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Each ERP system has probably similar in general functional blocks, in some casesthey are referred as modules. In the case of Great Plains Dynamics GP modules arecombines into so-called Series: Financials, Sales, Purchasing, Inventory, Payroll,Manufacturing, Fixed Assets. In this small article, let s review Series-Modulesstructure and where Modules codes reside1. Series. Let s take a look at Financials series. Here we see such modules asGeneral Ledger (GL), Bank Reconciliation (BR). When you purchase GP licenses, youdon t pay for Series, you pay for Modules (with exception for new GP licensingmodule GP Business Ready, which competes with all-in-one named license model ofSAP Business One, for example). To give you another example of Series: Sales. Sales series has these modules: Receivables Management (required), Sales OrderProcessing, Invoicing (you can not use both SOP and Invoicing you have to selectone)2. Series & Modules and Code Base. Microsoft Great Plains has historically multipleGreat Plains Dexterity dictionaries: DYNAMICS.DIC is the main and defaultdictionary, which is installed automatically. In the past Great Plains Software wastrying to port all new purchased modules code (such as Icontrol manufacturing) intoDynamics.dic. If you are implementing such modules as Fixed Assets (FA), ProjectAccounting (PA), you will need to install their dictionaries separately, howeverthis process is not difficult. The understanding of code base and dictionaries layin Dynamics.Set file, where all the dictionaries are listed for Microsoft Dexterityto do the GP workstation launching job. The language of this article seems to beoverwhelmed with industry terminology, unfortunately we are in the frames of smallarticle format restrictions3. Manufacturing Series. These Series requires (if MA is intended to be implementedin full functionality) also GP Inventory Control, Financials, Purchasing, SalesOrder Processing modules4. Business Portal. BP is web extension to traditional Microsoft Dexterity basedmodules. At this time, November 2007, BP expands GP and has Requisition Management(former eRequisition), HR and Employee Self Service, Order Management (formereOrder), Electronic Document Delivery and several other modules5. System Manager. This is where you have GP concurrent user licenses. Andprobably if you deploy 10 or more SM users this is the most expensive part of GP6. Inventory Control. IV module is required for implementing the followingperipheral modules: Sales Order Processing (SOP), Purchase Order Processing (POP),Manufacturing, Bill Of Materials (please know that BOM is not part of Manufacturing,however could be considered as light manufacturing, if your MRP requirements aremodest)
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