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5 Ways Dynamics GP ERP Software will Fuel Innovation in Your Organization

Don Carnevale, Broadpoint Technologies — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:38:46 +0000

Innovation has to be a top priority for organizations that want to grow in the wake of the economic downturn, but do you have the right systems in place to support innovation? Organizations that want to enable people and teams to be innovative make the right choice when they implement Microsoft Dynamics GP. Here are just a few of the ways that Dynamics fuel innovation:

Collaboration. Your people need tools that easily connect them to the right processes, as well as to each other no matter where they are. Nothing puts a damper on cooperative creativity faster than emailing documents around, not knowing who has the latest version and who contributed what. Dynamics GP combined with SharePoint will give your teams the power to share their ideas in a central location without the hassle.
Role based access to information. Your organization probably has more data than most of your people know what to do with. Help them focus on what they know best, so they don’t get distracted with information they don’t need. Dynamics GP will give them a central view to only the information that they need to do their job and keep them focused to make better decisions.
Business Intelligence. Accurate information about how your business is performing is important at any time—but in difficult times, it is absolutely essential. Getting the right information to the right person at the right time has never been more critical to your business. Dynamics GP’s flexible Business Intelligence options allow you to deliver information to your team however best suites your organization.
Workflow. Let the system manage workflow so your people can focus on the important issues instead of who approved what and when. Setting up workflow to ensure that processes are followed and people are accountable, helps the team pay attention to helping clients instead of following procedures.
Integration. When one side of the house doesn’t know what the other is doing, you get wasted time, duplicate efforts and wrong decisions. Dynamics GP combined with SharePoint will allow you to integrate and consolidate the information from all the applications across your organization. “One view of the truth” will help your team move forward in unison and base decisions on complete information.

Stay ahead of the competition by fostering innovation and creativity in your organization. With the right information and the right tools, your team can focus on serving clients better and finding creative solutions to meet ever changing markets. Contact Steve Kane at 301-634-2404 or skane@broadpoint.net to find out how BroadPoint, Virginia’s premier Dynamics GP reseller, can help you fuel innovation.

by Broadpoint, Virginia Microsoft Dynamics GP Partner

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Do you Distribute? 5 Questions To Ask To Know If You Do it Right!

Don Carnevale, Broadpoint Technologies — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:22:39 +0000

If you depend on efficient distribution management for your business to be successful you need to make sure you are running as good as the next guy.

For example: Are you able to track the entire sales transaction including what came out of inventory, when it is arriving from another vendor, profitability and all shipping information? Are you able to see sales patterns to customers and from the salespeople?

There are 5 main questions that every distributor should ask themselves to know if they are running the right systems to stay on top of their industry. Click here to read the 5 questions every distributor should ask.

Elaine Crooks, BroadPoint Technologies, Washington D.C.

Do you Distribute? 5 Questions To Ask To Know If You Do it Right! is a post from: ERP Software Blog

Auto Populate Account Descriptions and 7 other Great GP Tips!

Don Carnevale, Broadpoint Technologies — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:43:45 +0000

At BroadPoint Technologies, Brenda Hopkins is MBS Practice Manager for our Virginia Beach office. She has been working with the Microsoft Dynamics GP technology through its many phases and upgrades for more than 18 years and can be considered no less than an expert on the software.

She has been posting a helpful tip each week with her “Tip of the Week” series.

“Microsoft Dynamics GP v9.0 and v10.0 have a new feature to allow you to automatically populate the account description based on the segments.

This is a great feature to give you a consistent chart of accounts.

Once you’ve setup your account segments and their meanings in Tools …” (continue)

Each week Brenda posts a “Tip of the week” on BroadPoint Tech Topics Blog.

She has reviewed the following so far:

Auto Populate Account Descriptions

Correct Journal Entries

Free your data with Excel Reports

Learn Macro Basics

Let SmartList Alerts Warn You

Limit Records to Speed SmartList Processing