Great Plains Promise Altara

Available with Great Plains
Empower your employees to make strategic decisions and provide superior service. New inventory and order management capabilities help ensure the right inventory is available at the right time to meet customer needs and boost profitability.

Take Control of Your Inventory
Gain complete control over your inventory by knowing instantly how much of each product you have on hand, how much is committed, and how much is tied up unnecessarily in transactions that may never take place.

Give Employees What They Need
Make it easy for employees to work more productively with critical information such as accurate inventory counts, using running projected inventory balances presented in a clear and accessible manner.

Exceed Customer Expectations
Give customers firm promises of when a product is deliverable by clearly seeing existing commitments and eliminating the risk of stock-outs.

Get a Complete View of Your Stock
Immediately see every unposted transaction for an individual product, whether real or simply anticipated.

Maximize Your Net Profit
Avoid lost sales, backorders, dead inventory, and poor customer service with information that helps you make the most efficient and effective use of inventory and maximize your company's net profit.

See the Future
Project how sales orders and deliveries are affected by delays and opportunities and revise inventory projections instantly, by drilling down to any transaction and making changes.

Available to Promise Features List

Product Summary: Make strategic inventory decisions with an easy-to-read summary of every possible inventory total related to the item, including future and provisional orders not yet allocated.
Complete Transaction Record: Automated system tracking through Bill of Materials, Sales Order Processing, Purchase Order Processing, and Inventory makes it easy to find every unposted transaction that will affect inventory.
Rolling Inventory Balance: Produce a running project inventory balance with complete statistics on real and projected sales, as well as the sequence of anticipated delivery, to provide the most current information to your customers and employees.
Accurate Promise of Delivery: Show customers and employees the impact of promising immediate delivery if inventory appears to be committed, as well as project how sales orders will be affected if purchase receipts are delayed.
Calculate Earliest Ship Date: Quickly find the earliest date that a specific quantity of stock can be supplied to your customers while still meeting all existing commitments.
Drill Down and Update: Drill down to any transaction listed and see a revised inventory projection when you amend product quantities or delivery dates.
Full and Seamless Integration: Maintain and enhance your existing inventory database with a solution built on Microsoft SQL Server™ technologies, designed to mesh seamlessly with other Microsoft Business Solutions applications.

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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