Collaboration and Employee Portals in Microsoft Dynamics GP

Help your organization be more productive and collaborative

Using familiar browser technology and existing software skills, collaboration capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics GP let you increase the productivity and efficiency of people and teams, be more responsive to customers, and stay true to your goals. At the same time, these features can help you reduce the cost of doing business.

Provide browser-based team collaboration capabilities

• Use employee portal solutions in Microsoft Dynamics to provide access to collaborative functions, documents, and information to workers. Employee portals are easy to implement, have minimal continuing support requirements, and help enhance productivity.
• Provide employees, managers, customers, and partners with an effective framework for collaboration and information sharing. You can give them secure, Web-based access to Microsoft Dynamics GP functionality, information, applications, and processes for easy access to information they need—whenever and wherever they need it.
• Let your people work more productively with your business management solution, no matter where they are, with personalized gateways based on their business roles.

Allow people and teams to be productive and in control

• Let employees manage information and streamline administrative tasks, such as entering their payroll hours, reviewing specific human-resource records, tracking time, and more. These self-service capabilities can be set up to provide appropriate information for each employee's needs.
• Simplify and control purchasing with the requisition management capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics GP that let employees submit purchase requisitions online, where managers can approve and send them automatically to the purchase order system. Reduce paperwork and data entry errors, while driving down costs by consolidating items and orders for better vendor terms. Customize the solution to have the right people review and approve requisitions, and set up automatic Email notification to make sure all requisitions receive timely consideration.
• Reduce the costs and increase the effectiveness of project management using the Project Time & Expense application in Microsoft Dynamics GP that lets you track in detail project costs and time spent and gives managers the ability not only to approve expenses and time used but also to drive better project efficiencies. Additionally, customer billing can be more accurate and timely, making it possible to receive and book payments sooner.

Keep managers informed and empowered

• Fast-track business performance management by providing executives and managers with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), so they can review business performance by KPIs, get a read on trends, and direct the organization toward its goals.
• Reduce the cost and complexity of compliance. Microsoft Dynamics GP works with the Microsoft Office system to help address Sarbanes-Oxley challenges, helping your managers take all the steps they need to make full compliance a documented fact—without being sidetracked by worrying about compliance issues. Use Microsoft Dynamics GP to keep compliance-related documents and data in a secure manner for your financial managers and auditors.

Become a preferred vendor and trading partner

• Get documents to the right people at the best time with Electronic Document Delivery in Microsoft Dynamics GP. Streamline communications with your customers and trading partners, and demonstrate consistent responsiveness to customer needs. Customize and automate the setup and Email distribution of business documents, using practical, flexible templates. Choose from a variety of efficient, widely used document formats, and let Microsoft Dynamics GP track delivery and receipt.

Increase customer satisfaction and sales results

• Let customers enter their orders online at their convenience, review order status, and enjoy prompt, responsive service from your company using Order Management in Microsoft Dynamics GP. Your sales associates can concentrate on supporting those customers who require hands-on assistance.
• Integrate business portal Order Management with your business management solution for the most efficient, cost-effective processing of orders and sales.
• Microsoft Dynamics GP for e-commerce offers seamless integration between your e-commerce solution and your business management system, eliminating rekeying of data, ensuring accuracy of information across all systems, helping you serve your customers better, and improving decision making at all levels.