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Microsoft Great Plains Food Processing - implementation & customization highlights
By Andrew Karasev
Microsoft Great Plains
might be considered as ERP platform to build your own custom solution upon or as
the assembly place for the existing modules. Microsoft Great Plains has
Inventory Control (IV), Bill of Materials (BM), Manufacturing modules, coming
from Microsoft Business Solutions directly, plus it has third party solutions,
such as Horizon Light Manufacturing. In Food Processing industry, however the
manufacturing itself is so-called process manufacturing, where with variable
input you have variable output. It is opposite to discrete manufacturing, where
you expect exact number of parts to be assembled into exact number of finished
products. In our opinion – you should first understand your options to automate
business processes and if Manufacturing module is absolute must – only then you
should purchase manufacturing and implement it. Let’s give you some highlights:
Variable Input Unit
Weight. You still have to count
input units, but in parallel with this you should use Pounds (US) or Kilograms
(Europe, Australia, Canada). This means that Great Plains should give you
catch weight routine. You can purchase simple catch weight module from
existing Microsoft Great Plains partner and tune it, using Great Plains
Dexterity, Modifier with VBA and SQL Server scripts. We saw the requirements
when Food Processor has to control weight variations to prevent theft and
issues like that. In this case you tract average weight of the input item.
This is classical Dexterity routine. As this catch weight system becomes your
light manufacturing application – you will need MRP reporting – use Crystal
Reports to cover your reporting needs, our recommendation is to create SQL
views and stored procedures for your Crystal Report
Repetitive Customer
Orders. If you are food
processing company – you probably have fixed number of permanent customers –
grocery stores, food retail chains, restaurants and each permanent client
orders the same set of products on the regular basis. You should have
so-called Order-Pad with historical customer typical order components, where
you just verify quantities.
EDI.
In the case of large grocery stores you may need Electronic Document
Interchange (EDI). The easiest way to create it in Great Plains – export SOP
orders via EDI fixed-length-position SQL formatted query. You can have it as
SQL routine to export Customer orders into text file and forward it to the
customer through EDI channel.
eOrder.
Smaller customers (Restaurant, Specialty food outlet) are willing to place
internet orders. In Microsoft Great Plains you could deploy eOrder to sell on
existing account.
We encourage you to analyze your
alternatives. You can always appeal to our help, give us a call: 1-866-528-0577
or 1-630-961-5918,
help@albaspectrum.com
About the Author
Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer at
Alba Spectrum Technologies (
http://www.albaspectrum.com ), serving Microsoft Great Plains, CRM, Navision
to mid-size and large clients in California, Illinois, New York, Georgia,
Florida, Texas, Arizona, Washington, Minnesota, Ohio, Michigan, UK, Canada,
Brazil. Mexico
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