Microsoft Dynamics SL Fact Sheets

Ideal for project-centric and distribution-focused organizations, Microsoft Dynamics SL includes applications for financial management, project accounting and management, distribution, field service, e-business, and more. Review this overview brochure to see how available components can add up to one powerful, customized system to meet your unique business needs. Then see the fact sheets below to get details about individual applications.

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Automatically create shipping labels, build shipment detail, charge shipments and do much more with Microsoft Dynamics SL Advanced Shipment Management. Add precise and efficient shipment functionality to Microsoft Dynamics SL Order Management and e-Commerce Gateway-EDI Edition.

Define, analyze, and manage your company's products with Microsoft Dynamics SL Bill of Materials. Comprehensive features in three important manufacturing categories--bill of materials, production routings, and product costing--provide support for costing and production of manufactured and assembled goods.

Ensure your customers get what they want, when they want it--and maximize return on your inventory investment. Microsoft Dynamics SL Inventory helps you deal with the full range of inventory issues, including outgoing orders, incoming stock, returns, backorders, surplus inventory, and dead stock.

Replace inventory more accurately and help improve customer satisfaction. Microsoft Dynamics SL Inventory Replenishment provides integrated tools that optimize inventory stocking levels and automate purchasing to maintain favorable customer service levels and inventory balances.

Capture actual shipping, handling, and import fees (landed costs) and easily roll them into the total cost of goods. With Microsoft Dynamics SL Landed Cost, distributors and manufacturers can calculate accurate inventory valuation by including additional charges beyond item purchase costs, such as miscellaneous origin and destination fees.

Improve customer satisfaction by keeping order management employees on task and on top of the entire sales order process--under any circumstances--with Microsoft Dynamics SL Order Management. This core distribution module provides comprehensive capabilities for a range of industries, such as distribution, service, and manufacturing, to help improve efficiency and customer service now and as your business grows.

Accurately promise customers the goods they want, when they want them. Microsoft Dynamics SL Order to Purchase helps balance inventory carrying costs with customer service levels so your representatives can fulfill customers' request for goods, even when stock is short.

Boost productivity and reduce transaction costs with increased purchasing accuracy, speed processing, streamlined receiving, and efficient invoice matching and vouchering. Microsoft Dynamics SL Purchasing provides buyers with accurate, up-to-date vendor and pricing information to help them make consistent, cost-effective buying decisions.

Streamline the planning and handling of your work orders, so you can control costs and maximize profits. Easy-to-implement and easy-to-use, Microsoft Dynamics SL Work Order helps plan and track product item costs and keep general ledger accounts and inventory quantities seamlessly integrated and in balance.

E-commerce

Empower your customers and employees with the flexibility and convenience of accessing and acting on key enterprise information anytime via the Web. Microsoft Dynamics SL Web Order gives staff and customers the ability to enter orders over the Internet; check order status any time, day or night; and inquire into current inventory availability and pricing.

With Microsoft Dynamics SL, you can take advantage of the benefits of conducting business electronically to solidify your position in the value chain. Microsoft Dynamics SL eCommerce Gateway-EDI Edition works with Microsoft Dynamics SL Order Management to help integrate and automate business transactions with customers, vendors, and remote warehouses.

Track and control every aspect of routine and unscheduled equipment maintenance. Microsoft Dynamics SL Equipment Maintenance automates the work order process, allowing your maintenance department to generate work orders more quickly and accurately, track work orders with user-defined criteria (making time stamps obsolete), perform detailed accounting procedures with ease, and execute all of your maintenance/repair procedures with maximum efficiency.

Take full control over every flat rate in your organization and inspire more customer confidence in your organization. The flat rate pricing process, the standard in more service industries every day, is now easier than ever. With Microsoft Dynamics SL Flat Rate Pricing, you can stop purchasing expensive flat rate books from an outside publisher and enable your technicians to give on-the-spot printed price quotes on specific services from your pricing catalog.

Manage your service agreements more effectively and maximize revenue for every contract with Microsoft Dynamics SL Service Contracts. If your business has service agreements, you know managing them can be difficult. But with proper management, service agreements can be a major source of revenue for service companies. With Service Contracts, before a technician is dispatched to a site, the customer service representative will be alerted to any active contracts that exist.

Track and manage every detail of your service organization with Microsoft Dynamics SL Service Dispatch. Flexible capabilities help you manage field technicians efficiently, clarify information about technicians' profitability, and accurately track customer information, including account status and equipment and service history.

