| Module | Description |
|---|---|
| Accounts Payable | Improve your control over expenses with up-to-the-minute information about your payables, easy management of your vendors, and effort-saving automation of many routine or complex tasks that provides a great return on investment. |
| Accounts Receivable | Maintain tight control over your accounts receivable with capabilities that help you track invoices, process receipts, and analyze customer activity, so you can manage sales made on account more effectively and yet maintain lower overhead costs. |
| Bank Reconciliation | Gain unparalleled access to mission-critical financial information within your business and turn that data into a powerful competitive tool, while at the same time controlling it with greater efficiency and ease than ever before. |
| Cash Management | Make timely, informed financial decisions and improve your cash flow with clear, customizable information views provided by Cash Flow Management. |
| Collections Management | Improve your cash flow and reduce bad debt expense with the clear, customizable information views and automated bad debt management tools. |
| Fixed Assets | Take control of your company's assets and put them to the best possible use in your organization with the asset management capabilities you need to effectively track, analyze, and utilize those assets to make them work for you. |
| General Ledger | Manage the financial heart of your business with intelligent accounting and analysis capabilities that make your finances work for you, giving you the vital information you need and changing the way you do business for the better. |
| Microsoft FRx Professional | Master your financial reporting process with Microsoft Business Solutions for Analytics–FRx Professional. High-performance capabilities give you comprehensive, highly customizable financial and management reports that are easy to create, distribute, and use. |
| Multicurrency Management | Take control of multinational operations and manage currency transactions smoothly and efficiently with flexible, powerful multicurrency capabilities. |
| Module | Description |
|---|---|
| Inventory Management | Give your business a competitive edge. By controlling inventory effectively and setting prices on a customer-by-customer basis, you can reduce operating costs and achieve the fast, efficient fulfillment that keeps them coming back. |
| Sales Order Processing | Enhance employee productivity and streamline your distribution process with sales order and invoicing capabilities that help you enter and process orders quickly and accurately and give you more control over your business process. |
| Purchase Order Processing | Take control of your business processes and empower your employees to make sound business decisions and minimize costs. Purchase Order Processing capabilities streamline purchasing tasks and equip employees to track and manage vital commitments on the fly. |
| Advanced Distribution | Maintain tight control over your distribution channels, improve processes, and drive superior customer service with new Advanced Distribution capabilities. |
| Advanced Picking | Keep pace with competitive markets and low margins. Advanced Picking capabilities provide you with the flexibility needed to reduce handling and increase accuracy for both single and multi-site warehouse operations. |
| Available to Promise | Empower your employees to make strategic decisions and provide superior service. New inventory and order management capabilities help ensure the right inventory is available at the right time to meet customer needs and boost profitability. |
| Module | Description |
|---|---|
| Human Resources | Manage and track a wide range of employee information to support informed, consistent decision-making. Understand the business impact of salary changes by running "what if" scenarios with various salary adjustment projections. |
| Payroll | Streamline your payroll requirements, enable your staff to handle complex and changing payroll situations quickly and accurately, and offer better service to your employees while reducing necessary overhead costs. |
| Module | Description |
|---|---|
| eBanking | Automate your critical banking activities and interact electronically with your bank with comprehensive tools that help reduce administrative costs, increase productivity, and improve cash management—in a security-enhanced environment. |
| eConnect | Connect your organization’s applications and data to create a powerful flow of information that enables smarter decisions and a more productive workforce. With eConnect, you can use the latest industry-standard technologies to create real-time, transactional connections across Microsoft Great Plains, external applications, and outside organizations. |
| eExpense | Enhance employee productivity and reduce processing costs with expense reporting capabilities that streamline expense management processes, eliminate paper receipts, and enable employees to create and submit reports any time, from any location. |
| Electronic Document Delivery | Organize and schedule the e-mail message delivery of invoices, credit memos, and other sales documents to your customers in XML, HTML, Microsoft Office Excel, or PDF format, reducing administrative overhead and increasing customer responsiveness. |
| Module | Description |
|---|---|
