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Microsoft Great Plains customization - Freight Forwarding/Transportation industry example
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This integration is maintained by Microsoft Business Solutions and allows you to synchronize SOP and Customers in Great Plains with Microsoft CRM Quotes and Orders. However you can have successful bridge between non-Microsoft ERP and Great Plains. Here we need to mention interesting thing, The product, created and dedicated to eCommerce developers - Great Plains eConnect is often considered as a bit expensive and licensing-restricting solution. It has Dexterity interface in Great Plains, does integration to single company at the time. If your company is ISV and implements eCommerce product, integrating to Great Plains - you would rather prefer set of open and simple stored procedures, moving data to and retrieving from Microsoft Great Plains Sales Order Processing (SOP) module.

Andrew is Great Plains specialist in Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http. Great Plains Software marketing campaign was getting very strong resistance from local market commitment to Microsiga and other local ERP application. Great Plains Dynamics was designed for US tax code with US Social security, later on it was adjusted to comply VAT (Value Added Tax) rules to promote it in UK and other countries. Currently MBS officially promotes Navision on the Brazilian market, however localized version of Microsoft Great Plains is available as well. Don't worry, MBS does support it in Brazil via local partner.

Plus eConnect allows you to create and update customer record in Great Plains - this is however relatively simple to imitate in the stored procedure. It would take you a lot of time (if you are new to Great Plains tables structure and never coded in Great Plains Dexterity. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains has several options to enable web ordering. Traditionally Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise had eOrder - this is ASP pages based ordering application, enabling you to place or retrieve your Sales Order Processing (SOP) Sales Orders over the web. You should be the customer in Great Plains company database to be able placing the orders.

Currently you can purchase Spanish, Canadian French, Brazilian Portuguese and other local versions of Great Plains. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains fits to majority of horizontal niches and clientele in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Latin America, U. Real Estate, Law Firm, Placement Agency with permanent clients, Construction or Freight Forwarding company - you probably use or plan to deploy Project management or Project accounting extension for Microsoft Great Plains. Chances are that it isn't and in this case you should consider using standard version of Microsoft Great Plains Project Accounting. You can have users working with the same company in Great Plains - some of them will use English and others Spanish version.

Plus we can push serial number info from Great Plains to Store Operations (there is no way to store serial number in Headquarters. When Items are transferred in Great Plains via the Item Transfer Entry window, the interface must recognize this transaction. Microsoft Retail Management (RMS) and Microsoft Great Plains are retail and accounting/ERP solutions coming from the same Microsoft subdivision - Microsoft Business Solutions. Microsoft Great Plains is written in Great Plains Dexterity - proprietary programming language and development environment, which has strong ties with SQL stored procedures and queries. Therefore, when communication is established between Store Operations and Headquarters, an application that continuously monitors Stores (in the computer hosting Headquarters) will communicate with the web service at the Store level to transfer the Serial Number information and to update the serial number tables in Store Operations.

This is now Microsoft Great Plains, Great Plains Standard and Microsoft Small Business Manager (scaled down Great Plains version, using he same technology - Great Plains Dexterity. USA, Canada, Latin America, UK, South Africa, Australia - these are markets, where former Great Plains Software had successful penetration. Net, MS SQL Server, Active Directory, BizTalk (integration with Great Plains), C# and VB. You should consider Microsoft Great Plains if you are in. If you remember successful mid-size application - Great Plains Dynamics, pioneered on Mac and Windows graphical platforms in the mid 1990th.

This should be realized as Great Plains Dexterity custom window, with two scrolling windows on it, where you should list SOP Invoices and POP Shipments with Invoices. In this small article we'll give you highlight on how Great Plains could serve specific vertical demands of transportation and freight forwarding industry Industry requirements. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains version 8. Microsoft Great Plains sits on MS SQL Server platform and typical technologies are. Use the same Great Plains Dexterity custom window technology.

Microsoft Great Plains fits to majority of horizontals and retail business is good fit as well. You need to know Great Plains Tables structure and data flow. This integration could work as nightly SQL routine and bring all the daily sales transactions from RMS stores or Headquarters to mapped Great Plains companies. It should work with Great Plains Inventory catalogue. This might be done as SQL routine or Great Plains Dexterity customization.

Pervasive SQL 2000 and Ctree (we are not talking here about Great Plains Accounting - this ERP was phased out in 2001. But it is seen now - not in 1990th These two above principles resulted in creation of Great Plains Software development environment and language - Great Plains Dexterity. Andrew is a Great Plains specialist in Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http. All of us know that Microsoft bought former Great Plains Software and formed Microsoft (Great Plains) Business Solutions in the earlier 21st century. It was total success for GPS, we guess, but for Great Plains Dynamics / eEnterprise / Dynamics C/S+ clients it was the time of change.

Great Plains, Solomon, Navision and Axapta to web-based Microsoft Business Portal. If you have Microsoft Great Plains and support it for your company and have light or heavy Great Plains customization, written in Dexterity - you need to know your options in upgrading Great Plains or migrating it from ctree/Pervasive to MS SQL/MSDE. Great Plains Dexterity is proprietary programming language/environment, which was created in early 1990-th to provide platform / database / graphical interface independence for Mac and Windows based Great Plains Dynamics. SQL Stored procedures - performance improvement. Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies - USA nationwide Great Plains, Microsoft CRM customization company, based in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Boston, New York, Houston, Dallas, Miami, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Seattle and having locations in multiple states and internationally (www.

In our small article we'll consider Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains Sales Order Processing module as eCommerce backend. Here we need to give you highlights on Great Plains Dynamics initial design. Later on eConnect was extended on the majority of Great Plains modules, including distributions. MS SQL Server, Ctree and Btrieve (later on Pervasive SQL 2000), in 1998 Great Plains Software made it available for MS SQL server only. This means that no more eOrders - you just need the connector which will allow you to address Great Plains objects from your eCommerce application.

Great Plains is actually integration of multiple dictionaries. 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. Great Plains Dexterity with SQL Stored Procs Nowadays, 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. As of now - Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise is transformed/renamed into Microsoft Great Plains and Microsoft Business Solutions is in process of merging all its accounting applications.

You should realize agent settlement screen and inquiry, MBS/HBL profit/loss inquiry form and probably Bill of Lading in Great Plains Dexterity. It will allow you seamless integration with Great Plains user interface. Microsoft Great Plains may be recommended for international freight forwarding / transportation company. Use eConnect to avoid high user license cost in Great Plains. It is available for Great Plains Professional only - if you'd like to stay with Great Plains Standard - use Great Plains Dexterity to program the consolidation.

Andrew is Great Plains specialist in Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http. 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. Crystal Reports is reporting maestro if we are talking about Microsoft SQL Server based System. For custom machinery assembly it will come in the next decade (we are not talking here about GM or Chrysler.

To certain level you could use legacy technologies, such as Great Plains Modifier with Continuum for VB, VBA scripting, etc. Sales Order Processing stand alone Great Plains Dexterity application, which works with Microsoft Great Plains SQL databases to feed in orders. This application, written as from scratch Dexterity application doesn't requires hundreds of Great Plains user licenses and will work with SOP tables with improved functionality. You can use such tools as eConnect to work with Great Plains object creation and retrieving or go ahead with direct SQL Stored Procedure. Net ASPX web programming with Microsoft Great Plains at the back end.