Manufacturing

Microsoft Dynamics GP for Manufacturing

Manufacturers are empowered to adjust procurement and production with greater precision—a key advantage in rapidly changing markets. Visibility to material requirements and detailed vendor information, along with flexible planning and analysis capabilities, help ensure proactive planning, smart procurement decisions, and precise adjustments to production. You can make sure supplies flow in when and where they are needed—helping reduce stock outages, drive down inventory costs, and streamline the production process.

Microsoft Dynamics GP for Manufacturing Features

Manage production planning effectively.

Visibility to forecasts as well as sales orders makes production planning more effective and allows for more detailed analysis of recommendations drawn from data. The result is better production planning and control. Site-specific inventory planning provides flexibility to manage each site.

Issue purchase orders easily and efficiently.

Material Requirements Planning suggestions can be easily converted to purchase orders which helps ensure that your flow ofmaterials synchronizes with production planning. By combining multiple requirements into a minimum number of orders,  workflow is accelerated and simplified.

Access, monitor, and analyze critical data more effectively.

Material Requirements Planning tracks up to 26 different material requirements categories and offers flexible order suggestions, including “What if” scenarios. A multi-level pegging tree improves supply chain visibility, while manual plan generation and expanded querying processes improve planning and analysis.

Centralized Job Costing

To maximize the profitability of your business, you need accurate, current, and easy-to-access data about every costing detail related to a job. Job Costing in Microsoft Dynamics GP delivers this functionality to manufacturers by capturing all costs when they occur and consolidating them in one location that is easy to access and manage—delivering a comprehensive view of production profitability.

Microsoft Dynamics GP Job Costing Overview

Consistent Sales Forecasting

Communication challenges are frequent when you bring together product groups that have different objectives and backgrounds, such as sales teams and manufacturing managers. Sales Forecasting in Microsoft Dynamics GP helps increase collaboration, bridging communication gaps and creating a powerful loop that promotes effective, efficient product delivery.

Microsoft Dynamics GP Sales Forecasting Whitepaper

Quality Assurance

Seize the competitive advantage with tight control of the quality-testing process, helping to ensure that products consistently meet or exceed demanding customer requirements. Support high retention levels by providing customers with detailed, current information on quality assurance testing for the products being manufactured for them.

Microsoft Dynamics GP Quality Assurance Highlights

Keep Pace with Accelerating Markets

Engineering Change Management in Microsoft Dynamics GP provides manufacturers with easy ways to collect, organize, and review changes to orders before they’re authorized. Adjust processes and components to accommodate new technologies and customer changes while maintaining or improving efficiency and profitability.

Engineering Change Management in Microsoft Dynamics GP