Great Plains Inventory Altara

Available with Microsoft Great Plains and Microsoft Great Plains Standard
Give your business a competitive edge. By controlling inventory effectively and setting prices on a customer-by-customer basis, you can reduce operating costs and achieve the fast, efficient fulfillment that keeps them coming back.

Make Informed Decisions
Give your business a superior competitive advantage with easy-to-use stock analysis tools and flexible reporting capabilities that deliver rich access to detailed information.

Maximize Operational Efficiency
Empower employees with easy access to the inventory information they need and enable them to enter stock and pricing just once, providing accurate and timely information throughout the system.

Keep Customers Coming Back
Offer better service and improve customer satisfaction with accurate inventory control and customer-specific pricing and promotions.

Maintain Prices Effectively
Control your prices with wizards and tools that allow you to offer promotional prices or change pricing lists on the fly, giving you the flexibility you need at minimal cost.

Negotiate with Strength
Secure customer contracts with personalized pricing to meet customer demand and beat the competition, while maintaining the ability to change prices as needed.

Integrate Seamlessly
Connect Inventory Control with other Microsoft Business Solutions–Great Plains® modules, including Sales Order Processing, Invoicing, and General Ledger, to streamlines mission-critical inventory and sales processes.

Focus On: Flexible, Customer-Specific Pricing
Equip your sales team to improve customer satisfaction. Extended Pricing enables your salespeople to meet customer demand and beat the competition with flexible pricing options and rules that can be modified quickly and easily.

Customer-specific pricing and promotion capabilities with Extended Pricing include:

Powerful date-sensitive functionality for sales and promotions.
Instant relational price updating.
Flexible promotional and discount capabilities.
Personalized pricing where desired, with standard pricing elsewhere.
Easy-to-update price lists.
Easy price setting and maintenance by customer.
Standard price schemas such as percentage off, value off and net pricing, along with personalized pricing options.
Intuitive functionality with drill-down, zoom, and special menu capabilities that offer a fast learning curve and easy visibility into your pricing index.

Focus On: Increasing Productivity with Bill of Materials
Bill of Materials provides a superior solution for tracking the components and subassemblies used in light manufacturing and similar production and assembly operations.

Bill of Materials capabilities include:

Multi-Level Bills: Define the exact order of your assembly process using bills up to 10 levels deep. Insert components multiple times in the same bill to accommodate sequenced component assembly bills.
Efficient Item Tracking: Accurately track the actual cost for assembled items, plan for future changes, and manage current and past items. Maintain valuation after posting to help ensure that costs are tracked accurately.
Assembly Documentation: Detail exactly how components should be used in all levels of the assembly with electronic notes that can be attached to components and subassemblies and printed on single-level or indented bills.
Schedule Transactions: Control when inventory stock is allocated and record actual quantities used, as well as track differences between actual and planned quantities, allowing you to schedule transactions into the future without reserving stock.

Features List:

Inventory Control

Create and track item information most important to you with the ability to choose default entries for each class of items such as color, style, and manufacturer.
Prioritize sales stock with options to rank your inventory items by usage value, actual or project usage quantity, on-hand inventory value, or unit cost.
Maintain complete control over your inventory with quantity tracking at the bin level, cycle counting, stock count calendars, and inventory snapshots.
Track a single inventory item across multiple bins within the warehouse to optimize picking efficiency.
Get instant information on all transactions related to any item you define in the inquiry windows—including lot number, price levels, and item type—as well as drill down to specific details.
Easily transfer item information from existing documents to new documents—including price lists, currency assignments and list price, site assignments, vendor assignments, and kit components.
Analyze all facets of your inventory with comprehensive standard reports including Item List, Price List, and Turnover, integrated with the flexible reporting power of Microsoft Great Plains modules such as Report Writer and Crystal Reports.

Extended Pricing

Personalize pricing by combining date ranges and quantity break options with special net, percentage-off, or value-off pricing for specific customers or groups of customers.
Use relational pricing to update customer price lists instantly and reflect fluctuations with your supplier when you change your base net prices.
Choose the pricing method that works best for each item, including pricing by currency amount, percent of list, percent markup based on current or standard cost, or percent margin based on current or standard cost.
Make individual or mass updates to your pricing lists with helpful wizards. Easily set up and maintain price lists using unlimited combinations of units of measure, price levels, and currencies.

Bill of Materials

Maintain full control over the assembly process with complete bills of materials to accurately define, track, and analyze how your inventory is used as part of your assembly operations.

Key Benefits:

Easily customizable and highly scalable

Supports connectivity with customers, vendors, business partners and employees

Robust, comprehensive functionality all-in-one source

Supports operations across countries, sites, languages and currencies

Key Features:

Microsoft Great Plains SCM supports your entire business and delivers these key functions:

Advanced Distribution

Advanced Picking

Available to Promise

eCommerce

eOrder

Inventory Control

Purchase Order Processing

Sales Order Processing

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