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