Microsoft Dynamics SL for distribution
Do you struggle with high labor costs because your current business applications are inefficient? Do you need a better solution that incorporates automated planning and processing of customer orders, built-in credit-checking, and robust support for price discount levels at the inventory and customer categories?
Microsoft Dynamics SL (formerly Microsoft Solomon) can help you manage stock levels and cash flow profitably, provide great customer service while avoiding out-of-stock situations, and even incorporate automated customer-priority scheduling. And you can control labor costs and work with partners more effectively using built-in electronic data interchange (EDI).
Microsoft Dynamics SL provides inventory, receiving, billing, and sales solutions—all integrated into your financial systems. This helps you reduce distribution costs and inventory, streamline processes, and manage complex promotional activities. At the same time, you can significantly improve your customer service.
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Benefits of Microsoft Dynamics SL solutions for distribution
Microsoft Dynamics SL can help your company:
| • | Pass on promotions to your customers. Whether your promotions are specific to a particular product, product line, or customer, your people can easily manage the complex promotional activities currently in the market. |
| • | Strengthen customer relationships. Microsoft Dynamics SL is built to fulfill orders in the way your customers request. That means you can accommodate specific delivery times, multiple schedules and destinations per order, billing cycles, and special packaging or palletizing. This functionality helps your company provide exemplary customer service that is customizable and easily tracked. |
| • | Integrate automatic data collection (ADC) functionality. Accurately track receiving, shipping, and delivery of products by tightly integrating your warehouse and customer delivery ADC systems with your financial, inventory, and sales order systems. Using this powerful functionality, your people can access delivery status in real time. |
| • | Streamline product and service entry. Adding information into multiple systems takes valuable time. Your people need the ability to enter data about a new product quickly, easily—and once—so they can continue to grow your business. The integration between distribution and accounting software helps streamline this process. |
| • | Control your process from start to finish. Microsoft Dynamics SL helps you track processes from the moment of purchase to the customer's receipt. You can easily retrieve data about an order to respond to recall notices, determine product delivery status, or find out which customers are purchasing which items. These tracking and data-retrieval functions free your people to focus on the exceptions of your business and provide great service. |
| • | Experience a positive return on your investment. Because Microsoft Dynamics SL is built on proven, reliable Microsoft technologies and comes with one-stop support from Microsoft Dynamics Support Services, your business can gain a positive return on your investment. Also, the wizard-based configuration and system setup tool that supports Microsoft Dynamics SL solutions has been shown to significantly reduce implementation times, resulting in a lower total cost of ownership for customers. |
Features overview
Integrated order management | Manage orders cost-effectively. Order management is tightly integrated with Microsoft Dynamics SL financial management and distribution modules to provide single-point data entry for accuracy and efficiency. |
Customizable order types | Using 19 customizable, predefined order types, create order types and define order processes based on your business needs. |
Customized rate tables | Establish multilevel rate structures with calculations tailored to various project types. Then quickly identify specific exceptions for automatic calculation. |
Multilevel pricing flexibility | "Nest" single-level bills in any order to define a multilevel bill, thereby facilitating multilevel manufacturing, documentation, and cost roll-up processes. |
Sales order look-up | Boost staff productivity and lower your cost per transaction. Locate sales orders quickly by entering any of a variety of attributes, such as description, part number, or by predefined attributes. |
Online price negotiator | Negotiate sales order prices with immediate access to costs and pricing information. With “what if” capabilities, the system can automatically calculate the correct selling price according to pricing rules defined in sales order setup. |
Automated processes | Create purchase orders from sales orders automatically. Drop-shipment processing is automated through to invoicing so no manual confirmations are needed. |
Shipper confirmation | Minimize data entry by automatically confirming shippers for drop shipments after the purchase order receipt is processed. |
Tightly integrated customer invoicing | Simply click to move through areas of customer order information or to launch other functions. A single sales orders screen lays out information logically for everything from quotes to invoicing. |
Web requisitions | Empower your customers and employees with the flexibility and convenience of accessing and acting on key enterprise information anytime through the Web. Give staff and customers the ability to manage orders and check inventory availability and pricing. |
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