Brazilian gas firm cancels bidding for Bolivia-Brazil pipeline
A Brazilian gas company cancelled on Monday its bidding for contracts to expand a Bolivia-Brazil pipeline after Bolivia announced nationalization of its natural gas sector.

ICBC to list shares this year
The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) Chairman Jiang Jianqing confirmed yesterday the biggest State bank of China would sell shares to the public in 2006, following on the heels of the China Construction Bank and Bank of China (BOC) in a market listing rush.

The next great leap forward – the WTO Column
Can you already pronounce “TD-SCDMA” without stumbling over this new acronym? No? Better start practicing, since it is going to change life in China in the coming decade in the same way internet has changed it in the past decade

Numbers and margins: Chinese take a tour – the WTO-column
According to the official figures in 2005 31 million Chinese went abroad. The numbers might be high, but in most cases the margins are so low the increasing flow of tourists might be doing financially more harm than good

China “positive” on maglev cooperation with Germany: Premier
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Monday that his government is “positive” in continuing cooperation with Germany on magnetic levitation (maglev) railway development.

Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains has substantial market share and strong support by Microsoft on the US market.  Currently we see the trend in the vertical markets when companies with custom-built accounting application, usually written on legacy platform are switching to standard and proven ERP solution and customize or tailor it to fit their vertical market requirementsMicrosoft Business Solutions Great Plains has substantial market share and strong support by Microsoft on the US market.  Currently we see the trend in the vertical markets when companies with custom-built accounting application, usually written on legacy platform are switching to standard and proven ERP solution and customize or tailor it to fit their vertical market requirements

Well be publishing series of vertical articles: Logistics, Distribution Centers, Warehouse Management, Barcoding, Shipping/Receiving, eCommerce, EDI, Wholesale.  Today well give you Wholesale tailoring scenario

Sales Order Processing improvements to work with large number of wholesale order takers:

1. Sales Order Processing stand alone Great Plains Dexterity application, which works with Microsoft Great Plains SQL databases to feed in orders.  This application, written as from scratch Dexterity application doesnt requires hundreds of Great Plains user licenses and will work with SOP tables with improved functionality
2. Online Sales History by Customer.  If you are order taker and this is wholesale business each customer has certain level of negotiated price, which it is comfortable to pay.  Also this customer is ordering known set of products from you.  It is nice to have list of historical items he ordered in the past several months and their negotiated prices
3. Recommend Items to your customer.  You can easily design items to recommend logic, when you link your new items or related items with the items your customer is usually ordered.  This is how Amazon book sale works!
4. Sales People Competition.  In addition to the above online sales tools you can have average profitability of the item per period and by sales person (assuming negotiation scenarios).  Here you can have logic implemented allowing certain level of negotiation room and variable commission, related to strong negotiation and sales skills

Considering Microsoft Great Plains majority of the logic above is implemented and could be implemented in Great Plains Dexterity.  Alternative platform would be Microsoft C# or VB.Net ASPX web programming with Microsoft Great Plains at the back end.  You can use such tools as eConnect to work with Great Plains object creation and retrieving or go ahead with direct SQL Stored Procedure.  To certain level you could use legacy technologies, such as Great Plains Modifier with Continuum for VB, VBA scripting, etc.

Good luck and you can always seek our help in customization, implementation, integration and support.  Call us: 1-866-528-0577 or 1-630-961-5918, help@albaspectrum.com

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