Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) Supply Chain Management Solutions

Using Great Plains Purchase Order Processing, you can benefit from controlled spending while optimizing business practices and processes and enabling improved access to accurate information that can help enhance buying decisions.

Buying decisions and the purchasing process across industry types suffers from process inefficiencies that can create backlogs and lead to inventory challenges that can effectively drive up costs.

Purchase Order Processing however, has been designed to address all these pressing challenges and inefficiencies by streamlining and optimizing activities and tasks, by enhancing productivity of employees, and removing inefficiencies which create backlogs and inventory challenges.

Furthermore, the solution can drive up profitability since overheads on purchasing activities is effectively controlled and reduced.
Purchase Order Processing allows the use of drop shipments for directly shipping orders from vendor to business customer. Upon the arrival of goods, line items can be easily received against a variety of outstanding purchase orders – all in a single transaction.

Regardless of your business requirements, the flexibility of the sales order processing tool allows customized process controls to meet your business needs effectively. And with transaction entry more streamlined and optimized, business sales will get a boost without pushing up costs. So, you and your customers can benefit from reduced costs.

And with multi-departmental order processing workflow sales order processing, you can track quotes, invoices, orders and back orders, and better manage discounts for different items individually and on partial shipments.

You can go ahead and create sales order processes that not only highly effective, but also efficient via unlimited document type IDs as well as diverse process holds, and clearly defined business rules. These can then be effectively applied to your orders, quotes, invoices, back orders, and return.

Dynamic GP Invoicing optimizes your entire invoicing system by enhancing both inventory and customer accounts via improved flow of invoices and returns.

Designed with a single-window invoice processing system delivers full control over your complete invoicing platform. However, if you are using the Sales Order Processing module, then you will not the Invoicing tool particularly effective.

Landed cost which functions along with Purchase Order Processing and Inventory Control modules helps by delivering accurate estimates of procured material costs. Landed costs is the extra additional costs incurred while purchasing a product and can include items such as duties or freight costs on purchases from a different country.

Inventory Control module allows you to apply ABC analysis, pricing, and cycle counting to improve quantity tracking, costs and prices, and simplifies the process of adjusting prices as well as other product details. This module as a sub-ledger component of Great Plains, also enables easy inventory monitoring to align with your business requirements and can seamlessly integrate with your General Ledger.

In addition, Inventory Control provides greater flexibility when it comes to multiple pricing options as well as for the unit of measure pricing, and customer-level pricing which means pricing does not have to be generalized – you can create different pricing structures for different clients.

The Requisition Management tool allows you to go ahead and order necessary materials required to run the business without having to worry about bulky paperwork or constantly seeking important approvals. In other words, your business can benefit from reduced paperwork and automated approval processes for purchasing.

Users across your business can easily enter or access and approve purchase requisitions busing the Dynamics GP WebClient Portal.

By creating a system of flexible approvals which include line-item level approval, and by enabling role-based access to necessary information and processes, your purchasing process can benefit from greater transparency, improved visibility at different levels, and better control.

You can use the Extended Pricing tool to improve customer-specific pricing structures and rules effectively so customers can be provided with customized pricing options while also ensuring standard pricing structures in other places.

You can maintain a competitive edge over other businesses by managing your prices using a variety of tools and wizards designed specifically to deliver greater flexibility when it comes to planning and offering promotional prices, adjusting pricing lists, or even setting up of date-wise restrictions.

The Dynamic GP Advanced Distribution module allows you to take advantage of the pick/pack/ship system with user-defined processes thereby leading to improved levels of control and greater workflow consistency and accuracy.

Give your inventory management a boost with personalized procedures for shelf life and maintaining minimum stock levels and enhance customer communication by connecting inventory with individual customer item codes to speed customer and service reps inquiries.

Available to Promise is used to make sure that your customers receive firm and faster delivery promises.

You can calculate the fastest ship date via just a single click, identify available inventory, and mitigate out-of-stock risks using accurate information on inventory, accurately track real and projected sales, and effectively monitor the sequence of anticipated delivery.

Based on forward-looking projections and information such as outstanding sales and purchase orders, and manufacturing projections among others, you can then go ahead and provide customers with accurate delivery promises.

Address customer expectations and improve customer satisfaction by providing your customers with quick, accurate, and personalized product configurations – all without burdening your customer-facing personnel.

Sales Configurator allows you to present customers with a single bill of materials in a format which is both easily accessible and simple thereby reducing the stress and challenges that are specific to multiple configurations and part numbers. Your sales reps will find it easier to respond to customer queries and provide necessary directions or guidelines.