Great Plains Modules

Great Plains is one of the most complete accounting systems available in the world today with 53 individual modules. In addition, Microsoft offers other add-on functionality related to e-commerce, supply chain, CRM, and many other areas. (By comparison MAS 200 offers 48 modules, Epicor offers only 35 modules, and Exact’s Macola ES offers only 22 modules.) On top of these MBS solutions, the third party developer community has developed hundreds of additional add-on applications that integrate directly with Great Plains to provide a wide variety of solutions such as bar coding, radio frequency management (Radio Beacon), non-profit accounting (Encore), advanced distribution (Trinity), etc.

A complete listing of Great Plain’s modules is provided below along with a brief description of that module.

1. Analytical Accounting - Analyze financial data.
2. Crystal Reports – Produce presentation-quality reports.
3. Enterprise Reporting - Solution for complex consolidations & financial reporting.
4. Microsoft Forecaster - Budgeting and planning capabilities 
5. Microsoft FRx Professional - Highly customizable financial and management reports.
6. Business Portal - Provide role-based access to data and processes via the Web.
7. Project Time and Expense - Capture, review and approve project time and expense data on the Web.
8. Electronic Document Delivery - Organize and schedule the e-mail message delivery of invoices, credit memos, and other sales documents to your customers in XML, HTML, Microsoft Office Excel, or PDF format.
9. HR Management Self-Service Suite – Allows employees to view and update personal information from any Web browser.
10. Customization - Customization tools that allow your developers to integrate data from external sources, and modify your data input screens. 
11. Integration – Utilize business data from almost any platform data source.
12. Distribution - Maintain inventory in multiple warehouses.
13. Advanced Picking - Reduce handling and increase accuracy for both single and multi-site warehouse operations.
14. Available to Promise - Helps ensure the right inventory is available at the right time to meet customer needs. 
15. Demand Planner Module - Balance supply and demand. 
16. Electronic Document Delivery - Organize and schedule the e-mail delivery of invoices, credit memos, and other sales documents to your customers in XML, HTML, Microsoft Office Excel, or PDF format. 
17. eOrder - Place and update orders via an out-of-the-box, business-to-business Internet storefront. 
18. Inventory Management - Control inventory and setting prices on a customer-by-customer basis.
19. Purchase Order Processing - Track and manage POs and commitments. 
20. Receivables Management - Track invoices, process receipts, and analyze customer activity. 
21. Requisition Management – Control the purchasing process, reduce paperwork, and automate approval processes. Employees can enter purchase requisitions online for manager approval. 
22. Sales Order Processing - Enter and process orders. 
23. eConnect - Create real-time, transactional connections across Great Plains, external applications, and outside organizations.
24. eOrder - Place and update orders via an out-of-the-box, business-to-business Internet storefront, saving them time and increasing the accuracy of orders.
25. Field Service - Manage field service operations. Nine modules integrate essential accounting, distribution, and service processes.
26. Analytical Accounting - Analyze financial data by criteria you require & analyze detailed transactions.
27. Bank Reconciliation – Automates the complete reconciliation process.
28. Cash Flow Management - Produce customizable information views of your projected cash flow.
29. Collections Management – Provides customizable information views of outstanding debt. Provides automated bad debt management tools.
30. eBanking - Automate banking activities with electronic transactions.
31. eExpense – Web-based expense reporting enables employees to create and submit reports any time, from any location.
32. Fixed Asset Management – Track and manage fixed assets.
33. General Ledger - The financial heart of your accounting system, providing accounting and analysis capabilities.
34. Multicurrency Management – Provides multicurrency capabilities.
35. Payables Management – Accounts payables and vendors management.
36. Receivables Management – Manage accounts receivables, track invoices, process receipts, and analyze customer activity.
37. Process Server - Move processor-intensive tasks off the computers your employees use every day and onto dedicated process servers, avoiding costly slow-downs and improving computer performance. 
38. Report Writer – Produce customized reports.
39. Security Management - Control access to data, applications, and tools.
40. System Manager - The backbone of Great Plains is the System Manager which allows users to configure their system to meet their particular needs. 
41. HR Management Self-Service Suite – Allows employees to view and update personal information from any Web browser.
42. Human Resources - Manage and track employee information and produce "what if" scenarios with salary adjustment projections.
43. Payroll:Canada – Meets Canadian payroll requirements.
44. Payroll:United States – Meets U.S. payroll requirements.
45. Manufacturing, Engineering Change Management – Allows engineering to manage and track process and component adjustments during the manufacturing process.
46. Job Costing - Captures all costs when they occur, by customer, job, and phase.
47. Bill of Materials - Delivers product information regarding different types of bills and customized definitions. Support time-to-market and time-to-volume objectives, and ensure materials are where they should be, when they are needed. 
48. Manufacturing Order Processing - Track production costs in detail, manage work orders, routings, outsourcing, and work center definitions.
49. Materials Requirements Planning - Provides resource planning to help reduce stock outages, and inventory costs.
50. Quality Assurance – Allows users to design testing procedures of incoming materials to meet manufacturing processes and quality assurance criteria.
51. Sales Forecasting – Provides forecasting tools, organization, and communication.
52. Project Accounting - Connects project activities with company financials.
53. Project Time and Expense – Enter and allocate time and expense to projects or jobs.

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