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Catch Weight and others scenarios should be realized in the form of light Great Plains Dexterity customization for Bill of Materials module (BM. Great Plains Inventory Control (IV) module supports bins and you can allocate items from specific bins, quality check should be implemented as either light Dexterity customization in IV or set of Crystal Reports to print checklists. In Great Plains you deploy sites and when you need to quarantine your Inventory - you move it into quarantine site. Net web publishing - Microsoft Great Plains data sits on Microsoft SQL Server. If automated shipment is the most business processes critical requirement - you can implement Supply Chain solution, integrated with Microsoft Great Plains.

When Microsoft SQL Server took its place as relatively reliable and stable database platform, Great Plains gained scalability. Plus it might not have dedicated Great Plains developers - consultants may not segregate functional and technical consulting duties. In the case of Great Plains you should be aware that typical Microsoft Business Solution partner/VAR serves local market and mid-size clients. Let's consider the questions, you need to be placed and answered for your IT department in ERP selection, implementation, modification and customization. In the case when the system is coming the way up from mid-size to large clientele - you expect more customization to be done.

Seamless integration into Great Plains interface - Great Plains Project Accounting is Dexterity-written module, so it is in Dexterity interface and security model. Simple budgeting and project tracking - if this is your goal - consider it, especially if you already have Great Plains implemented in your company. Great Plains Project accounting future is uncertain - it will not ( according to rumors in Microsoft) become the base for one of the Microsoft suites. The long story of Great Plains Software Project Accounting - it was originally created by MatchData, which was bought by Great Plains in late 1990-th and renamed into Great Plains Project Accounting. It is very simple and intuitive - if you are certified accountant and know the GAAP on project accounting - you should be able to understand all the data flow and distribution in GL - Great Plains Project Accounting is following the rules.

Great Plains Dexterity, VBA, ReportWriter, Continuum, Integration Manager. If you need seamless integration with Great Plains Dynamics, working in the realm of Dynamics security and database independent data access/modification - you do it in Great Plains Dexterity. In order to realize these two principles Great Plains Software created its own development environment and programming language - Great Plains Dexterity (DYNAMICS. When Great Plains Software was designing and developing Great Plains Dynamics/Dynamics CS+/eEnterprise - it placed several fundamental principles into the system. When Microsoft SQL Server won the database market - Great Plains Software began migration campaign from Ctree/Faircom, Btrieve/Pervasive SQL to MS SQL Server 7.

If you are considering Great Plains to be your ERP, we know successful implementations, customizations in the following industries. Great Plains Standard (or former Great Plains Dynamics) has certain limitations. Good news - if you have Crystal Reports, working with Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise 6. Andrew is Great Plains specialist in Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http. Great Plains Standard is available on MSDE and MS SQL Server.

You need to know that Great Plains is written in Great Plains Dexterity and customization is possible in Dexterity, SQL, Extender, Modifier/VBA, Continuum, eConnect. If you need Service Advantage Suite, Customer/Vendor Consolidation, Lockbox Processing and other modules, targeted for midsize and corporate clientele - you should purchase Great Plains Professional. Great Plains Standard is available on MSDE (MS SQL 2005 Express) or MS SQL Server. Then, migration tool is $2k and your MBS VAR can migrate you to Great Plains Professional or Great Plains Standard. We strongly recommend you to migrate to Great Plains Standard.

Microsoft Great Plains is main Microsoft Business Solutions accounting package for the US market. Continuum for VB/Delphi - we don't recommend this tool, because it is using Great Plains as OLE server - and you probably don't want to be trapped by old technology. Direct web publishing from Great Plains SQL databases, using Visual Studio. You can install Dexterity from Great Plains 7. Obviously it requires a lot of learning / training, but it allows your custom piece be seamlessly integrated with Great Plains interface.

This is typical customization for Inventory, Sales Order Processing (SOP) and Purchase Order Processing (POP) modules in Great Plains. It should be done in Great Plains Dexterity to provide seamless interface for GP users. Microsoft Great Plains serves majority of US based horizontal and vertical markets. Being relatively flexible and customizable - it can fit your specific business requirements with light or deep customization. In this small article we would like to give you good example of customization scenarios, where client needs warehouse management, random weight purchasing and by-pond resale to end clients, barcoding.

Great Plains Accounting is in phasing out -Great Plains Software began this process back in 1995, when it did introduce Great Plains Dynamics and then Great Plains Dynamics/CS. This is a short article, written in question/answer/FAQ style to give IT Specialist/developer/programmer balanced top level information on Great Plains Accounting migration to Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains. You can use Great Plains VAR/Partner - in this case your cost is usually lower - but you need to do due diligence - find the partner who has experience and has done at least couple of migrations. If you have Great Plains Accounting as main accounting and ERP system you need to know some technical details on the migration to Great Plains and what is going on behind the scenes. As of right now it is reasonable to upgrade to Microsoft Great Plains 8.

Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics of version 7. Microsoft Great Plains is one of the Microsoft Business Solutions family ERP products. So, and again this is our personal opinion - MBS is not bringing a lot of new ERP functionality into Great plains version 8. Great Plains, Navision, Axapta, Solomon, Small Business Manager. Some of the former bugs were related to Pervasive SQL and Ctree platform and plus Windows 2000 Pro bugs, especially from FRx side.

If you have Microsoft Great Plains implemented or under the implementation should have your options in making in-house or outsourced customizations to fit your vertical industry needs. You can use such tools as eConnect to work with Great Plains object creation and retrieving or go ahead with direct SQL Stored Procedure. To certain level you could use legacy technologies, such as Great Plains Modifier with Continuum for VB, VBA scripting, etc. Net ASPX web programming with Microsoft Great Plains at the back end. Considering Microsoft Great Plains - majority of the logic above is implemented and could be implemented in Great Plains Dexterity.

In this small article we'll concentrate on the Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains customization specifics. Considering the fact that majority of Great Plains users have rather accounting background - to spec out customization or integration - project manager should have combination of functional/application and technical consulting experience. Great Plains Dexterity allows you to create either custom forms or place modifications to the existing forms (SOP Entry, for example. This facility should be located in the country, where Great Plains Software had former development force. Andrew is Great Plains specialist in Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http.

In this small article we would like to give you highlights on what kinds of light customization you could deploy, before jumping into Microsoft Great Plains Manufacturing realm. Great Plains Manufacturing has complete set of discrete manufacturing modules. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains has full-featured manufacturing set of modules. Great Plains Manufacturing is targeted to discrete manufacturing clientele, which is opposite to process manufacturing - food processing, mining, including precious metals/gold/platina, oil and gas / chemicals / agriculture. Good luck and you can always seek our help in customization, implementation, integration and support.

As eCommerce designer you should be aware of several options and customization tools in your disposition, when you utilize Microsoft Great Plains 8. If you launch Great Plains workstation and follow this way. You need to know the anatomy of Great Plains tables structure. Great Plains SOP module is working in concert with Inventory control, making allocation of inventoried items in IV. The first question is - are we allowed to create stored proc in Great Plains DYNAMICS and companies databases.

Microsoft Great Plains itself has variety of customization and integration tools. You can install Dexterity from Great Plains 7. Great Plains Dexterity - this is proprietary programming language and technology, designed back to earlier 1990th with the goal to build platform independent graphical accounting package - Great Plains Dynamics. Great Plains has its own ReportWriter, but its functionality is limited - you can't do cross modules reports (you can't link Sales and Purchasing tables in one report, for example. Nowadays, however - and this is a good thing - most of Great Plains installations are moved to SQL Server - so you can use Dexterity for custom forms drawing only and make the buttons run SQL stored procedures.