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Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains has substantial market share and strongsupport by Microsoft on the US market. Currently we see the trend in the verticalmarkets when companies with custom-built accounting application, usually written onlegacy platform are switching to standard and proven ERP solution and customize ortailor it to fit their vertical market requirements. WeÂ'll be publishing series ofvertical articles: Logistics, Distribution Centers, Warehouse Management, Barcoding,Shipping/Receiving, eCommerce, EDI, Wholesale. Today weÂ'll give you Wholesaletailoring scenario
Sales Order Processing improvements to work with large number of wholesale ordertakers:1. Sales Order Processing stand alone Great Plains Dexterity application, whichworks with Microsoft Great Plains SQL databases to feed in orders. Thisapplication, written as from scratch Dexterity application doesnÂ't requires hundredsof Great Plains user licenses and will work with SOP tables with improvedfunctionality 2. Online Sales History by Customer. If you are order taker and this is wholesalebusiness  each customer has certain level of negotiated price, which it iscomfortable to pay. Also this customer is ordering known set of products from you. It is nice to have list of historical items he ordered in the past several monthsand their negotiated prices 3. Recommend Items to your customer. You can easily design items to recommendlogic, when you link your new items or related items with the items your customer isusually ordered. This is how Amazon book sale works! 4. Sales People Competition. In addition to the above online sales tools you canhave average profitability of the item per period and by sales person (assumingnegotiation scenarios). Here you can have logic implemented allowing certain levelof negotiation room and variable commission, related to strong negotiation and salesskills
Considering Microsoft Great Plains  majority of the logic above is implemented andcould be implemented in Great Plains Dexterity. Alternative platform would beMicrosoft C# or VB.Net ASPX web programming with Microsoft Great Plains at the backend. You can use such tools as eConnect to work with Great Plains object creationand retrieving or go ahead with direct SQL Stored Procedure. To certain level youcould use legacy technologies, such as Great Plains Modifier with Continuum for VB,VBA scripting, etc.
About Alba Spectrum Technologies. Alba Spectrum Technologies is joint venture ofseveral IT and business consulting companies, now operating as single businessentity. We have local presence in the Houston, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, SanDiego, Dallas, Miami, Atlanta, Denver, Phoenix, New Orleans, Minneapolis, SanFrancisco, LATAM & Brazil, Germany, Russia, South East Asia and Oceania. We believein the coexistence of Java (J2EE, EJB, Linux, Unix), Oracle and Microsoft (.Net, C#,VB) platforms and systems and specialize in several product lines and cross platformintegration, customization, heterogeneous report design, plus we provide ERP/CRMsystems comparison and reviews, not being committed to just on MRP platform. We alsostake on XML cross-platform data interchange to be advanced in the coming decade.
Alba Spectrum Technologies websites: http://www.albaspectrum.com http://www.greatplains.com.mx http://www.enterlogix.com.br http://www.ronix-systems.de
