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NDOSS1410
MicrosoftGreatPlains6.ppt*
Microsoft Dynamics GP
“Performance and Profit”
Procurement/Risk Management
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Background
- Microsoft Corporation – founded in 1975
- Over 91000 employees
- Products and services include operating server systems, online business and entertainment, games, mobile and stationary device platforms
- Microsoft bought Great Plains in 2001
- Fargo, North Dakota
- Great Plains has been around since the early 1990s
- Microsoft Great Plains is now Microsoft Dynamics GP.
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Great Plains was originally built by the family living in Fargo, North Data. Back then, it was only a DOS-based accounting system and gained prominence around 1986 and had been upgraded to be a Window-based version around 90s known as Great Plains Dynamic. Back then, the software ran on lower end pervasive and C-tree database and Microsoft SQL database. Not even a year after Great Plains acquired Solomon Software, it was bought out by Microsoft Company for about 1 billion dollars in 2001. Lately, Great Plains has changed its name to Microsoft Dynamic GP.
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ERP Market Share
Source: AMR Research, June 14, 2005
| 2004 Rank | Company | Market Share 2003 | Market Share 2004 | Market Share 2005 (est.) |
| 1 | SAP | 39% | 40% | 43% |
| 2 | Oracle | 12% | 10% | 19% |
| 3 | PeopleSoft* | 13% | 12% | 0% |
| 4 | Sage Group | 4% | 5% | 6% |
| 5 | Microsoft | 3% | 3% | 4% |
| 6 | SSA Global | 2% | 3% | 3% |
| 7 | Geac | 2% | 2% | 2% |
| 8 | Intentia | 2% | 2% | 2% |
| 9 | Lawson | 2% | 2% | 2% |
| 10 | Infor Global Solutions | 1% | 2% | 2% |
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Market Strategy and Strategic Direction
- Small and mid-sized businesses (SMB) focus
- Suite solutions
- Development of a strong partner channel and large third party vendor support
- Consolidation and expansion of the business application unit
- Integration with the Microsoft Product Line
- 5 years mainstream support to every major release
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Product Editions – Business Essentials Edition
- Financial Management
- General Ledger
- Accounts receivables
- Accounts payable
- Fixed asset management
- Bank reconciliation
- Multicurrency management
- Supply Chain Management
- Sales order processing
- Purchase order processing
- Inventory management
- Business Intelligence and Reporting
- Microsoft FRx
- Microsoft forecaster
- Crystal reports
- Basic Configuration and Development Tools
- Integration manager
- Customization
- Report & system manager
- Microsoft SQL Server
- 2008 Standard edition
- 2008 Enterprise edition
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Product Editions – Advanced Management Edition
- Includes Business Essentials
- Advanced Financial Management
- Cash management
- Collections management
- Advanced Business Intelligence and Reporting
- Analysis cubes
- FRx professional
- Forecaster professional
- Advanced Supply Chain Management
- Bill of materials
- Requisition management
- CRM
- MS Dynamics CRM Professional Server
- Manufacturing
- Manufacturing bill of materials
- Manufacturing order processing
- Materials requirement planning
- Project Management
- Time & Expense
- Contract administration
- Collaborative Workspace
- Business portal
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Product Add On Components (Other ERP Modules)
- Advanced Management Enterprise
- Advanced manufacturing functionality
- Field service management
- Advanced project management
- Advanced configuration and development tools
- Microsoft Dynamics CRM
- Filed service
- CRM professional server
- eService call
- Service call management
- Preventive maintenance
- Human Resource Management
- Advanced human resources
- Advanced payroll
- Self service suite
- Skills & training
- Employee pay & profile
- Manufacturing
- Capacity requirements planning
- Job costing
- Engineering change management
- Demand planner
- Quality assurance
- Sales forecasting
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Scalability & Web-based Strategy
- Scalability:
- Grows with your business
Benchmark tested to support 1,000 concurrent users
Benchmark tested to handle 1.9 million business transactions within 8 hours - Web-based Application Strategy:
- Collaboration technology capabilities
- Built on the .NET framework
- Web portals and e-commerce capabilities
- Business functionality available to customers, employees, and business partners
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Integration
- When you’re ready to expand your ERP, MS Dynamics GP will
- Integrate accounts receivable and payable into the manufacturing module, streamlining production and reducing overhead
- Analyze sales in any form, from a single salesperson up to the entire company for marketing planning
- Track every aspect of employees, analyzing when HR changes are needed
- Be able to conduct the entire operation online
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Integration
- MS Dynamics GP and Office 2003
- SmartList
- Queries can be instantly exported to Excel or Word
- SmartTags
- Information can be tagged throughout Office for reference purposes
- Data Sources
- Use MS Dynamics GP queries as a data source for Excel spreadsheets
- MapPoint
- Integrate delivery route creation into the sales and ordering process
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Integration
- MS Dynamics GP and Office 2003 (cont’d.)
