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However, being adaptable often means for you that you shouldexpect reasonable consulting budget for your Microsoft Dynamics GP (assuminghere that you are taking that route) to be implemented.  Also we recommend you to check with yourDynamics GP Reseller or implementation consultant if Great Plains has modules,where expected business logic is available or if not – what would be ball parkestimation to program missing logic from scratches.  In today’s publication we would like to giveyou some ideas on how Dynamics GP could be implemented in the company, whereyou do light discrete manufacturing and then ship finished items to yourcustomers USA and Canada nationwide and internationally: 1.      Dynamics GP Manufacturing Suite.  GP is often associated with mid-marketCorporate ERP niche, where your production is reasonably simple.  But, Great Plains Dynamics has full-featuredManufacturing Suite of modules, where you could expect full automaton ofdiscrete manufacturing.  There are alsooptions for process manufacturing via Dynamics GP ISV channel.  If you are looking for Manufacturing suiteimplementation, we recommend you to have your business processes mapping to bedone by Dynamics GP Partner with specialization in production and MRP.  Also, as our experience tells us –manufacturing firm often has unique requirements (such as complex serial numberassignment logic, warranty requirements, quality assurance, medical andhealthcare equipment regulation, pedigree, “best before…”, scheduledmaintenance, etc.).  If this isapplicable to your company, you should expect some custom programming on thetop of standard Manufacturing implementation 2.      Bill of Materials.  As we mentioned above, Dynamics GP is goodfit for mid-market.  If you are notpretending to be thousand employees manufacturing mill and rather have smallproduction warehouse with several dozens of workers – Microsoft Dynamics GPmight be the best fit (comparing to large scale ERP packages, such as Axapta,SAP, Oracle eBusiness Suite).  Ask yourDynamics GP VAR to give you a demo in Bill of Materials module – maybe thissimple and cost efficient solution is covering your needs with moderatealteration (modification is often done in VBA/Modifier, Dexterity, Extender) 3.      Manufacturing Automation.  When you are in simple manufacturing businessand you are deploying Manufacturing Suite or Bill of Materials, you may have aneed to “automate” bill of material entering, processing and posting.  Through our consulting practice we saw thecases, where you do manufacturing procedures on the warehouse floor via barcodescanning and this is automated in custom in-house programmed application (MicrosoftAccess with VBA, Visual Studio C# or VB.Net projects, Delphi, Fox Pro and otherpopular coding instruments).  Then BOMneeds to be integrated directly to Dynamics GP Manufacturing (with someexceptions, where Great Plains user needs to make a decision on expiredcomponent replacement).  We recommend youAlba Spectrum Posting and Workflow Server where you can post Manufacturing,Bill of Material Batches (as well as the batches of all the origins: GL,Payroll, AP, AR, etc.).  Plus, you canprogram workflow or preprocessing in Dexterity Sanscript, VBA, EXE or simplycall DLL library procedure or function 4.      Warehouse Management System.  Manufacturing is often associated withBarcode scanning (in transferring items from one site to another, picking andpacking, stock count, order fulfillment, merchandise replenishment).  Dynamics GP WMS is available as extension to suchGreat Plains modules as Sales Order Processing, Inventory Control and PurchaseOrder Processing 5.      Direct outlet from the factory.  Here you may need to explore the options toimplement such POS and Retail applications as Microsoft RMS (Retail ManagementSystem, including Store Operations and Headquarters modules), Counterpoint,plus RetailPro, Cybex, Epicor, Cegid, Comcash, QuickBooks POS System, AldeloPOS, Logic Control, Essential Retail and others 6.      Manufacturing Placement Order exposure via EDIand e-Commerce (B2B and B2C).  DynamicsGP has various ISV modules to handle EDI (Electronic Document Interchange),these add-ons might look too expensive if you have moderate EDI needs.  We recommend you to contact our office formore budget oriented options regarding Dynamics GP EDI.  Dynamics GP B2B or B2C ecommerce (Business-to-Businessor Business-to-Customer).  We recommendAlba Spectrum ecommerce Dynamics GP ISV module, where you can integrate suchpopular ecommerce shopping carts, as Magento (PHP and Linux), ASP .NetStorefront in the matter of several hours 7.      Local Service. We provide local Dynamics GP support in Michigan (area code 269 – St.Joseph, Benton harbor, South Haven, Kalamazoo), Chicago (downtown, 773 northernsub-down town, with western and southern suburbs reinforcement from Napervillelocation area code 630).  Next areas forlocal support are Houston, San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange CountyCalifornia.  For local service please feelfree to call us 1-866-528-0577, email us [email protected]   8.      Worldwide and International Dynamics GP support.  Please, feel free to share your Dynamics GP implementationor support case with us.  We areespecially geared to help you with Dynamics GP implementation in suchcountries, as Honduras, Mexico, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala,Nicaragua, Panama, Columbia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay,Bolivia, Venezuela, Canada (including French speaking Quebec), Turks andCaicos, Bahamas, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland 9.      Andrew Karasev, Great Plains Dynamics GP andeEnterprise Certified Master, Microsoft MVP and consultant with 10 years andplus experience and expertise.  Well, ifyou are giving me the word – my personal opinion is strong believe in therevolution in the barcoding scanners, Microsoft Windows mobile computingdevises.  eCommerce will be picking up (asit should be – we are living in the technical epoch)