Wholesale Distribution

Sales order processing / Purchase order processing / Inventory management / Advanced distribution / Advanced picking / Extended pricing / Materials management / General ledger / Budgeting and forecasting / Financial reporting and business intelligence / Fixed assets / Accounts payable / Warehouse management / Improve inventory and order status availability

Streamline your pick/pack/ship cycle, tailor workflow processes to meet your specific needs, and keep pace with competitive markets with Microsoft Dynamics GP. Advanced distribution helps you provide your customers with fast, accurate answers, firm delivery promises, flexible pricing, and efficient order fulfillment, so you get more repeat business.

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Sales order processing

Control your sales with discount management, drop-ship, kit items, sales quantity status, and online sales tracking.
Speed time to delivery with multiple ship-to addressing and allocation of inventory from multiple sites for a single order.
Tailor all stages of the sales cycle to meet your CPG organization's needs.

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Purchase order processing

Control purchasing processes with cost variance tracking, receiving/invoicing against multiple purchase orders, comprehensive receipt information, and posting.
Get instant answers with complete tracking of open or historical purchase orders and receiving documents by order number, item number, or date.
Increase purchasing efficiency with automated roll-up of similar items, multi-site and drop-ship delivery, and individual line item-level management of purchase orders.
Maintain audit control with cancelled item tracking, line item ordering and status information, document revision tracking, and customized landed cost definition.

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Inventory management

Make informed decisions about your CPG 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.
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.
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.

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Advanced distribution

Harness the pick/pack/ship process with user-defined procedures for more consistent, accurate workflow and improved control.
Manage inventory more effectively with customized rules for shelf life and minimum stock levels.
Provide better customer service with easy access to current distribution information, using lookup windows, document search, and update.
Improve customer communication by linking your inventory and individual customer item codes to speed inquiries from service representatives and customers.
Automate sales order transfer, invoice printing, and posting.
Manage freight charges using catalog-style matrices.
Manage imported goods through FOB receiving, container tracking, and in-transit inventory recognition.

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Advanced picking

Improve productivity and profitability for multi-site operations by determining preferred bulk and individual picking methods.
Get maximum throughput and customer service by tailoring site-level operations with configurable picking rules.
Increase picking productivity with shorter pick journeys and goods sent straight to the loading bay.
Save time and effort with consolidated (bulk) picking lists across numerous orders for common items.

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Extended pricing

Modify customer-specific pricing and rules quickly and easily.
Enable your sales team to personalize pricing to meet customer demand and beat the competition with extended pricing.
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.

Materials management

Reduce costs by efficiently managing the entire chain of supply with distributed requisitions management and approval, firm control over purchasing and vendor management, and comprehensive inventory tracking and control.
Expiration dates, serial and lot management, and multi-bin and multi-location management help CPG companies ensure that inventory is on-hand where needed.

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General ledger

Improve efficiencies with automated transaction processing and payment adjustments. Users can quickly 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 multi-dimensional analysis of financial, sales, and purchase transactions using fully definable groups and codes, as well as track and categorize highly specific transaction activity.

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Budgeting and forecasting

Meet demanding group reporting needs by tailoring data collection and reporting processes with Microsoft Enterprise Reporting, and deploy flexible budgeting processes business-wide with Microsoft Demand Planner.
Use Microsoft Analytical Accounting to create budget trees that create a hierarchy of dimension codes. Budgets can be created at a dimension code level or a dimension/account combination-providing greater flexibility by allowing budgeting at a summary or detail level.

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Financial reporting and business intelligence

Easily create, update, and modify all the reports and forms your CPG 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 pre-built 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 (KPI) 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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Fixed assets

Save time and expense with easy setup and the ability to create and manage an unlimited number of books of assets, including corporate, federal tax, alternative minimum tax, and more.
Share information with standard reports such as depreciation ledgers, property transfer, inventory list, and asset retirements.
Simplify depreciation with any of 16 depreciation methods.
Control physical inventory and asset movement with location IDs for comprehensive tracking.

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Accounts payable

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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Warehouse management

Integrated with the Advanced Compliance solution, a Warehouse Management solution is also available to streamline warehouse processes while improving operational efficiency, productivity, and accuracy. This also extends Microsoft Dynamics GP advanced distribution functionality with bar code data collection and advanced warehouse management tools for customers with more complex warehousing and product distribution requirements.

Working with industry-leading hardware providers, this warehouse management solution integrates seamlessly with bar code, RFID, and material-handling technology. Using radio-frequency (RF) technology to streamline receiving, picking, packing, and shipping, it brings Microsoft Dynamics GP functionality onto the warehouse floor. With real-time validation at every step, companies can lower costs, improve inventory accuracy, and provide better service to customers. Also, it allows customers to manage orders and the physical handling of goods accurately and efficiently, automate, and verify all in-warehouse processes, providing real-time visibility into the supply chain.

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Improve inventory and order status availability

Microsoft Dynamics GP is updated with real-time inventory and order status information.

Maintain an accurate perpetual inventory without interrupting operations with real-time cycle counting.
Validate items as they are received, picked, or moved using wireless devices.
Real-time visibility by bin inventory.
Real-time status updates to Microsoft Dynamics GP on SOs and POs.
Obtain and review track and trace information for all shipped items.
Meet complex retail compliance requirements like RFID and carton content management.

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