Quality Assurance
Maintain tight control of the quality testing process to help ensure that products consistently meet or exceed demanding customer requirements. Quality Assurance equips you to start with the quality of raw materials that you require, and dramatically reduces manufacturing delays, rework, and scrap.

Bill of Materials
Equipped with complete, consistent, and current product information, you can maximize production efficiency and cut inventory costs across the extended enterprise. Bill of Materials helps improve performance, support time-to-market and time-to-volume objectives, and ensure that materials are where they should be, when they are needed.

Manufacturing Order Processing
Track productions costs in detail and manage work orders, the shop floor, and even outsourced processes. By directing the entire cycle of order processing, you can build a business that is both customer-driven and profitable.

Job Costing
Job Costing captures all costs when they occur, and consolidates them into one location that is easy to access and manage — delivering a comprehensive view of production profitability.

Sales Configurator
Help customers — and your employees that serve them — navigate the complexities of selling customized products faster and more effectively. You can select the most suitable product configuration — condensing the sales cycle, driving revenue and profitability, and improving responsiveness to customer and market dynamics.

Sales Forecasting
Sales Forecasting brings different teams closer together by bridging communication gaps and creating a powerful loop that promotes effective, efficient product delivery.

Master Production Scheduling
Master Production Scheduling provides a flexible solution for managing high-level production requirements. Drawing information from sales forecasts, Master Production Scheduling nets them together to form a single, comprehensive production schedule.

Capacity Requirements Planning
Capacity Requirements Planning offers an effective solution for addressing your capacity monitoring and planning needs. Using Capacity Requirements Planning, you can view firm and planned requirements, allowing side-by-side “what if” analysis of actual and projected capacity demands.

Material Requirements Planning
Support your business objectives by effectively managing materials. Deep visibility into material requirements translates into more effective resource planning — helping reduce stock outages, drive down inventory costs, and streamline the production process.

Work in Process
Work in Process provides insight into each committed manufacturing order that is still in the manufacturing process. It allows you to spot trends that may need to be addressed — and costs that may be out of line — before production is complete.

Production Costing
With Microsoft Great Plains Manufacturing, you can choose to use actual (perpetual valuation method) or standard (periodic valuation method) costing practices to establish inventory value. Revaluing inventory based on a scenario you’ve created can be done with a single click to update the standard cost for all affected items. Future cost changes can be managed using effective dates; changes won’t be allowed until the date you specify.