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Microsoft Great Plains: Manufacturing or Bill of Materials - overview for IT Specialist  by: Andrew Karasev Microsoft Great Plains is main Microsoft Business Solutions product, targeted to mid-size companies. Currently Microsoft is in progress of transforming several ERP products it has: Microsoft Great Plains, Solomon and Navision into several business suites - Microsoft Financial, Microsoft HR, Microsoft Manufacturing, Microsoft Logistics. These suites may be (in the future) put together and work for your company as integrated ERP solution with web interface (Microsoft Business Portal). If you are midsize company with some manufacturing - you should make the research on light manufacturing packages available on software market. In the case of your commitment to Great Plains (if you use it as your accounting system) you should probably first answer this question - do we need full featured manufacturing or we should implement just bill of materials and have missing functionality be filled with custom Crystal Reports and light Dexterity customization? And one more thing to consider - Microsoft Manufacturing will be more likely build on Navision manufacturing base. If you have process manufacturing - you should not implement GP manufacturing - it is discreet manufacturing. If you answer yes on most of these questions, you do need manufacturing Do you need Manufacturing Resource Planning? Are Cost Centers required? Do you base your production on the specific Sales Order? Do you track working shifts and allocate the cost? Now - this is what you can have in Bill of Materials Samples bills of materials - to do the replacement of the items Purchasing configuration, based on ABC codes and other criteria Historical bills reporting With Crystal Reports you can have this information, having just Bill of Materials Sales/profitability by customer, item, region or custom criteria Future Sales predictions, based on your criteria Employee time and cost allocation Simple Cost Centers, based on product line, specific order or other user defined information Good luck with your research – we are here to help with Bill of Materials or recommend the best GP Manufacturing partner! If you want us to do the job - give us a call 1-866-528-0577! help@albaspectrum.com About The Author Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies – USA nationwide Great Plains, Microsoft CRM customization company, based in Chicago, California, Arizona, Minnesota, Texas, Florida, New York, Washington, Georgia, Canada, UK, Australia and having locations in multiple states and internationally (www.albaspectrum.com), he is CMA, Great Plains Certified Master, Dexterity, SQL, C#.Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer. You can contact Andrew: andrewk@albaspectrum.com. akarasev@albaspectrum.com This article was posted on September 29, 2004   View More Videos from the "Business and Finance" category: What BP Stock's Collapse Can Teach You Signs of Improvement for Housing Market MoneyWatch News 09/23/2010 A Guide to Recession Entrepreneurship Retirement Planning Tips for Women   Read More Articles from the "Business and Finance" Category: 6 Danger Signs You May Be Headed toward 'Sales Management' Micro-Management by Jeff Hardesty Debt Consolidation Loans: Abate Your Fiscal Problems by Gregg Hall Indian Footwear Market Forecast to 2012 by RNCOS E-Services Pvt. Ltd. Permeate Needs with Personal Unsecured Loans by Simon Peyton Workplace Fitness: A Gym Full Of Useful Advice For Continual Learning by Eileen McDargh, CSP, CPAE A Sales Lesson From Mt. Everest by Jim Meisenheimer Get the Best Deal, Get Unsecured Personal Loans Online by Gary Growbowski Live A Debt Free Life by Nancy Smith Getting A Co-Signer For A Bad Credit Car Loan? by Devora Witts What Is Online Banking And How You Can Benefit From It by Joseph Kenny << Back to "Business And Finance" Index

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