Keep accurate information about money owed, due dates, and available discounts at your fingertips with a focused and flexible way to carefully track and take advantage of terms and discounts, predict cash requirements, and monitor payments so they are made only once.

Actively manage your customer accounts and identify problems before they occur. Flexible, integrated functions provide you with detailed information and reporting to monitor receivables and do what you need to enhance your cash flow and bottom line.

Take the guesswork out of complex labor and time collection. Microsoft Dynamics SL Advanced Payroll helps you calculate true labor costs, meet time-sensitive government reporting requirements, provide flexible deductions and benefits, and most importantly, pay your employees accurately and on time.

Take the guesswork out of cash accounting, gain instant access to your current cash balance, and automate bank reconciliation. Powerful and integrated, Microsoft Dynamics SL Cash Manager is automatically updated when batches are released by other Microsoft Dynamics SL modules.

Conduct global business easily, whether your company uses a single currency with plans to expand or already operates with multiple currencies. Integrate transaction processing across Microsoft Dynamics SL to track exchange rate fluctuations, determine possible gains and losses when making payments in another currency, and maximize multinational business profits.

Isolate, evaluate, and eliminate the impact of currency fluctuations on your business operations with Microsoft Dynamics SL Financial Statement Translation. This flexible and integrated module helps you dramatically improve month-end close processes by performing necessary currency translations and automatically calculating gains/losses due to rate fluctuations.

Capture and analyze the financial information you need to make better business decisions with flexible, integrated capabilities that let you harness your accounting processes to meet the way you do business.

Monitor, analyze, and report on multiple companies or functional divisions within your organization. Focused and flexible capabilities help you set up multiple companies in one or more databases, run processes, close books, and report results by company or in a consolidated company.

Make payroll and benefits administration a smooth, predictable, and timely process with powerful and flexible capabilities that help you to operate faster, smarter, and more profitably.

Modify any existing report or create an unlimited number of custom reports to suit your needs with Crystal Reports Professional, an industry-leading report writer included with Microsoft Dynamics SL System Manager. Crystal Reports provides powerful reporting and query capabilities for both novice and experienced users. Use it to select, analyze, summarize, and present data in almost any way imaginable.

Application Server allows you to off-load the execution of Microsoft Dynamics SL CPU-intensive tasks--such as the printing of reports and execution of processes--to other machines on your network. This enables you to control where Microsoft Dynamics SL processes execute, whether centralized on the database server, on separate application servers distributed throughout the network, over a WAN, or over the Internet.

Meet your specialized business requirements with a solution that adapts to the way your business works. Microsoft Dynamics SL System Manager and Shared Information offers flexible control and capabilities to help you import and integrate information and optimize system performance across your organization.

Gain precise control over project finances by creating flexible, multiple tiered hierarchies to reflect the spectrum of labor rates and billing structures you need. Then automatically allocate charges and revenues, account for work-in-process, transfer or consolidate transactions, and record accurate data for billing and posting to general ledger accounts.

Enhance business decision-making with efficient access to comprehensive data about project performance and profitability. Quickly collect and summarize data for key metrics, selectively pinpoint details for analysis, and present results in intuitive and practical formats.

Take control of your project finances with powerful budgeting tools that allow you to significantly increase your project's profitability. By tracking your budgeting process throughout the life of your project, you can view the impact of budget changes on profitability and manage the information you need to make your project successful.

Help enhance control of project progress and profitability by increasing awareness of changes in key indicators or documents awaiting action. Automated alerts keep you informed of pending deadlines, required approvals, escalating costs, and eroding margins, making it easy to intervene so projects and profits stay on track.

Streamline time-consuming contract management tasks and help increase the productivity of subcontractor interactions for even the most complex projects. By improving control over change orders, document tracking, and subcontractor disbursements, you can help ensure timely completion, enhance cash flow, and boost project profitability.

Improve your project profitability by providing project managers with the accurate, meaningful information needed to gain control over project revenue and expenses--enough control to help make even low-margin projects profitable.

Get the information necessary to improve the profitability of service professionals and other human resources. Track personnel availability, billable time, revenues, and the realization of established utilization goals. View timecard line-item detail, or speed up analysis by customizing and summarizing data in a variety of groupings and time periods.

Shorten billing cycles and improve cash flow by taking control of unbilled receivables and converting them more quickly to revenues. Streamline invoicing with automatic generation, formatting, and submission of drafts for approval, then easily note needed corrections, finalize invoices, and post receivables.

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