Released on = June 3, 2007, 3:23 pm

Press Release Author = Alba Spectrum Group

Industry = Computers

Press Release Summary = Microsoft Great Plains Business Portal is web application,
utilizing .Net technologies. At the same time it had to work with so-called ERP
back office, in the case of Great Plains this is Microsoft Dynamics GP server with
rich business logic

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

Microsoft Great Plains Business Portal is web application, utilizing .Net
technologies. At the same time it had to work with so-called ERP back office, in
the case of Great Plains this is Microsoft Dynamics GP server with rich business
logic. Having said these, we would recommend you to think about MS Great Plains
Business Portal as typical peripheral set of modules, however placed in the web
pages and hosted in MS Sharepoint environment. This a bit complex mixture of
mentioned technologies makes business portal installation and setup complicated in
turn, however if you've done your homework, the deployment should be smooth enough
and you will see that BP does its job. In this small article we would like to
review some evident questions and answers in Microsoft Business Portal Requisition
Management, which is replacement to former Microsoft Great Plains eRequisition (last
version of eRequisition was 7.5, current version of GP is 9.0, we expect 10.0 be
released pretty soon - Summer 2007)
. Approval Hierarchy. Unfortunately in User and Admin guides for Requisition
Management module, approval hierarchy doesn't mention and provide the screen shot,
where you understand that requisition creators maybe placed on the same level under
requisition approver (meaning that approval hierarchy is not binary tree or binary
list). This is one of the most typical questions from IT people, who install MS
Dynamics GP Business Portal 3.0. Also, do not forget to select approval hierarchy
in Requisition Management modules setup
. Required Fields: price, vendor, item id - these fields are mot required for
requisition creator, and this "powerful" flexibility allows requisition initiator to
create requisition with very generic description, imagine something like this: "I
need really powerful new computer with large LCD monitor". Requisition creator
submits such a fancy purchase request and then professional requisition processing
job should be done by purchasing clerk: send requisition to multiple vendors to get
quotations, then select a vendor (possibly by initial requisition line, allowing
multiple vendors deliver goods on one requisition). In other words, this means that
you can select the vendor, item id, item price at the later time

Andrew Karasev, Alba Spectrum Group, http://www.albaspectrum.com
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