Andrew Karasev

Dynamics GP Barcode and Warehouse Management Solutions Notes

Companies, involved in consignment, warehouse and supply chain management, often have unique business processes and special requirements to their ERP and MRP systems.  In these scenarios, it is easier to redeploy and retune existing codes to fit unique requirements (we name our ready for deployment codes Solutions), versus the attempt to customize out-of-shelf WMS and Barcoding Great Plains Add-on

In this small publication we would like to share with you existing code base, so you could decide if the “Solutions” approach is feasible in your case:

1.       Order Taking for your Wholesale or Retail customers.  It is often useful to know customer historical items ordered as well as historical price per item.  This helps in instant repetitive order or Sales Invoice entry and emailing to the customer.  We recognize the need for price levels, catalogs, promotion campaigns, however historical relations with your important customers might be crucial for your cash flow.  History pop-up screen, associated with new customer invoice allows you to select historically sold items and if required use historical price as is or with moderate mark up

2.       Orders fulfillment and delivery.  In Great Plains Sales Order Processing you may decide to do inventory fulfillment on demand per batch.  This process might be in line with specific truck loading with barcode automation and scheduled for delivery to the customer’ warehouse.  We offer Routine Management functionality for Consignments and Regular distribution channels.  Special codes are available for food distribution and restaurant supply networks.  For food supply companies we also offer catch weight functionality for variable weight packed items: cheese head, meat and seafood, for example.  System can print Loading Report, Route Pull Sheet, Route Delivery Sheet report.

3.       Order Fulfillment via Barcode Scanners.  Here you can use barcode scanner batch mode (no real-time connection to Dynamics GP).  Then you upload scanned documents to Great Plains Sales Order Processing orders or invoices unfulfilled batches to initiate inventory fulfillment process

4.       Manual Fulfillment.  We also offer redesigned SOP fulfillment window to automate variable weight items, where in addition to regular unit of measures, such as Case, Roll, or Bag you can add its weight in Libras or Kilograms (for those of you who sells huge loads of oil, minerals, wood and forestry products, we can change kilograms to tons or barrels)

5.       Reporting.  If you are purchasing or selling your items internationally, we offer you Crystal Reports with Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese (we have native mentioned language consultants in staff), Japanese, Arabic, or any other two bytes or Unicode based language.  Reports could be turned to Bill of Lading, Picking Ticked, Packing Slip, Invoice Factura

6.       Barcode Label Printout for a Purchase Order.  After a PO is entered in Dynamics GP, the Barcode Label Printout function allows printing all expected labels and generating the appropriate lot numbers.  Later, when the physical items arrive at the warehouse, the labels can be immediately applied to the cases. This greatly expedites the receiving process. Furthermore, since lot numbers were specifically associated with item numbers, when a lot number is scanned, the system can identify immediately the item number and the weight associated to that lot.  If the vendor short ships a PO, any unused lot numbers are simply discarded if their receipt is not acknowledged either through the scanner or the Purchase Order Mass Receiving program in the GP Warehouse Utility

7.       Barcode Label Reprints.  Any damaged or lost labels can be reprinted by this utility. Barcodes can be reprinted for one whole Purchase Order or for an individual Lot Number

8.       Purchase Order Mass Receiving.  Instead of scanning each lot received, this utility allows mass-receiving all or part of the lots. This saves a great amount of time during the receiving process, since it bypasses the scanning of the received lots.

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