Inventory Management and Barcoding in Dynamics GP Great Plains
Formerly this Corporate ERP application was also known as Great Plains Dynamics and eEnterprise. Microsoft Dynamics GP has so-called Distribution set of modules: Inventory Control, Purchase Order Processing, Sales Order Processing, Bill of Materials. Technically all or most of the classic Warehouse Management System business logic is already available in GP Distribution set.
For real ERP and even MRP implementation situation – there is often puzzle how to open Dynamics GP screens and forms for barcode scanning. We will try to give you highlights on how to pick appropriate Warehouse Management solution for your business,
assuming that you are deploying Dynamics GP as ERP and Accounting platform:
1. External WMS or GP WMS Extensions. Both approaches have pluses and minuses. Standalone WMS is often very reliable as it is implemented in higher volume (and most of the bugs are fixed, service packs are released on regular base and you may expect more business logic supported internally and more diverse variety of devises, such as Barcode scanners are supported). External Warehouse Management System by its business niche needs to be compatible with multiple ERP platforms via all sorts of connectors and integrations (either scheduled or in real time). We had heard the complains from WMS customers, that Standalone WMS system integration requires separate and sometimes unexpected consulting budget for it to be implemented (with business processes tuning, modification and other unexpected components). The second minus, if you think about pricing for Software licenses – External WMS often duplicates in its functionality something that you already have in your Corporate ERP software licenses. WMS extensions to your ERP application do not require integration tuning, as they work by their nature directly from your Corporate ERP databases, but they might be too dependent on you ERP application installation base (number of ERP installations in USA and Internationally), trying to catch up with Software Quality Assurance and bugs fixing. We are here to help you implement WMS extensions for Dynamics GP or provide second opinion on Great Plains Implementation recovery with Barcoding
2. Light Manufacturing on the Warehouse Floor and its automation in Dynamics GP. If you plan to do light assembly (consider first Dynamics GP Bill of Materials) or simple discrete manufacturing, where you are deploying Dynamics GP Manufacturing suite of modules – you may discover the fact that entering manufacturing transaction in Great Plains is not a simple procedure. Automation means workflow, where you can deploy Dexterity scripts, DLL, or generic macros to handle automatic Bill of Material transaction with automatically detected exception, when user interaction is required
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