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Microsoft Great Plains e-Commerce - additional considerations for programmer
By Andrew Karasev
Microsoft Great Plains,
designed back in 1990th as database transferable and graphical
platform independent ERP application – Great Plains Dynamics/Dynamics C/S+/eEnterprise.
For eCommerce developer the most important is to understand Great Plains tables
structure and business processes in Sales Order Processing, Accounts
Receivables, Inventory Control (inventory items allocation, backordering, etc),
posting to Bank Reconciliation and General Ledger. And this is where Great
Plains structure seems to be not transparent. Let’s give you highlights:
Great Plains Tables
Structure. Open Great Plains, if on version 7.5 or prior, Tools->Resource
Description->Tables, then you should select Sales series, explore these
tables:
Sales Order
Processing module (SOP)
SOP10100 – Sales
Order Processing header
SOP10200 – Sales
Order Processing lines
SOP10102 – Sales
Distribution Work and History – it is how Invoices will be distributed in GL –
in case if you are creating quote or sales order with the following processing
in GP backend – you do not need distribution
Accounts Receivable
module:
RM00101 – Customer
Master
RM00102 – Customer
Address Master – each customer can have multiple addresses for delivering,
billing, statement mailing, etc.
Possible issues and
recommendations:
If using eConnect –
you may decide to transfer Sales Orders to Invoices automatically with
eConnect – this might be tricky and additional scripting might be needed,
especially if you are doing automatic order allocation by line item. If you
are trying to relay on eConnect exclusively and not researching Great Plains
Architecture – you will need additions to eConnect from third party vendor,
such as Alba Spectrum Technologies, which has the whole set of SOP populating
stored procedures
If you are not using
eConnect and creating your own custom stored procedures – you should probably
create orders or other objects in Great Plains and then look at the way how
they were recorded in SOP tables
If you feel that you
need to relay on Great Plains engine behind the scenes (because you feel that
imitation will require you to rewrite substantial portion of Great Plains
logic) – you could deploy Dexterity triggers from Great Plains side – this
solution requires professional Dexterity programmer and is more reliable and
upgrade – proof
Good luck with
implementation, customization and integration and if you have issues or concerns
– we are here to help! If you want us to do the job - give us a call
866-528-0577 or
630-961-5918!
help@albaspectrum.com About the Author Andrew is Great Plains
specialist in
Alba Spectrum Technologies (
http://www.albaspectrum.com ) – Microsoft Great Plains, Navision, Microsoft
CRM Partner, serving clients in
California, Minnesota,
Illinois, Washington, Florida, Arizona, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Georgia,
Louisiana, Texas, Canada, UK, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Russia
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