Great Plains Distribution Altara

Available with Great Plains
Maintain tight control over your distribution channels, improve processes, and drive superior customer service with new Advanced Distribution capabilities.

Optimize Distribution
Streamline your distribution cycle by making it fit your specific needs, giving you a high degree of control while ensuring that you obtain speed and accuracy without extraordinary costs.

Manage Your Inventory More Effectively
Make the best use of your inventory and control its distribution more efficiently by identifying and optimizing the key points in your fulfillment process.

Respond to Your Customers
Give your customers what they need and want—fast, efficient service—by tailoring workflow, item codes, and pick lists to their specific requirements without extra effort or disruption.

Maximize Your Net Profit
Avoid costly errors or delays and improve customer satisfaction and retention with configurable, effective distribution.

Find the Information You Need
Remove roadblocks to productivity by giving your employees easy access to all the current information on your distribution line—shipment date, status, latest receipts, and more—that they need to service your customers more efficiently.

Configure Your Solution to Meet Specific Needs
Smoothly tailor the solution to provide the control and information you require to meet your business needs and those of your customers.

Features
User-Defined Delivery Cycle: Identify and define key points in the fulfillment process and associate them with specific operations such as printing, pick list production, or quality review.
Variable Workflow: Configure workflow to produce an unlimited number of workflow profiles, depending on the operating methods of individual departments or needs of specific customers.
Automatic Back-Order Allocation: Maximize delivery efficiency by allocating newly received inventory automatically across existing sales orders and updating Quantity to Invoice data based on user-defined rules.
Order-to-Invoice Transfer: Identify the most appropriate time to transfer defined groups of orders into the fulfillment process by using a shipment date, customer class, or document ID.
Extensive Transaction Search: View, track, and modify transactions onscreen using a wide range of parameters such as ID, workflow status, batch number, or custom codes.
Customer Item Code Support: Cross-reference inventory and order-taking tools to the customer's own item codes to speed inquiries from both customer service reps and the customer.
Customer-Specific Item Substitution: Set automatic or date-sensitive item substitution to smoothly manage promotions, item shortages, or other needs.
Customer-Specific Picking: Customize instructions and print graphic-quality pick lists for specific combinations of customers and items to accommodate special needs such as specific labeling, preparation, or packaging requirements.
Enhanced Lot Management: Set custom rules for inventory date requirements such as shelf life, and receive automatic warnings when stock received falls below minimum acceptable levels.

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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