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Manufacturing solutions for Microsoft Great Plains - overview for consultant
By Andrew Karasev
Microsoft Business
Solutions Great Plains has full-featured manufacturing set of modules. In this
small article we would like to give you highlights on what kinds of light
customization you could deploy, before jumping into Microsoft Great Plains
Manufacturing realm. Great Plains Manufacturing is targeted to discrete
manufacturing clientele, which is opposite to process manufacturing – food
processing, mining, including precious metals/gold/platina, oil and gas /
chemicals / agriculture. Manufacturing from accounting stand point is moving
inventory into work in progress and then into finished goods. And this is where
we have fundamental difference between discrete and process manufacturing.
Barcoding
– this would be the help in allocating your inventory to the manufacturing
activity. We saw clients who were asking about full-featured manufacturing,
but later on we realized that they were envisioning barcode scanning people
walking through their warehouse
Bill of Materials
– well if barcoding doesn’t do
the job for you – you should look if Bill of Materials module will automate
your operations. In Bill of Materials you could program light manufacturing.
We saw the machinery manufacturing/assembly client in Chicago area who asked
us to help them phase out Kiwell manufacturing, because of high annual
maintenance cost. So – our opinion is if you are manufacturing client in the
USA – you should probably first look at the outsourcing part of the business –
if 90% of manufacturing of going to China – you should consider Great Plains
Bill of Materials module implementation only with light manufacturing
extensions
ERP/ Capacity
planning
–--
well this is were you have to consider manufacturing suite. Great Plains
Manufacturing has complete set of discrete manufacturing modules: Bill of
Materials, ERP Capacity Planning, Cost Center.
Reporting.
In our opinion the best way to save software money is to replace highly priced
module with similar reporting. Reporting is rather static, but in its prints
outs it allows you to avoid expensive license fee (if you decide on SAP or
Oracle Financials – this will triple your software expenses)
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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