We do believe that GP is a good fit for mid-market and smaller mid-market customers, engaged in wholesale, retail, distribution, supply chain management businesses. In such environment you might not have a luxury budget for barcoding or RFID equipment5.Competition. There are two flavors of the Warehouse Management System for Great Plains. First one would be the extension modules, working directly out of the ERP SQL database and creating transactions there in the real time, our module is one of them. And the second flavor is external self-sufficient Warehouse Management application, which could be integrated via connectors and integration modules.
The second approach is typically more expensive, but it gives you more luxury in the covered functionality6.Custom Business Logic. When you are in the distribution industry, you may require some portion of custom logic, comparing to what generic Corporate ERP typically offers.
Here we have to say the following. Corporate ERP localization typically has two aspects: local language support and compliance to the targeted country regulations. As warehouse operations are sort of internal routines, they are immune from the imposed local legislation. We support our add-ons in English and Spanish. In general, if you have your Corporate ERP implemented on the GP platform a€ we can help you with Warehouse automation.
In the case of Dynamics GP first you would need to research the ISV add-ons market, maybe the product is already available to be integrated. Often, however, you are in the situation, when you have to translate the alternative logic directly to your barcode scanning routines. Our WMS extensions are ready for being modified and in fact the majority of the SCM customers have additional coding needs7.Availability internationally.
In some cases we are receiving the calls from our potential customers: we have Great Plains as ERP in the USA, we are opening the subsidiary in China, Brazil, Russia, Taiwan. Could you help us with this expansion and Distribution automation? The answer really depends.
