Microsoft Dynamics solutions include applications and services for retailers, manufacturers, wholesale distributors, and service companies, doing business domestically or in multiple countries. With these tools in hand, people in every key position in your organization can contribute to the success of your company. Microsoft Dynamics enhances all lines of business in your organization and delivers exceptional benefits in three critical areas:
Financial management:
Microsoft Dynamics solutions help you maintain control of your finances and manage them with a high level of efficiency. You can make complete, current financial information and reports available to anybody who needs it to perform business planning. Simplify and automate routine and repetitious functions, so your employees can focus on more critical tasks. Use Microsoft Dynamics to create the required financial and other reporting needed to realize flawless regulatory compliance.
Customer relationship management (CRM):
Microsoft Dynamics CRM and other customer relationship management tools help you maintain close contact with your customers and prospects, and manage sales and marketing initiatives and track their results. Microsoft Dynamics can also assist you in identifying emerging customer needs early and respond to them before the competitors do.
Supply chain management:
With Microsoft Dynamics, you can connect your entire supply chain in a productive, fast-moving flow. Assess the business value of your vendor and business partner relationships to make sure they suit your objectives. Offer sophisticated communicative, collaborative, and self-service capabilities to make it easy and compelling for other companies to do business with you. Increase efficiencies in distribution to improve customer satisfaction and reduce the cost of doing business.
The following information outlines the functions available in different editions of Microsoft Dynamics GP, AX, NAV and SL.
Business Essentials
Advanced Management*
This edition addresses core financial management needs
and includes essential features for integrated financial and business
management. It is streamlined for ease of installation, rapid user
adoption, and affordability.
Financial management,
including:
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General ledger
•
Accounts receivable
•
Accounts payable
•
Fixed asset management
Supply chain management
including:
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Sales order processing
•
Purchase order processing
•
Inventory management
Business intelligence and reporting
including: Microsoft FRx Desktop (1 user)
Basic configuration and development tools
In addition to core functionality, the Business
Essentials Foundation Pack includes one full access user license.
Additional full access users and partial access users may be licensed. A
limited set of additional components—such as payroll components—may also
be licensed for this edition.
This edition addresses the needs of organizations that
are looking for a solution with an extensive set of advanced
functionality.
All the functionality of the Business Essentials
edition is included plus the following:
Advanced financial management,
including:
•
Cash management
•
Collections management
Advanced business intelligence and reporting
Customer relationship management,
including
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Professional Server**
(at least one user license must be purchased for Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Professional to use this product)
Manufacturing
Advanced supply-chain management,
including:
•
Bill of materials
•
Requisition management
In addition, the Advanced Management Foundation Pack
includes one full access user license. Additional full access users and
partial access users may be licensed.
* Advanced Management Enterprise: Extend your solution
For organizations with even more complex needs, Advanced Management Enterprise components are available.
These additional components let you extend the Advanced Management edition by providing the following rich set of advanced functionality:
Advanced manufacturing functionality, including shop management, capacity planning and job costing
Field Service Management
Advanced project management
Advanced configuration and development tools including source code access
**Microsoft Dynamics CRM: Get it separately or with your business-ready license
In addition to being available with the Microsoft Dynamics Advanced Management edition above, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Professional will continue to be available through the Microsoft Volume Licensing program. See the Microsoft Dynamics CRM How to Buy page for more information. The Microsoft Dynamics Advanced Management Foundation Pack does not include user access for Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
