Microsoft Great Plains Implementation: Placement/Recruiting Agency example –
overview for consultant
By Andrew Karasev
Alba Spectrum Technologies
1-866-528-0577,
1-630-961-5918,
help@albaspectrum.com
Microsoft Great Plains
does wonderful ERP job for horizontal markets and clientele. However in our
opinion placement software market is underserved and needs custom modules to be
developed. In the case of Microsoft Great Plains we see numerous examples of
in-house or outsourced customization done for Great Plains Dynamics/Microsoft
Great Plains in order to automate placement agency workflow and processes. In
our opinion Great Plains is good choice, considering the side of placement and
recruiting companies: mid-size or even small. Let us give you highlights from
our consulting practice.
- Full-Featured
custom placement business system.
Technically Great Plains gives you functionality to develop integrated custom
application, where you could build custom logic, extending Great Plains
Receivables Management, Payables Management and other modules. You could
implement complex recruiter commissioning schema, based on number of months of
the placed employee work, etc. This is the most typical case – placement
agency contracts Great Plains VAR to implement their custom Business
Management System.
- Outsourced Payroll.
If you do outsourced payroll – this is popular customization for Microsoft
Great Plains. You usually have to create new Great Plains company for your
client – who is typically placement agency
- Executive Search.
The best fit in Microsoft Great Plains is Project Accounting. You usually
have something like Microsoft CRM implemented to log your calls to prospective
candidates and you log your expenses against project in Microsoft Great Plains
Project Accounting.
- Reporting.
In the old days you had to deploy Great Plains Software Dexterity reports to
do the job over your custom Dexterity tables. Today you should consider
simplification and deploying Crystal Reports, working on Microsoft SQL Server
custom views and stored procedures. Consider phasing out Dexterity
customization and replacing it with MS SQL Server integration, Crystal
Reports, direct web publishing from Microsoft Great Plains company tables
- Commission
Calculation. In our opinion the
old Dexterity-based commission calculation mechanisms should be replaced with
Crystal Reports or Microsoft SQL Server triggers (when customer pays invoice,
which is subject to commission)
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
Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer at
Alba Spectrum Technologies (
http://www.albaspectrum.com ), serving Microsoft Great Plains, CRM, Navision
to mid-size and large clients in California, Illinois, New York, Georgia,
Florida, Texas, Arizona, Washington, Minnesota, Ohio, Michigan