
Plains Software bought Icontrol Manufacturing and integrated it into Great
Plains about 8 years ago and now it is seamlessly integrated with Inventory
Control module
Web front – there are
eConnect (SDK for eCommerce developer), eOrder, and other eXXX series products
that you could deploy. There is a good chance that you will have to develop
custom web-interface to your Great Plains back end
Good luck with
implementation, customization and integration and if you have issues or concerns
– we are here to help! If you want us to do the job - give us a call
1-630-961-5918 or 1-866-528-0577!
help@albaspectrum.com
Andrew Karasev is Chief
Technology Officer in
Alba Spectrum Technologies – USA nationwide Great Plains, Microsoft CRM
customization company, serving clients in Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, Phoenix,
New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego and having locations in multiple
states and internationally (
http://www.albaspectrum.com ), he is CMA, Great Plains Certified Master,
Dexterity, SQL, C#.Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer. You
can contact Andrew:
andrewk@albaspectrum.com
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