Today's consumer packaged goods (CPG) distribution companies face serious challenges in a rapidly changing industry. These include global competition, shorter product life cycles, and eroding margins due to intense price pressure at the retail level. The right management systems can give your company the agility required to stay competitive.
Microsoft Dynamics GP has the comprehensive financial management features and tools you need to run your business with the greatest efficiency and insight. It sharply reduces the time and effort for key accounting tasks, provides easy access and rich analysis of integrated, updated information, and connects smoothly with operations across your entire organization.
Financial management
Improve efficiencies with automated transaction processing and payment adjustments.
Enhance financial controls with complete audit control.
Provide easy access to high-level and deeply granular information.
Perform multidimensional analysis of financial, sales, and purchase transactions.
Track and categorize specific transaction activities.
Inventory management
Make informed decisions.
Provide ready access to information at all levels with Available to Promise (ATP) capability.
Maintain control with quantity tracking at the bin level, cycle counting, stock count calendars, and inventory snapshots.
Ensure that inventory is on hand where needed.
Warehouse management
Achieve more consistent, accurate workflow.
Harness the pick/pack/ship process with user-defined procedures.
Create custom rules for shelf life and minimum stock levels.
Increase picking productivity.
Save time and effort with consolidated (bulk) picking lists.
Sales order processing
Control your sales with discount management, drop-ship, kit items, sales quantity status, and online sales tracking.
Speed time to delivery with multiple ship-to addressing.
Purchase order processing
Increase purchasing efficiency.
Control processes with cost variance tracking, receiving/invoicing against multiple purchase orders, comprehensive receipt information, and posting.
Get instant answers with complete tracking of open or historical purchase orders and receiving documents.
Maintain audit control.
Customer service
Improve customer communication.
Speed inquiries from service representatives and customers.
Link inventory and individual customer item codes.
Business intelligence and reporting
Extend insight throughout your organization using Analysis Cubes for Excel.
Publish reports efficiently using flexible scheduling and delivery options.
Empower decision-makers to quickly assess performance.
Deliver online, personalized views of critical business metrics.
Pricing
Easily modify customer-specific pricing and rules.
Personalize pricing to meet customer demand.
Beat the competition with extended pricing.
Maintain flexible pricing with easy-to-use tools.
Customization and integration
Achieve greater return on investment.
Lower training costs.
Reduce implementation risk.
Enhance with additional, integrated modules as you grow.
Add Web portal, field-service management, advanced compliance, and RFID capabilities.
Automatically integrate with familiar Microsoft products.
