Microsoft Great Plains Payroll module customization scenarios
By Andrew Karasev
Alba Spectrum Technologies
USA
1-866-528-0577,
1-630-961-5918
It is now common thing
when large corporation selects mid-market ERP or so-called standard
functionality MRP solution as its corporate accounting system. Microsoft
Business Solutions Great Plains is very good candidate. As all MBS ERPs it has
MS SQL Server 2000/2005 database platform and allows you to deploy customizable
and altered solution, serving large corporation HR department. If you use US /
Canadian Payroll module as paycheck solution for internal employees – you
probably don’t need custom logic. In this small article we’ll show you the way
of tailored integrated solution for nation-wide placement agency.
- The Market.
There is huge placement market
in healthcare – registered/certified nurses, also we see growing placement
market in other industries, especially looking for temporary workforce:
wholesale & retail, manufacturing, agriculture, etc.
- Paychecks.
Temps might work for one or several of your regional clients and they may
decide to walk in to one of your regional offices to request immediate
paycheck for their weekly work. Each office should be capable to issue
paycheck immediately and the problem is to process and post it in Great
Plains. Definitely you can use eConnect to create work checks, but eConnect
doesn’t allow you to post transactions, this is why you need custom solution.
If you are large company – you may have a need to issue several thousand
checks per day – automatic posting is the must.
- Additional
Complications. US and Canadian
payroll regulations have specific payroll deductions. If the paycheck amount
is small – there is no sense to withhold the deduction (it is designed for
regular employees, who get their paychecks twice per month). So, these
deductions should be accrued in the custom logic and then paid when specific
criteria are met.
- Customization
Tools. In the described case we
suggest to use SQL stored procedures for calculating checks and Dexterity
process server to post checks (creating SQL stored procs for posting would be
virtual rewriting 40% of Great Plains Dexterity based payroll module). And of
course eConnect should be used to pull employee/temp master record:
deductions, state tax, local taxes, address, etc.
- Targeted
Clientele. We certainly
understand that placement & recruiting midsize and small market is
underserved. We have to tell you here that proposed solution is for large
corporate clients only. It is expensive to tailor it for the unique business
(we know that each placement business is unique).
Currently we are
confident in MS Great Plains ability to automate the following industries: Aerospace &
Defense, Chemicals, Oil & Gas, Advertising & Publishing, Distribution &
Logistics, Beverages, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Pharmaceutical, Nonprofit,
Healthcare/Hospitals, Wholesale/Retail, Manufacturing/Assembling, International
Business/Multinational Corporation, Government.
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help you, give us a call: 1-630-961-5918 or 1-866-528-0577,
help@albaspectrum.com
Andrew Karasev is consultant and CTO in
Alba Spectrum Technologies (
http://www.albaspectrum.com ) – Microsoft Business Solutions partner,
serving clients in Illinois, New York, California, Florida, Georgia, Texas,
Arizona, Virginia, Minnesota, Canada, UK, Europe, Australia, Asia, Russia. He
is Microsoft Great Plains certified master, Great Plains Dexterity, Microsoft
CRM SDK C#.Net, Crystal Repots developer. You can reach Andrew:
akarasev@albaspectrum.com