Distribution Management - Supply Management
How to keep the right goods flowing, communicate better with partners, and gain loyal customers
Manufacturers and distributors face many competitive challenges. In a rapidly-changing business environment, continuous innovation is a must to stay competitive. But how do you achieve it? By using integrated systems that link functions across your organization, you can reduce time-to-market and improve control of your entire supply chain. Cutting-edge supply chain and financial management features in Microsoft Dynamics GP can help you connect customer requirements with product design, work better with business partners, and better track workflow across manufacturing, purchasing, finance, sales, and distribution.
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Meet customer demand for innovative services and products
Today's market demands constant innovation and continuous improvements at every level and across disparate locations. You need the integrated tools to support your strategic vision and agility for the long term.
| • | Start with what's familiar. Microsoft Dynamics GP delivers a comprehensive supply chain management solution that is well-integrated with productivity applications and technologies you already know, such as Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Outlook. Web services, wireless connectivity, and other technologies can help you meet manufacturing and customer demands in innovative ways. |
| • | Serve customers better. Microsoft Dynamics GP helps your people service customers more effectively, set priorities more easily, and streamline manufacturing, sales, and purchasing processes. People can access and work with information from the desktop more simply, improving accuracy, speeding fulfillment, and reducing costs. |
| • | Drive internal processes for maximum profit. Microsoft Dynamics GP simplifies and accelerates complicated manufacturing processes, such as tracking and coordinating resource availability and inventory to reduce customer order lead times. By connecting inventory control with purchasing and sales order processing with demand planning, Microsoft Dynamics GP helps you maintain the right stock at the right time. |
Reduce time-to-market with strategic manufacturing
To maintain your competitive edge, you need to reduce capital tied up in finished goods, work-in-progress, and raw material inventory while optimizing available resources and improving customer service levels. Microsoft Dynamics GP gives you visibility into all aspects of manufacturing and distribution including customer demand, material inventories, resource availability, and production orders.
| • | Streamline the purchasing process. Microsoft Dynamics GP can help you to reduce complexity and improve navigation between purchase orders and receiving, and base manufacturing on reliable forecasting from your sales and field organizations. |
| • | Focus on what's important for your success. Microsoft Dynamics GP provides clear, up-to-the-minute visibility into your entire manufacturing organization, including customer demand, factory activity, order status, service information, customer data, financial reporting, supplier information, and more. |
| • | Improve process efficiency and strategic decision-making. Manufacturing capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics GP help you streamline and maximize these important aspects. |
Develop a strategic, end-to-end supply chain
To retain existing customers and capitalize on new opportunities, you need to solidify your customer focus and make all business relationships more productive and rewarding. Microsoft Dynamics GP helps you turn your entire supply chain into a strategic asset.
| • | Tighten connections with customers and suppliers. Make it easier for customers and business partners to do business with you by implementing customer portals and Microsoft Business Portal. You'll provide your people with current, reliable information, and make important business applications always available. |
| • | Improve warehouse operations. Microsoft Dynamics GP helps provide you with faster, more efficient picking; more effective, dependable management of warehouse locations even if you have several warehouses; and rapid, cost-effective shipping. Improved picklist features in Microsoft Dynamics GP provide visibility into component inventory, as well as greater flexibility in creating and making changes to manufacturing orders. |
| • | Improve distribution and manage your returns process more flexibly. Microsoft Dynamics GP can improve productivity for employees creating and handling Return Materials Authorization (RMA) and Return to Vendor (RTV) transactions. |
Next steps
See how Microsoft Dynamics GP can help you compete by giving you the integrated tools to manage the supply chain more efficiently.
| • | See distribution and manufacturing demos: |
  Distribution I
Time: 2:10
| Meet customer demand with inventory and order management that helps reduce cost, improve accuracy, and speed fulfillment. |
Distribution II
Time: 2:10 | Reduce inventory holding costs with improved purchasing, reporting, and forecasting tools. |
Manufacturing I
Time: 2:30 | Improve your ability to deliver a quality product on time and on budget with integrated manufacturing. |
Manufacturing II
Time: Approx. 4 Min. | Optimize inventory to improve your manufacturing throughput and business performance. |
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| • | View manufacturing and distribution sample reports: |
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| View samples of multiple reports that can help manufacturers and distributors manage processes efficiently. |
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