| Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains is marketed | | | | to accountanto Inventory Class - you can group items |
| for mid-size companies as well as Navision (which has | | | | into the class and have reporting in ReportWriter or |
| very good positions in Europe and emerging markets | | | | just Crystal Reports to summarize by inventory classo |
| where it can be easily localized). Great Plains Inventory | | | | Kit - item might be a set of items - or a kito Substitute |
| control is pretty robust and here we would like to give | | | | items - you can have two (GP version 7.5 and 8.0)o |
| you highlights on standard functionality as well as what | | | | ABC Codes - is you are familiar with replenishment or |
| could be added to its standard features. | | | | manufacturingo Accounts distribution - Great Plains |
| Historically Great Plains Dynamics / eEnterprise was | | | | first look if you specify accounts on the item level, then |
| designed with modules structure with very clear ERP | | | | if these are empty - it look at the class level and then |
| workflow - Inventory control had a link to General | | | | to Setup->Posting->Posting Accountso Inventory |
| Ledger and was interacting with Sales Order | | | | Count - this nice feature was added several years |
| Processing, Invoicing, later on with Purchase Order | | | | ago with version 5.0 |
| Processing (it was some development and | | | | Add-Ons:o Barcoding - you have to check with your |
| unsuccessful marriage with Intellisol Purchase Order | | | | Microsoft Great Plains Partner which third party |
| Processing third party module), Project Accounting and | | | | solution fits to your needs.o Manufacturing - Great |
| Manufacturing set. Inventory control has addition in the | | | | Plains Software bought Icontrol Manufacturing and |
| form of Bill of Materials module (we see the whole | | | | integrated it into Great Plains about 8 years ago and |
| spectrum of downsizing manufacturing companies, | | | | now it is seamlessly integrated with Inventory Control |
| who are switching from full-featured manufacturing to | | | | moduleo Web front - there are eConnect (SDK for |
| Great Plains Inventory control with Bill of Materials). | | | | eCommerce developer), eOrder, and other eXXX |
| Features:o Inventory Allocation - from SOP Sales | | | | series products that you could deploy. There is a good |
| Order, Invoice you can automatically of manually | | | | chance that you will have to develop custom |
| allocate Inventory itemso Sales Item, Service, Misc | | | | web-interface to your Great Plains back end |
| Charge, Flat Fee, etc - these are types of the | | | | Good luck with implementation, customization and |
| Inventory items.o Serial and Lot Number tracking - | | | | integration and if you have issues or concerns - we |
| serial number is unique, while Lot Number might be | | | | are here to help! If you want us to do the job - give us |
| assigned to the lot of itemso LIFO, FIFO, Average with | | | | a call 1-630-961-5918 or 1-866-528-0577! |
| Periodic or Perpetual - these terms should be familiar | | | | |