Microsoft Dynamics GP - Great Plains Inventory
Give your business the competitive edge it needs by controlling inventory effectively
and setting prices on a customer-by-customer basis, so that you achieve higher customer
satisfaction and faster, easier fulfilment than ever before.
Make Informed Decisions
Give your business a superior competitive advantage, with easy-to-use stock analysis
tools and flexible reporting capabilities that deliver unparalleled access to information.
Increase Employee Productivity
Empower employees with easy access to the inventory information they need and enable
them to enter stock and pricing just once, providing accurate and timely information
throughout the system.
Achieve Better Customer Service
Offer better customer service to your clients and improve their satisfaction with
greater accuracy, better inventory control, and customer-specific pricing and promotions.
Maintain Prices Effectively
Control your prices with wizards and tools that allow you to offer promotional prices
or change pricing lists on the fly, giving you the flexibility you need at minimal
cost.
Negotiate with Strength
Secure customer contracts with personalized pricing to meet customer demand and
beat the competition, while maintaining the ability to change prices as needed.
Integrate Seamlessly
Complete integration with other Microsoft Business Solutions–Great Plains® applications
such as Sales Order Processing, Invoicing, and General Ledger streamlines mission-critical
inventory and sales processes.
Focus On: Flexible, Customer-Specific Pricing
Equip your sales team to improve customer satisfaction. Extended Pricing enables
your salespeople to personalize pricing to meet customer demand and beat the competition,
with customer-specific pricing and rules that can be modified quickly and easily.
Customer-specific pricing and promotion capabilities with Extended Pricing include:
- Powerful date-sensitive functionality for sales and promotions
- Instant relational price updating
- Flexible promotional and discount capabilities
- Personalized pricing where desired, with standard pricing elsewhere
- Easy-to-update price lists
- Easy price setting and maintenance by customer
- Standard price schemas such as percentage off, value off and net pricing, along
with personalized pricing options
- Intuitive functionality with drill-down, zoom, and special menu capabilities that
offer a fast learning curve and easy visibility into your pricing index
Focus On: Increasing Productivity with Bill of Materials
Bill of Materials provides a superior solution for tracking the components and subassemblies
used in light manufacturing and similar production and assembly operations.
Bill of Materials capabilities include:
- Multi-Level Bills: Define the exact order of your assembly process using bills up
to 10 levels deep. Insert components multiple times in the same bill to accommodate
sequenced component assembly bills.
- Efficient Item Tracking: Accurately track the actual cost for assembled items, plan
for future changes, and manage current and past items. Maintain valuation after
posting to help ensure that costs are tracked accurately.
- Assembly Documentation: Detail exactly how components should be used in all levels
of the assembly with electronic notes that can be attached to components and subassemblies
and printed on single-level or indented bills.
- Schedule Transactions: Control when inventory stock is allocated and record actual
quantities used, as well as track differences between actual and planned quantities,
allowing you to schedule transactions into the future without reserving stock.
Inventory Control Features List
Inventory Control
- Create and track the item information that's most important to you with the ability
to choose default entries for each class of items such as colour, style, and manufacturer.
- Prioritize sales stock with options to rank your inventory items by usage value,
actual or project usage quantity, on-hand inventory value, or unit cost.
- Maintain complete control over your inventory with quantity tracking at the bin
level, cycle counting, stock count calendars, and inventory snapshots.
- Track a single inventory item across multiple bins within the warehouse to optimize
picking efficiency.
- Get instant information on all transactions related to any item you define in the
inquiry windows—including lot number, price levels, and item type—as well as drill
down to specific details.
- Analyze all facets of your inventory with comprehensive standard reports including
Item List, Price List, and Turnover, integrated with the flexible reporting power
of Great Plains applications such as Report Writer and Crystal Reports®.
Extended Pricing
- Personalize pricing by combining date ranges and quantity break options with special
net, percentage-off, or value-off pricing for specific customers or groups of customers.
- Use relational pricing to update customer price lists instantly and reflect fluctuations
with your supplier when you change your base net prices.
- Choose the pricing method that works best for each item, including pricing by currency
amount, percent of list, percent mark-up based on current or standard cost, or percent
margin based on current or standard cost.
- Make individual or mass updates to your pricing lists with helpful wizards. Options
include: list and item copy functionality; adding, removing or changing existing
records on a price list; and assigning list activation dates.
- Easily set up and maintain price lists using unlimited combinations of units of
measure, price levels, and currencies.
Bill of Materials
- Maintain full control over the assembly process with complete bills of materials
to accurately define, track, and analyze how your inventory is used as part of your
assembly operations.
Microsoft Business Solutions Supply Chain Management components are sold separately
and may not be available on all versions of Microsoft Business Solutions–Great Plains.
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