Analytics
Analytical Accounting
Analyze financial data by whatever criteria you require,
introduce greater reporting flexibility and extensibility, and analyze transactions efficiently.
Crystal Reports
Transform your Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains data
into presentation-quality information so you can make better business decisions,
with compelling views of business data created easier and faster than ever before.
Enterprise Reporting
Enterprise Reporting offers you the most efficient reporting solution available for complex,
distributed environments. It allows you to easily automate procedures unique to
your business environment for complete control over consolidations, financial reporting,
budgeting, and analysis.
Microsoft Forecaster
Take control of the future of your organization with Microsoft Business Solutions
for Analytics-Forecaster. Meet business objectives and gain competitive advantage
with budgeting and planning capabilities that allow you to plan more effectively and
respond quickly to changing business needs.
Microsoft FRx Professional
Master your financial reporting process with Microsoft Business Solutions
for Analytics-FRx Professional. High-performance capabilities give you comprehensive,
highly customizable financial and management reports that are easy to create, distribute, and use.
Business Portal
Business Portal
Unlock business potential and enhance productivity by providing role-based
access to information and processes from a single Web-based portal.
Microsoft Business Portal integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Great Plains to deliver
applications, information, and processes to employees, customers, and partners
across your organization.
Project Time and Expense
Project Time and Expense provides project team members and managers
with a way to effectively capture, review and approve project time and expense
data on the Web, enabling prompt, accurate customer invoicing and efficient
reimbursement for out-of-pocket employee expenses.
Electronic Document Delivery
Organize and schedule the e-mail message delivery of invoices, credit memos,
and other sales documents to your customers in XML, HTML, Microsoft Office Excel,
or PDF format, reducing administrative overhead and increasing customer responsiveness.
HR Management Self-Service Suite
Streamline HR management and empower employees to view and update personal
information from any Web browser. The HR Management Self-Service Suite for
Microsoft Business Portal integrates human resources and payroll data and
helps provide accurate, current information across your organization.
Customization
Customization
Meet specific business needs with powerful customization tools
that allow your developers to integrate data from external sources,
incorporate legacy applications, and modify your Microsoft Business
Solutions-Great Plains solution to fit the most exacting business requirements.
Integration
Utilize business data from almost any platform data source.
Microsoft Great Plains offers powerful integration capabilities that
use the latest industry-standard technologies, enabling you to integrate
and incorporate data with a high degree of safety, flexibility, and speed.
Distribution
Advanced Distribution
Maintain tight control over your distribution channels, improve processes,
and drive superior customer service with new Advanced Distribution capabilities.
Advanced Picking
Keep pace with competitive markets and low margins. Advanced Picking capabilities
provide you with the flexibility needed to reduce handling and increase accuracy
for both single and multi-site warehouse operations.
Available to Promise
Empower your employees to make strategic decisions and provide superior service.
New inventory and order management capabilities help ensure the right inventory
is available at the right time to meet customer needs and boost profitability.
Demand Planner module
Balance supply and demand effectively and gain competitive advantage by establishing
a well-defined process for demand planning-or simplifying your current process-and
improving the quality of forecasts.
Electronic Document Delivery
Organize and schedule the e-mail delivery of invoices, credit memos, and other
sales documents to your customers in XML, HTML, Microsoft Office Excel,
or PDF format, reducing administrative overhead and increasing customer responsiveness.
eOrder
Empower your salespeople and existing customers by allowing them to place
and update orders via an out-of-the-box, business-to-business Internet storefront,
saving them time and increasing the accuracy of orders.
Inventory Management
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Give your business a competitive edge. By controlling inventory effectively
and setting prices on a customer-by-customer basis, you can reduce
operating costs and achieve the fast, efficient fulfillment that keeps them coming back.
Purchase Order Processing
Take control of your business processes and empower your employees
to make sound business decisions and minimize costs. Purchase Order Processing
capabilities streamline purchasing tasks and equip employees to track and
manage vital commitments on the fly.
Receivables Management
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Maintain tight control over your accounts receivable with capabilities
that help you track invoices, process receipts, and analyze customer activity,
so you can manage sales made on account more effectively and
yet maintain lower overhead costs.
Requsition Management
Help increase control and visibility over your entire purchasing
process, reduce paperwork, and automate approval processes.
With Requisition Management, employees can enter purchase requisitions
online for manager approval and automatic transfer to Microsoft Great
Plains Purchase Order Processing.
Sales Order Processing
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Enhance employee productivity and streamline your distribution
process with sales order and invoicing capabilities that help you
enter and process orders quickly and accurately and give you
more control over your business process.
E-commerce
eConnect
Connect your organization's applications and data to create
a powerful flow of information that enables smarter decisions
and a more productive workforce. With eConnect, you can use the
latest industry-standard technologies to create real-time, transactional
connections across Microsoft Great Plains, external applications,
and outside organizations.
eOrder
Empower your salespeople and existing customers by allowing
them to place and update orders via an out-of-the-box, business-to-business
Internet storefront, saving them time and increasing the accuracy of orders.
