•Intercompanies Transactions. In Great Plains these transactions are automated and transaction results in parallel transaction, involving due to and due from accounts. You can also do it manually

•GL consolidation. This was popular approach in Europe with sophisticated multicurrency and strict tax regulation issues back in earlier 1990th. Nowadays you can use reporting tools to achieve same goal. FRx could do job, consolidation Great Plains companies.

•EDI. Typical case when Purchasing is automated via EDI. In Great Plains you have multiple options to implement it. The simplest would be SQL queries with strict EDI formatting

•Internal Audit. Internal Audit requires you to have random samples. Good example is AP checks and payments. The solution lays in using external reporting tool, based on MS SQL Server stored procedures, such as Crystal Reports. The random selection itself is Transact SQL routine. We are raising this question, because we saw company struggling to implement this reporting with no luck

We encourage you to analyze your alternatives. You can always appeal to our help, give us a call: 1-866-528-0577 or 1-630-961-5918, help@albaspectrum.com

•Purchasing. Your company might use tenders procedure and you would need requisition, proposals and quotes against requisition, then purchase order and receiving. Deploy Requisition Management and Purchase Order Processing/ Receiving modules

•HR. If you have unionized employees – you may need to take a look at HR module, where you track employees certification, skills, training programs, hiring process and promotions

•ISO 9000. You can cover ISO compliance reporting, assuming that you have either customized Inventory Control system or Field Service suite implemented. The best and recommended reporting tool – Crystal Reports. Usually you create SQL views and stored procedures and base your Crystal Report on these views and procs.

•Technology Advise. When you implement your new system and making modifications to existing one - you should try to predict which technology will stay for maximum number of years, plus you should try to avoid dependence on one vendor/provider - if you need to change Microsoft Business Solutions partner - how difficult to find new one with technical skills and customization expertise to maintain and further advance your custom system?

We encourage you to analyze your alternatives. You can always appeal to our help, give us a call: 1-866-528-0577 or 1-630-961-5918, help@albaspectrum.com