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Microsoft Dynamics™ provides accounting, finance, and supply chain/manufacturing solutions to help you track and analyze your business information. With end-to-end integration, you can efficiently manage your general ledger, payables, receivables, inventory, analytical accounting, fixed assets, and cash flow, as well as perform bank reconciliation's and collections. You can also manage your financial processes across multiple currencies, locations, or companies. Comprehensive, up-to-date financial information makes it easier to spot trends and gain insight into your business activities, so you can capitalize on your knowledge and identify new opportunities.

General Ledger in Microsoft Dynamics™

Streamline accounting processes and strengthen control of your organization’s finances with General Ledger in Microsoft Dynamics™. With integrated data, intelligent transaction processing, and robust analytical and reporting capabilities, you can reduce the time and effort spent on accounting tasks, monitor your organization’s fiscal performance, and meet business and regulatory requirements. General Ledger gives you flexible options and tools for setting up a company and posting for charts of accounts, general journals, value-added tax (VAT) facilities, recurring journals, and source codes. You can customize your general ledger to include support for intercompany transactions and inter fund accounting, as well as organize financial operations by company and consolidate different charts of accounts into one merged or parent company. With General Ledger you have the flexibility and control to help ensure that your financial operations are precise, efficient, and transparent.

Fixed Assets in Microsoft Dynamics™

Control and manage the entire life cycle of your fixed assets—from acquisition to disposal—to maximize the value of your business investments. Maintain complete records of all your asset information in a structure that makes sense for your business with Fixed Assets in Microsoft Dynamics™. This fully integrated solution equips you to accurately record, track, depreciate, and dispose of your company’s assets with minimal effort and maximum flexibility. You can view and analyze the current status of your fixed assets in real time, including costs, depreciations, and asset transactions. You can also automate depreciation calculations and other standard operations to streamline accounting procedures. A home page that groups the tasks and information asset managers need most makes it fast and easy to perform common tasks and access critical data.

Payables in Microsoft Dynamics™

Maximize your cash resources and simplify payment processes with flexible, integrated accounts payable operations. Financial success in business is not just about paying bills—it is about protecting your profitability. Payables in Microsoft Dynamics™ can provide your business with streamlined, end-to-end cash management services. Timely and accurate information about cash flow and discount opportunities can help you maximize your organization’s purchasing power while automated calculations and support for prepayments help drive efficiency. With robust vendor account functionality, including intercompany invoice posting, you can also make payments to comply with vendor terms, strengthening critical business relationships.

Receivables in Microsoft Dynamics™

Optimize your cash flow position by accelerating accounts receivable processes and tracking customer payment activities. Credit and collection activities don’t have to be difficult or labor intensive. With Receivables in Microsoft Dynamics™, you can tightly manage customer accounts with credit limits and review dates, define collections criteria and payment terms on a customer-by-customer basis, initiate and track prepayments, and match receipts to invoices automatically to eliminate errors and improve processing consistency.

Multicurrency in Microsoft Dynamics™

Expand into international markets with confidence and handle foreign currencies with ease. Whether you need to share financial data with international partners or manage accounts with customers and vendors in other countries, multicurrency support in Microsoft Dynamics™ helps reduce the complexity of global transactions. With Multicurrency in Microsoft Dynamics™, you can define an unlimited number of currencies, track exchange rates, manage entire accounts, and report on financial health in the currency of your choice. Conduct business smoothly across borders to strengthen customer and partner relationships and grow your business.

Business Intelligence in Microsoft Dynamics™

Deliver meaningful insight across your organization with powerful business intelligence capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics . With access to real-time data and a wide range of analytical and reporting tools—including graphical displays, online analytical processing (OLAP) cubes, and Web based delivery options—your people can make informed, confident decisions that help drive business success.

Build Your Business Intelligence Capabilities: With Microsoft Dynamics™, even organizations with basic business intelligence needs can benefit from access to real-time, integrated data and built-in access and analysis tools. Your business can extend its intelligence capabilities with more complex views of business data and access to big-picture views of company information by adding dedicated business intelligence software built on the powerful, security-enhanced Microsoft® SQL Server® 2005 platform.

Share Enterprise-Wide Intelligence with Advanced Microsoft Tools: Microsoft Dynamics™ works with sophisticated Microsoft® applications to help your business meet exacting analytic and reporting requirements. SQL Server® 2005 Analysis Services provides integrated views of business data for advanced reporting, OLAP analysis, key performance indicator (KPI) scorecards, and data mining. With SQL Server® 2005 Reporting Services, people across the organization can quickly create their own reports from scratch and share them with others.

Manufacturing in Microsoft Dynamics

Streamline your manufacturing processes and adapt quickly to changing demands to give customers what they want, when they want it.]

Boost operational efficiency: With Manufacturing in Microsoft Dynamics, you can boost operational efficiency and effectively manage production, including production orders, bills of material, supply planning, and capacity requirements planning. Flexible processes and integrated information equip you to make accurate promises to customers, respond quickly to last-minute requests and changes, and take advantage of new business opportunities to help your business stay ahead of the competition. Any size company can benefit from Microsoft Dynamics manufacturing capabilities. Growing businesses can streamline their manufacturing processes by taking advantage of a simplified manufacturing foundation that includes rapid visibility into work-in-process (WIP), support for order-by-order workflow, and the ability to implement additional functionality as business needs become more complex.

Simplify manufacturing processes: Growing businesses can take advantage of a simplified manufacturing foundation that includes rapid visibility into work-in-process (WIP), support for order-by-order workflow, and the ability to implement additional functionality as business needs become more complex.

Supply Planning in MS Dynamics™

Continually improve business performance – from the shop floor to your bottom line. Supply Planning in Microsoft Dynamics™ helps you satisfy demand while improving operational efficiencies by providing insight into the utilization and cost of materials throughout your production process. With multiple planning options, tracking, and action messaging, you can choose the right course from among make or buy options, quickly implement those decisions, make last-minute order changes, and offer satisfactory exceptions to give customers what they want, when they want it.

Inventory Management in Microsoft Dynamics™

Tighten inventory management processes to help increase operational efficiency across your business, improve customer service, and reduce inventory and distribution costs with Inventory Management in Microsoft Dynamics™. Increased automation and item tracking capabilities help you improve inventory accuracy and better match the goods you have on hand with customer demand.

Warehouse Management in MS Dynamics™

Integrate warehouse management with the rest of your business to streamline operations, reduce costs and speed order fulfillment. Warehouse Management in Microsoft Dynamics™ can help you manage goods and space more effectively, reduce costs and waste, and gain control over warehouse operations. With access to real-time, accurate inventory data, your warehouse professionals save time locating items or performing physical inventories, sales representatives can keep tabs on stock availability, and buyers can maintain optimum stock levels while minimizing carrying costs. Directed pick/put-away processes, support for Automated Data Collection Systems (ADCS) and a variety of item tracking options—including first expired/first out handling—can take your warehouse management to a new level of efficiency.