What’s new for Distribution and Manufacturing in GP 2010? Following are a few of the highlights!

Inventory

Exclude discontinued items from Items lookup — You can now exclude all discontinued items or exclude discontinued items with no quantity available from the Items lookup window. You also can set a default view.

You can define and save a default lookup view for your master records by selecting the Set as Default View option from the View menu or using the right-click menu in the lookup window. The default view you select will be the view displayed when you open the lookup window the next time. You can set a default view for the following lookup windows.
• Items lookup window
• Accounts lookup window
• Employees lookup window
• Customers and Prospects lookup window
• Salespeople lookup window
• Vendors lookup window
The default view is saved on a per user, per company basis.

Sales Order Processing

Print back ordered items on picking tickets — You can use the Print Sales Documents window, the Sales Document Print Options window, and the Bulk Picking Print window to print back-ordered items on picking tickets. A “B” appears next to back-ordered quantities.

Purchase Order Processing

Roll down promised date and promised ship date changes — You can change the promised date and promised ship date for a standard or dropship purchase order and roll down the date changes to the line items on the purchase order. The current promised date, original promised date, and the promised ship date on a line item are updated depending on the status of the line item.

Define lot number masks — You can define a lot number mask and automatically generate a specific number of lot numbers when receiving an item, saving data entry time and reducing the chance of errors. This is similar to serial number masks.

Receive in-transit transfer items – You can automatically receive in-transit transfer items using the Select In-Transit Items window and the Receivings Transaction Entry window.

Manufacturing

Right-click menu enabled — You can right-click in a text or numeric field to see a shortcut menu. The shortcut menu contains options from the Edit menu.

Enhancements made to the Sales Forecasting window:
• Items in the scrolling window can be sorted in ascending or descending order by item number or the item’s unit cost by clicking the column headings.
• Two shortcut keys have been added so you can move between the forecast periods in the scrolling window. Press ALT + < to move to the next period on the left or press ALT + > to move to the next period on the right.
• The Sales Item Number Find window can be opened from the Item Number Find window.

Changing standard costs — You can use the Standard Cost Changes window to roll the cost changes only to the item at a single level or roll cost changes to all levels in which the item exists.

For the complete list of enhancements and new features in GP 2010, visit Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 What’s New!