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!

The following are a couple of cool new features in the HR/Payroll module in GP 2010!

Reprint Payroll checks and earnings statements
• You can now use the Payroll Check Inquiry window to reprint paystub and direct deposit earnings statement information
• The Payroll Check Inquiry scrolling window also includes a new check box that lets you select any combination of individual paycheck transactions to view and print.
– If you select multiple paychecks, a separate report is printed for each paycheck.

Excel-based reports for Certification, License and Training Manager
• Give managers and other company officials who are not GP users, to have access to this data for decision making purposes.
• Use Microsoft Office Excel reporting for viewing and sorting certification, license and training data and for customizing the presentation of data to satisfy their requirements.

Exclude inactive employees in Employees lookup
• You can now exclude all inactive employees from the Employees lookup window.
• You also can set a default view.

Assign employee secondary status codes
• You can create secondary status codes to provide more detail about an employee’s status
• You can set up separate status codes for active and inactive employees, and print a report listing all available status codes.
– why an employee is inactive or isn’t being paid.
– set up codes for inactive employees
– You can assign the new codes using the Employee Maintenance window, and view assigned codes using the Employee Inquiry window.

eConnect HR Adaptors
• HR eConnect Adaptors are now available
– This means you can create Scribe integrations to write directly to HR tables
– No custom code is required

Pay policy management “Use Add-On” functionality
• Allow the mass updating of employees using a Pay Policy Manager add-on