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Freight Forwarding ERP: Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains customization & setup overview
   
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Microsoft Great Plains Implementation: Restaurants Supply Chain Management Example
Microsoft Great Plains serves majority of US based horizontal and vertical markets. Being relatively flexible and customizable it can fit your specific business requirements with light or .....
Microsoft Great Plains may be recommended for international freight forwarding / transportation company. Great Plains has such features as multicurrency (Euro, Pound, Yuan, Yen, Peso, Real), Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese (and if needed Unicode-specific languages such as Chinese, Japanese). If you have operations in East Europe you can have Polish version as well as you can have several screens (SOP Entry, Inventory Item Maintenance, Customer/Vendor Maintenance, etc) translated to Russian, Lithuanian, Latvian. Plus if you consider Great Plains as a platform for custom tailoring and developing you can have reasonably priced solution for horizontal business, such as freight forwarding, cargo delivery, consignment, transportation. Lets consider industry specifics and the way to implement them in Microsoft Business Solutions Great PlainsMicrosoft Great Plains serves majority of US based horizontal and vertical markets. Being relatively flexible and customizable it can fit your specific business requirements with light or .....
Agent Settlement. Freight forwarder usually deploys agents to deliver shipment. And agents are usually paid on the monthly or semimonthly basis. This means that you should have agents as customer.
Daily Agent MBL invoices/statements. Assuming that agent is handling several shipment with Master Bill of Ladings (MBL) and House Bill of Ladings (HBL) per day freight forwarder emails to the agent daily invoices. Then these daily invoices are settled and paid one time per months
Cargo Tracking System. This is usually custom in-house made system, specific to each freight forwarder or industry specific stand alone software. The important requirement is the integration between Shipment Tracking System and ERP, such as Great Plains
Accurate in-time payments. Payments are required to stay in highly competitive business, such as freight forwarding
Bill of Lading report. Where you usually need additional info to standard invoice form: Carrier, MAWB, Airport of Departure, Airport of Destination, Flight #/ETA, Weight in KG, Lbs, number of packages, etc.
Technologies and customization tools:
Great Plains Dexterity. This is Great Plains Software and currently Microsoft Great Plains programming language and IDE. It will allow you seamless integration with Great Plains user interface. You should realize agent settlement screen and inquiry, MBS/HBL profit/loss inquiry form and probably Bill of Lading in Great Plains Dexterity.
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SQL Integration. Integrating with Cargo Tracking/Delivery system should be done via SQL stored procedures. Use ODBC Linked Server to link to your tracking system database (MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Unidata, Pervasive SQL, Ctree/Faircom, mySQL).When you think about Security, what do you think of? We all have one device or another to assist in keeping us safe. We have pad locks and security systems to safe guard our home, alarm systems to protect the equipment in .....
Web Order Entry. Use eConnect to avoid high user license cost in Great Plains. eConnect is SDK to reference Great Plains objects you will need SOP and POP orders entry
Customer/Vendor Consolidation. For agents, who are customers and vendors at the same time use consolidation module. It is available for Great Plains Professional only if youd like to stay with Great Plains Standard use Great Plains Dexterity to program the consolidation.
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