Microsoft Dynamics GP in Construction & Building – Alba Spectrum
Microsoft Dynamics GP
9.0 Great Plains in Construction & Building – implementation & customization
highlights
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Microsoft Great Plains
could be tuned and setup to fit most of horizontal markets. You can deploy
third party modules or build your own custom logic in Great Plains Dexterity.
Today we’ll look at the options to automate building & construction business.
We’ll try to use technical language to be understood by programmer, technical
consultant, IT system/database administrator, web developer.
- Project-Oriented
business. Construction company
is project oriented. You incur expenses, labor, inventory against the
building and stick to the budget in order to meet the expected profit.
Microsoft Great Plains has Project Accounting module with budgeting,
expenses, inventory, labor. If you need phases with their budgets – you
should probably look for one of the third party project modules, such as
WennSoft JobCost. If you are established business with decades of history –
you might still be using such legacy (and very efficient in Phasing
functionality) Project module as Intellisol Project Accounting – in this
case you are looking to convert it to either Great Plains Project Accounting
or other current third party module.
- Financing. Builders usually finance the projects. When you do
construction project budgeting – you need automatic financing cost
estimation. This is MS SQL Server stored procedure, incorporated into Great
Plains Dexterity customization for project accounting module.
- Sales.
It is natural way to discount the property if potential customer is willing
to finance it or pay upfront for the future property. In Great Plains
Receivables Management (RM) or Sales Order Processing (SOP) modules – you
should have discounting quote/invoice. The discount amount is based on the
phase of the construction
- Warranty. Certain percentage should be placed aside for warranty and
payment to repair crews or subcontractors. Microsoft Great Plains has Field
Service Suite of modules with repair automation logic/functionality. Expect
the needs to customize it via Great Plains Dexterity or Great Plains
Modifier with VBA
- Customization
Technologies. Microsoft Great
Plains is build with Great Plains Dexterity – this is former Great Plains
Software programming language and IDE, it was designed in the earlier
1990th. Dexterity allows your customization work it Great Plains graphical
environment and security realm. VBA/Modifier – it is for light
customization of existing Great Plains screens – you can place your custom
button through Modifier and then attach VBA script to this button – feel
free to use ADO to connect to the database. Web applications – your can
deploy eConnect to incorporate Great Plains objects into your web
application – eConnect was initially designed for eCommerce developers.
Crystal Reports – is reporting tool, but consider MS SQL Server Reporting
Services first.
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