Released on = June 5, 2007, 7:44 pm

Press Release Author = Alba Spectrum Group

Industry = Computers

Press Release Summary = As the replacement to eRequisition, completely rewritten in
Microsoft .Net platform as Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics GP Business Portal family
of modules, requisition management in Business Portal version 3.0 should fit large
corporate business purchasing department requirements. Being hosted in Business
Portal, it doesn't require you to purchase Great Plains user licenses for each BP
user - instead you purchase low cost BP user licenses. Let's review RM business
logic

Press Release Body = Alba Spectrum Group, http://www.albaspectrum.com
help@albaspectrum.com, 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918

As the replacement to eRequisition, completely rewritten in Microsoft .Net platform
as Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics GP Business Portal family of modules, requisition
management in Business Portal version 3.0 should fit large corporate business
purchasing department requirements. Being hosted in Business Portal, it doesn't
require you to purchase Great Plains user licenses for each BP user - instead you
purchase low cost BP user licenses. Let's review RM business logic:
. Approval Hierarchy. If you read BP RM manual, you probably get a bit confused as
it doesn't go to very detailed level and doesn't have FAQ section. Important point
in our opinion is the fact that in order to be able to create new purchase request
(also referred as requisition), business portal user should be in approval hierarchy
as the user (not as a member of the role). What is not mentioned, however is the
scenario when you have all your employees, who is entitled to submit requisition in
approval hierarchy on the same level (meaning that approval hierarchy is not a
binary tree, but the tree with one branch to many leaves)
. Requisition life cycle. Typical scenario is when you have your end user or
regular employee to submit requisition request to replace his old and obsolete
computer with newer one (dual processor, LCD monitor, 4GB of RAM type of PC). You
should not expect your employee to be professional purchaser, so vendor is not known
at this time together with inventory item number, proposed price, inventory location
where computer system should be received. When requisition is submitted by your
fellow employee, it goes to the table of let's say department manager, who simply
places cost restrictions and approves this requisition passing it over to - at this
time again vendor and your inventory item ID is not yet known. OK, now it is on the
table of professional purchasing folk (let's say ex-military negotiation maestro).
This new key player sends out requisition request to potential vendors, collects
bids and selects the best offer for purchase order - at this time vendor should be
identified, plus item id preferably inventory account number. This steps transforms
requisition into legitimate purchase order
. Purchase Order goes to Microsoft Dynamics GP automatically, when you, as
Purchasing Agent, scenarios accepts two ways - if you are in the role or creating
purchase orders or the user who can place purchase orders


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