Manufacturing Outsourcing: Microsoft Great Plains implementation, customization & reporting – overview for consultant : by More by Andrew Karasev
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Manufacturing Outsourcing: Microsoft Great Plains implementation, customization & reporting – overview for consultant
More Miscellaneous Articles Manufacturing Outsourcing: Microsoft Great Plains implementation, customization & reporting – overview for consultant
Author: Andrew Karasev
Date Added: Saturday May 21st, 2005
Category: Miscellaneous Manufacturing in the USA is far away
down from mid 20th century top of the hill or its golden time.
However we are in very competitive business environment and we have to do what
market tends us to do. Nowadays competitive offshore manufacturing labor cost
outweighs custom clearance fees and forces us to have not full-size
manufacturing, but rather final assembly facilities here in the US distribution
centers, such as Chicago, Nashville, Los Angeles. We’d like to give you
successful implementation/downsizing/outsourcing scenario of mid-size machinery
manufacturer.
Downsizing need. US
recessing of 2000-2004 decreased monthly crane trucks order from 200 per month
to 50. Company laid off manufacturing and assembly workers. ERP system had
full-featured manufacturing (Kewill manufacturing) and the annual maintenance
fee to Kewill was about k$50 plus company had more employees in accounting
department to enter manufacturing related data than it had manufacturing
workers Kewill was serving just manufacturing automation, Great Plains
Dynamics on Pervasive SQL 2000 was in place of General Ledger (GL), Sales
Order Processing and Account Payables module (AP)
Switch to light Manufacturing.
Great Plains Dynamics Bill of Materials (currently Microsoft Great Plains
Bill of Materials) can serve light manufacturing and the cost of ownership is
relatively low – you pay 16% annual maintenance fee and this includes free new
version and discounted Great Plains technical support from Microsoft Business
Solutions directly. Client did purchase Great Plains Inventory Control
module, Purchase Order Processing with PO Generator to replenish spare parts
automatically. Great Plains Customization partner developed light Great
Plains Dexterity customization to automatically build several blocks in Bill
of Materials on SOP Sales Order allocation.
Internet Ordering.
eCommerce is very popular for apparels and general merchandise. For custom
machinery assembly it will come in the next decade (we are not talking here
about GM or Chrysler). Microsoft Great Plains SOP module tables, however
allow you to develop ecommerce ordering via eConnect or custom stored
procedures. Consider eOrder – this is sale on account over the internet –
however it is ASP application, not ASPX or .Net
Reporting. Crystal Reports
is reporting maestro if we are talking about Microsoft SQL Server based
System.
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
866-528-0577 or
630-961-5918!
help@albaspectrum.com
Andrew is Great Plains
specialist in
Alba Spectrum Technologies (
http://www.albaspectrum.com ) – Microsoft Great Plains, Navision, Microsoft
CRM Partner, serving clients in
California, Minnesota,
Illinois, Washington, Florida, Arizona, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Georgia,
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