| Business Portal | Unlock business potential and enhance productivity by providing role-based access to information and processes from a single Web-based portal. Microsoft Business Portal integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Great Plains to deliver applications, information, and processes to employees, customers, and partners across your organization. |
| HR Management Self-Service Suite | Streamline human resources management, and empower employees to view and update personal information from any Web browser. The HR Management Self-Service Suite for Microsoft Business Portal integrates human resources and payroll data and helps provide accurate, current information across your organization. |
| Requisition Management | Help increase control and visibility over your entire purchasing process, reduce paperwork, and automate approval processes. With Requisition Management, employees can enter purchase requisitions online for manager approval and automatic transfer to Microsoft Great Plains Purchase Order Processing. |
| Internet Sales | Empower your salespeople and existing customers by allowing them to place and update orders via an out-of-the-box, business-to-business Internet storefront, saving them time and increasing the accuracy of orders. |
| Module | Description |
|---|---|
| Demand Planner | Balance supply and demand effectively and gain competitive advantage by establishing a well-defined process for demand planning—or simplifying your current process—and improving the quality of forecasts. |
| Engineering Change Management | As markets accelerate, so does the pace of change. New technologies and new customer demands increase the pressure on engineering to make process and component adjustments that accommodate such changes while maintaining or improving efficiencies and profitability. Engineering Change Management helps manufacturers organize and control this dynamic process. |
| Job Costing | To help ensure business is profitable, you need accurate, current, and easy-to-access data about every costing detail relating to a job. Job Costing delivers this functionality to manufacturers by capturing all costs when they occur, and consolidating them into one location that's easy to access and manage—delivering a comprehensive view of production profitability. |
| Bill of Materials | Bill of Materials delivers complete, consistent, and correct product information, enabling you to maximize production efficiency and cut inventory costs across the extended enterprise. By tightly integrating different types of bills and customized definitions into manufacturing operations, Bill of Materials helps improve performance, support time-to-market and time-to-volume objectives, and ensure materials are where they should be, when they are needed. |
| Manufacturing Order Processing | Track production costs in detail and manage work orders, routings, outsourcing, and work center definitions. By directing the entire cycle of order processing, you can build a business that is both customer-driven and profitable. |
| Materials Resource Planning | Material Requirements Planning helps you realize the control you need to compete. Deep visibility into material requirements translates into more effective resource planning—helping reduce stock outages, drive down inventory costs, and streamline the production process. |
| Quality Assurance | By allowing you to design testing procedures of incoming materials to meet your manufacturing process, Quality Assurance equips you to start with the quality of raw materials you require, and dramatically helps to reduce manufacturing delays, rework, and scrap. |
| Sales Forecasting | Whenever you bring together people to accomplish a task, communication challenges may arise—especially when those people have different objectives and backgrounds. Your sales teams and manufacturing managers probably face these challenges—yet effective communication between these divergent groups is the first step to ensuring product delivery that's both efficient and effective. |
| Module | Description |
|---|---|
| Analytical Accounting | Analyze financial data by whatever criteria you require. Introduce greater reporting flexibility and extensibility and analyze transactions efficiently. |
| Encumbrance Management | Manage your budgets more proactively by streamlining reporting processes. |
| Grant Management | Automate many of your grant management processes to track funds more easily, demonstrate accountability, and help attract future funding. |
| Module | Description |
|---|---|
| Project Accounting | Maintain tight control over strategic direction, support resources effectively, and ensure that projects are completed on time and within budget. Project Accounting connects project activities with company financials, provides extensive reporting capabilities, and helps ensure accurate accounting and billing processes throughout project life-cycles. |
| Project Time and Expense | Project Time and Expense for provides project team members and managers with a way to effectively capture, review and approve project time and expense data on the Web, enabling prompt, accurate customer invoicing and efficient reimbursement for out-of-pocket employee expenses. |
| Module | Description |
|---|---|
| Analysis Cubes for Excel | Analyze financial data by whatever criteria you require, introduce greater reporting flexibility and extensibility, and analyze transactions efficiently. |