Field Service
Field Service
Manage complex field service operations with higher levels of profitability
and customer satisfaction. Nine powerful modules integrate essential
accounting, distribution, and service processes to increase technician
productivity, reduce overhead, and open up new revenue opportunities while
focusing on what's important-your customer.
Financial Management
Analytical Accounting
Analyze financial data by whatever criteria you require, introduce greater
reporting flexibility and extensibility, and analyze transactions efficiently.
Bank Reconciliation -
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Gain unparalleled access to mission-critical financial information within
your business and turn that data into a powerful competitive tool, while at
the same time controlling it with greater efficiency and ease than ever before.
Cash Flow Management
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Make timely, informed financial decisions and improve your cash flow
with clear, customizable information views provided by Cash Flow Management.
Collections Management
Improve your cash flow and reduce bad debt expense with the clear,
customizable information views and automated bad debt management tools.
eBanking
Automate your critical banking activities and interact electronically
with your bank with comprehensive tools that help reduce administrative
costs, increase productivity, and improve cash management-in
a security-enhanced environment.
eExpense
Enhance employee productivity and reduce processing costs with
expense reporting capabilities that streamline expense
management processes, eliminate paper receipts, and enable
employees to create and submit reports any time, from any location.
Fixed Asset Management
Take control of your company's assets and put them to the
best possible use in your organization with the asset management
capabilities you need to effectively track, analyze,
and utilize those assets to make them work for you.
General Ledger
Manage the financial heart of your business with intelligent
accounting and analysis capabilities that make your
finances work for you, giving you the vital information
you need and changing the way you do business for the better.
Multicurrency Management
Take control of multinational operations and manage currency
transactions smoothly and efficiently with flexible,
powerful multicurrency capabilities.
Payables Management
Improve your control over expenses with up-to-the-minute information
about your payables, easy management of your vendors,
and effort-saving automation of many routine or complex tasks that
provides a great return on investment.
Receivables Management
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Maintain tight control over your accounts receivable with capabilities
that help you track invoices, process receipts, and analyze customer
activity, so you can manage sales made on account more effectively
and yet maintain lower overhead costs.
Foundation
Process Server
Maximize your business computing potential by moving processor-intensive
tasks off the computers your employees use every day and onto
dedicated process servers, avoiding costly slow-downs and vastly
improving computer performance.
Report Writer
Work with powerful, customized reports that allow you to analyze
every aspect of your business, pinpointing the exact information
you need to increase your productivity and make effective business decisions.
Security Management
With powerful security management capabilities presented in a
clear, interactive format, you can control access to data, applications,
and tools; reduce IT administration; and help maintain high levels of protection
for your business system.
System Manager
Make your business processes work for you with the backbone of Microsoft
Business Solutions-Great Plains System Manager. By configuring your
system to meet your business needs, you'll work more productively and
share information more effectively across your organization.
Manufacturing
Engineering Change Management
As markets accelerate, so does the pace of change. New technologies and
new customer demands increase the pressure on engineering to make
process and component adjustments that accommodate such changes while maintaining
or improving efficiencies and profitability. Engineering Change Management helps
manufacturers organize and control this dynamic process.
Job Costing
To help ensure business is profitable, you need accurate,
current, and easy-to-access data about every costing detail
relating to a job. Job Costing delivers this functionality
to manufacturers by capturing all costs when they occur, and
consolidating them into one location that's easy to access and
manage-delivering a comprehensive view of production profitability.
Bill of Materials
Bill of Materials delivers complete, consistent, and correct product
information, enabling you to maximize production efficiency and cut
inventory costs across the extended enterprise. By tightly integrating
different types of bills and customized definitions into manufacturing
operations, Bill of Materials helps improve performance, support
time-to-market and time-to-volume objectives, and ensure materials are where
they should be, when they are needed.
Manufacturing Order Processing
Track production costs in detail and manage work orders, routings,
outsourcing, and work center definitions. By directing the entire cycle of
order processing, you can build a business that is both
customer-driven and profitable.
Materials Requirements Planning
Material Requirements Planning helps you realize the control you
need to compete. Deep visibility into material requirements
translates into more effective resource planning—helping reduce
stock outages, drive down inventory costs, and streamline the production process.
Quality Assurance
By allowing you to design testing procedures of incoming materials to
meet your manufacturing process, Quality Assurance equips you to start
with the quality of raw materials you require, and dramatically helps to
reduce manufacturing delays, rework, and scrap.
Sales Forecasting
Whenever you bring together people to accomplish a task,
communication challenges may arise—especially when those people have different
objectives and backgrounds. Your sales teams and manufacturing managers
probably face these challenges—yet effective communication between these divergent
groups is the first step to ensuring product delivery that's both efficient and effective.
Project Management
Project Accounting
Maintain tight control over strategic direction, support resources effectively,
and ensure that projects are completed on time and within budget. Project
Accounting connects project activities with company financials, provides extensive
reporting capabilities, and helps ensure accurate accounting and billing processes
throughout project life-cycles.
Project Time and Expense
Project Time and Expense for provides project team members and managers with a way to
effectively capture, review and approve project time and expense data on the Web,
enabling prompt, accurate customer invoicing and efficient reimbursement for
out-of-pocket employee expenses. |