Microsoft® Dynamics Business Ready, Business Essentials (Great Plains)
Payables Management
Improve your control over expenses with up-to-the-minute information about your payables, easy management of your vendors, and effort-saving automation of many routine or complex tasks that provides a great return on investment. Manage your expenses more effectively with comprehensive vendor information, payment scheduling and tracking, and up to-the-minute answers to your current cash flow status.
- Manage your vendors effectively. Save time and improve efficiency by streamlining vendor information for instant recall of billing, payment discounts, and other information anytime you need it.
- Enhance your productivity. Reduce your overhead costs and empower your employees with automated payment vouchers and scheduling, customized documents, and intuitive transaction entry.
- Information at your fingertips. Find the information you need to make better business decisions with easy-to-use inquiry tools and windows, along with a comprehensive suite of reports enabling you to accurately analyze your accounts payable activities.
- Simplify expense allocation. Simplify the task of deferring payments or costs over multiple periods with automatically managed calculations and journal entries customized to fit your business needs.
- List-Based Navigation makes it easy to select vendor transactions and drill down to analyze transaction details.
- Defer Prepaid Expenses by creating deferral profiles or templates that can be used during transaction entry.
- Immediate Information. Find answers instantlyto accounts payable and vendor activity questions with views of unposted, posted, and historical transactions, plus complete vendor, credit, payment, and other information.
- Extensive Drill-Down. Cross-module drill-down capabilities give you the ability to locate the exact details you need.
- Comprehensive Vendor Information. Streamline your vendor information with vendor categories for consistent record maintenance and comprehensive data, including addresses, shipping methods, default purchase accounts, and user-defined information.
- Installment Management. Automate your vendor installment payments by creating schedules, calculating interest, amortizing amounts, and forecasting the impact of variable interest rates, payment amounts, and installment changes.
- Expenditure Control Management. Expenditures with full control over check runs and tracking of after the fact payments that use manual check entries, credit cards, or cash for transactions.
- Control Account Management.Manage your payables control accounts by reporting segments, such as cost center, division, department, program or fund, and display a breakdown by segment values of your central control payables account. Eliminate the need to manually reconcile reporting segments and get a true account of amounts owing by segment value.
- Automatic Posting Automate. Posting for each vendor to designated General Ledger accounts for recurring transactions, or streamline distribution for vendors without specified purchase accounts.
- Complete Payables Reporting. Create a comprehensive suite of payable reports that can be sorted by calendar or fiscal year with on-screen display and search, or combine with Microsoft® Business Solutions–Great Plains® applications such as Report Writer or Crystal Reports® for greater reporting flexibility.