Microsoft Dynamics GP for Manufacturing
Microsoft Dynamics GP software can help manufacturing companies with business management via its integrated capabilities for financial management, distribution, manufacturing, project accounting, human resource management, business intelligence, analytics, and customer relationship management. By delivering deep access to decision-driving information, Microsoft Dynamics GP software helps you grow and better manage your manufacturing business.
Business Management
- Achieve easy, enterprise-wide coordination and agility
- Improve operational efficiency and help reduce costs
- Automate and integrate time-consuming manual processes across your business
- Focus on efficient operations that boost profitability
- Gain flexibility to try new strategies
- Be poised to seize new opportunities
Sales Forecasting
- Review prior years’ sales
- Revise projections quickly
- Create a Master Production Schedule (MPS) from forecasts
Material Requirements Planning
- Plan your manufacturing material needs easily with Material Requirements Planning (MRP) graphical user interface
- Review the source of the demand using MRP Quantity Pegging.
Sales Configuration
- Simplify the order process
- Improve your ability to deliver customized products
- Set up a single bill of materials (BOM) that includes all options
- Calculate the cost of finished goods
- Estimate manufacturing completion date
Manufacturing Order Processing
- Identify routings that meet the criteria you specify
- Track labor and machine capacity, worker skills, scheduled work hours and shifts, and fixed and variable overhead
- Spot trends that need to be addressed during production
Bills of Materials (BOMs)
- Maintain an active BOM for each finished good
- Update entries, edit revision levels, save revision histories, and change BOM categories at any time
- Create phantom BOMs to track critical components of subassemblies
Quality Assurance
- Track raw-material quality issues
- Define step-by-step procedures, acceptable-quality-level tables, and disposition codes
- Use flexible sampling procedures
Job Costing
- Use extensive analysis tools to spot variances and unreasonable cost contributors
- Eliminate error-prone duplicate entries
Materials Management
- Reduce costs by managing the entire chain of requisitions and approvals
- Provide comprehensive inventory tracking
- Ensure that inventory is on hand where needed
Financial Management
- Improve efficiencies with automated transaction processing and payment adjustments
- Enhance financial controls with complete audit control
- Organize financial information with flexible accounting structures
- Create Excel-based budget templates
- Perform dimensional analysis of financial, sales, and purchase transactions
- Build refreshable reports for delivery to decision-makers
- Simplify payables/receivables management
Microsoft Dynamics GP for Manufacturing Resources
Video: Streamlining the Supply Chain
Check out this 2-part video demo for an inside look at the exceptional capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics GP for manufacturing and the supply chain.
Learn how Microsoft Dynamics GP business management software tells the real story of your manufacturing business by delivering better visibility, one source for information, reporting, collaboration, and more.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Integrate Microsoft Dynamics CRM with Microsoft Dynamics GP
- Ensure consistency of data across teams and departments
- Integrate customer information bi-directionally
Today’s Supply Chain and the Outlook for 2011
Read the Grant Thornton White Paper: The Supply Chain Today: Achieving efficiencies, managing uncertainties