- Vacation requests
- Create and manage in Outlook
- Organizational Hierarchy
- Export to Visio from the business portal
- Budgeting
- Create templates in Excel
- Financial Reporting
- Create report books with multiple files for different stakeholders
- Similar user interfaces
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Support and Training
CustomerSource – Named 1 of top 10 international support sites
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Support
The Support section in CustomerSource provides convenient access to many technical resources, including both self-help and assisted support services. If you're enrolled in a Microsoft Dynamics service plan, your electronic support requests have the same guaranteed response time as your telephone support incidents.
Online technical support features include:
•Microsoft Knowledge Base: Access the same database used by our award-winning technical support team. Microsoft Knowledge Base contains thousands of technical tips, solutions to common problems, usability recommendations, and answers to frequently asked questions.
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Support
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CustomerSource is a secure Web site for people using Microsoft Dynamics and related products. It provides access to timely and relevant information about each business management solution. Customers with a service plan can use it at any time to get information, such as technical support, product updates and downloads, training, events, and more. CustomerSource is one of the many benefits included as part of Microsoft Dynamics service plans.
CustomerSource is your one-stop resource for quick and easy access to information that helps you maintain and grow your business management solution and increase productivity. It can help reduce support costs by allowing you to find answers to your questions at any time.
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Consulting Support
- Onsite Availability
- Deployment Services
- Server configuration recommendation
- Conversion Services
- Implementation Services
- Security implementation
- Customization Services
- Customization of forms and reports
- Training Services
- Orientation
- On-site workflow sessions
- On-going Consulting & Implementation services
- 24-7 on call support
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Training
- Training materials through CustomerSource
- Elearning
- Effective and simple
- Learn at your own pace
- 24 hour a day access
- Classroom training
- Live, interactive training environment
- Facilitated by Microsoft Certified Trainers
- Learning plans
- Roadmaps that help individuals find the training they need
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Training
Maximize your investment by understanding your solution's features, functionality, and potential by participating in the many training opportunities available to you. Learn how to take advantage of eLearning, classroom training, and training materials by reviewing the Training area of CustomerSource
Gain deeper understanding of benefits and capabilities of your software investment by accessing "how to" tips and steps, installation and set up guides, product white papers, and more. With some content types, customers can easily refine their search with drop-down field selection options.
E-learning: Get convenient and thorough online training on specific topic areas—such as how to use a product module—from anywhere, at any time. (This training is available in the English language only)
.•Training materials: Download training materials that can be used as a study tool or as a desktop reference. (These materials are available in multiple languages).
•Local functionality extensions to training materials: Ongoing addendums available for select training material titles are designed to deliver content about local functionality within a given country. These materials are available primarily in English, and also in some in other languages.
•"What's New" training materials: Use these materials to get up to speed when your company updates to a new product version. This content is available in printed manual form, and with some product versions available online (e-learning)
.•Learning plans: Take advantage of training roadmaps that help individuals easily find the training they need. These roadmaps outline every training and certification option available for each module.
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Business Process Compatibility
Wingate and MS Dynamics GP
- MS Dynamics GP Financial Management
- Will integrate web-based ordering for customers and from vendors into the accounting process
- Will automate payments and billing for both A/R and A/P, integrating everything seamlessly into the general ledger
- Will allow real-time access to accurate accounting information at all levels of management
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Business processes compatibility
Microsoft Dynamics GP Financial Management
- Automation of General Ledger tasks
- User friendly wizard based Excel reports and budgets.
- Creates comprehensive vendor information, payment scheduling, and tracking
- Users can view cash inflows and outflows through a calendar-based interface.
- Helps track invoices, process receipts, and analyze customers activities
- Analyze sales performance & receivable tracking with each salesperson or sales territory
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GP Financial Management automatically manages general ledger tasks with full control of audit, for example, quickly void and delete unposted transactions, auto reversing data, or capture non accounting data and link those into their accounts. Because of the integration of Microsoft Office, users can create, import, and exports budgets to and from interactive wizards.
GP Financial Management can also help increase cash inflows for Wingate Company by prioritizing vendors’ payment deadlines, scheduling and tracking the payment transactions. The users also can monitor cash inflows and outflows on daily, weekly, monthly basis by specifying the criteria through a calendar-based interface.
GP Financial Management also tightly controls account receivable transactions b, for example, steamingline revenue transactions with automatic calculations and allowing users to view customers’ transactions and drill down to analyze transaction details. GP also manages sales process more effectively by measuring sales trends and analyzing salesperson performance with customer comprehensive tracking.
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Business processes compatibility
Microsoft Dynamics GP Manufacturing
- Centralizes all costs when they occurs through graphic interfaces
- Automatically performs variances of actual and estimate costs
- Monitors overall profitability for each job
- Streamline data entry to reduce error-prone data redundancy
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GP Manufacturing Job Costing provides easy-to-access costs for each job by capturing all the costs when they occurs and consolidating those into one location. The software also automatically perform variances by comparing actual costs with estimates costs for monitoring profitability and improving work performance. With the comprehensive capture, GP Job costing identifies where and when to capture costs up front, avoiding the possibility of double booking costs.
