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Enabling your people to better manage resource planning, production, and every aspect of your manufacturing process helps ensure smooth production cycles and rapid response to changing customer needs-helping your business gain a competitive advantage.

Microsoft Dynamics™ GP

Microsoft Dynamics GP offers powerful, cost-effective resource planning and management tools that enable you to collaborate with trading partners, manage the entire financial life cycle of the manufacturing business process, and build a sustainable advantage in your industry.

Engineering Change Management
As markets accelerate, so does the pace of change. New technologies and new customer demands increase the pressure on engineering to make process and component adjustments that accommodate such changes while maintaining or improving efficiencies and profitability. Engineering Change Management helps manufacturers organize and control this dynamic process.

Job Costing
To help ensure business is profitable, you need accurate, current, and easy-to-access data about every costing detail relating to a job. Job Costing delivers this functionality to manufacturers by capturing all costs when they occur, and consolidating them into one location that's easy to access and manage-delivering a comprehensive view of production profitability.

Bill of Materials
Bill of Materials delivers complete, consistent, and correct product information, enabling you to maximize production efficiency and cut inventory costs across the extended enterprise. By tightly integrating different types of bills and customized definitions into manufacturing operations, Bill of Materials helps improve performance, support time-to-market and time-to-volume objectives, and ensure materials are where they should be, when they are needed.

Manufacturing Order Processing
Track production costs in detail and manage work orders, routings, outsourcing, and work center definitions. By directing the entire cycle of order processing, you can build a business that is both customer-driven and profitable.

Materials Requirements Planning
Material Requirements Planning helps you realize the control you need to compete. Deep visibility into material requirements translates into more effective resource planning-helping reduce stock outages, drive down inventory costs, and streamline the production process.

Quality Assurance
By allowing you to design testing procedures of incoming materials to meet your manufacturing process, Quality Assurance equips you to start with the quality of raw materials you require, and dramatically helps to reduce manufacturing delays, rework, and scrap.

Sales Forecasting
Whenever you bring together people to accomplish a task, communication challenges may arise-especially when those people have different objectives and backgrounds. Your sales teams and manufacturing managers probably face these challenges-yet effective communication between these divergent groups is the first step to ensuring product delivery that's both efficient and effective.

Quality Assurance
Maintain tight control of the quality testing process to help ensure that products consistently meet or exceed demanding customer requirements. By allowing you to design testing procedures of incoming materials to meet your manufacturing process, Quality Assurance equips you to start with the quality of raw materials that you require, and dramatically reduces manufacturing delays, rework, and scrap.

Sales Configurator
Help customers - and your employees that serve them - navigate the complexities of selling customized products faster and more effectively. With uniform, accurate, and easy-to-understand product information at the point of sale, you can select the most suitable product configuration - condensing the sales cycle, driving revenue and profitability, and improving responsiveness to customer and market dynamics.