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In Great Plains you should have light production customization, the natural way is to build it upon Bill of Materials (BM) module. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains has many years of successful implementation in multiple horizontal markets.

It should be done in Great Plains Dexterity to provide seamless interface for GP users. This is typical customization for Inventory, Sales Order Processing (SOP) and Purchase Order Processing (POP) modules in Great Plains. Microsoft Great Plains serves majority of US based horizontal and vertical markets. And barcode could help you in automatic picking ticket printing and allocation. If you sell on consignment - you may simply send trucks to your customers every day with recommended combination of items, based on historical data - day of the week, holidays, seasonal variations, etc.

Great Plains Tables Structure - first of all you need to know the tables to link. Microsoft Great Plains is main accounting / ERP application from Microsoft Business Solutions, targeted to the US market. Create SQL Query to probe the data - we always recommend tuning your query and see that you are getting adequate results - in any case - Crystal Report is just a nice tool to show the results of your query. 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. Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer.

You have two options - first is to create data warehouse on SOP30200 and SOP30300 tables (Great Plains Sales Order Processing module) using MS SQL Server Datawarehousing, Cognos or other datamining tool and second - use set of Crystal Reports. Andrew is Great Plains specialist in Alba Spectrum Technologies (http. In Great Plains you should have light production customization, the natural way is to build it upon Bill of Materials (BM) module. We'll try to be industry specific and at the same time technical - using Microsoft Great Plains technical & customization terminology to address both - decision makers and technical consultant / programmer. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains has many years of successful implementation in multiple horizontal markets.

However if you just envision your warehouse workers with barcode scanners - then read this article to understand your options with Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains. It should be done in Great Plains Dexterity to provide seamless interface for GP users. Software extensions makers may disagree with this simplification, but budget solution works exactly like barcoding extension and is usually done via Great Plains Dexterity, Modifier with VBA and SQL stored procedures. This is typical customization for Inventory, Sales Order Processing (SOP) and Purchase Order Processing (POP) modules in Great Plains. Good luck and you can always seek our help in customization, implementation, integration and support.

The challenging thing here is to get local Great Plains support for your regional offices. Ideally you should have Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains Partner - who serves your headquarter and has consultants/technicians close to your overseas operations. Moreover we specialize in serving small market niche in Europe - branches of US multinational corporations, who have local Great Plains users or installations. Looks like Microsoft Great Plains becomes more and more popular, partly because of Microsoft muscles behind it. Or, you can have regional offices work of their own Great Plains installations and then consolidate information via FRx or other reporting tools.

You have a lot or ReportWriter Modified Great Plains Reports. 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. Workstation side - workstation is written in Great Plains Dexterity and has Dynamics. 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. Great Plains, Solomon, Navision and Axapta - and so has different priorities.

Have Great Plains partner to trigger you Microsoft promotions on Migrations/Upgrade/Placing you back to enhancement program. 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. You have a lot or ReportWriter Modified Great Plains Reports. Below we give you your options to support Great Plains with minimized support cost. Microsoft Great Plains is now standard mid-market ERP application, serving the whole spectrum of businesses.

Great Plains Integration Manager - this is rather end-user tool - it is very intuitive, it validates 100% of business logic, brings in/updates master records (accounts, employees, customers, vendors. Launch Great Plains and go to Tools->Resource Description->Tables. You need to know Great Plains tables structure and data flow. Looks like Microsoft Great Plains becomes more and more popular, partly because of Microsoft muscles behind it. It was initially created for eCommerce application integration to Great Plains.

In Microsoft Great Plains borrowers are usually customers in the Accounts Receivables module (RM00101 table - customer master. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains is very generic accounting application out of the box and has multiple modules to address specific horizontal or vertical market requirements. In Great Plains you naturally use Receivables Management invoices for this purpose. At the same time Great Plains, now being moved on MS SQL Server platform allows you to deploy standard tools to customize and fit to these requirements, when you don't need rich custom functionality, just few touches. Reporting could be based on both sources - Microsoft Great Plains customer records and loan tracking database, even if the last one sits in different platform, such as Microsoft Access.

The customization you need is Great Plains Dexterity sales pad and instant item sales inquiry. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains serves to the wide spectrum of horizontal markets and could be also considered as generic ERP/MRP/Accounting platform for light and advanced customization to fit verticals. These reports should publish Great Plains company database data at your will and the requirements of the federal or state authority. Great Plains Dexterity (requires some training and experience), Crystal Reports, Visual Studio. Author is a Great Plains specialist in Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http.

You just need to know that your third-party is ready for the new Great Plains version - if not - you just wait and stay on the old version. 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. You have a lot or ReportWriter Modified Great Plains Reports. 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. Workstation side - workstation is written in Great Plains Dexterity and has Dynamics.

This is classical Great Plains Dexterity customization, which should be tuned to your specific customer needs and this work could be done by Great Plains Dexterity Source Code partner only. Microsoft Great Plains has full-featured Manufacturing suite of modules. Typical solution in Great Plains is to have Great Plains Dexterity custom logic to associate the cask with Serial or Lot Number and record it in your inventory in pounds or kilograms. This small article describes you how you could deploy Microsoft Great Plains Bill or Materials in process manufacturing. Be sure that she/he has good knowledge/experience to work with Microsoft Great Plains tables structure.

Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains is marketed for mid-size companies as well as Navision (which has very good positions in Europe and emerging markets where it can be easily localized. Great Plains Inventory control is pretty robust and here we would like to give you highlights on standard functionality as well as what could be added to its standard features. Period Consolidation, Year End Closing, Multicurrency revaluation - we recommend backup prior to these routines. Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies - USA nationwide Great Plains, Microsoft CRM customization company, serving clients in Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, Phoenix, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego and having locations in multiple states and internationally ( http. You use segments to sort by Account, Unit, Location, etc.

Beginning Balances - this is recommended approach - you place aside the old accounting application for querying the historical data and enter beginning balances  in Great Plains GL, AR, AP, SOP, POP, Payroll. Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies - USA nationwide Great Plains, Microsoft CRM customization company, based in Chicago, California, Texas, Florida, New York, Georgia, Washington, Minnesota, Colorado, Canada, UK, Australia and having locations in multiple states and internationally (www. Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer. Invoice form, Crystal Reports, pulling info from multiple databases, including Great Plains database, Great Plains forms modification with Modifier/VBA, Great Plains Dexterity forms and logic customization, integration with CRM, RMS and other business systems, web publishing from Great Plains tables, EDI with your suppliers, SQL Data Transformation packages Do I need consultant?  We strongly recommend you to use consultant in the following cases. System Setup - you should refer to GP documentation.

You just need to know that your third-party is ready for the new Great Plains version - if not - you just wait and stay on the old version. 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. You have a lot or ReportWriter Modified Great Plains Reports. 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. Workstation side - workstation is written in Great Plains Dexterity and has Dynamics.