Many Dynamics GP clients use statistical data in combination with financial information to create key metrics that management uses to track the performance of a company. What many people don’t realize is that you can utilize Unit Accounts in GP to add metrics to existing financial reports.What are Unit Accounts? Unit Accounts are like Posting Accounts except that they are for non-financial or statistical data. Instead of currency, they track units.For example, a company might use Revenue per Headcount to measure the efficiency and productivity of its employees. Unit Accounts for headcount by department would need to be set up in the Unit Account Maintenance window (Financial>Cards>Unit Accounts.)Tip: It is best to select all … [Read more...] about How to use Dynamics GP Unit Accounts to enhance your management reports
5 Key Dynamics ISV’s to Visit at Convergence 2013
One of my favorite things about Microsoft’s Annual Dynamics User Group Meeting or “Convergence” each year (second only to seeing my buddy Pat Fitzhenry from Microsoft) is spending time with the Independent Software Vendors whose unique products make our strong but broad out of the box Microsoft ERP offerings into unique solutions for organizations.This post will be dedicated to the ISV’s I plan to visit first while in New Orleans on March 18th.1. Binary Stream. This firm offers three products that helped start our year well in 2013. Binary offers a Multi-Entity Management program that allows many entities or balance sheets to reside in one Dynamics GP database. My second favorite product is their Advanced Recurring Contract … [Read more...] about 5 Key Dynamics ISV’s to Visit at Convergence 2013
Dynamics SL 2011’s Newest Feature Pack
Top Highlights - Dynamics SL Feature Pack 1The Microsoft Dynamics SL 2011 FP1 feature set centers on continued Project enhancements, Time & Expense Web Services, and the inclusion of Business Analyzer for Dynamics SL 2011. Here are some of our favorite highlights from this release:1. Hard Close by Module The ability to post to closed fiscal periods can now be controlled at the module level. A new Posting Options tab is added to the GL Setup screen.2. Batch Control report by Module Printing of batch control reports can now be controlled at the module level. The option Automatic Batch Reports is changed to Automatic Batch Reports for all Modules. This prints all batch reports for all modules as before.3. … [Read more...] about Dynamics SL 2011’s Newest Feature Pack
Tips to Understanding the Function Keys in Dynamics SL
If you’ve seen another Dynamics SL user take a shortcut entering data that you did know, you might want to file this post. This post shows what all the function keys in Dynamics SL can do for you.F1 – Brings up the help screen for the screen you are working in. This example show me working in the Dynamics SL Voucher Maintenance screen.F2 – Moves you into a field in the grid to allow you to edit that value. Normally, when you traverse a grid, you are not truly in the fields that you move over. Changes made will be put into the field, overriding the existing value, but you can’t edit the existing value. This function puts you into the field, allowing you to act on the contents of the cell.F3 – Brings up the possible values list for … [Read more...] about Tips to Understanding the Function Keys in Dynamics SL
Dynamics SL-Finding Information about a Field
One problem that comes up frequently for Dynamics SL users is determining where the value in a field appearing on an SL screen is stored in the database. Determining that is actually fairly simple in most cases. When the value is a calculated value that is not stored, this method will not be helpful. To use this method, you must have access to Customization Mode (91.250.00). The customization level will not be significant if you are just looking for information, but you will want to make certain NOT to save any changes that might inadvertently be made.Let’s take as an example the question of where the Type field in the Journal Transactions screen comes from:First, enter customization mode either by pressing the blue button in the … [Read more...] about Dynamics SL-Finding Information about a Field
Dynamics GP Quick Quote Tool
How many times in a year do you have interest in a product that could solve problems but you don’t know if it’s worth the hassle of speaking to a salesperson? For me, I would say this happens often. For instanace, I read this unbelievable book called “Traction” and I tried unsuccessfully to self-implement the concepts that it presented. The book had great points and I was frustrated-but certainly not willing to quit. I had to sit through a 90 minute presentation in order to learn that the consultant charged $3,000 per day to help implement the process.What if I could learn this online without having to sit through a 90 minute pitch? Would I be interested? You bet.That’s when I realized how valuable this Quick Quote Tool is that we … [Read more...] about Dynamics GP Quick Quote Tool
Dynamics GP 2013 is Here
It’s January. Today was a single digit temperature day here in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Twin Cities have great health clubs however. Ours has a sauna, and whirlpool-and I needed both.Another hot thing this frigid winter day is Dynamics GP 2013. Microsoft keeps investing heavily in this product and with its ISV (Independent Software) Community, it's arguably the best middle market ERP product in the U.S. Here are some of the things I find exciting about this upgrade.Microsoft invested 78,000 hours of development time into this product. Many of Microsoft’s competitors in the middle market are less than 20 million in sales and could not possibly make this type of hours commitment to an new version of their product. Dynamics GP … [Read more...] about Dynamics GP 2013 is Here
Dynamics GP-Finding that Table Name
Have you ever wanted to or needed find a table behind a window or the name of a field on a screen? Dynamics GP comes with a built in way to assist you with that. Select the Microsoft Dynamics GP menu, Tools, Resource Descriptions. There are three options on that menu Tables, Fields, Windows. Note: the same menu is available from any window in Dynamics GP. Go to that menu and select Windows, you will see the window below:You can view information about any product that is installed on the machine you are working. If you want to get information about a window other than Microsoft Dynamics GP select that Product. The Series typically relates to where the window lies within the Dynamics GP menu structure. The Customer Maintenance window is … [Read more...] about Dynamics GP-Finding that Table Name
Dynamics SL Year End Event Almost Full for 2012
35 people are signed up for our Dynamics SL year-end closing event on December 20th. The purpose of the event is to help our clients understand better the nuances to making sure that year end is reconciled and that the accounting information has good data integrity.We started doing this event in 2002 for our Dynamics GP clients. It was so popular with that group that five years ago we added the event for our Dynamics SL clients as well. A continental breakfast and lunch are included in order to make it easy for clients to meet other clients and work through questions for other clients-rather than just Boyer staff.The primary presenters will be Jon Augdahl, Dynamics SL Practice Manager, Colleen McCoshen, Support Manager; and Paul … [Read more...] about Dynamics SL Year End Event Almost Full for 2012
Four Characteristics of a Stellar Microsoft ERP Independent Software Vendor (ISV)
At Boyer, we have a number of Independent Software Vendors, especially on the Dynamics GP side of our practice, that we consider tremendous. Most of the ISV’s we sell are quite honestly reactive. We have a client that needs the software to do punch out for requisitions and work with a certain vendor’s medical materials management software…so we research, demo, have the ISV demo to the client and like magic…problem solved. Microsoft has to take some credit here due to their screening process of ISV's but generally the quality is great.We have both a strong Dynamics SL practice and a strong Dynamics GP practice. For both products we have found more of a long term opportunity for improvement than a reactive “solve this problem for this … [Read more...] about Four Characteristics of a Stellar Microsoft ERP Independent Software Vendor (ISV)
