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| Article Title :: Microsoft Great Plains Beverage Production & Distribution - Implementation & Customization Highlight |
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| Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains has many years of successful implementation in multiple horizontal markets. In today’s small article we’ll share our experience of implementing and customizing Microsoft Great Plains, formerly Great Plains eEnterprise/Dynamics in beverage production and distribution industries. These examples will cover two scenarios: US regional distribution and International fruit punch production and sales in US, Latin America and Europe. We’ll try to be industry specific and at the same time technical – using Microsoft Great Plains technical & customization terminology to address both – decision makers and technical consultant / programmer. (read full article) |
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| Article Title :: Microsoft Great Plains Oil & Gas - Implementation & Customization Highlights |
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| Microsoft Great Plains serves the wide spectrum of horizontal markets. Great Plains could be considered as ERP platform, which you could expand with third party modules or advance with your own in-house custom functionality. The best approach would be reasonable and balanced combination of existing modules and new custom logic. In this small article we’ll give some highlights on Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains implementation and setup in Oil & Gas industry, especially for companies, specializing in off-shore platform installation and drilling.• Fixed/Production Assets. Crude oil and gas production is a highly asset intensive activity, all the assets: wellheads, dr (read full article) |
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| Article Title :: Microsoft Great Plains in Construction & Building - Implementation & Customization Highlights |
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| Microsoft Great Plains could be tuned and setup to fit most of horizontal markets. You can deploy third party modules or build your own custom logic in Great Plains Dexterity. Today we’ll look at the options to automate building & construction business. We’ll try to use technical language to be understood by programmer, technical consultant, IT system/database administrator, web developer.• Project-Oriented business. Construction company is project oriented. You incur expenses, labor, inventory against the building and stick to the budget in order to meet the expected profit. Microsoft Great Plains has Project Accounting module with budgeting, expenses, inventory, labor (read full article) |
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| Article Title :: Microsoft Great Plains Logistics & Warehouse Management - Implementation & Customization Highlights |
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| Logistics automation is often considered as barcoding extension to Sales Order Processing, Purchase Order Processing, Inventory Control modules. Software extensions makers may disagree with this simplification, but budget solution works exactly like barcoding extension and is usually done via Great Plains Dexterity, Modifier with VBA and SQL stored procedures. If your company is looking for implementing automated inventory bin/item pickup and conveyer – then you need specialized software. However if you just envision your warehouse workers with barcode scanners – then read this article to understand your options with Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains.• Warehouse Au (read full article) |
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Author :: Andrew Karasev |
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| Article Title :: Reporting for Microsoft Great Plains/Dynamics/eEnterprise: RW - ReportWriter - Tips for Developer |
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| Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains is written in Great Plains Software programming tool: Great Plains Dexterity. Dexterity in turn was built with conception of graphical cross-platform transferability (in time – 1992 – mostly Mac and MS Windows). Plus Dexterity had database abstraction level (through C programming language). The result of such a shrewd future-looking architecture – Great Plains ReportWriter has multiple restrictions and drawbacks.Let’s first look at the advantages of using ReportWriter:• Seamless integration with Great Plains forms – the most typical scenario – you modify SOP_Long_Invoice_Form or SOP_Blank_Invoice_From and then print (read full article) |
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| Article Title :: SQL scripts for Project Accounting: Microsoft Great Plains series - overview for developer |
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| Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains has Project Accounting module where you can budget the project, assign it to customer contract and then log expenses, timesheets, inventory spending, and finally bill the customer against the project or contract. Microsoft Great Plains Project Accounting does excellent job, but there are cases when you need developer or MS SQL DB Admin touches.• The first script transfers salesperson and sales territory from Customer master file to Project master tableupdate PA01101
set
SLPRSNID=b.SLPRSNID,
SALSTERR=b.SALSTERR
from
PA01101 a
join RM00101 b on a.CUSTNMBR=b.CUSTNMBR
where a.SLPRSNIDb.SLPRSNID or a.SALSTERRb.SALSTERR (read full article) |
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| Article Title :: Great Plains Bill of Materials Setup & Customization for Process Manufacturing - Overview |
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| Microsoft Great Plains has full-featured Manufacturing suite of modules: Capacity Requirements Planning, Job Costing, Master Production Scheduling, Materials Requirements Planning, etc. However 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 B (read full article) |
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| Article Title :: Selecting Microsoft Great Plains Partner/VAR/Reseller: ERP Implementation & Customization - Overview |
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| In the case when you represent mid-size or mid-size-to-large business, it is not a surprise that you have to do ERP selection and switch to new technologies, doing your own research. If you a trying to stay with Microsoft technologies and try Microsoft Business Solutions products: Microsoft Great Plains, Microsoft Navision, Solomon, Axapta with integration to Microsoft CRM, you should know the history of Great Plains Software and Navision partners over the last 10 years.• Great Plains Dynamics VAR of earlier 1990th. These companies were a mix of CPAs, received application consulting training. Second feature – these companies were concentrating on the local market, the prefer (read full article) |
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| Article Title :: Secure Your Computer From Viruses And Spyware For Free |
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| One of the hazards of using a computer online today is the danger of infestation with a variety of malware, viruses, trojan horses, spyware, zombieware, worms, loggers, dialers - no matter what you're infected with, it carries the dangers of:
- Reduced performance
- Unwanted emailing
- Damage to your data, or even to your bios (which means your computer is toast)
- Theft of your data, up to and including all your personal information
When malware is released in a large network, the results can be even worse, with mass infections causing shutdowns of entire systems, theft of corporate data, and revenue loss that can rise into the millions. (read full article) |
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Author :: Andrew Karasev |
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| Article Title :: Implementing ERP for Large Publicly Traded Corporation - Microsoft Great Plains |
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| We would like first emphasize the change in the paradigm. If you look back – 20 years or even 10 years – those days you saw ERP/MRP monster applications/systems winning time. Everyone wanted to be looking large and, especially due to traditional business consulting sales efforts ERP applications were sold to large and mid-size clientele. The proposed strategy was: you need three components:• Reliable Hardware: RS6000, AS/400, Sun Sparc, probably Mac and as the last resort – IBM PC with MS DOS• Reliable Database Platform: Oracle, Sybase, Ingress, DB2• Advanced ERP/MRP: SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle
The realities of our post recession economy are:• We (read full article) |
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