As a member of the manufacturing team here at Altico Advisors, I spend 40-60 hours a week (which sometimes feels like 24 hours a day) working with new manufacturing clients to implement the Microsoft Dynamics GP manufacturing modules, train, trouble shoot, develop workflows, write reports. Or, I’m working with our existing manufacturing clients to enhance [...]
continue reading...Dynamics ERP for Manufacturing
Relief for Government Contractors and Project-centric Companies
Do you struggle to track project profitability? Is the prospect or the practice of complying with federal or state government contracts a heavy burden? Complex project management and/or strict government compliance shouldn’t bar you from effectively accounting for projects and making a profit. To effectively account for costs and revenues on projects and/or contracts, it’s critical [...]
continue reading...How Microsoft Dynamics GP Can Simplify Landed Cost for International Imports
Calculating the total landed cost for international goods can be a time-consuming experience. Fortunately the Landed Cost capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics GP Inventory series can simplify this activity leading to a drastic reduction in the receiving and invoicing effort. This in turn can lead to more accurate costs, increased timeliness of information and better accounting [...]
continue reading...Microsoft Dynamics GP for Manufacturers
The Manufacturing Industry faces a growing number of challenges both internally and externally. Internally manufactures struggle to integrate disparate product, manufacturing, procurement, sales, and customer systems. This impedes their ability to capture a unified view of company and supply chain performance. Externally manufacturers are seeing an increase in global competition, fluctuation in demand, and changes [...]
continue reading...Study Confirms Manufacturing ERP Software Users Require Industry-Tailored Functionality
In some ways, businesses are like people. They come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and colors. They have varying needs and a myriad of complicated problems. Just as each person needs his or her own specific diet, medicine, and profession, each business needs enterprise resource planning (ERP) software that has been tailored to [...]
continue reading...Combining Three Manufacturing Sectors into One Microsoft Dynamics Product
“Most businesses are dynamic with many different operations and processes that together help keep you at the forefront of your marketplace. Manufacturing operations have the added factors of inventory, production, and supply chain management for their products. As complicated as that could be, Microsoft has done a nice job of combining process manufacturing, discrete manufacturing, [...]
continue reading...It’s Great to be Back with Microsoft Dynamics AX
Making the decision to join McGladrey at the end of this summer was surprisingly easy for me. Not only was I presented with an opportunity to join an organization with a great reputation, client-base, workforce, and future, but I also was able to return to working with Microsoft Dynamics AX. Earlier in my career I [...]
continue reading...How to Make a Martini with Dynamics GP
The Dynamics GP Manufacturing module can be an intimidating piece of software. There are hundreds of ways to configure and use the module. But it can also be configured to be simple to use and effective at controlling a manufacturing process. To that point I created a simple video to show this in action. One [...]
continue reading...Cloud Concerns for the Manufacturing Enterprise Quickly Fading
According to Gartner Research, in the three years since it started measuring the Cloud Computing Services Model, the delivery model has moved from #14 to #1 on the Gartner’s list of CIO priorities. A few years ago many manufacturers quickly overlooked transition to the cloud because of the obvious security concerns and “what if” scenarios of [...]
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