Dynamics GP or Great Plains Purchase Order Entry

PR Log (Press Release) – Sep 05, 2008 – Microsoft Dynamics GP or Great Plains has a Purchase Order Entry in the Purchasing module that is very useful for businesses that purchase products or items to the suppliers or vendors.  You can enter purchase orders for types like drop ship and standard orders with the Purchase Order Entry.

First, the Purchase Processing Setup needs to be filled in to define the way the orders are entered and flow.  Once that is done, you can select to automatically increment the order number or enter a new number for a document.  Also, you will select a vendor for the order, for example you can create a drop ship or standard for a vendor and then send it.

There are dates for the document dates like purchase order date, requisition date, requested date, promised date, promised ship date, last printed date and other dates for you to keep record of the purchase orders.  You can also optionally enter the currency id if your company works with international or multi-currencies businesses.  Items in the line item section are used for entering vendor inventory items, it has quantities like quantity ordered and quantity canceled.  Unit cost can be linked to the vendor inventory cost.  If there are warehouses to store the inventory, you can also setup up the sites for the items.  

There are many features and flexibilities with GP Purchase Order Entry and it can be integrated with other entries like Sales Order Entry of the Sales module.  GP Purchasing module can be tightly integrated with other GP modules like Sales, Inventory, General Ledger, and other modules.  It makes keeping record of orders for your vendors very efficiently.

All Great Plains or Dynamics GP windows and reports are ready to customize, you can use modifiers to change the appearances or values.  If more advanced modification or customization is needed then VBA, Dexterity, Visual Studio Sdk are there to help.  Great Plains has been in the accounting software market for many years, and it is one of the first software to convert to Windows environment from DOS.  It is also one of the first accounting software to include the .Net in its tools, so the software has always been trying to be on top what are new with computers and operating systems.