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Ecommerce InformationManufacturing Outsourcing: Microsoft Great Plains implementation, customization & reportage
– summary
for consultant
by:
Andrew Karasev
Manufacturing in the USA is far away down from mid Twentieth century top of the hill or its golden time. However we are in really competitive business environment and we have to do what market tends us to do. Nowadays competitive sea
manufacturing labor cost outweighs custom clearance fees and forces us to have not full-size manufacturing, but rather final assembly facilities here in the US distribution centers, such as Chicago, Nashville, Los Angeles. We’d like to give you flourishing implementation/downsizing/outsourcing scenario of mid-size machinery manufacturer.
• Economy need. US recession of 2000-2004 attenuated monthly crane trucks order from 200 per month to 50. Institution ordered
off manufacturing and assembly workers. ERP system had full-featured manufacturing (Kewill manufacturing) and the annual maintenance fee to Kewill was simply about k$50 plus institution had much employees in accounting department to enter manufacturing related data than it had manufacturing workers Kewill was serving simply manufacturing automation, Great Plains Dynamics on Pervasive SQL 2000 was in place of General Ledger (GL), Sales Order Process
and Account Liabilities
module (AP)
• Switch to light Manufacturing. Great Plains Dynamics Bill of Materials (currently Microsoft Great Plains Bill of Materials) can serve light manufacturing and the cost of ownership is comparatively
low – you pay 16% annual maintenance fee and this includes free new version and discounted Great Plains technical keep from Microsoft Business Solutions directly. Client did purchase Great Plains Inventory Control module, Purchase Order Process
with PO Generator to fill again spare parts automatically. Great Plains Customization partner developed light Great Plains Adroitness customization to mechanically
build some blocks in Bill of Materials on SOP Sales Order allocation.
• Net
Ordering. eCommerce is really popular for apparels and general merchandise. For custom machinery assembly it wish move in the next decade (we are not talking here simply about GM or Chrysler). Microsoft Great Plains SOP module tables, however allow you to develop ecommerce ordering via eConnect or custom keep procedures. Consider eOrder – this is sale on account over the net
– however it is ASP application, not ASPX or .Net
• Reporting. Crystal Reports is reportage
creative person
if we are talking simply about Microsoft SQL Server based System.
Good luck with implementation, customization and integration and if you have issues or concerns – we are here to help! If you want us to do the job - give us a call 866-528-0577 or 630-961-5918! help@albaspectrum.com
Just simply about the author:
Saint andrew is Great Plains specialist in Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http://www.albaspectrum.com) – Microsoft Great Plains, Navision, Microsoft CRM Partner, serving clients in
California, Minnesota, Illinois, Washington, Florida, Arizona, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Canada, UK, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Russia
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