Dynamics GP in Chicago, San Diego suburbs: Corporate ERP for mid-size firm notes

Logistics and Warehouse Management, Consignment, EDI, Shipping and Receiving, Picking and Packing, integration with Oracle based custom applications, CRM, POS and Retail applications (including Microsoft Retail Management System or MS RMS), need custom add-ons programming service, Integration Managers advanced integration design, Crystal, SSRS, or GP ReportWriter reporting, including Barcode labels printing for your newly received or recounted merchandise, light manufacturing and assembly, please feel free to read this orientation article.  if you are in Corporate ERP selection process, feel free to request executive or technical presentation from your selected Dynamics GP Partner.  We would like to begin our technical and functional highlights:

1.       DB Platforms and Versions.  It is available on Microsoft SQL Server exclusively.  Current version Dynamics GP 10.0 is supported on MS SQL Server 2008, 2005, and 2000.  Older versions, such as GP 7.5 were supported on Pervasive SQL 2000 and Ctree.  If you have these legacy versions: 7.5, 7.0, 6.0, 5.5, 5.0, 4.0, 3.2 or Great Plains Accounting for DOS, Windows or Mac: 9.5, 9.2, 9.1 or earlier, please consider upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics GP, you will get discounted price for currently owned GPA modules, however discount percent might be changed by Microsoft Business Solutions, so we do not specify discount percent in this publication

2.       Does GP fit to my industry?   If you are generic mid-size business: wholesale and retail, light or heavy discrete manufacturing (not process manufacturing), not for profit organization: grant funds management, membership services, charities, church, deli foods store, international freight forwarding firm, recruiting and placement.  Please, request your industry and industry niche case study and requirements analysis to see if Dynamics GP fits your organization Corporate ERP requirements.

3.       Local and Remote Service in USA, Canada and Internationally.  We serve you locally in Chicago, San Diego, Houston, Atlanta (SAP Business One and remote support with Great Plains).  However we have Dynamics GP and SAP B1 customers USA nationwide and internationally, so local presence is not a decisive criterion for our existing customers.  Remote support is typically requested by our customers with Customizations, Integrations, Reporting requirements.  We carry Great Plains Software Development factory, where we program Microsoft Dexterity, formerly known as Great Plains Dexterity, SAP Business One SDK, Microsoft CRM SDK, Great Plains Integration Manager, SAP B1 Data Transfer workbench, Dynamics GP eConnect

4.       International Support specifics.  US, Canada, UK, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand corporations, who have Dynamics GP as their Corporate ERP, are typically requesting ERP implementation for their subsidiaries in such regions as Brazil, Russia, East Europe, China, India, South East Asia, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand.  Dynamics GP is localized for English and Partially Spanish speaking countries (except motherland Spain), plus it is available for Quebec in French.  However for the rest of the World Microsoft Business Solutions recommend Axapta, Navision, plus check for current policies for Small businesses.  Dynamics GP Great Plains doesn't support Unicode, and this was probably one of the reasons, why Microsoft BS preferred AX and NAV as general direction for the future for international ERP, MRP and Accounting applications markets

5.       Manufacturing: Discrete versus Process one.  If you are engaged in Process manufacturing, please review Microsoft Dynamics GP AX, formerly known as Axapta.  Microsoft Business Solutions targets Axapta to Process Manufacturing (typically food processing) clients

6.       Dynamics GP eCommerce options.  If you are doing B2B ecommerce, please consider first Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Portal Order Management module, as here you are virtually expanding GP Sales Order Processing and Inventory Control modules to the web customers.  Formerly this module was known as Great Plains eOrder, however with GP 8.0 it was redesigned on Microsoft Dynamics Business Portal platform.  If BP is not a good fit, we recommend you to consider eConnect ecommerce integration programming in C#, VB.Net as eConnect is generic MS Visual Studio programmer friendly.  For those of you who need automatic posting from eConnect ecommerce we have Alba Spectrum Posting Server or Autopost

7.       Intellisol APOP and Project Accounting migration.  If you are still on GP 7.5 and earlier, you may have Intellisol Advanced Purchase Order Processing or Project Accounting deployed.  Intellisol was in business presence phasing out in around 2002, so consider Intellisol APOP migration to Great Plains POP, migration tool is available for GP version 7.5 and some earlier

8.       EDI notes.  Of course you can purchase Electronic Document Interchange Add-ons for Dynamics GP, or SAP Business One.  However we recommend you first to consider budget option where you code your EDI lines in SQL formatted Select and Insert statements

9.       Great Plains Accounting Support options.  We respect your decision to stick to historical version of GPA on DOS, Windows, or Macintosh.  We have consultants in staff who had supported this ERP application in the past, plus we have access to GPA Customer Support knowledge base.  If you are on GPA we could move you from obsolete Novell server to Windows 2003 or 2008

10.   Mexican Cheese Distribution Chicagoland and USA Nationwide.  This one of the favorite customers in Chicago Southern Suburbs.  We have designed and programmed catch weight utility for them in earlier 2000th

11.   How to get help?  Please feel free to call us: 1-866-528-0577, help@ albaspectrum.com internationally 1-630-961-5918 or skype Albaspectrum  .  We speak English , Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Portuguese