| Crystal Reports | Transform your Microsoft Business Solutions–Great Plains data into presentation-quality information so you can make better business decisions, with compelling views of business data created easier and faster than ever before. |
| Customization | Meet specific business needs with powerful customization tools that allow your developers to integrate data from external sources, incorporate legacy applications, and modify your Microsoft Business Solutions–Great Plains solution to fit the most exacting business requirements. |
| Extender | Capture information that meets your needs, and make fast, easy modifications without writing code. |
| Enterprise Reporting | Enterprise Reporting offers you the most efficient reporting solution available for complex, distributed environments. It allows you to easily automate procedures unique to your business environment for complete control over consolidations, financial reporting, budgeting, and analysis. |
| Integration | Utilize business data from almost any platform data source. Microsoft Great Plains offers powerful integration capabilities that use the latest industry-standard technologies, enabling you to integrate and incorporate data with a high degree of safety, flexibility, and speed. |
| Microsoft Forecaster | Take control of the future of your organization with Microsoft Business Solutions for Analytics–Forecaster. Meet business objectives and gain competitive advantage with budgeting and planning capabilities that allow you to plan more effectively and respond quickly to changing business needs. |
| Process Server | Maximize your business computing potential by moving processor-intensive tasks off the computers your employees use every day and onto dedicated process servers, avoiding costly slow-downs and vastly improving computer performance. |
| Report Pack | Create the sophisticated analytical reports you need to drive your business forward, taking advantage of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services. |
| Report Writer | Work with powerful, customized reports that allow you to analyze every aspect of your business, pinpointing the exact information you need to increase your productivity and make effective business decisions. |
| Smart List Builder | Query more of your data in more ways. |
| Module | Description |
|---|---|
| Field Service | Manage complex field service operations with higher levels of profitability and customer satisfaction. Nine powerful modules integrate essential accounting, distribution, and service processes to increase technician productivity, reduce overhead, and open up new revenue opportunities while focusing on what's important — your customer. |
| Module | Description |
|---|---|
| Security Management | With powerful security management capabilities presented in a clear, interactive format, you can control access to data, applications, and tools; reduce IT administration; and help maintain high levels of protection for your business system. |
| System Manager | Make your business processes work for you with the backbone of Microsoft Business Solutions–Great Plains System Manager. By configuring your system to meet your business needs, you'll work more productively and share information more effectively across your organization. |
| Module | Description |
|---|---|
| Financial Management | Maintain tight control of banking, while effectively monitoring cash inflows and outflows. Microsoft Business Solutions Small Business Financials integrates all cash, check, and credit card transactions, track bank account balances, and lets you automate the monthly process of reconciling these accounts. |
| Financials | Microsoft Small Business Financials is designed for ease of use, business growth, and changing business needs. It provides you with flexible account structures, efficient transaction processing, familiar Microsoft Excel-based budgeting, and sophisticated financial reporting capabilities. |
| Fixed Assets | Take control and improve fiscal management of fixed business assets with convenient, flexible ways to automatically calculate, track, and post depreciation. |
| Reporting | Provide easy access to information without interrupting everyday business processes. Microsoft Business Solutions Small Business Financials offers more than 148 customizable reports that let you quickly view, analyze, and monitor business metrics and more. |
| Inventory | Manage inventory effectively with flexible pricing and cost methods, back-order management, and real-time inventory adjustments. All this integrated with sales and purchasing processes helps ensure your business can purchase, sell, and replenish stock to control costs and meet customer needs. |
| Purchasing | Manage vendor relationships, control costs, and replenish inventory efficiently. Microsoft Small Business Financials includes automated purchasing, payment, and vendor tracking processes, with integration to help ensure purchasing and inventory information is consistent, current, free of errors, and easily available. |
| Sales | Streamlined sales processes enable employees to process and fulfill orders smoothly, helping ensure customer satisfaction. Sales reporting capabilities turn data into information to help you make better decisions about offerings, and meet customer needs better. |
| HR Management / Payroll | Save money, maintain control over payroll processes, and respond quickly to employee requests with Microsoft Small Business Financials U.S. Payroll. |