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Reporting Applications
Wingate and MS Dynamics GP
- Reporting options
- Microsoft FRx
- Crystal Reports
- Microsoft Enterprise Reporting
- Microsoft Forecaster
- Data warehouse
- SmartList
- Web-based reporting
- FRx WebPort
- Dynamics GP Business Portal
- Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
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User Friendly
- Availability of tutorials
- Availability of application module documentation
- Technical documentation
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Key Cost Areas
- Cost includes software and user licenses
- Software solution can range from $2,250 to $250,000
- For Financial and Accounting functions:
- $2K/concurrent user @ 100 = $200K.
- + $2K/cu for Production Planning @ 25 = $50K
- + $2K/cu for HR @ 50 = $100K
- Tier Now = $200K, Tier Future = $150K
- Recommended Support:
- Consulting - $200/hr @ 200 hrs = $40K
- Training - $100/hr @ 350 hrs = $35K
- Total Project Cost estimate of $425K
- Return on Investment
- 87% of customers already reached + ROI.
- Average payback of 21 months.
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http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/purchase/editionsandlicensing.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/jul06/07-10BusinessReadyLicensingPR.mspx
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Benefits of Microsoft Dynamics Solutions for Manufacturers
- Integrate communication and collaboration
- Deliver outstanding customer service
- Provide accurate estimating and quoting
- Deliver flexible production planning
- Efficiently manage projects
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Manufacturing is still a major engine in today’s economy. The fundamental success factors in this industry remain constant: produce the right products—in the right quantities, at the right time, with good quality, and at a price the customer is willing to pay. However, flexibility and continuous improvements are also imperative.
Success includes the flexibility to respond to emerging markets, such as today’s growth opportunities in China and Eastern Europe, and to the ever-changing needs of the customers. Capitalizing on these opportunities and demands involves quickly adapting to new approaches, trading partners, and procurement strategies.
Microsoft Dynamics offers integrated, adaptable business applications for small and medium-sized organizations and divisions of large enterprises. These integrated solutions—delivered through a worldwide network of experienced Microsoft Certified Partners—work like and with familiar Microsoft software and help automate and improve financial, customer relationship, and supply chain management.
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Microsoft Advantage
Unique Qualifications
- Grows with you
- Low cost solution
- Familiar to your people
- Works with your systems
- Fuels business productivity
- Enables confident business decisions
- You get a “Gold” Microsoft certified partner near you
- Provides ongoing Microsoft support
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90-day trial
- Complimentary DVD and resource CD
- Product overview
- List of features and benefits
- Demos of financial management software
- Case studies
- See how MS Dynamics works with your other Microsoft products
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Manufacturing is still a major engine in today’s economy. The fundamental success factors in this industry remain constant: produce the right products—in the right quantities, at the right time, with good quality, and at a price the customer is willing to pay. However, flexibility and continuous improvements are also imperative.
Success includes the flexibility to respond to emerging markets, such as today’s growth opportunities in China and Eastern Europe, and to the ever-changing needs of the customers. Capitalizing on these opportunities and demands involves quickly adapting to new approaches, trading partners, and procurement strategies.
Microsoft Dynamics offers integrated, adaptable business applications for small and medium-sized organizations and divisions of large enterprises. These integrated solutions—delivered through a worldwide network of experienced Microsoft Certified Partners—work like and with familiar Microsoft software and help automate and improve financial, customer relationship, and supply chain management.
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Demo - Purchase Order
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References
- http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/purchase/editionsandlicensing.mspx
- http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/jul06/07-10BusinessReadyLicensingPR.mspx
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Dynamics_GP
- Above accessed 01/16/07
- http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/gp/product/editionsandfeatures.mspx#EAG
- http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/businessneeds/financialmanagement.mspx?mg_id=10062
- http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/gp/using/gp_office_integration_wp_summary.mspx
- http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/businessneeds/registration.mspx
- Above accessed 01/17/07
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Manufacturing is still a major engine in today’s economy. The fundamental success factors in this industry remain constant: produce the right products—in the right quantities, at the right time, with good quality, and at a price the customer is willing to pay. However, flexibility and continuous improvements are also imperative.
Success includes the flexibility to respond to emerging markets, such as today’s growth opportunities in China and Eastern Europe, and to the ever-changing needs of the customers. Capitalizing on these opportunities and demands involves quickly adapting to new approaches, trading partners, and procurement strategies.
Microsoft Dynamics offers integrated, adaptable business applications for small and medium-sized organizations and divisions of large enterprises. These integrated solutions—delivered through a worldwide network of experienced Microsoft Certified Partners—work like and with familiar Microsoft software and help automate and improve financial, customer relationship, and supply chain management.
