ASCTrac™ WMS to Great Plains ERP Option Module

ASCTrac to Great Plains Module

The ASCTrac™ WMS system can complement your Great Plains ERP financial system investment with a very powerful and very extensive warehouse management and manufacturing solution. ASC has developed a certified interface for the MBS Great Plains series product that provides a seamless path between the two systems. Therefore, the accounting people can utilize their familiar screens and the warehouse people can work with the same data at the point of activity in the warehouse using their handheld wireless devices. With this ASC interface, all data is entered only once (at the point of order entry) and never needs to be re-keyed. In addition, it is "real time" data available to the entire enterprise with accuracy that can only be achieved with auto ID technology.

"Real-time Information at the point of activity."

Warehouse Component: 

Since ASCTrac ™ WMS utilizes automatic identification bar code technology, in addition to wireless bar code hand-held units, all warehouse data is accurate and real time. At the point of activity in the warehouse, instant verification occurs for all inventory transactions (such as receipts, picks, moves, physical counts, cycle counts, repacks, scraps, quality control holds and releases, parcel shipping, trailer shipping, etc.) That means instant reconciliation if a picking error occurs.

Moreover, with all of the management side of the warehouse at stake, (i.e., labor resources, location utilization, rapid picks, zone control, ABC logic, throughput capacities, burden costs, planning, ASN/EDI, etc.), the deployment of ASCTrac™ WMS simply makes good management sense.

Manufacturing Component:

In addition to our warehouse functions, ASCTrac ™ WMS has a very extensive manufacturing systems environment. It provides modules for Work Orders, Manufacturing Execution (MX), Work-in-Process Labor tracking, Work-in-Process Inventory tracking (customizable), and various interfaces to PLC’s, automatic labeling systems, conveyor systems, pick-to-light systems, carousel systems, etc.

Technology:

This interface was constructed to work directly with the following touch points:

• Purchase Order receiving (validated expected receipts)
• Warehouse Inventory functions
• Customer Order picking

The ASCTrac Great Plains interface eliminates the Great Plains keyboard entries required for all of the line items to Confirm Ship an order. When you have a fast-moving warehouse, manual entries can become a real bottleneck - and manual keystroke entries can be mistyped. With ASCTrac automation, the tasks become seamless, faster, and much more accurate.

Financially speaking, 100% accuracy of inventory is especially important so that an accurate inventory accounting value is presented.

The ASCTrac Great Plains Interface is the most extensive and interactive WMS interface to MBS Great Plains Series ERP that exists today. No one else has the skill set nor have they invested the time and effort it takes to develop this type of automated interface to Great Plains. ASC has years of experience in interfaces to ERP systems, and we take pride in partnering with MBS Great Plains to provide this quality automated WMS interface.

Benefits of Using ASCTrac-to-Great Plains Interface:

• Compliments your Financial ERP investment with a true warehouse management system
• Seamless integration with "data entered only once" concept (OE drives the fulfillment)
• Increases ability to automate and speed up the invoicing process
• Increases accuracy (which improves inventory and customer satisfaction)
• Adheres to Great Plain's checks-and-balances for invoicing shipments
• Allows seamless warehouse multi-shipments per same order (may be called "backorders")
• Supports Great Plains multi-site concept (may require Standard or Enterprise ASCTrac version to match customer requirements.)
• Instantly locks OE orders when selected by warehouse RF user for picking to allow orders to be changed right up until pick time. (To change orders after picking starts, simply unlock, and add changes.) This allows a Great Plains OE user to be instantly notified if they initiate a change.
• Utilize wireless real-time devices at the point of activity in the warehouse (to insure immediate inventory movements and validate data on the spot; eliminates batch-mode reconciliations)
• Employ auto-ID technology for accuracy and faster performance with reduced labor costs
• If the financial system goes down for some reason, i.e., backup procedures, the ASCTrac system is still running the warehouse. ASCTrac is designed for full 24/7/365 without any shutdowns. It will pick back up where it left off with the data synchronization once the financial ERP is back up.
• Optionally, implement various manufacturing tracking solutions with special interfaces
• Tested, proven, and uses a rapid deployment methodology
• ROI - Return On Investment in months, not years

See our other module pages for additional functionality and details.  Information on other available modules (and the tremendous features list) can also be obtained by contacting ASC or one of our Solution Partners.  

(Note: Specifications are subject to change without notice. All product and company names are trademarks, service marks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Great Plains is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.)