Microsoft Dynamics SL
Fact Sheets

Analytics
Microsoft Forecaster SL_FRx Forecaster.doc 381 KB Microsoft Word Document	Take control of the future of your organization with Microsoft Dynamics for Analytics-Forecaster. Meet business objectives and gain competitive advantage with budgeting and planning capabilities that allow you to plan more effectively and respond quickly to changing business needs.
Microsoft FRx Professional SL_FRx.doc 379 KB Microsoft Word Document	Master your financial reporting process with Microsoft Dynamics for Analytics-FRx Professional. High-performance capabilities give you comprehensive, highly customizable financial and management reports that are easy to create, distribute, and use.
Business Portal
Business Portal SL_business portal.doc 550 KB Microsoft Word Document	Unlock business potential and enhance productivity by providing user-specific access to information and processes from a single Web-based portal. Built on Microsoft .NET technologies, business portal in Microsoft Dynamics SL delivers applications, information, and processes to employees, customers, and partners across your organization.
Key Performance Indicators Sol_KPI.pdf 137 KB Portable Document Format file	With Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for business portal in Microsoft Dynamics SL, companies can define and help deliver instant access to personalized views of key business information via a Web-based portal.
Customization
Customization Manager SL_customization manager.doc 355 KB Microsoft Word Document	Adapt your system to the specific requirements of your organization with Microsoft Dynamics SL Customization Manager. Quickly and easily modify any screen in any Microsoft Dynamics SL module without changing the underlying source code, and update screens as often as necessary to match the pace of your business growth.
Tools for Visual Basic SL_VBTools.doc 345 KB Microsoft Word Document	Build complete line-of-business applications with the flexible development foundation of Microsoft Dynamics SL Tools for Visual Basic. By enabling developers to work with familiar and widely used tools, you can minimize the amount of programming effort required to develop applications that communicate with Microsoft Dynamics SL and Microsoft SQL Server 2000.
Distribution
Advanced Shipping Manager SL_adv_ship_mgmt.doc 1058 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Bill of Materials SL_bom.doc 375 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Inventory SL_inventory.doc 350 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Inventory Replenishment SL_inv_replenishment.doc 318 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Landed Cost SL_landed_cost.doc 395 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Order Management SL_Order Management.doc 403 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Order to Purchase SL_order_purchase.doc 346 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Purchasing SL_purchasing.doc 354 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Work Order SL_work_order.doc 346 KB Microsoft Word Document	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
Web Order sol_web_order.pdf 393 KB Portable Document Format file	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.
eCommerce Gateway-EDI Edition SL_ecommerce gateway.doc 295 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Field Service
Equipment Maintenance SL_equip_maintenance.doc 308 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Flat Rate Pricing SL_flat_rate pricing.doc 306 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Service Contracts SL_service_contracts.doc 353 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Service Dispatch SL_service_dispatch.doc 352 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Financial Management
Accounts Payable SL_accounts_payable.doc 380 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Accounts Receivable SL_accounts_receivable.doc 406 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Advanced Payroll SL_advanced_payroll.doc 381 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Bank Reconciliation SL_bank_reconciliation.doc 302 KB Microsoft Word Document	Account reconciliation is a necessary process but can be a tedious one. Bank Reconciliation in Microsoft Dynamics SL (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions-Solomon) provides a simple approach that enables you to remove as much paperwork as possible from the process. The module frees your accounting staff to focus on mission-critical work. Bank Reconciliation Reconcile your organization's bank accounts easier and faster by automating the reconciliation process.
Bank Requisition SL_bank_requisition.doc 362 KB Microsoft Word Document	The Requisition module in Microsoft Dynamics SL provides the flexibility to address your company's procurement needs-from the relatively simple to the complex. Manage and automate the procurement process by using an online request and approval process. Requests are entered into your Microsoft Dynamics SL system where data is pulled from your Account, Vendor, Inventory, and Project tables, removing the need to maintain separate systems. Bank Requisitions Automate your entire requisition and purchasing process using a simple online request and approval system.
Cash Management SL_cash_manager.doc 354 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Currency Manager SL_currency_manager.doc 406 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Financial Statement Translation SL_fin_st_trans.doc 322 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
General Ledger SL_general_ledger.doc 342 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Multiple Company SL_multicompany.doc 384 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Payroll and Direct Deposit SL_payroll direct deposit.doc 383 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Foundation
Crystal Reports SL_crystal reports.doc 367 KB Microsoft Word Document	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 SL_application server.doc 363 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
System Manager and System Integrator sol_system manager.pdf 202 KB Portable Document Format file	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.
Project Management
Allocator SL_allocator.doc 338 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Analyzer SL_analyzer.doc 477 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Budgeting SL_budgeting.doc 340 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Communicator SL_communicator.doc 461 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Contract Management SL_contract manager.doc 333 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Controller SL_controller.doc 388 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Employee Utilization SL_employee utilization.doc 429 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Flexible Billing SL_flexible billings.doc 471 KB Microsoft Word Document	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.
Time and Expense SL_time expense.doc 408 KB Microsoft Word Document	Take control of your labor, project, and travel-related expenses. Accurate, timely cost information gives you the precise information you need to increase your productivity and make better, more effective business decisions.

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