Material Requirements Planning in Microsoft Dynamics GP empowers you 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. An in-depth multi-level pegging tree provides greater demand visibility. Reduce the risk of item shortages with the Projected Available Balance inquiry window. Thus 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. Material Requirements Planning in Microsoft Dynamics GP hence helps manage production planning effectively by allowing to cccess, monitor, and analyze critical data more effectively.

Manufacturing Bill of Materials in Microsoft Dynamics GP helps deliver complete, consistent, and current product information. Gain Flexible Control over inventory and production processes with a tree-view graphical bill of materials for entry and inquiry. Deliver Materials where they are needed by linking components in routings for bills of materials. Thus it manages materials, components, and assemblies more precisely— including costs, locations, and routing sequences—to gain tighter control of finished goods, reduce costs, and increase productivity and profitability. By tightly integrating different types of bills and customized definitions into manufacturing operations, Manufacturing Bill of Materials in Microsoft Dynamics GP helps you improve performance, support time-to-market and time-to-volume objectives, and respond to shortages. This enables you to ensure that materials are where they should be, when they are needed.

Manufacturing Order Processing in Microsoft Dynamics GP empowers you to direct the entire cycle of order processing so that you can build a business that is both customer-driven and profitable. Monitor order progress with precision, addressing potential problems before they arise. Mass change the status of multiple manufacturing orders at one time. It helps track detailed production costs and manage work orders and the shop floor more efficiently. Integrated sales and production processes support flexible, efficient make-to-order environments. Integrating production with forecasting processes significantly improves planning in build-to-forecast or hybrid environments. Manufacturing Order Processing in Microsoft Dynamics GP empowers you to direct the entire cycle of order processing so that you can build a business that is both customer-driven and profitable.

Communication challenges are frequent when you bring together product groups that have different objectives and backgrounds, such as sales teams and manufacturing managers. Create forecasts for a range of items or salespeople. Combine multiple custom forecasts into a master forecast. Create precise, forward-looking projections and Leverage historical information for more accurate forecasts. Sales Forecasting in Microsoft Dynamics GP helps increase collaboration, bridging communication gaps and creating a powerful loop that promotes effective, efficient product delivery.

Seize the competitive advantage with tight control of the quality testing process, helping to ensure that products consistently meet or exceed demanding customer requirements. Define parameters precisely for more consistent results. Record and report test results quickly, accurately, and in the form that specific vendors want. Thus support high retention levels by providing customers with detailed, current information on quality assurance testing for the products being manufactured for them. Quality Assurance in Microsoft Dynamics GP equips you to start with the quality of raw materials that you need and dramatically reduces manufacturing delays, rework, and scrap. Powerful support for the production of high quality products helps ensure that your products are better received, which reinforces customer satisfaction.

To maximize the profitability of your business, you need accurate, current, and easy-to-access data about every costing detail related to a job. Monitor overall profitability as well as detailed cost components for each job. Control variances and help improve performance by comparing actual costs to estimates. Thus Improve visibility to increase profitability by collecting job costing data with greater flexibility, speed, and accuracy. 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.

Keep pace with accelerating markets. Request change easily from a simple common form. Edit processes when changes are validated by authorized personnel. 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.