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Great Plains Bill of Materials Setup & Customization for Process Manufacturing - overview
By Andrew Karasev
Microsoft Great Manufacturing serves
so-called discrete manufacturing market niche. At the same time Great Plains
fits to mid-size companies, where manufacturing processes might be categorized
as light assembly. One of our clients, mid-size crane trucks manufacturing
facility recently outsourced all the parts assembly to overseas partners and
concentrated on sales, distribution, leasing and only light final assembly.
This small article describes you how you could deploy Microsoft Great Plains
Bill or Materials in process manufacturing. We will describe combination of
Sales Order Processing (SOP) module to get customer orders, Bill of Materials (BOM)
to assembly for the order, Inventory Control (IV) to allocate materials and
Purchase Order Processing (POP) to replenish inventory
Order Taking. In SOP you create Sales Order and you use standard
functionality - place order in the batch and then upon the completion you
transfer order to Invoice to bill the customer. If you participate in
international business, you should take advantage from Multicurrency (MC)
feature, expanded on SOP (Euro, Yen, Yuan, Peso, Real, etc.).
Manufacturing.
In the case of light process or discrete manufacturing we recommend you to
call Bill of Materials engine upon the saving of Sales Order to allocate
assembled part into final product. This is classical Great Plains Dexterity
customization, which should be tuned to your specific customer needs and this
work could be done by Great Plains Dexterity Source Code partner only.
Catch Weight. If you are in process manufacturing - your raw materials are
purchased in random weight units, and you need to account them in these units:
cases, rolls, casks, etc. Typical solution in
Great Plains is to have Great Plains
Dexterity custom logic to associate the cask with Serial or Lot Number and
record it in your inventory in pounds or kilograms. In this case you can
return defective unit back to your supplier, identifying it by serial number
and make correct inventory adjustment
POP/Replenishment.
Purchase Order Processing has PO Generator to automate replenishment by ABC
code, reorder level and other criteria
Inventory
Adjustments. In process
manufacturing you have variable input to get fixed output. The simplest way
to realize the variances - make Inventory adjustment transactions on the
regular basis.
Reporting. As the solution we recommend is definitely budget one, lacking
functionality should be covered with accurate and flexible reporting. We
recommend you to have Crystal Reports programmer helping you in pilot
project. Be sure that she/he has good knowledge/experience to work with
Microsoft Great Plains tables structure.
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 developer
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