| Microsoft Dynamics GP or Great Plains Dynamics is | | | | set included. We do not think that you should |
| strong mid-market Corporate ERP platform, open for | | | | experiment with having your warehouse worker to |
| Barcoding in Warehouse Management System | | | | walk along the bins and shelves with netbook with |
| add-ons and via integration with external WMS. It is | | | | cheap barcode scanner connected via USB port (this |
| probably good idea to log all your Distribution related | | | | may work if all you are doing it yourself and you are |
| records in GP and have it as centralized part of the | | | | familiar and trained as Great Plains Dynamics user to |
| ERP and MRP infrastructure, from where you can | | | | popup relevant form, tab through the field, until you got |
| easily track financial results. Regarding POS and | | | | the one for Item Number or Serial; Number entry |
| Retail — our recommendation is to use | | | | — this job is for barcode scanner). You need |
| Microsoft RMS (Retail Management System). MS | | | | either external WMS with connectors or another |
| RMS traditionally comes with its integration to Great | | | | option (we rather favor this one) Warehouse |
| Plains (several flavors are available — the one | | | | Management Extensions for Dynamics GP. |
| directly to GL and AP and others from Dynamics GP | | | | Extensions work directly out of Great Plains |
| ISV partners where depending on the vendor | | | | company database and they integrate scanned |
| transactions are sent to Sales Order Processing, | | | | transactions in real time or in the butch mode |
| Purchase Order Processing, Inventory Control, | | | | 3. eCommerce with automatic Picking List or Allocation |
| bi-directional logic is also available). Regarding | | | | order sent to Dynamics GP Warehouse Management. |
| barcoding, Microsoft RMS covers POS and some | | | | E-commerce shopping cart (such as Magento, ASP |
| routines in the warehouse. We personally believe | | | | .Net Storefront) probably does wonderful job in |
| that it is reasonably simple to extend Dynamics GP | | | | covering Items Catalogues, Price List, Credit Card |
| distribution modules for barcoding: SOP, POP, Inventory | | | | Payment — and now the logic next step is to |
| control to enable Warehouse Management features: | | | | send customer invoice for fulfillment to Dynamics GP |
| 1. Microsoft RMS bidirectional integration with Dynamics | | | | SOP transaction entry (which is immediately seen via |
| GP. Our solution sends individual POS transaction | | | | WMS extension on the warehouse floor and your |
| from RMS Headquarter (in multi-store scenario) or | | | | worker with barcode scanner begins picking and |
| from Store Operation (single store) database to | | | | packing) |
| Dynamics GP SOP transaction. Here you may have | | | | 4. EDI, or Electronic Document Delivery. We believe |
| various mapping options, for example, if you own all | | | | that one of the simple approaches in FTP upload, EDI |
| the stores in one legal entity — everything could | | | | document processing and logging the report, EDI |
| go to one company and inventory site (or each store | | | | module is available for demonstration. With the EDI |
| has its own site, or few stores could be assigned to | | | | concept we had some polemic with traditional EDI |
| one site). If you have multiple legal entities (and | | | | Dynamics GP Partners, where we were suggesting |
| multiple companies in Dynamics GP) and each owns | | | | simple way of opening EDI in precisely formatted SQL |
| one or several stores — you can map them | | | | Select and Insert statements — this is exactly |
| accordingly. Bidirectional integration is probably very | | | | what we have done for many EDI scenarios related |
| important or even critical for Inventory Transfers and | | | | to Great Plains |
| Adjustments in Dynamics GP and RMS — you | | | | 5. How to request information. You can call us |
| need to synchronize the changes in each system | | | | 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918 or email us We are |
| automatically. Purchasing side — here again in | | | | favoring Nationwide remote support customers (USA, |
| our opinion large organization is more geared toward | | | | Canada, Mexico, Central America, Caribbean), where |
| doing this function in Corporate ERP directly, in our | | | | we serve you instantly (or in quasi real time) via web |
| consideration case in Dynamics GP. We also heard | | | | sessions. Barcoding often requires hardware |
| desires to print Barcode Labels from Great Plains | | | | orientation. Local support is available in Southern |
| directly | | | | California, Northern Illinois (Chicago and suburbs), |
| 2. Warehouse Management System, Barcoding and | | | | Southwest Michigan and Northern Indiana (from |
| Great Plains Logistics and Distribution modules. | | | | location in St. Joseph, MI) and Houston, TX. |
| Barcode scanning, probably is not really supported in | | | | International customers are welcome! |
| out-of-the-box Dynamics GP with Distributions modules | | | | |