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Inventory control has addition in the form of Bill of Materials module (we see the whole spectrum of downsizing manufacturing companies, who are switching from full-featured manufacturing to Great Plains Inventory control with Bill of Materials. There is a good chance that you will have to develop custom web-interface to your Great Plains back end. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains is marketed for mid-size companies as well as Navision (which has very good positions in Europe and emerging markets where it can be easily localized. Great Plains Inventory control is pretty robust and here we would like to give you highlights on standard functionality as well as what could be added to its standard features. Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer.

Great Plains Standard (or former Great Plains Dynamics) has certain limitations. Good news - if you have Crystal Reports, working with Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise 6. Great Plains Standard is available on MSDE and MS SQL Server. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains, Solomon, Navision, Axapta, Microsoft CRM require existing customer to be on active service contract. If you need Great Plains Dexterity, Modifier/VBA, Continuum, eConnect.

In Microsoft Great Plains you use Inventory (IV), Sales Order Processing (SOP) and Purchase Order Processing (POP) modules to automate your Logistics via Barcoding, automated shipping/receiving, etc. Great Plains Dexterity, VB/VBA (Barcoding reading and uploading to GP), MS SQL scripting,. Microsoft Great Plains serves the wide spectrum of horizontal markets. You will need custom logic to be implemented in Great Plains Dexterity. In Microsoft Great Plains you can utilize combination of Fixed Assets module, where you depreciate your large assets - such as platform itself plus Great Plains Manufacturing with the emphasis on Capacity Resource Planning.

But these legacy Great Plains Dexterity names do not help eCommerce developer - only probably as the reference on which table works with specific screen. So as you see - logic is present and structured, but it is not friendly to the developer, who never seen and worked with Great Plains Dynamics. Great plains was designed to first serve mid-size businesses and then with the availability of third party modules - the intention was to compete on corporate ERP market with Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP and others big players. This tool covers a lot of Great Plains objects creation and retrieving functionality, however it does have restrictions, because it was not intended as replacement to Great Plains Dexterity shell. Andrew is Great Plains specialist in Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http.

Nowadays, however - and this is a good thing - most of Great Plains installations are moved to SQL Server - so you can use Dexterity for custom forms drawing only and make the buttons run SQL stored procedures. Great Plains Dexterity - this is proprietary programming language and technology, designed back to earlier 1990th with the goal to build platform independent graphical accounting package - Great Plains Dynamics. Great Plains has its own ReportWriter, but its functionality is limited - you can't do cross modules reports (you can't link Sales and Purchasing tables in one report, for example. You can install Dexterity from Great Plains 7. Microsoft Great Plains is main Microsoft Business Solutions accounting package for the US market.

ReportWriter will allow you also do new reports - simple option if you want to export all the records from one Great Plains table - use it. You should use this tool if you would like to modify existing Great Plains reports, such as Blank Invoice Form - here you can place your company logo, change the positioning, fonts, colors, etc. All the original report in Great Plains are written in ReportWriter. Smart List - Export to Excel - this is nice feature in Great Plains - you could create a list with simple criteria and then export it to Excel. Obviously flexibility requires you to know Great Plains table structure.

Developer should know Microsoft Great Plains tables structure. Microsoft Great Plains, Navision, Solomon, Axapta the natural CRM choice would be Microsoft CRM. In Great Plains you could realize either Great Plains Dexterity triggers or MS SQL database trigger on certain events (Purchase Order creation, Payroll Transaction, GL transaction. To be honest and do not set unrealistic expectations - this Workflow implementation is pretty serious project and we do not recommend if for small non-profit organization - it is rather for large and mid-size-to-large structure. Great Plains Dexterity trigger should be done in Dexterity IDE - this language requires expertise and it is difficult to code without experience, Microsoft Exchange event sink should be programmed in Visual Studio as COM+ application, then you need to register COM+ application through Control Panel->System->Component Services.

Net ASPX web programming with Microsoft Great Plains at the back end. To certain level you could use legacy technologies, such as Great Plains Modifier with Continuum for VB, VBA scripting, etc. 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. 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. You can use such tools as eConnect to work with Great Plains object creation and retrieving or go ahead with direct SQL Stored Procedure.

Let's review Microsoft Great Plains option. Microsoft Great Plains stays in the low end of the pricing pyramid and so, instead of long implementation cycle you should expect light or mid-level customization to meet your unique business processes requirements. You need localized version and in the case of Great Plains it is available. In this case you need Great Plains Dexterity, Modifier/VBA/Continuum developers, who are working on the Brazilian market. Alba Spectrum Technologies owns Great Plains Brazilian version through our office in Sao Paulo - Enterlogix.

If you plan to run Great Plains Utilities from the workstation to create server side (see above) - you need to check Install Client and Server Components. If the volume of historical data is small - you can deploy Great Plains Integration Manager and then post the records in the modules. Your Great Plains has more than 20 users in this case the mistake may lead to serious business problems. You don't have support for your old Great Plains - then you have to select your Microsoft Business Solutions Partner and pay for the annual support/enhancement plan - you will get new registration key and will be ready for the upgrade. Historical Data conversion - this is optional, in order to do historical data conversion you need to know basic Great Plains tables structure (Setup->Tools->Resource Description->Tables Structure.

When a business entity is processed, the information is written onto the Great Plains database tables. To create an ODBC connection to a Great Plains company database, one common way is with the use of the Data Source dialog box. So, how do we use Crystal Reports to extend Great Plains Report Writer. This can be found by launching Great Plains, then. Great Plains uses the ODBC drivers installed by Microsoft SQL Server.

This tool should be considered as the way to move your very unique custom sales logic into Microsoft Great Plains - if you decide to stick to outside customization (like eCommerce for example. Dexterity is programming language of Great Plains. Andrew is a Great Plains specialist in Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains might be considered as ERP platform, ready for customization and integration. Highlights for Great Plains implementation.

In the case of Great Plains you should be aware that typical Microsoft Business Solution partner/VAR serves local market and mid-size clients. Plus it might not have dedicated Great Plains developers - consultants may not segregate functional and technical consulting duties. When Microsoft SQL Server took its place as relatively reliable and stable database platform, Great Plains gained scalability. You need to find people who could do the job and you need to find them via independent objective research. Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies - USA nationwide Microsoft RMS, Great Plains, Microsoft CRM customization company, serving clients in Chicago, California, Texas, Florida, New York, Georgia, Arizona, Minnesota, UK, Australia and having locations in multiple states and internationally ( http.

If you have less then 500 employees - then Great Plains Standard douse excellent job and software price would be around k$10. Great Plains would be reasonably priced payroll solution if you process payroll inhouse. If you cross over 500 employees line - Great Plains software price will be around k$30 and you could find cheaper solutions with unlimited number of employees - look at Accpac. Microsoft Great Plains, former Great Plains Software Dynamics / eEnterprise was introduced in 1993 as first Microsoft Windows and Macintosh based graphical accounting/ERP application for Mid-Size businesses. If you are replacing your legacy system, then you could build eCommerce upon Microsoft Great Plains Inventory Control (IV) and Sales Order Processing modules.

In Great Plains you should use customer/vendor consolidation, available for Great Plains Professional version. This makes eConnect (Microsoft Great Plains SDK) very popular among logistics companies. In the case when you ship to limited number of large customers - you are focusing on the profitability of the shipments and looking at Great Plains as the core system. Plus you will need Great Plains Dexterity or. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains and MS CRM (client relation management system) are very popular in various industries and market niches.