Maximize your Dynamics GP solution.  In response to today’s economic challenges, Microsoft has organized a best of breed webinar, demonstrating how you company can maximize the capabilities of your current Microsoft Dynamics GP business management solution.  We will cover streamilining budgeting and forecasting, effective cash flow management, extend the reach of Dynamics GP to all of your employees, and much moreLet us show you how you can do more with Microsoft Dynamics.
Join Dan Youngers from Microsoft, as he leads this discussion on maximizing the benefits of Dynamics GP.

Or call Pat Quimby at 310-559-3982, ext. 784 to sign up or email pquimby@tmc-la.com

4 Ways to Ensure Success During Your New ERP System Implementation

Switching to a new ERP program, like Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains), presents great opportunities within your company for increasing efficiency, improved reporting and analytics, and reducing the overall costs of operations. You have successfully completed the software evaluation process and signed the contracts. Should be smooth sailing from this point forward, right? Not so fast. In many ways, the toughest part of a companywide software implementation is just beginning. Your software Implementation project will take time, hard work from everyone involved, and the dedication of your project team. By following these four guidelines, you will have a much easier time with your implementation.

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John Hoyt, a Solutions Consultant at TMC, conducts monthly no charge webinars for our customers and prospects. These webinars review specific functionality within the Dynamics GP system, with a focus on the features and benefits of a specific module. Don’t worry if you might have missed one of these informative sessions, they are recorded and available for viewing. Contact John at jhoyt@tmc-la.com, specify which webinar(s) you want to view, and we will send you a link to view the webinar at your own convenience.

Webinars currently available for viewing:

Audit Trails– Audit Trails for Microsoft Dynamics GP delivers strong tracking, tracing, and reporting capabilities that help ensure that your organization maintains regulatory compliance. We explore the set-up and reporting of the Audit Trails tools.
Capture and archive changes to electronic data and documents required for maintaining regulatory compliance, including before-and-after transactional information, user ID, and time and date stamps.

Collections Management – The clear, customizable information views and automated bad debt management tools provided by Collections Management in Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 help you minimize the administrative workload for collections by automating the generation of correspondence, e-mail notices, statements, and invoices to customers, freeing your people for other tasks.

GP 10.0 Extender - Capture business-specific information that meets your needs and make fast, easy modifications without writing code. Extender for Microsoft Dynamics® GP incorporates powerful features that enable you to build new screens, custom grids, and additional data windows. You can also track detail notes and easily launch ad hoc queries based on new business data.   

2009 Year End Close Overview – Review the steps and procedures to ensure a smooth and successful close of your fiscal and calendar Years.  Learn about closing Inventory, Receivables, Payables and General Ledger, and preparing your system for the upcoming year.

CustomerSource - Taking advantage of the invaluable pool of resources within CustomerSource helps you and your organization get the most value out of your Microsoft® Business Solutions investment. You’ll find self-help tools, product updates and downloads, business news, helpful documentation such as how-to articles and white papers, support resources, and training information. You’ll also receive access to valuable community tools like Managed Newsgroups and Knowledge Base for quick answers to all your support questions.

This past weekend, I made the drive up the 405, back home to Valencia.  My mom put together a going away brunch for my sister, who will be leaving in a week to study abroad in France until early next year.

 Among the guests at our house that morning was my great aunt Gloria.  She works for a company that schedules court reporters, and she is an accountant that handles Payroll and  General Ledger for them.  She is the only person in the office that handles the financial aspect of the business, thus she is heavily depended upon. (more…)

With Microsoft Dynamics GP, you can configure the Accounts Payable system to restrict which General Ledger accounts are available to be selected during the voucher entry process. When selecting the expense account for a new payables voucher, only thos eaccounts that have been assigned to the Vendor Account will be available.  For example, when keying in an American Express bill, you may want it to auto populate the expense categories that apply to American Express to streamline data entry for the user.  Here is how you do that….

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Use the Advanced Lookups Setup window to create custom sorting options for the lookup windows that have advanced capabilities. These custom lookups allow you to create sorting options in addition to the standard sort option within Microsoft Dynamics GP.

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In Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) Smartlist, you may want to find something that meets at least one of your search criteria.  For example, you may want to look for customers that have a balance on their account greater than zero, in either the 30, 60 or 90 day column.  Here is how you do that…..

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In Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) Smartlist, you may want to compare a field against a value within you Dynamics GP database.  For example, you may want to pull customers who have a balance greater than their credit limit.  Here is how to accomplish that……

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Switching your business operations over to new ERP software can be time consuming, difficult and especially risky.  It takes time to learn the different software functions and could even lead to clerical errors which could set a business back. However there is now no need to fear the rigors of new ERP implementation.  By addressing these five success factors, and the help of Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step, an enterprise can easily avoid the risk! (more…)