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Microsoft Great Plains Distribution, Barcoding, Consignment - overview for consultant
By Andrew Karasev
Microsoft Great Plains –
ERM from Microsoft Business Solutions and formerly Great Plains Software is
pretty generic with its standard set of modules: GL, BR, AR, AP, IV, SOP, POP
and US Payroll. However, having about twelve years of implementation and
customization history – Great Plains Dynamics, Dynamics C/S+, eEnterprise being
Great Plains Dexterity written application has been and still is attractive core
platform for third party software development companies to write vertical and
horizontal modules, written as well in Great Plains Dexterity. If you have
Microsoft Great Plains implemented or under the implementation should have your
options in making in-house or outsourced customizations to fit your vertical
industry needs.
Let’s consider
consignment, barcoding and distribution/warehouse management
Consignment Sales
& Recurring Sales. If your
business is bakery, sandwiches or ice cream making – you probably send
recurring daily shipments / trucks to your customers on consignment. You need
accurate system with daily predictions and recommendation on the lot size,
based on historical data: day of the week, season, holiday, etc. This is very
popular Dexterity customization, dealing with SOP (Sales Order Processing) and
IV (Inventory Control) modules
Trucks Scheduling
/ Distribution. In the case of
consignment sales you may have your own fleet of trucks. Then for each truck
you should have SOP orders batch and you need to print picking tickets. You
should first print the picking tickets for the longest route and then
one-by-one up to the shortest route. This is also Dexterity customization for
SOP module
Barcoding,
Warehouse Management. Lot
number tracking, Receiving, Order Fulfillment, Inventory transfer and Cycle
Count could be automated with Barcoding. Barcode scanner could automate
picking list allocation by reading first picking list number and then scan
items and quantities – and doing so – allocate Items for Sales Order in Sales
Order Processing. Usually you write Visual Basic application or routine to
work with the scanner and then communicate with Microsoft Great Plains SQL
database – more precisely – with Sales Order and Inventory tables: SOP10100.
SOP10200, IV00100
Wholesale –
daily sales and comparisons, profit by item and salesperson. Yes – all these
calculations could be pulled from SOP historical and work tables, item sales
analysis, etc. You can deploy Crystal Reports and even Datawarehousing
solution to pivot your cube. If you need fixed number of reports and criteria
– you may need again Dexterity or .Net application to arrange reporting data
Considering Microsoft Great Plains –
majority of the logic above is implemented and could be implemented in Great
Plains Dexterity. Alternative platform would be Microsoft C# or VB.Net ASPX web
programming with Microsoft Great Plains at the back end. You can use such tools
as eConnect to work with Great Plains object creation and retrieving or go ahead
with direct SQL Stored Procedure. To certain level you could use legacy
technologies, such as Great Plains Modifier with Continuum for VB, VBA
scripting, etc.
Good luck and you can always seek our
help in customization, implementation, integration and support. Call us:
1-866-528-0577 or 1-630-961-5918,
help@albaspectrum.com About the Author Andrew Karasev is Chief
Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies – USA nationwide Great Plains,
Microsoft CRM customization company, serving Chicago, California, Arizona,
Texas, Florida, Georgia, New York, Australia, UK, Canada, Continental Europe,
Russia and having locations in multiple states and internationally (
http://www.albaspectrum.com ), he is Dexterity, SQL, C#.Net, Crystal Reports
and Microsoft CRM SDK
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