When economy slow down hits, it is good time to review your current ERP, MRP, Accounting, CRM, Warehouse management applications and see if you can automate processes, integrate, potentially customize and eliminate unnecessary manual data double entry, compiling managerial reporting in Excel, unsubscribe Dynamics GP modules, that you do not use or no longer need, probably reduce number of user licenses.
Rehauling your ERP and IT infrastructure should give you similar savings as nowadays popular winterizing your house. In this small publication we would like to draw likely scenarios of your IT infrastructure rehauling around your corporate ERP Microsoft Dynamics GP Great Plains:
1. Dynamics GP Integration automatic deployment. Do you have manual data entry people, who are responsible to receive email about your recent ecommerce transaction (placed customer order and credit card payment), which they have to manually key into Dynamics GP Sales Order Processing module? If you do – this might be one of the most expensive and time consuming processes, and it leads to potential human data entry errors and following up customer support resolution calls. Consider switching to automatic integration. You have two robust tools: Dynamics GP Integration Manager and eConnect. IM is user friendly module, while eConnect is for your IT department programmers, who codes in C#, VB.Net, SQL
2. Dynamics GP manual Excel reports. This is another example of irrational business processes. In Dynamics GP Great Plains you normally setup reports in FRx financial reporter, Crystal Reports, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (or SSRS). Sometimes you could hear the words of excuse for manual Excel reports, as the reporting covers multiple companies, implemented in cross-platform ERP applications: Dynamics GP, SAP Business One, Oracle EBusiness Suite, Quick Books, Peach Tree. Even here you should review Dynamics GP consolidated reporting options with FRx reporting
3. Dynamics GP customization. If you see that several accounting or AR employees are handling manually something which is not automated in standard Great Plains business logic, consider to review this problem with your Great Plains VAR to see if simple or reasonable GP modification could cover the gap. Microsoft Dynamics GP Dexterity is typically the way to code GP add-ons or your own unique customizations
4. Dynamics GP version upgrades. Normally, in the time of recession, you may decide to hold on and disregard all version updates. However, if you are on GP version 7.5, you may really capitalize (in the good sense of this term), as Dynamics GP 10.0 or 9.0 will open eConnect ecommerce integration world for your internal ecommerce coders and support engineers
5. In this recession time, there are a lot of new opportunities of cutting the budget, so we encourage you to call us for having our GP specialists to hear your story and help you with your way of cutting cost and laying on the bottom of zero expenses
Dexterity Customization for Dynamics GP Evaluation Level Paper
When you are developer it is always a good idea to read technical manuals. But if you was just assigned to the IT team to decide if Dexterity is the right tool to customize your ERP application then first you need something which is in style of ‘easy reading papers’ or FAQ
Planning Dynamics GP Customization in Large Corporation
If you are reading this page then chances are high that you were not able to find ISV add-on and need customization project. Let’s talk about planning, quality assurance and future event such as version updates.
Dynamics GP Invoice Logo Attributed to Specific Company or Crossing the Borders of Three SOP Forms
Initial Great Plains Dynamics architecture had three SOP Invoice forms: Long, Short and Blank. Modern GP is popular in scenarios where you have more than three companies under one business entity umbrella
