Great Plains Purchase Order Processing Altara

Available with Microsoft Great Plains and Microsoft Great Plains Standard
Take control of your business processes and empower your employees to make sound business decisions and minimize costs. Purchase Order Processing capabilities streamline purchasing tasks and equip employees to track and manage vital commitments on the fly.

Streamline Business Processes
Take control of your purchase process, improve accuracy, and increase employee productivity by automating routine purchasing tasks.

Reduce Operational Costs
Reduce repetitive data entry and help eliminate costly mistakes by moving your requisition process online with eRequisition.

Access Mission-Critical Information
Get instant answers to your purchase order, shipping, and receiving questions, as well as maintain complete purchasing audit control, with detailed information tracking and management capabilities.

Get the Reports You Need
Track and analyze your purchase activity more effectively with a comprehensive selection of reports, with the flexibility to go even further with other Microsoft Business Solutions applications.

Leverage Multiple Currency Functionality
Allow your business to grow efficiently in the multinational arena with multiple currency options, especially those aimed at entering, tracking, and utilizing European Union-based transactions.

Integrate Powerfully
Expand your business potential with smooth integration with other Microsoft Business Solutions–Great Plains® applications such as Sales Order Processing, General Ledger, and Crystal Reports.

Features List:

Purchase Order Processing/Receiving

Control the details of your purchasing processes with features that include cost variance tracking, receiving/invoicing against multiple purchase orders, easy transfer of document information, comprehensive receipt information, posting, and 1099 reporting.
Manage purchase orders at the line-item level with automated roll-up of similar items for efficient ordering, free on-board (FOB) designation, individual line item release to vendor dates, and multiple site delivery.
Get instant answers to your purchase order, shipping, and receiving questions with complete tracking of open or historical purchase order and receiving documents by order number, item number, or date.
Maintain complete purchasing audit control with cancelled item tracking, line-item ordering and status information, document revision tracking, and customized landed cost definition.
Help reduce data entry by transferring information from an existing purchase order to create a new document or appending lines to a purchase order that is being edited.
Enter, track, inquire, and report multicurrency transactions in the originating or functional currency, translated using exchange rate tables, with special functionality for European Union customers.
Easily drop-ship orders directly from supplier to customer and bypass the typical inventory update process with options when entering a purchase order.
Analyze all facets of your purchase activity with comprehensive reports such as Purchase Order Status, Invoice Cost Variance, and posting reports. Integrate with Microsoft Business Solutions applications such as Crystal Reports for further report flexibility and power.

eRequisition

Eliminate paper-based requisitions by enabling employees to create requisitions via a Web browser, with automatic approval routing and e-mail notification to inform users of rejection or final approvals.
View purchase requisitions in process as they route from employees to supervisors and purchasing, with customized tracking and validation of commitments against budgets.

PO Generator

Automate your purchasing through order point or minimum/maximum settings. Determine quantities needed based on the stock situation in relation to the stock goals and generates a suggested purchase order that can be reviewed and edited prior to release.
Streamline your purchasing process by automatically creating purchase orders in response to quantity shortages on customer orders and manage these documents from within Purchase Order Processing, with options to delete links to sales orders or create new ones.

Landed Cost

Track and update the total cost, including freight, insurance, and duties associated with an inventory item. Automatically assign or modify these costs on a purchase order as items are received.

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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