Released on = April 11, 2006, 5:07 pm

Press Release Author = Alba Spectrum Group

Industry = Computers

Press Release Summary = Microsoft Dynamics GP is good platform for Corporations,
however if Company goes internationally and established subsidiaries overseas and in
Latin America, it should know international ERP aspects, such as localization,
multicurrency, regional languages, etc.

Press Release Body = Alba Spectrum Group, USA/Canada: 1-866-528-0577,
1-630-961-5918, Europe: +44 20 8123 2580, +45 36 96 55 20, Mexico: 52-55-535-04027,
Brazil: 55-11-3444-4949, help@albaspectrum.com skype: albaspectrum
Freight Forwarding ERP: Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains / Microsoft
Dynamics GP 9.0 customization & setup - overview for consultant
Microsoft Great Plains may be recommended for international freight forwarding /
transportation company. Great Plains has such features as multicurrency (Euro,
Pound, Yuan, Yen, Peso, Real), Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese (and if needed
Unicode-specific languages such as Chinese, Japanese). If you have operations in
East Europe - you can have Polish version as well as you can have several screens
(SOP Entry, Inventory Item Maintenance, Customer/Vendor Maintenance, etc) translated
to Russian, Lithuanian, Latvian. Plus - if you consider Great Plains as a platform
for custom tailoring and developing - you can have reasonably priced solution for
horizontal business, such as freight forwarding, cargo delivery, consignment,
transportation. Let's consider industry specifics and the way to implement them in
Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains
. Agent Settlement. Freight forwarder usually deploys agents to deliver shipment.
And agents are usually paid on the monthly or semimonthly basis. This means that
you should have agents as customer.
. Daily Agent MBL invoices/statements. Assuming that agent is handling several
shipment with Master Bill of Ladings (MBL) and House Bill of Ladings (HBL) per day -
freight forwarder emails to the agent daily invoices. Then these daily invoices are
settled and paid one time per months
. Cargo Tracking System. This is usually custom in-house made system, specific to
each freight forwarder or industry specific stand alone software. The important
requirement is the integration between Shipment Tracking System and ERP, such as
Great Plains
. Accurate in-time payments. Payments are required to stay in highly competitive
business, such as freight forwarding
. Bill of Lading report. Where you usually need additional info to standard invoice
form: Carrier, MAWB, Airport of Departure, Airport of Destination, Flight #/ETA,
Weight in KG, Lbs, number of packages, etc.
Technologies and customization tools:
. Great Plains Dexterity. This is Great Plains Software and currently Microsoft
Great Plains programming language and IDE. It will allow you seamless integration
with Great Plains user interface. You should realize agent settlement screen and
inquiry, MBS/HBL profit/loss inquiry form and probably Bill of Lading in Great
Plains Dexterity.
. SQL Integration. Integrating with Cargo Tracking/Delivery system should be done
via SQL stored procedures. Use ODBC Linked Server to link to your tracking system
database (MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Unidata, Pervasive SQL, Ctree/Faircom, mySQL).

. Web Order Entry. Use eConnect to avoid high user license cost in Great Plains.
eConnect is SDK to reference Great Plains objects - you will need SOP and POP orders
entry
. Customer/Vendor Consolidation. For agents, who are customers and vendors at the
same time use consolidation module. It is available for Great Plains Professional
only - if you'd like to stay with Great Plains Standard - use Great Plains Dexterity
to program the consolidation.
About Alba Spectrum Technologies. Alba Spectrum Technologies is joint venture of
several IT and business consulting companies, now operating as single business
entity. We have local presence in the Houston, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San
Diego, Dallas, Miami, Atlanta, Denver, Phoenix, New Orleans, Minneapolis, San
Francisco, LATAM & Brazil, Germany, Russia, South East Asia and Oceania. We believe
in the coexistence of Java (J2EE, EJB, Linux, Unix), Oracle and Microsoft (.Net, C#,
VB) platforms and systems and specialize in several product lines and cross platform
integration, customization, heterogeneous report design, plus we provide ERP/CRM
systems comparison and reviews, not being committed to just on MRP platform. We also
stake on XML cross-platform data interchange to be advanced in the coming decade.
Alba Spectrum Technologies websites:
http://www.albaspectrum.com
http://www.greatplains.com.mx
http://www.enterlogix.com.br
http://www.ronix-systems.de


Web Site = http://www.albaspectrum.com

Contact Details = Alba Spectrum Group, USA/Canada: 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918,
Europe: +44 20 8123 2580, +45 36 96 55 20, Mexico: 52-55-535-04027, Brazil:
55-11-3444-4949, help@albaspectrum.com skype: albaspectrum