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Great Plains Software Dynamics, which is prototype of our days Microsoft Great Plains was released in 1994-95 as the first Graphical Accounting/MRP application, working on the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. We think that if you are in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Middle East, Latin America and your are not a construction company - then Great Plains is good choice for you. Few years after Great Plains acquisition, Microsoft Business Solutions purchased Denmark based Navision Software. First jewel, that was bought by Microsoft was Great Plains Software, in fact Doug Burgum, GPS leader was old friend of Bill Gates. Great Plains is the platform for the customization.

In Russia we saw dramatic situation, when multiple Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise resellers went out of business. Microsoft Great Plains is Great Plains Software Dexterity written application. Former versions - Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise was also popular in Europe. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains is very popular ERP platform in the USA, Canada (including French speaking Quebec/Montreal), U. Microsoft did it for Microsoft Navision and Axapta (for corporate market.

When Great Plains C/S+ was introduced on MS SQL Server 6. When Great Plains Software introduced the first graphical accounting application for Mac and Windows in the beginning of 1990th it had Great Plains Dexterity customization tool, IDE and programming language. This was new feature of Microsoft Great Plains Dexterity version 7. This tool was initially designed for eCommerce developer, who deploys Microsoft Great Plains as the back end/ERP. We'll wait the next version - but even now it is very promising and it doesn't require you to be programmer to customize Great Plains.

Great Plains Manufacturing has complete set of discrete manufacturing 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. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains has full-featured manufacturing set of modules. 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. Good luck and you can always seek our help in customization, implementation, integration and support.

Smart List - Export to Excel - this is nice feature in Great Plains - you could create a list with simple criteria and then export it to Excel. Looks like Microsoft Great Plains becomes more and more popular, partly because of Microsoft muscles behind it. Direct Web Publishing off Great Plains databases - yes - it is easy now with Visual Studio. Great Plains Report Writer (ReportWriter) - this is built-in reporting tool. Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer.

Your Great Plains has more than 20 users and you have to have upgrade done over the weekend - if it fails - you have business problems. General tip - Great Plains recommends to logoff and then login back with the same user id. You have a lot or ReportWriter Modified Great Plains Reports. In the case when your Great Plains ctree/Pervasive has third parties - you need to check if the vendor has migration tool - otherwise you have to do manual move, use SQL Linked server to your legacy data. Now we would like to stress you the need to move away from Pervasive SQL 2000/Ctree platforms - you are in trouble - Microsoft Business Solutions cuts technical support for Microsoft Great Plains 7.

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 Microsoft SQL Server won the database market - Great Plains Software began migration campaign from Ctree/Faircom, Btrieve/Pervasive SQL to MS SQL Server 7. Great Plains Dexterity, VBA, ReportWriter, Continuum, Integration Manager. When Great Plains Software was designing and developing Great Plains Dynamics/Dynamics CS+/eEnterprise - it placed several fundamental principles into the system.

In the case when you use Microsoft RMS Store Operations and Headquarters - you should consider seamless integration of your daily transactions into Microsoft Great Plains Sales Order Processing (SOP) or Receivables Management (RM) modules. This text file should be forwarded to your supplier and in Great Plains POP you set flags for POs being sent to your vendor. If you have only one Great Plains Company - you can deploy RMS->GP integration utility, coming to you with RMS purchase and support CDs. In both cases - Great Plains and RMS compliance reporting should be realized in Crystal Reports and the best way and design style is creating SQL views and stored procedures and basing report on these views and procs. In Great Plains you should be able to order your inventory via Electronic Document Interchange (EDI) mechanism.

Great Plains Dexterity, Modifier with VBA, Transact SQL scripting to name the most popular. As mentioned above - this should be preferably done by Great Plains user with approval logic. In the case of integrated web application with Great Plains, we would expect heterogeneous sql queries and reporting, based on these queries and stored procedures. This transaction should be translated into Great Plains as Sales Order in Sales Order Processing (SOP) and Purchase Order in Purchase Order Processing (POP. Net programmers, you can deploy eConnect Distribution - this is Software Development Kit with sample codes, you can create or modify Great Plains objects, such as Sales Order, Customer record, Purchase Order, Vendor record.

If your Great Plains is integrated with Unix, Oracle, DB 2, Lotus Domino, Siebel or other third party application - you need to consider synchronous upgrade for integrated applications to avoid retuning integration piece twice. Microsoft Great Plains, former Great Plains Software Dynamics, eEnterprise has very long, about 12 years customization & integration history. In earlier 1990th - the customization tool was mostly Great Plains Dexterity, later on when Great Plains was successfully moved to MS SQL Server 6. Then, somebody should carefully analyze and design the upgrade path for both. Unfortunately business logic level may deploy third party vendors logic, and these flourishing ISV of late 1990th might be now out of business.

Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains is very good fit for mid-size company and probably good budget solutions for large corporation. If you are administrator of Great Plains - you should be familiar with check licks - it checks consistency of the tables and if any orphan or missing info is there. Here you associate Great Plains user with collector role. This is not possible in Great Plains Accounts Payable module and this is where Collection Management module comes to the scenes. Being matured product - Great Plains provides such horizontal solutions as Collection department automation.

Also you can use database side MS Transact SQL scripting to alter Great Plains logic. Imagine - Internet Orders you transfer to internet invoices, government quotes you either void or transfer to government orders, etc. Do I need consultant? It is probably good idea to have consultant to do the upgrade. We strongly recommend you to use consultant in the following cases. Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer.

What you do is - enter beginning balances in Great Plains General Ledger (GL) and begin using your new system. We recommend you to use integration manager to bring customer and vendor invoices and payments and post them in Great Plains. Conversion means the process of extracting data from your legacy application and massaging it to be ready to be fed to Great Plains. When you need to enter invoice for existing customer - you create customer record in Great Plains and go ahead with Invoice in Accounts Receivables or Sales Order Processing (SOP. The best way is - purchase Great Plains Integration manager and do it in-house or with minimal help from external consultant.

If you place custom fields and logic on the existing forms then, you should know that Great Plains can change the form for the new version and you will have to review and redo the custom logic. The most challenging portion of upgrade is Alternate Great Plains forms. If you have Microsoft Great Plains Standard or Professional license, you Great Plains CD #2 has Dexterity installation files. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains is Dexterity-written application and currently we see increased interest for Great Plains customers to do in-house Dexterity development and customization. In our days Microsoft Great Plains is available for Windows and MS SQL Server only (since version 8.

This is Great Plains Dexterity customization, which provides parallel unit of measure, associated with the lot number. We'll describe industry requirements and the way them to be implemented in Great Plains. In this small article we will show you the possible way of deploying Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains for the market niche of large, mid-size and small reselling and distribution business in carpeting and floor covering, textile & fabric. Microsoft Great Plains itself in our case should be considered as a platform for light customization and modification. This means that you will have to assign the same or modified lot number to the cut-bed.