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Dynamics GP Electronic Commerce: Shopping Cart Selection, Implementation

Ecommerce might be nowadays a must, especially for mid-size wholesaler (Business2Business ecommerce scenario) or retailer (Business2Customer).  Ecommerce might be only one part of the whole solution, the second part would probably be Warehouse Management System, where ecommerce originated customer orders are fulfilled via barcode scanning on the warehouse floor.  In this small publication we would like to give you some technical highlights on how ecommerce is typically mapped in Dynamics GP.  If you are business owner, please accept our apologies to be a little bit technical, feel free to read our other papers, dedicated to company executives on eCommerce, WMS, Supply Chain Management; or invite your IT specialist to read this paper with you.  Let's begin:

1. Which Ecommerce Shopping Cart should we pick, or should we program our own custom shopping cart?  The answer depends on your comfort level in programming and existing products on the software market.  Based on our experience, dealing with real customers, who implemented ecommerce for Microsoft Dynamics GP and older versions of Great Plains Dynamics.  For the majority of Dynamics GP customers we would recommend to rely on existing shopping cart platforms, such as Magento (might be good option for Linux and PHP), ASP.Net Storefront (if your IT department is committed to Microsoft Windows).  Shopping Cart software development is really something very advanced, these products are sold in thousands every week and you should expect high level of reliability and rich functionality.  On the other hand for large ecommerce companies we often see the case of programming in-house ecommerce shopping cart, which is placed as a cornerstone of the custom ecommerce website.  We respect larger electronic commerce retailer desire to retain complete control over the source code and future programming of their mission critical tool – ecommerce website.  And if you are working for large publicly traded company, you may have the policy to develop shopping cart internally

2. How ecommerce is implemented in Microsoft Dynamics GP.  There are numerous Great Plains ISV partners, who have ecommerce add-ons to GP, one of them is our company.  Most of the Add-ons are transferring ecommerce shopping cart into Sales Order Processing Invoice with Customer Deposit.  Background technologies are eConnect (where you open SOP transaction to MS Visual Studio C# or VB.Net programming), some packages are matured and were available for earlier versions of Great Plains Dynamics – there you could expect either Great Plains Dexterity ecommerce integration code or SQL Stored Procedures to do direct data feeding to SOP tables: SOP10100 (Document header) and SOP10200 (transaction lines).  If you think that you could expert ecommerce documents into text files – then you may just consider Dynamics GP Integration Manager, without getting into ecommerce add-on implementation.  Integration Manager integration could be scheduled to run in quasi real time every ten minutes via Windows macro (to call Exe application with parameters)

3. If you would like to implement your own custom ecommerce shopping cart.  Perfect, if you have software development budget, please, consider one of the following Great Plains integration options.  The first would be creating direct SQL Server Linked Server or ODBC cross platform connection to your ecommerce database (likely to be MySQL in PHP/Linux, Oracle, Microsoft Access, Pervasive SQL, Foxpro, DBII, Progress or another DB platform).  The other approach is text file (CSV or tab delimited)

4. eCommerce for older versions of Great Plains Dynamics, eEnterprise and Great Plains Accounting.  We really advise you to consider upgrade to current Microsoft Dynamics GP version 2010/11.0 or at least currently supported versions 10.0 or 9.0 prior to jumping into ecommerce World.  We are happy to support you on Great Plains Dynamics on Pervasive SQL Server 2000 or Ctree, and even Great Plains Accounting for DOS, Windows or Mac, but we do not think that this is a good idea to invest into ecommerce being on that version

5. Microsoft Dynamics GP Warehouse Management System and Barcoding technology.  We would like to recommend Alba Spectrum WMS Server and Client Application.  WMS client runs directly on Barcode scanner operating system (either Windows mobile or Text compatible scanner).  WMS client communicates to Warehouse Management Server via Wireless or wired Ethernet and then WMS Server talks to Dynamics GP SQL Server via fiber optics, Ethernet, wireless (if the volume of transactions is low)

6. How to contact us.  Please call us 1-866-528-0577, or email us help@albaspectrum.com  How we support you?  Preferred way is remote support via web session and phone or skype conference – this way we serve you USA, Canada, Mexico nationwide and internationally.  Some customers prefer local walk in Dynamics GP consulting service, and we are ready to kick your door in Chicago, Western Michigan, Southern California, Houston area of Texas

