Microsoft Business Solutions–Great Plains provides a solid foundation for unifying processes. Its outstanding financial tools enhance the visibility and control of your business health, resulting in more confident and smarter decisions.
New features and functionality cover the entire spectrum of your business operations, giving you the power you need to streamline and simplify business processes, improve business insight, accelerate productivity, and make the most of existing technology investments.
Great Plains Analytics
Analytical accounting
Analyze financial data by whatever criteria you require, introduce greater reporting flexibility and extensibility, and analyze transactions efficiently.
Crystal Reports
Transform your Microsoft Business Solutions–Great Plains data into presentation-quality information so you can make better business decisions, with compelling views of business data created easier and faster than ever before.
Enterprise reporting
Enterprise Reporting offers you the most efficient reporting solution available for complex, distributed environments. It allows you to easily automate procedures unique to your business environment for complete control over consolidations, financial reporting, budgeting, and analysis
Forecasting
Take control of the future of your organization with Microsoft Business Solutions for Analytics–Forecaster. Meet business objectives and gain competitive advantage with budgeting and planning capabilities that allow you to plan more effectively and respond quickly to changing business needs.
FRx
Master your financial reporting process with Microsoft Business Solutions for Analytics–FRx Professional. High-performance capabilities give you comprehensive, highly customizable financial and management reports that are easy to create, distribute, and use.
Great Plains Business Portal
Business Portal
Unlock business potential and enhance productivity by providing role-based access to information and processes from a single Web-based portal. Microsoft Business Portal integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Great Plains to deliver applications, information, and processes to employees, customers, and partners across your organization.
Project time & expense
Project Time and Expense provides project team members and managers with a way to effectively capture, review and approve project time and expense data on the Web, enabling prompt, accurate customer invoicing and efficient reimbursement for out-of-pocket employee expenses.
Electronic document delivery
Organize and schedule the e-mail message delivery of invoices, credit memos, and other sales documents to your customers in XML, HTML, Microsoft Office Excel, or PDF format, reducing administrative overhead and increasing customer responsiveness.
HR Management Suite
Streamline HR management and empower employees to view and update personal information from any Web browser. The HR Management Self-Service Suite for Microsoft Business Portal integrates human resources and payroll data and helps provide accurate, current information across your organization.
Customization
Meet specific business needs with powerful customization tools that allow your developers to integrate data from external sources, incorporate legacy applications, and modify your Microsoft Business Solutions–Great Plains solution to fit the most exacting business requirements
Integration
Utilize business data from almost any platform data source. Microsoft Great Plains offers powerful integration capabilities that use the latest industry-standard technologies, enabling you to integrate and incorporate data with a high degree of safety, flexibility, and speed.
Distribution
Advanced Distribution
Maintain tight control over your distribution channels, improve processes, and drive superior customer service with new Advanced Distribution capabilities
Advanced Picking
Keep pace with competitive markets and low margins. Advanced Picking capabilities provide you with the flexibility needed to reduce handling and increase accuracy for both single and multi-site warehouse operations.
Available to Promise
Empower your employees to make strategic decisions and provide superior service. New inventory and order management capabilities help ensure the right inventory is available at the right time to meet customer needs and boost profitability.
Demand Planner module
Balance supply and demand effectively and gain competitive advantage by establishing a well-defined process for demand planning—or simplifying your current process—and improving the quality of forecasts
Electronic Document Delivery
Organize and schedule the e-mail delivery of invoices, credit memos, and other sales documents to your customers in XML, HTML, Microsoft Office Excel, or PDF format, reducing administrative overhead and increasing customer responsiveness
eOrder
Empower your salespeople and existing customers by allowing them to place and update orders via an out-of-the-box, business-to-business Internet storefront, saving them time and increasing the accuracy of orders
Inventory Management
Give your business a competitive edge. By controlling inventory effectively and setting prices on a customer-by-customer basis, you can reduce operating costs and achieve the fast, efficient fulfillment that keeps them coming back
Purchase Order Processing
Take control of your business processes and empower your employees to make sound business decisions and minimize costs. Purchase Order Processing capabilities streamline purchasing tasks and equip employees to track and manage vital commitments on the fly
Receivables Management
Maintain tight control over your accounts receivable with capabilities that help you track invoices, process receipts, and analyze customer activity, so you can manage sales made on account more effectively and yet maintain lower overhead costs.
