Microsoft Dynamics GP Differentiators

You will find that many systems cover the basics fairly well but there are differences between them that can be crucial. Our analysis was conducted a few years ago for a seminar presented at the Financial Technology Show. We will endavour to provide an update to our analysis in the near future.

Target Market

Small, medium-sized and some large companies with $10 - $500 Million in revenues

Reseller channel

GP has an extensive choice of resellers and implementers to choose from globally, especially in North America.

Extensive functionality

Out of the box, GP includes extensive functionality including Analytics and Reporting, E-commerce, Field Service, Financials, Human Resource Management, Inventory and Order Processing, Manufacturing (Discrete), Project Management, Retail Management, and Supply Chain Management.

Business Portal

Business Portal is included at no additional charge when you purchase GP you get as many licenses to use Business Portal as you purchased for GP. The system is designed so far as an intranet meant to be used by people within the organization.

Financial Reporting

GP uses FRx, the leading financial report writing tool, to generate financial reports. Any report can be designed and you can drill down for more detail. Although FRx is used by many products, it is owned by Microsoft. Auto-generate Excel pivot tables from FRx

Integration Manager

Good tools to translate data from external systems without programming or knowledge of GP data structures.

Intercompany Processing

Automates balancing of transactions across multiple companies.

Smart List

Useful tool to access data allowing for moving of columns, sorting, filtering, selection of data based on multiple criteria, search for data based on embedded text, and an easy link to Excel or Word.

General Ledger

One of the better systems available with many useful features such as mass update of accounts and an undo function to reverse a journal entry made in error.

Analytical Accounting

Don’t use the chart of accounts. Use of dimensions but not used in FRx yet.

Distribution

Trace serial and lot numbers to bills of materials, customer orders, or any other transaction. Blanket Purchase Orders and PO line items with differing required dates Order Status Change History. Inventory allocation based on customer priority and request ship date. Availability to Promise. Graphical BOM that lets you update entries, edit revision levels, and save revision histories. Advanced picking in bulk or waves. Sales workflow process - track the status of 6 steps which vary by sales type. Demand planner using historical data and statistics to forecast demand.