About the Author

Andrew Karasev, Alba Spectrum Group, http://www.albaspectrum.com help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918, serving GP customers USA and Canada Nationwide: California, Minnesota, New York, Quebec, Ontario, Illinois, Texas, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, Virginia, Florida, new Mexico, Iowa, Indiana, Alaska, Hawaii. Local service is available in Houston/Dallas: Richmond, Rosenberg, Katy, Galveston, Sugar Land; in Chicago: Naperville, Aurora, Plainfield, Romeoville, Batavia, Downers Grove, Schaumburg, Rockford, Elgin, Crystal Lake, Joliet, Hinsdale, Lisle, Montgomery, Oswego

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Microsoft Great Plains Integration Scenarios – Edi, Ecommerce

Microsoft Dynamics GP, successor of Great Plains Software Dynamics and eEnterprise is very popular ERP platform, deployed as accounting back office and integrated with various business management system. Among the most typical scenarios of GP MRP integration are Electronic Document Interface EDI and eCommerce. Let’s consider and compare the methodologies, integration and software development tools, programming techniques and customization option


1. EDI. Electronic Document Interchange is relatively matured technology and typically it is realized in the form of fixed length text formatted files or text streams. Newer approach may consider new generation of similar to EDI in concept XML streams. When we are talking about GP, we should expect two types of EDI integrations – when you are vendor (in this case you receive EDI formatted either Sales Order Processing orders or invoices or Accounts Receivables invoices); and when you are customer (in this case you place EDI purchase orders to your vendors). From the technology standpoint, EDI is not really difficult in standard and even custom realization and programming. Microsoft Dynamics GP, starting with version 8.0, is supported on the only DB platform – Microsoft SQL Server. Current version of Microsoft Great Plains is 10.0, available on MS SQL Server 2005 or 2000. You program EDI streams with SQL select command, and you format text fields with cast or convert constructions. When you import external EDI streams you, it is when you create SOP Invoices, you should consider utilizing eConnect


2. eCommerce. If you are e-commerce programmer, please invest your time in eConnect technology learning. You probably heard about eConnect and about the fact that it was dedicated initially to e-commerce software developers. We would like to sort of popularize eConnect and say this – if you do eCommerce integration from scratch, you have to feed eCommerce orders and invoices into GP tables: SOP10100, SOP10200. However, you should know that eConnect already has this job done for you in eConnect business objects – encrypted stored procedures. There are several situations when you should break through eConnect restrictions. First one is the fact that eConnect replicates Dexterity business logic (DYNAMICS.DIC is Microsoft Dexterity dictionary, where all the core modules business logic is stored) and even trusting astonishing SQL Server performance, you can still have concerns that eConnect might be a bit slow, if you transactions volume crosses thousand records per session. If eConnect performance is in question, you may consider doing simplified integration in SQL stored procedures using insert into logic. The second eConnect limitation is absence of posting logic – in order to post SOP batches you will need to deploy Albaspectrum posting server

About the Author

Andrew Karasev, Alba Spectrum Group, http://www.albaspectrum.com help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918, serving customers USA/Canada nationwide: Illinois, California, New York, Quebec, Ontario, Colorado, Utah, Wisconsin, Florida, Texas. Local service is available in Houston & Dallas: Richmond, Sugar Land, Katy, Rosenberg, Missouri City, Pearland, Friendswood, Meadows, Mission Bend, Jersey Village, Fort Worth; serving GP customers in Chicago, IL: Naperville, Aurora, Joliet, Wheaton, Bolingbrook, Romeoville, Lyons, Niles, Downers Grove, Lisle, West Chicago, Barrington, Schaumburg, Elk Grove Village, Lombard, Morris, Ottawa, Marseilles, Seneca, Oswego, Plainfield, Darien, Winchester, Hinsdale

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Are America and Canada being sold today?

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Bush's two-day summit with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon is the third of its kind during his presidency. Each one has been meant to bolster an evolving compact — dubbed the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America — that serves as a way for the nations to team up on health, security and commerce.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=15623

The so-called prosperity "working groups" of experts and stakeholders cover a wide range of issues:

Manufactured Goods & Sectional and Regional Competitiveness:

Movement of Goods
Energy
Environment
E-Commerce & Information Communications Technologies
Financial Services
Business Facilitation
Food and Agriculture
Transportation

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