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| Warehouse Management System often requires to be | | | | 4. Custom WMS extensions. There might be |
| flexible to adopt new business processes and | | | | additional requirements, for example your inventory |
| procedures. If you have Microsoft Dynamics GP | | | | replenishment could be integrated with your POS or |
| (formerly known as Great Plains Dynamics) as your | | | | Retail Management systems, such as Microsoft RMS, |
| Corporate ERP system and you have to extend it | | | | Counterpoint or another generic RMS. This situation is |
| with WMS add-on - the integration between the two | | | | very natural for mid-size retailer, where you receive |
| should be reasonably reliable. One of the best results | | | | items in Dynamics GP, print barcode labels and then |
| could be achieved by programming WMS extension in | | | | transfer them over night to Microsoft RMS inventory |
| Microsoft Dexterity, as Dexterity is the platform for | | | | for direct sale to your retail customers. Retail system |
| original Great Plains user interface and it allows WMS | | | | could have ecommerce nature, where ecommerce |
| screens, tables and procedures to be integrated with | | | | might be B2B or B2C oriented |
| maximal efficiency. Plus Dexterity coded WMS | | | | 5. Alternative Corporate ERP for WMS. SAP |
| works in the same user security realm as original | | | | Business One has similar or comparable set of |
| Dynamics GP. This article is written as highlights in | | | | modules and Warehouse Management System could |
| Warehouse Management System and its functionality | | | | be designed in SB1 SDK to provide similar to described |
| for Dynamics GP: | | | | above functionality |
| 1. Purchase Receipts automation. Here you deploy | | | | 6. WMS as part of broader Supply Chain |
| barcode scanners to scan the batch of receipts and | | | | Management, Logistics, Distribution, Light Discrete |
| upload them via custom WMS interface to match | | | | Manufacturing, Consignment concept. In Dynamics |
| automatically against open Purchase Orders. | | | | GP you can trigger some WMS routines from such |
| Methods could include barcode scanner in the batch | | | | modules as Purchase Configurator (or sort of |
| mode, real time match via wireless barcode scanner | | | | automatic inventory replenishment) |
| or via barcoding server. As additional feature you | | | | 7. WMS for Dynamics GP international aspects. |
| may decide to print newly received items barcode | | | | Microsoft Dynamics GP is localized (translated to |
| labels | | | | foreign language and made compliant to local |
| 2. Inventory transfers and cycle count. You need to | | | | legislation) in most of the English speaking countries |
| automate barcode scanner batch transfers upload to | | | | (USA, Canada, UK, South Africa, Australia, New |
| Dynamics GP Inventory Transfer screen and logic. | | | | Zealand), plus in the countries, where English is used as |
| Inventory cycle count by its nature is inventory | | | | Business language (Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, |
| adjustment and logic is similar, but you would need | | | | Oceania); it is available in Quebec, Spanish speaking |
| custom WMS logic to feed data into Cycle Count | | | | South, Central America and Caribbean. It is also very |
| functionality of Dynamics GP Inventory Control module | | | | popular in the countries with Arabic alphabet. We do |
| 3. Sales Order fulfillment. You can deploy GP SOP | | | | not recommend GP in countries, where it is not |
| Sales Order line by line fulfillment process and fulfill | | | | localized: China, Russia, Korea, Japan, Brazil, consider |
| based on the information uploaded to GP from | | | | instead SAP Business One with Warehouse |
| barcode scanner after warehouse worker comes | | | | Management extension |
| through picking and packing routine on the warehouse | | | | 8. How to get further help? |