Released on: February 27, 2008, 3:29 pm

Press Release Author: Alba Spectrum Group

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: Microsoft Dynamics GP has full featured Manufacturing module,
which addresses discrete production business needs. However before you try this
route, you should ask the question: if we are small manufacturing company - why we
need heavy weight lifting in manufacturing automation, maybe instead regular bill of
materials should do the job for us?

Press Release Body: Microsoft Dynamics GP has full featured Manufacturing module,
which addresses discrete production business needs. However before you try this
route, you should ask the question: if we are small manufacturing company - why we
need heavy weight lifting in manufacturing automation, maybe instead regular bill of
materials should do the job for us? At the end of the day - you are final decision
maker, we are only here to give you options to consider:
1. Nationwide small and midsize distributors. Typical place for these businesses is
Chicago and its business metro. Here, if you provide custom assembly and ship your
product nationwide - you are probably looking for really very simple manufacturing
features. In ERP methodology, these are typically referred as assembly or light
assembly
2. Inventory Control. This module in Microsoft Great Plains is tightly integrated
with Bill of Materials and here you setup BOM. If you plan to implement either
Manufacturing or BOM, Inventory control modules is required
3. Purchasing configurator. This is another nice feature, that helps you to extend
Bill of Materials without deploying Manufacturing module. Purchasing configurator
will do the job of inventory replenishment
4. eConnect. We also assume you have existing production automation system and you
would like it to be preserved as it does the job of recording manufacturing
processes. In this case, you should consider either GP Integration Manager to do
integration on the scheduled base or eConnect (which requires additional C# or VB
.Net programming) to do integration in real time
5. Software Licenses Savings consideration. If light assembly is doing your
business processes automation, this should be substantial cost reduction in
comparison to conventional MRP manufacturing module


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