Requisition Management
Help increase control and visibility over your entire purchasing process, reduce paperwork, and automate approval processes. With Requisition Management, employees can enter purchase requisitions online for manager approval and automatic transfer to Microsoft Great Plains Purchase Order Processing
Sales Order Processing
Enhance employee productivity and streamline your distribution process with sales order and invoicing capabilities that help you enter and process orders quickly and accurately and give you more control over your business process
e-Commerce
eConnect
Connect your organization’s applications and data to create a powerful flow of information that enables smarter decisions and a more productive workforce. With eConnect, you can use the latest industry-standard technologies to create real-time, transactional connections across Microsoft Great Plains, external applications, and outside organizations
eOrder
Empower your salespeople and existing customers by allowing them to place and update orders via an out-of-the-box, business-to-business Internet storefront, saving them time and increasing the accuracy of orders
Field services
Manage complex field service operations with higher levels of profitability and customer satisfaction. Nine powerful modules integrate essential accounting, distribution, and service processes to increase technician productivity, reduce overhead, and open up new revenue opportunities while focusing on what's important — your customer
Financial Management
Analytical Accounting
Analyze financial data by whatever criteria you require, introduce greater reporting flexibility and extensibility, and analyze transactions efficiently
Bank Reconciliation
Gain unparalleled access to mission-critical financial information within your business and turn that data into a powerful competitive tool, while at the same time controlling it with greater efficiency and ease than ever before
Cash Flow Management Make timely, informed financial decisions and improve your cash flow with clear, customizable information views provided by Cash Flow Management
Collections Management
Improve your cash flow and reduce bad debt expense with the clear, customizable information views and automated bad debt management tools
eBanking
Automate your critical banking activities and interact electronically with your bank with comprehensive tools that help reduce administrative costs, increase productivity, and improve cash management—in a security-enhanced environment.
eExpense
Enhance employee productivity and reduce processing costs with expense reporting capabilities that streamline expense management processes, eliminate paper receipts, and enable employees to create and submit reports any time, from any location
Fixed Asset Management
Take control of your company's assets and put them to the best possible use in your organization with the asset management capabilities you need to effectively track, analyze, and utilize those assets to make them work for you
General Ledger
Manage the financial heart of your business with intelligent accounting and analysis capabilities that make your finances work for you, giving you the vital information you need and changing the way you do business for the better
Multicurrency Management
Take control of multinational operations and manage currency transactions smoothly and efficiently with flexible, powerful multicurrency capabilities
Payables Management
Improve your control over expenses with up-to-the-minute information about your payables, easy management of your vendors, and effort-saving automation of many routine or complex tasks that provides a great return on investment.
Receivables Management
Maintain tight control over your accounts receivable with capabilities that help you track invoices, process receipts, and analyze customer activity, so you can manage sales made on account more effectively and yet maintain lower overhead costs
Manufacturing
Engineering Change Management
As markets accelerate, so does the pace of change. New technologies and new customer demands increase the pressure on engineering to make process and component adjustments that accommodate such changes while maintaining or improving efficiencies and profitability. Engineering Change Management helps manufacturers organize and control this dynamic process
Job Costing
To help ensure business is profitable, you need accurate, current, and easy-to-access data about every costing detail relating to a job. Job Costing delivers this functionality to manufacturers by capturing all costs when they occur, and consolidating them into one location that's easy to access and manage—delivering a comprehensive view of production profitability.
Bill of Materials
Bill of Materials delivers complete, consistent, and correct product information, enabling you to maximize production efficiency and cut inventory costs across the extended enterprise. By tightly integrating different types of bills and customized definitions into manufacturing operations, Bill of Materials helps improve performance, support time-to-market and time-to-volume objectives, and ensure materials are where they should be, when they are needed
Manufacturing Order Processing
Track production costs in detail and manage work orders, routings, outsourcing, and work center definitions. By directing the entire cycle of order processing, you can build a business that is both customer-driven and profitable
Materials Requirements Planning
Material Requirements Planning helps you realize the control you need to compete. Deep visibility into material requirements translates into more effective resource planning—helping reduce stock outages, drive down inventory costs, and streamline the production process
Quality Assurance
By allowing you to design testing procedures of incoming materials to meet your manufacturing process, Quality Assurance equips you to start with the quality of raw materials you require, and dramatically helps to reduce manufacturing delays, rework, and scrap
Sales Forecasting
Whenever you bring together people to accomplish a task, communication challenges may arise—especially when those people have different objectives and backgrounds. Your sales teams and manufacturing managers probably face these challenges—yet effective communication between these divergent groups is the first step to ensuring product delivery that's both efficient and effective
