| POS terminal is typically based on Barcode scanning | | | | Report Writer or another reporting tool) on the sales |
| technology, where Great Plains Dynamics is more | | | | per MS RMS Item Class. You are just moving POS |
| about Accounting and Warehouse Management. We | | | | transaction with precise GL distribution to Dynamics |
| recommend you to consider specialized Retail | | | | GP |
| software, such as Microsoft RMS or Counterpoint to | | | | 4. Microsoft RMS Integration with Dynamics GP, |
| help you with POS terminals and then integrate POS | | | | coming from Alba Spectrum. This integration is in our |
| transactions from these applications to Dynamics GP | | | | opinion one of the most popular and powerful. It is |
| SOP or Receivable Management invoices and returns. | | | | especially good where you own the chain of retail |
| Plus, you may want to move your Purchasing | | | | stores and you have complex structure of the |
| documents from Retail application back to GP AP | | | | business. For example, if company one in Dynamics |
| Vendor Invoices, as you may want to cut checks from | | | | GP owns stores A, B and C and company two owns |
| Great Plains directly and mail them to your suppliers. | | | | store D — integration allows you to map in |
| Let’s review the options in your disposition in | | | | many-to-many scenario companies and sites in GP to |
| implementing Dynamics GP in the retail store or | | | | RMS run stores |
| franchise: | | | | 5. Integration technology. It deploys Alba Spectrum |
| 1. Moving Daily POS Sales to General Ledger and | | | | Order Connector original technology, based on Stored |
| Purchases to AP Invoices. If you are happy with | | | | Procedures, which should give you advanced |
| managing your sales directly in Microsoft RMS or in | | | | performance, comparing to such native MS |
| Counterpoint, you can use native MS RMS to | | | | technologies as eConnect |
| Dynamics GP integration (coming directly from | | | | 6. Counterpoint integration. Here we recommend you |
| Microsoft Business Solutions) or respectively use | | | | to consider such technologies as modifications to MS |
| native Counterpoint integration (in the form of Microsoft | | | | SQL Server DTS packages, where you can alter |
| SQL Server DTS packages, which could be modified | | | | such logics as GL distribution, handling more than five |
| if required). If this approach looks good or OK for | | | | GL account segments |
| you, please, be happy and just implement these | | | | 7. Retail Niches covered. So far we are comfortable |
| integrations. In some cases you may want to control | | | | to implement MS RMS and Dynamics GP tandem is |
| inventory quantities directly in Dynamics GP | | | | such retail niches, as jewelry, food, country stores, |
| 2. Moving POS Sales to Dynamics GP SOP Invoices | | | | telecommunication outlets, furniture, restaurants, apparel |
| with Customer Deposits. The advantage of the | | | | stores, consignment |
| method is synchronizing stock levels in RMS and Great | | | | 8. eCommerce retail outlets. Alba Spectrum |
| Plains Inventory Sites. There is some challenge as | | | | eCommerce module opens such popular ecommerce |
| well. You would have to synchronize merchandise | | | | shopping carts, as Magento, ASP .Net Storefront and |
| move from one RMS store to another with Dynamics | | | | others for being integrated to Dynamics GP SOP |
| GP Sites | | | | Invoices |
| 3. Moving POS Sales to Great Plains Receivable | | | | 9. To request further help, please call us |
| Management module. This approach is good, where | | | | 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918, in Michigan |
| you do not want to track quantities in Dynamics GP, | | | | 1-269-605-0330 or email us We are available to |
| but would like to have detailed reporting in FRx (SSRS, | | | | serve you USA, Canada nationwide, and internationally. |