| Microsoft Dynamics GP was earlier popular under the | | | | transactions. If this is something you are looking for, |
| name Great Plains Dynamics. This Corporate ERP | | | | there is more advanced Microsoft RMS to GP |
| application has several flavors of Integrations with such | | | | integration on the level of Sales Order Processing, |
| POS and Store Management systems, as Microsoft | | | | Purchase Order Processing and Inventory Control |
| RMS, Counterpoint, plus GP itself can open its Sales | | | | modules in Great Plains, available from Alba Spectrum. |
| Order Processing transaction to B2C eCommerce | | | | Integration is bidirectional and if you move |
| shopping cart (such as Magento/PHP or ASP .Net | | | | merchandise in RMS via Headquarters logic, it updates |
| Storefront) to enable and integrate web retail outlet. | | | | quantities in Dynamics GP Sites respectively. We |
| When you are thinking about adopting new | | | | also help you with Barcode labels printing via Crystal |
| Accounting and Warehouse Management application | | | | Reports or ReportWriter report with Barcode |
| for the chain of retail stores, you are probably thinking | | | | compliant font. Now about Warehouse Management |
| about Barcoding technology (including new | | | | System with Barcoding technology support |
| merchandize barcode labels printing, order fulfillments, | | | | 3. Warehouse Management System. Our WMS |
| merchandize replenishment and move from one store | | | | module opens Dynamics GP SOP Transaction with |
| to another via barcode scanning directly on the | | | | manual allocation type to barcode scanning on the |
| warehouse floor). We are a little bit restricted by the | | | | warehouse floor, POP Purchase Receipt for WMS |
| format of this publication to give you full presentation, | | | | merchandise replenishment and Inventory Transfer and |
| but we will give you highlights: | | | | Adjustment transactions. WMS has client application, |
| 1. POS (Point Of Sale) or cash register application and | | | | running directly on your barcode scanner as well as |
| Store management software. It is possible to open | | | | WMS Server, Windows computer on your network, |
| Dynamics GP Sales transaction for POS and barcode | | | | communicating with Dynamics GP Server via ODBC |
| scanning, however it is probably rather something | | | | connection |
| more suitable for special POS applications. In our | | | | 4. eCommerce Retail store. We recommend you to |
| opinion the best way is to have POS application from | | | | deploy existing ecommerce with proven ecommerce |
| the same vendor, and in the case of Microsoft it is | | | | shopping cart, such as ASP .Net Storefront or |
| Microsoft Retail Management System (Microsoft | | | | Magento (if you prefer Linux and PHP). This |
| RMS). The most convenient way to implement | | | | approach is very efficient in B2C ecommerce |
| Dynamics GP and Microsoft RMS tandem is to have | | | | scenarios. With ecommerce setup wizard you will be |
| all the Sales, Purchases, Counts and Transfers | | | | able to pick ecommerce shopping cart platform from |
| between warehouses to be done in MS RMS and | | | | drop down list of available options, default ecommerce |
| implement native integration from RMS to GP, which | | | | site id (from where to allocate the items), SOP type |
| moves transactions on General Ledger level (daily | | | | with manual allocation (if you fulfill the orders via |
| sales) and Purchases to AP transactions (where | | | | barcode scanning in WMS) or automatic allocation |
| payments and Financial reporting are in the realm of | | | | when the level of transactions is lower and WMS is |
| your Accounting system, here it is Dynamics GP). | | | | not required |
| MS RMS Headquarters allows you to manage | | | | 5. Merchandise replenishment via EDI (Electronic |
| multiple stores from one central application, where | | | | Document Interchange). If your merchandise suppliers |
| each store synchronizes with central hub every night | | | | encourages you to place purchase orders via EDI |
| or at scheduled time. If you feel that your choice is | | | | channels, we recommend you to extract newly |
| rather Counterpoint for POS and Store purchases, the | | | | created POs via precisely formatted or XML |
| same strategy (daily sales import to GL and | | | | formatted SQL Stored Procedure, where extracted |
| Purchases to AP) works with implementation standard | | | | text (with EDI header, lines and trailer) or XML EDI files |
| Counterpoint integration to Great Plains | | | | could be automatically emailed, placed on the EDI FTP |
| 2. More advanced POS and Outlet management | | | | channel or forwarded to the Supplier via http post |
| integration to Great Plains. In some situations, | | | | 6. For additional information or schedule Dynamics GP |
| especially in the case of mid-size or large retail chain, | | | | demo, please call 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918 or |
| you would prefer to control Purchasing, Inventory | | | | email us We are serving customers USA and |
| Quantities in each warehouse. Also we have heard | | | | Canada nationwide, plus internationally, especially larger |
| the desire to print items barcode labels directly from | | | | retail stores, wholesale trade and manufacturing mills. |
| Dynamics GP at the point of posting Purchase Receipt | | | | |