Dynamics GP Supply Chain Management
Dynamics GP has comprehensive inventory and supply chain management capability ‘out-of-the-box’. The Business Essentials edition includes: advanced Sales Order and Purchase Order processing functions, powerful multi-site, multi-bin Inventory control functionality. Most Inventory valuation methods such as LIFO, FIFO, Average are catered for including powerful Landed Cost functionality. Full traceability including Serial and Lot number tracking.
The Advanced Management Edition adds: Available to Promise, Returns Management, Requisition Management, Bill of Materials and PO Generator.
Modules
Sales Order Processing with Advanced Invoicing
This module is designed to effectively manage the whole sales cycle from quote to
order to invoice. Very flexible with unlimited document types, IDs and separate numbering sequences by document ID.
Features include comprehensive stock shortage handling, nicely formatted invoices with full line item detail and user-defined comments
as well as text boxes. Handles inventory type, service type and time-based transactions.
Ability to track critical sales information and produce performance reports and enquiries by Product, Product Group, User Defined Groups, Customer, Customer Class, Territory, Region, Salesperson, Sales Manager. Commission reporting built in. Lots of user-defined fields.
Has seamless integration with Inventory, Receivables Management and eCommerce modules.
Purchase Order Processing
Use to manage costs and improve efficiency by entering purchase information
earlier in the cycle. Complete purchasing audit control with comprehensive
selection of reports to track and analse purchase activity (full historial and
performance reporting). Far greater number of purchase invoice line details can
be tracked than with Payables Management. Option to print or e-mail purchase
order documents. Other features include AutoReceive, Auto-Invoice, VAT
tracking, facility to handle price and quantity variances, approvals option, commitment
reporting.
Purchase Order Processing fully integrates with Payables Management and General Ledger, SOP and Inventory.
PO Authorisation - a tree of user can be set up and configured to allow
individual users to authorise their own POs to an approved, pre-specified limit.
Commitment Accounting - tracks PO values against GL codes and against budgets for those
GL codes. This prevents overspend overspend unless overridden by a system-wide password.
PO Generator
Automatically suggests Purchase Orders based upon stock quantities, desired safety stock, lead times, economic order quantities, cheapest supplier, etc.
Allows these to be reviewed and edited before converting to actual POs.
Landed Cost
Enables accurate Margin Reporting and Accurate Stock valuations by allowing all relevant costs to be easily and correctly incorporated into stock items. Examples include freight handling, packing, insurance duty, storage, etc.
Inventory Control
Track and control all types of inventory items, including services and purchases. Unlimited user defined units of measure including time. Full history maintained for all stock transactions plus Serial Number and Lot Number tracking with dates and attributes. Tracks quantities by unlimited number of sites and by bins.
Min / max quantities and lead times for seamless integration with PO Generator
can be set. Other features include stock-take facility, numerous user-defined categories,
supplier linking including preferred supplier and prices. Historical stock status report
is available to re-print for ANY historical point in time. Provides slick handling of quantity adjustments, price adjustments, returns and transfers between sites. Unlimited multi-currency price lists with quantity breaks relating to customer groups.
Has flexible Unit of Measure handling - ability to purchase and sell using different units.
Blends well with other GP modules, such as Sales Order Processing, Invoicing and
General Ledger to streamline inventory.
Extended Pricing
Extended Pricing enables more complex pricing structures to be set up than is available with Inventory. Extended Pricing includes:
date range specific prices, promotional prices, quantity breaks, value off, % off, buy x get y free, customer specific prices.
Advanced Distribution
New module with version 7.5 - developed for larger companies who need even more control over their delivery logistics and documents than the standard Sales Order Processing module. Extra user-defined status codes linked to workflow, eg unconfirmed pick, confirmed pick, unconfirmed dispatch, confirmed dispatch, etc.
Automatic transfer of back orders to despatch and invoice when stock becomes available with many options as to which customers receive stock. Enhanced controls and selection criteria for transferring orders to invoice. Enhanced picking functions and reports.
Available to Promise
Provides sales staff with an easy to understand view of all inventory transactions for a particular product - including projected balances for projected points in time.
Enables superior customer service by allowing staff to accurately predict when stock will become available for that particular customer.
Available to Promise
Returns Management
Comprises returns authorisation, returns and collection documents, improved linking to original invoices.
Features configurable workflow with user-defined stages, such as in inspection, awaiting supplier response. Bulk confirmation facility, highly configurable authorisation levels for issuing credits.
