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Features & Capabilities

Microsoft Dynamics GP is a richly featured business management and financial accounting solution that allows you to use familiar, powerful software to operate and grow your business. Below you will find a highlight of Microsoft Dynamics GP capabilities.  Click on each heading to read more.

  • Manage your order-to-fulfillment processes with pinpoint accuracy. Sales Order Processing with Advanced Distribution helps you monitor fulfillment and invoicing more accurately and helps you minimize shipping and labor costs.
  • Workflow setup allows you to define the steps needed to pick, pack, and ship products to your customers with continued process discipline.
  • Control your sales with discount management, drop shipping, kit items, sales quantity status, and online sales tracking.
  • Optimize order size and margin by better understanding customer buying patterns and offering effective promotions.
  • Reduce order costs by offering a variety of media for order entry, including Web-based ordering.
  • Speed time to delivery with multiple ship-to addressing and allocation of inventory from multiple sites for a single order.
  • Control purchasing process with cost variance tracking, receiving/invoicing against multiple purchase orders, comprehensive receipt information, and posting.
  • Use your system to suggest what and when you should be buying, in order to achieve the best balance of inventory investment against customer service.
  • Get instant answers with complete tracking of open or historical purchase order and receiving documents by order number, item number, or date.
  • Understand your true inventory costs by bringing together your vendor costs with landed costs and potential rebates.
  • Maintain audit control with cancelled item tracking, line-item ordering and status information, document revision tracking, and customize landed cost definition.
  • Auto receive and auto invoice functionality allows you to select items from any open purchase order, so you can be flexible with choosing the way you want invoices to be received.
  • Make informed decisions about your distribution business with easy to use stock analysis tools and flexible reporting capabilities that give you unparalleled access to the mission-critical inventory information you need.
  • "Cradle to grave" traceability (lot & serial tracking) provides drilldown access to original purchase and sales documents on all inventory items received or sold.
  • Access inventory information easily, in clear views, and drill down for detail as needed. In one easy step, access supply and demand information to view item allocations.
  • Create and track item information in the way that best fits your business needs, with default entries for each item class to speed data entry. Lot Categories offer the ability to add date manufactured and expiration date fields.
  • Maintain control over your inventory with quantity tracking at the bin level, cycle counting, stock count calendars, and inventory snapshots. Increase visibility into serial/lot number life cycles with full-cycle serial/lot tracking.
  • Give customers and sales people enhanced, secure access to online information that enables them to place orders via an out of the box, business to business portal, saving time and increasing the accuracy of orders.
  • Start selling right away by quickly deploying your own portal, which empowers you to generate more sales by making it easier for your customers to order the products they need, when they need them – 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
  • Create and modify customer-specific pricing and promotions rules quickly and easily.
  • Maintain your prices with easy-to-use tools and wizards that give you the flexibility to offer promotional prices, change pricing lists on the fly, or set date-sensitive restrictions when needed.
  • Personalize prices for individual items, customers, or groups of customers, while maintaining standard pricing elsewhere.
  • Improve productivity and profitability for multi-site operations by determining preferred bulk and individual picking methods that will enable shorter pick journeys and goods sent straight to the loading bay by producing bulk picks coupled with individual sequenced picks.
  • Improve efficiency and customer service levels through zone picking according to your warehouse layout, while still presenting documents to the customer in their preferred sequence.
  • Get maximum throughput and customer service by tailoring site-level operations with configurable picking rules and routines to meet your individual site’s business requirements bin or bay sequence, or method of operation.
  • Save time and effort with consolidated (bulk) picking lists across numerous orders for common items.
  • Create more accurate forecasts by defining the information hierarchies and detail level you need and choose the right statistical algorithm for various situations that incorporate trends and seasonality factors.
  • Forecast based on your company’s historical data with a library of selected forecasting formulas that are applicable for the distribution business.
  • Reduce costs with reliable forecasts, that can hone inventory levels and purchasing timing to optimize inventory, efficiently manage fulfillment workflows, and help reduce rush and overtime costs.
  • Help eliminate errors by creating forecasts based on real-time sales and operational information from across your business.
  • Gain deep, visibility into customer buying patterns by mapping your business data to the most relevant elements that drive forecasting—product, time, and markets.