MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS

Sales Forecasting / Material Requirements Planning / Sales Configurator / Manufacturing Order Processing / Bill of Materials / Quality Assurance / Job Costing / General Ledger / Financial Reporting and Business Intelligence / Payables Management / Receivables Management / PLM Integration Suite

Stay agile with advanced manufacturing capabilities. Microsoft Dynamics GP provides high tech manufacturing companies a comprehensive suite of applications designed for the make-to-stock, make-to-order, assemble-to-order, and hybrid manufacturing environments. Powerful and easy to use, these tools give you everything you need to handle production management and resource planning, which helps you reduce costs, boost customer satisfaction, and improve profitability.

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Sales Forecasting

Review prior years’ sales and quickly revise projections based on your knowledge of customer needs.
Change forecasts easily, reflecting an upward or downward sales trend, and tweak to account for seasonal influences or promotional activities.
Create a Master Production Schedule (MPS) from forecasts, helping eliminate any reentry of information. Then easily create manufacturing orders from the MPS.

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Material Requirements Planning

Plan your material needs easily and effectively using a Material Requirements Planning (MRP) graphical user interface.
View MRP information in the way that best meets your needs—by days, weeks, or months, or in a bucketless format that shows your material requirements regardless of the time frame.
Drill down on any of the MRP quantities to review the source of the demand using MRP Quantity Pegging.

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Sales Configurator

Simplify the order process for your employees, and improve your ability to deliver customized products to your clients.
Set up a single bill of materials that includes all the options available for each product you manufacture.
Add and remove options from the configured bill of materials; Sales Configurator recalculates the finished goods’ costs and provides you with an estimated manufacturing completion date.

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Manufacturing Order Processing

Easily analyze information to identify routings that meet the criteria you specify using advanced querying tools.
Track labor and machine capacity, worker skills, scheduled work hours and shifts, and fixed and variable overhead at the level of the individual worksite using Work Center Definition.
Work in Process provides insight into each committed manufacturing order that is still in the manufacturing process, allowing you to spot trends that may need to be addressed—and costs that may be out of line—before production is complete.

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Bill of Materials

Maintain an active bill of materials (BOM) for each item you manufacture, tracking the components you currently use and managing those bills that you have in production.
Update entries, edit revision levels, save revision histories, and change BOM categories at any time using an intuitive, graphical BOM.
Manage products at different stages of their life cycle with different types of BOMs. The engineering BOM allows you to see the effects of changes to your products on the cost of the item.
Create phantom BOMs to track critical components of subassemblies.
Manage electronics assembly BOMs with reference designators for each component and manage multiple manufacturers’ part numbers for any component.

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Quality Assurance

Track raw material quality issues and take the necessary steps to ensure suppliers are providing the grade of goods you’ve requested.
Define the Quality Assurance procedures you need, including step-by-step processes, acceptable quality-level tables, and disposition codes.
Test a single item used in several tests, one test used on several items, or any combination of the two using flexible sampling procedures.

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Job Costing

Use extensive analysis tools to spot variances and unreasonable cost contributors before they become unmanageable.
Eliminate error-prone duplicate entries with streamlined data entry, which makes it easy for personnel to assign transactions to jobs when the transactions are first entered.

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General Ledger

Improve efficiencies with automated transaction processing and payment adjustments. Users can verify, annotate, and record transactions, as well as copy, void, delete, or correct General Ledger entries with full audit control.
Enhance financial controls with complete audit control, definition of up to 367 fiscal periods, and immediate access to high-level and deeply granular financial information.
Organize financial information the way you want with flexible accounting structures and the ability to create Microsoft Office Excel®–based budget templates and build customized financial reports.
Perform multidimensional analysis of financial, sales, and purchase transactions.

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Financial Reporting and Business Intelligence

Easily create, update, and modify all the reports and forms your high tech electronics business uses with Microsoft Dynamics GP Report Writer, and use flexible scheduling and delivery options to publish reports.
Extend the power of Business Insight throughout your organization using Microsoft Dynamics GP Analysis Cubes for Excel. Using prebuilt OLAP cubes, you can link information across your company and produce fixed-format reports as well as ad-hoc queries in a familiar Excel environment.
Empower decision-makers to quickly assess performance by delivering online, personalized views of critical business metrics with Key Performance Indicators for Microsoft Business Portal.
Build customizable financial reports with Microsoft Dynamics for Analytics–FRx®, including personalized packages that consolidate Microsoft Office documents, Microsoft FRx Reports, Crystal Reports, and other formats into a single file for delivery to decision-makers.

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Payables Management

Minimize expenses and increase staff productivity with intuitive transaction entry, customizable automation of processes, and complete payment tracking.
Manage vendors effectively and negotiate better prices with access to complete histories and instant recall of billing, payment, discounts, and other information.
Simplify deferring payments or costs over multiple periods, and automate vendor installment payments.
Manage payables control accounts by reporting segments, with automated reconciliation and a true picture of amounts owing by segment value.

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Receivables Management

Enhance your profitability by shortening receivables cycles, fine-tuning product and service offerings, and creating a predictable cash flow.
Improve customer satisfaction and retention with customized information, history, and notes.
Save time and reduce the potential for costly errors by automating receivables processing while maintaining full control.

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PLM Integration Suite

The PLM Integration suite ensures that your engineering and manufacturing systems are kept in sync, and that everyone within your organization is using timely, accurate data—all while eliminating redundant data entry.

The Universal Adapter updates your Microsoft Dynamics GP database with data published by a PLM, CAD, or another ERP application using the PDX (IPC Product Data Exchange) format.

The Universal Adapter is highly configurable and extensible, among other benefits:

It creates or updates item master records, bills of material, manufacturer parts, drawings, and engineering change notices.
Each relevant field is exposed and can be filled with import data, or initialized with a default or with the result of a user-defined script.
Interested parties throughout your organization can be notified by e-mail of completed additions and changes to your product definition data.
Data is rigorously validated to ensure integrity and compliance with business rules.

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