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----------------------------------------------------------Permission is granted for the below article to forward,reprint, distribute, use for ezine, newsletter, website,offer as free bonus or part of a product for sale as longas no changes a Gone are those times when the companies and the organisations didn't need a hi-tech system to handle them. Owing to the considerable increase in the business sector and thus, an enormous increase in the complexity of the organisational struc
we recommend you to consider following ERP selection, salescycle, data conversion and user training recommendations, as our experienceimplementing Great Plains since 2004 indicates, they could save you a lot ofmoney and secure successful implementation and switching to production mode: 1. Reach versus Standard functionality ERP and MRPsystems. The idea is simple if you areregular business with most of the business processes to be standard and onlyfew unique processes, where you likely need custom ERP logic to be programmedfor you, consider the idea to purchase ERP system which doesnt give youso-called rich logic, but instead purchase ERP with standard logic, which willbarely do the job and you do not have to pay upfront and then on the annualbasis for the most of the rich logic, which you never going to use. Practical example if you are heavilyattacked by rich functionality MRP, such as Oracle EBusiness Suite, try to goone step down and consider standard logic ERP, such as Great Plains DynamicsGP 2. Small customizations versus purchasing expensiveadd-ons. Imagine the situation, when youare sea shipping business and all you need as custom feature in Great Plains isBill of Lading. Instead of purchasingindustry specific module, which provides a lot of transportation industryfeatures and also does Bill of Lading consider creating Bill of Lading asmodified report for SOP Blank Invoice Form, or something like fairly simpleCrystal Report doing the same, but in more flexible way 3. Look for better support options. There are a lot of Great Plains Reseller, ISVcustomization partners and consultants on the market, who potentially couldserve you. Pick the one, who doesnt lookfor large sales in these difficult years, and who prefers low profile clients,where it just does light required maintenance and data repair 4. Train your IT department to support GP simpleissue in-house. If you already have MSSQL Server DBA, or Microsoft Visual Studio C# or VB programmer, these peoplecould also be trained in GP architecture, and support your users with simple GPcases 5. Postpone Upgrade. If you are on version 9.0, you may save somemoney on postponing upgrade to current version GP 10.0, as functionality and DBplatforms are the same or similar
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