General Info

Questions Every CFO Needs to Ask

This white paper is intended to guide you, the CFO, to ask educated questions as you consider moving your ERP solution to the cloud.

The shift to cloud based business management technology has started. Is cloud based ERP the right choice for your organization? Let us help you decide.

 

Dynamics Sure Step

Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step provides a methodology combined with project management discipline and field-tested best practices. Sure Step’s user-friendly interface and guidance enable rapid, efficient and profitable implementation, migration, and upgrade projects for Microsoft Dynamics.

 

Extend the Reach

This paper offers highlights of how Microsoft Dynamics GP and the Microsoft® Office system work together to help people optimize productivity, access and analyze information, and collaborate and connect secure¬ly across the entire organization—regardless of whether they’re working in Microsoft Dynamics GP or other applications.

 

Dynamics GP Light Users

This paper highlights how Microsoft Dynamics GP can fuel business impact for everyone in your organization, driving personal productivity, collaboration and enhanced information to extend the reach of your solution to more users.

 

Dynamics GP Scalability

This white paper documents performance benchmark testing for running Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 in a SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 environment with 1,000 constant concurrent users, all engaged in heavy transaction processing or analysis activity across various functional areas of the solution.

This paper also includes real-world examples of transaction processing throughput from some of our customers. The combination of this information will help you assess how Microsoft Dynamics GP can scale to meet your organizational needs and goals. For additional information regarding scalability, please contact TMC.

 

Security Management

Security management capabilities presented in a clear, interactive format help you control access to data, applications, and tools, reduce IT administration, and maintain high levels of protection for your business system.

 

Is it time for a Change?

This whitepaper identifies key challenges business and technical management face with their financial management software. Whether your current systems provide inaccurate data and delays in gathering financial information, or if you just do not have the time or resources to keep your financial systems running smoothly, there is hope. This whitepaper walks through the key areas of a financial management solution so when you are evaluating current and future financial management software, you are prepared to avoid challenges and maximize your investment.

 

GP Modules

Bank Reconciliation

Gain unparalleled access to real-time, mission-critical financial data that you can turn into a powerful competitive tool, and help control bank reconciliation more efficiently. Optimize account reconciliation by enabling your people to customize reports in paper or online formats, and to create, view, and post a suite of standard reports, including checkbook list, checkbook register
report, and bank distribution history.

 

Business Intelligence

Many more customers are moving to Microsoft Dynamics GP right now because it excels at meeting the business needs that are particularly relevant today, such as turning data into insight, making smarter decisions, and increasing efficiency.

 

Business Portal

Unlock business potential and enhance productivity by providing role-tailored access to information and processes from a single Web-based portal. Microsoft® Business Portal integrates smoothly with Microsoft DynamicsTM GP to deliver applications, information, and processes to your employees, customers, and partners across the organization, so they can make smart decisions and do their
jobs more efficiently.

 

Financials

Microsoft Dynamics GP incorporates audit trails for accountability and oversight, and enables customers to maintain compliance for regulations specific to their business. Microsoft Dynamics GP also provides enforced password expiration and secure password rules, and can enforce digital signatures with remote sign-off capabilities when a change is made to any data within the system, if desired.

 

Fixed Asset Management

Improve financial management for your business by tracking, analyzing, and manipulating fixed assets to meet specific needs. Fixed Asset Management in Microsoft DynamicsTM GP delivers multiple features and reporting tools that help you manage company assets with minimal effort and tremendous flexibility.

 

Human Resources and Payroll

80% The percentage of payroll department redeployed from processing tasks to financial planning and analysis at Glidewell Laboratories, thanks to time savings made possible by Microsoft Dynamics GP

 

Inventory Management

Give your business a competitive edge. By gaining accurate visibility and effective control over inventory and setting prices on a customer-by-customer basis, you can reduce operating costs and achieve the fast, efficient fulfillment that keeps customers coming back.

 

Management Reporter 2012

With Management Reporter 2012, you can expect: More flexibility in designing your financial reports; additional opportunity to collaborate with co-workers, auditors and others during the report design, distribution and viewing processes…Download White Paper to read more!

 

Manufacturing Bill of Materials

Deliver complete, consistent, and current product information. Manage materials, components, and assemblies more precisely— including costs, locations, and routing sequences—to gain tighter control of finished goods, reduce costs, and increase productivity
and profitability.

