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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

However, often Retail and Point Of Sale systems integrationto accounting back end may have unique requirements (such as lot and serialnumbering as part of item barcode).  Ifyour POS system is already in production, we could reasonably integrate yourexisting Point of Sale to Dynamics GP via set of proven SQL StoredProcedures.  If you are in tiny business,you may consider use barcode scanner as replacement to POS, especially ininternational small business retail business, however in USA we recommend youto deploy POS (Counterpoint, for example). This article may look a bit technical, as we are writing for POSProgrammers and IT specialists: 1.       MicrosoftRMS as POS, Warehouse Management and Centralized Supply Chain Management.  RMS allows you to deploy POS, WarehouseManagement (WM is for one specific store, but it could be used for the wholeorganization if you have the only store as small or midsize shop), and RMSHeadquarters (it consolidates Stores sales into central DB, similar instructure to Store Operations DB) 2.       MSRMS integration points to Dynamics GP.  Ifyou are multi stores retail business and you are executing your Supply ChainManagement via MS RMS Headquarters, naturally integration should be implementedon the Headquarters DB level to your Dynamics GP companies.  Schemas might be Store to Dedicated GPcompany, or Multiple Stores to One GP Company, or mixed, when one set of storesis consolidated into One GP company and another set into second GP company,etc.  If you do not sell to the account (likein retail store for the fitness club), please consider to create Walk-InCustomer in GP RM module 3.       POSTransaction in Dynamics GP.  There aretwo options: to move Point Of Sale transaction as Sales Order Processingdocument (in Dynamics GP SOP module), or consolidate it as single line invoicein GP Receivable Management module 4.       Purchasingand Barcode Label Printing in Dynamics GP. Some retailers prefer to control merchandise replenishment in their ERPsystem, in our case Great Plains Dynamics. In GP you can deploy sophisticated methods for generating barcode foryour newly received items and initiate this process on POP PurchaseReceipts.  Consider such popularreporting tools as Crystal Reports, SSRS, or Dynamics GP ReportWriter for Itemlabel printing 5.       Barcodingin Supply Chain Management.  Dynamics GPERP, MRP, SCM logic is too rich to expect one of the existing GP Add-ons (customextensions, programmed and supported by one of the Dynamics GP ISV partners) todo the job out-of-the-box.  We name ourapproach "solution", where we offer proven programming code from ourproducts to be tuned for your specific GP barcoding integration interface 6.       Out-of-the-boxMicrosoft Dynamics GP to MS RMS integration. You should be able to deploy this product with some support from ourtechnical consultants and technicians in the case when you have straight forwardintegration rules from RMS Headquarters or Store Operation DB to Dynamics GP 7.       MSRMS integration options via Dynamics GP eConnect.  For larger retail chain we recommend toconsider Great Plains eConnect programming, especially when your Retail pricesare in constant change: buy one get one free, each item is 10 cents, if you buythis you can take that item free. eConnect allows you to control your integration to GP, and do not dependon often simplified business logic of existing Great Plains Add-Ons.  Please be sure that you are familiar with XMLparameters and coding 8.       eCommerceShopping Card Integration to GP.  We havespecial project Order Connector, which allows you to integrate PHP, Linux orcustom ecommerce application customers and invoices to Dynamics GP Sales OrderProcessing Module 9.       GPRetail integration internationally.  Weshould be able to help you if your business is located in USA, Canada, LatinAmerica, Brazil, Pacific, Philippines, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand.  If you are in Europe: UK, Poland, Germany,Spain, France, Portugal, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia - we canhelp you conceptually, or via remote support, or if you agree to pay our travelcost from USA.  The same applies to SouthAfrican based businesses.  Dynamics GP islocalize in most of the English Speaking Countries, plus in Latam: Argentina,Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, Venezuela, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua,Panama, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador,Paraguay, Mexico 10.   Howto get help?  Please, feel free to callus: 1-866-528-0577, [email protected], internationally: 1-630-961-5918 orskype: albaspectrum