Microsoft Dynamics GP (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions–Great Plains) is a comprehensive business-management solution built on the highly scalable and affordable platform of Microsoft technologies. It offers a cost-effective solution for managing and integrating finances, e-commerce, supply chain, manufacturing, project accounting, field service, customer relationships, and human resources.

Microsoft Dynamics GP works with and like other Microsoft products that are well known throughout businesses worldwide. That means people across your organization can use skills and products that they already know—like a web browser, Microsoft Office System products, and Microsoft SQL Server—to access and communicate information managed within the system.

Microsoft Great Plains delivers the comprehensive financial management features and tools that companies need to run their businesses with the greatest possible efficiency and insight. It sharply reduces time and effort for key accounting tasks, provides easy access and rich analysis of integrated, updated information, and connects smoothly with operations across your entire organization.

The main features gained by Microsoft Dynamic GP are :

Financial management

Microsoft Dynamics GP provides detailed financial management options that range from general ledger, accounts payable, and accounts receivable modules to bank reporting, cash flow management, and easy reconciliation. Employees can analyze financial data by whatever criteria they require, while the company gains an accounting solution that reflects changes instantaneously. View cash inflows and outflows from a calendar-based interface with extensive drill-down capabilities.

Analytics

Microsoft Dynamics GP provides a broad range of flexible, customizable analytics, reporting, and budgeting options to meet your company's needs—from advanced consolidation analysis to the simplest reporting requests. Its applications tap into the most powerful reporting, analysis, and budgeting tools available—providing real-time insight into the critical information needed for smarter, faster business decisions. Generate interactive reports faster, and reduce administrative tasks with automated report building and processing.

Business portal

Built on Microsoft .NET technologies, Microsoft Dynamics Business Portal integrates with Microsoft Dynamics GP, so data and processes can be accessed from a Web-based portal. This lets you extend the appropriate applications, information, and processes to employees, customers, and partners across the enterprise, based on their unique roles. Provide employees and partners with secure, browser-based access to consolidated financial information, customer data, inventory queries, purchasing reports, and much more.

Integration with widely-familiar applications

Microsoft Dynamics GP works like and provides a high level of integration with other widely-familiar tools, such as Microsoft Office System and Microsoft SQL Server. This allows people across your organization—as well as business partners—to use skills they already have to adopt new processes. It also expedites data sharing across applications. For example, employees can view and share Microsoft Dynamics GP data from within Microsoft Office applications, or view budgeting, planning, and reporting from a Web browser. And because all of the components are integrated, information is automatically shared across applications. This helps eliminate time wasted on redundant administrative tasks.

Improving inventory and order status availability

Microsoft Great Plains is updated with real-time inventory and order status information.

• Maintain an accurate perpetual inventory without interrupting operations with real-time cycle    counting.
• Validate items as they are received, picked, or moved using wireless devices.
• Obtain and review track and trace information for all shipped items.
• Meet complex retail compliance requirements like RFID and carton content management.

Warehouse Management

Warehouse management solution integrates seamlessly with bar code, RFID, and material-handling technology. Using radio-frequency (RF) technology to streamline receiving, picking, packing, and shipping, it brings Great Plains functionality onto the warehouse floor. With real time validation at every step, companies can lower costs, improve inventory accuracy, and provide better service to customers.