 

Manufacturing

“With Microsoft Dynamics, we are now able to track fast- versus slow-moving items to adjust our procurement reorder points to optimize inventory turns.” —Johnny Chin, Aqua-Terra Oilfield Equipment & Services

 

Project Accounting

Project Accounting in Microsoft Dynamics GP connects project activities with company financials, provides extensive reporting capabilities, helps ensure accurate accounting and billing processes throughout project life cycles, and streamlines time and expense management. It empowers your people by giving them easy access to the key project information and templates they need to do their jobs quickly and efficiently.

 

Project Management and Field Service Management

NOW YOU CAN Increase profitability by connecting project activities to company financials and transforming field service activities from a cost center into a profit center, with Microsoft Dynamics GP.

 

PTO Manager

Manage complex vacation and sick time policies automatically with PTO (Paid Time Off) Manager for Microsoft Dynamics GP. Reduce overhead costs by reducing paperwork and the time required by the Payroll team to manage manual PTO recordkeeping.

 

Returns Management

Returns Management in Microsoft Dynamics GP empowers you to meet customer and vendor requirements for product and part returns by streamlining tasks and improving your responsiveness to your customers’ queries and requests.

 

Sales Forecasting

Communication challenges are frequent when you bring together product groups that have different objectives and backgrounds, such as sales teams and manufacturing managers. Sales Forecasting in Microsoft Dynamics GP helps increase collaboration, bridging communication gaps and creating a powerful loop that promotes effective, efficient product delivery.

 

Sales Order Processing

By managing the entire sales process—from start to finish— with pinpoint accuracy, Sales Order Processing in Microsoft DynamicsTM GP helps you serve top customers more effectively, monitor fulfillment and invoicing more precisely, and streamline processes to minimize shipping costs and labor.

 

Supply Chain Management

40% The reduction in premium shipping costs realized by the Bing Group, thanks to the forecasting insight made possible by Microsoft Dynamics GP.

 

System Manager

Microsoft Dynamics GP captures the look and feel of Microsoft Office Outlook, along with list-based navigation with action panes and role-tailored menus and area pages that provide everyone in your organization with a clean, intuitive interface. Whether your employees are working in Microsoft Dynamics GP or the Microsoft Office system, they’ll have a familiar user experience that boosts productivity and minimizes training costs.

 

Industry Specific

Dynamics GP Commerce Services

With Commerce Services for Microsoft Dynamics ERP, you can expand your sales pipeline across multiple channels, enabling online merchandising. You can leverage connection points where you can offer goods for sale through storefronts, online auction sites, and marketplaces. With easy-to-use tools you can add, remove or modify catalogs, you can target specific online channels and create new sales catalogs on demand.

 

Connecting Retail

Microsoft Dynamics® offers the retail community a comprehensive, flexible, fully integrated set of business software solutions that help you compete effectively today, adapt to changing conditions, and capitalize on tomorrow’s opportunities—at an attractive total cost of ownership (TCO). How?

 

Customer Relationships

Microsoft Dynamics solutions are familiar. They work like and with Microsoft Office, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server, and other Microsoft products that your employees, customers and suppliers already know and use. This helps simplify development, deployment, and training.

 

Dynamics GP for Retail

The retail environment is constantly evolving. Consumer tastes change, reducing the profitability window for products in stock and shrinking allowable time-to-market for new lines. Online sales growth rates exceed older channels, causing retailers to focus more on their e-commerce sites. New markets emerge, established market sales slow. New suppliers offer chances to reduce cost of goods sold or ensure product availability. Growing social and environmental concerns influence consumers’ product choices. New competitors and new regulatory requirements squeeze profit margins.

 

Tools

Integration Tools

Utilize business data from almost any platform data source. Integration Tools for Microsoft DynamicsTM GP enable you to integrate and incorporate data with a high degree of integrity,
security, flexibility, and speed.

 

Dynamics GP Tools

Why do tens of thousands of customers rely on Microsoft Dynamics® GP business management solutions? The reasons are diverse. For many, it’s because it’s backed with years of proven performance, while continually being a leading innovator. Another reason is that it meets the needs of many companies like yours, with a host of tools that enable businesses to tailor solutions that go beyond basic financial management and reporting to help people companywide work faster and smarter, without requiring constant care from IT and increased budgets.