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| Article Title :: Microsoft Great Plains international implementation - USA / Mexico - overview for consultant |
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| Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains was purchased from Great Plains Software and Great Plains Software itself had strong international marketing plans and campaigns. If we look back to 1990th – we’ll see that GPS had Multilanguage support and Great Plains Dynamics / Dynamics C/S+ was localized and translated into multiple languages, including Spanish. Localization means not only the translation, but also adaptation to specific local country tax rules (Sales Tax versus Value Added Tax VAT, GST, specific payroll taxes, etc.). Let’s consider typical case when we see international company with headquarters and distribution centers in the US and manufacturing and purchasing in M (read full article) |
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| Article Title :: Microsoft Retail Management System (RMS) SQL Customization - Overview for Programmer |
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| Microsoft Retail Management System serves retail single store as well as retail chains clientele. The customization scenarios, described in this article deal with the chains, when Microsoft RMS has multiple stores databases and Headquarters. Microsoft RMS is SQL Server-based application, so we will consider SQL programming – SQL queries, views and stored procedures. Also Microsoft RMS could be integrated on the SQL level with other applications, such as Microsoft Great Plains, Microsoft CRM and non-Microsoft applications, such as Lotus Notes/Domino• Microsoft RMS Architecture and data flow. As it is POS automation application, it assumes that all the POS transactions are or (read full article) |
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| Article Title :: Microsoft Great Plains Implementation for Large Corporation - Overview for VP IT |
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| Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains was historically designed to serve mid-market first and then with addition and acquisition of new modules – Great Plains Dynamics architects planned to enter into corporate market. When Microsoft SQL Server took its place as relatively reliable and stable database platform, Great Plains gained scalability. Let’s consider the questions, you need to be placed and answered for your IT department in ERP selection, implementation, modification and customization.• Business System value. For large publicly traded enterprise ERM application needs to be tailored to serve unique business processes. In the case of traditional ERP system for (read full article) |
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| Article Title :: Microsoft CRM Integration with Microsoft Retail Management System (RMS) - Overview |
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| Microsoft Client Relation Management system (Microsoft CRM) and Microsoft RMS are both Microsoft SQL Server based applications, however historically Microsoft was purchasing industry leading software applications, such as QuickSell which is now Microsoft RMS. So, RMS design fundamentals were minted a long time before Microsoft CRM. But, still integration between the two is straightforward and what you need is consultant, who is familiar with both systems structures and customization scenarios. Microsoft CRM is currently integrated with Microsoft Great Plains and will be integrated with Microsoft Navision in the close future, RMS integration is not planned to our knowledge, so you shoul (read full article) |
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| Article Title :: Microsoft Great Plains: Data Conversion & Migration Scenarios - Overview for Consultant |
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| Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains serves multiple industries in the US, plus it has strong presence in Latin America, U.K., Australia, Canada, Middle East, South Africa. Great Plains is natural solution for growing company, when small business accounting application, such as QuickBooks, M.Y.O.B, Peachtree, Quicken or others should be replaced with ERP, better positioned to serve mid-size business. With the switch to Microsoft Great Plains you need to decide on data migration and conversion. Let us give you highlights on your options:• Beginning Balances approach. This is the simplest way. What you do is – enter beginning balances in Great Plains General Ledger (GL) (read full article) |
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| Article Title :: Microsoft Great Plains Accounting/ERP Implementation - Finance Industry Customization Example |
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| Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains is very generic accounting application out of the box and has multiple modules to address specific horizontal or vertical market requirements. At the same time Great Plains, now being moved on MS SQL Server platform allows you to deploy standard tools to customize and fit to these requirements, when you don’t need rich custom functionality, just few touches. In this small article let’s take a look at finance industry.Bonds and Loans. If you are issuing these documents – you probably already have production system in place. What is often seen – this loans tracking system is not integrated with accounting application. Another ca (read full article) |
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| Article Title :: Microsoft Great Plains Customization: Project Organization - International Business Example |
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| Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains fits to majority of horizontal niches and clientele in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Latin America, U.K., Brazil, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Middle East. If you are project organization: Real Estate, Law Firm, Placement Agency with permanent clients, Construction or Freight Forwarding company – you probably use or plan to deploy Project management or Project accounting extension for Microsoft Great Plains. If you have your business in one country – this work relatively simple, however we see clients, involved into international business, when your headquarters is located in the US for example and offices and locations are in Mexico. (read full article) |
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| Article Title :: Microsoft Great Plains Food Processing - Implementation & Customization Highlights |
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| Microsoft Great Plains might be considered as ERP platform to build your own custom solution upon or as the assembly place for the existing modules. Microsoft Great Plains has Inventory Control (IV), Bill of Materials (BM), Manufacturing modules, coming from Microsoft Business Solutions directly, plus it has third party solutions, such as Horizon Light Manufacturing. In Food Processing industry, however the manufacturing itself is so-called process manufacturing, where with variable input you have variable output. It is opposite to discrete manufacturing, where you expect exact number of parts to be assembled into exact number of finished products. In our opinion – you should first (read full article) |
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| Article Title :: Microsoft Great Plains Furniture & Fixtures - Implementation & Customization Highlights |
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| 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. Considering the history of furniture retailer and custom assembly lines – they showed up on the market about five decades ago and they have automated their business operations with Unix-based businesses in the late 1960th and earlier 1970th. You can find such furniture resale systems as Storis, which is Unidata based application, automating furniture retail outlets. Let’s consider the options.• General Ledger. There is no need to immediate replacement of legacy retail (read full article) |
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| Article Title :: Microsoft Great Plains Jewelry - Implementation & Customization Overview |
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| Each Industry and market niche has business specific and unique requirements to ERP/Accounting System. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains is ERP platform, ready for third party modules additions and customizations, plus being SQL Server-based system it opens you wide spectrum of integration options and tools. In this small article we’ll give you Microsoft Great Plains implementation and setup highlights, typical for Jewelry retail network.• Fixed Assets. Jewelry retailer owns the network of jewelry retail outlets and each one has relatively expensive set of fixed assets: counters, holders, computers, etc. Company has to track each individual Fixed Asset item and depr (read full article) |
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