Need better inventory control at satellite locations?
A solution for hub-and-spoke operations.
Many inventory-based organizations have discovered the efficiency of operating a larger centralized warehouse and then shifting inventory to smaller satellite stockrooms as needed. This approach leverages your ability to buy-and-store bulk items and to have specialized items ready when a remote stockroom calls for it.
To be effective with this type supply-chain control, you need to trust your inventory system. The management of a centralized warehouse that supplies satellite locations doesn’t cleanly fit into a typical Warehouse Management Solution (WMS). In the Dynamics GP world, you might try to rely on ‘sales order’ functionality to meet your need for ‘internal transfer requests’, but that gets clumsy very quickly. Customizations can cause headaches and conflict with other functionality, especially when set up for a dual purpose.
PanatrackerGP for Central Warehouse Management is built to address this supply-chain pattern. It offers the tools to capture your inventory transactions while still leveraging your Dynamics GP database as the host. This module includes all the standard inventory functionality including receiving inventory from vendors, moves, site transfers, and stock counts. At the heart of this solution, you will get our PanatrackerGP Transfer Order infrastructure to support these planned internal transfers between your sites.
Key Benefits of the Central Warehouse Management
PanatrackerGP adds mobile and barcode technology to your inventory tracking management. With multiple setting options, you can tailor the solution to meet your tracking needs. We add full audit control and remove the need for your stockroom employees to log into GP to manage inventory. In addition, get these benefits:
Transaction Highlight for Central-to-Satellite Superbness
In addition to our unique Directed Transfer infrastructure transactions — Transfer Order, Transfer Request, Transfer Pick, and Receive Transfer — your solution includes the core inventory transactions that streamline your operation.
Is Your Inventory Expensed at Receiving?
It is quite common to purchase items from your vendors and expense them at receiving when there is no sales operation. Many organizations dealing with supplies and parts often set up Dynamics GP in this way to remove the overhead of tracking those items further. However, the ongoing need to continue tracking this inventory eventually becomes evident. Don’t worry! You can continue to expense your items at receiving and add the further tracking of the items using our Asset Management module of our complementary PanatrackerST platform.
FAQs – PanatrackerGP for Central Warehouse
PanatrackerGP is installed on mobile barcode-scanning devices connected to a wireless network. This provides real-time access to your data in GP such as purchase orders and item details. Transactions are captured and logged. Most often, the transaction is created in Dynamics GP using Microsoft’s eConnect infrastructure, thus ensuring the transactions are submitted following GP’s standard business rules.
PanatrackerGP uses Microsoft eConnect to submit transactions in GP in the same way they would be entered within the GP interface. Transactions are added and saved in a batch your review. Automated posting solutions can be added to streamline your data capture even further.
This solution highlights the Panatracker Directed Transfer infrastructure which enables planned inventory transfers and moves across locations. Here’s some real-life examples of how our customers use this solution:
- Organizations with central warehouses or stockrooms that need to maintain stock at satellite or remote locations such as labs, medical facilities, office supply closets, service vehicles and more.
- Manufacturing operations that move raw materials, components, and packaging materials from a stock area to the manufacturing floor.
- Companies tracking in-transit inventory that must be on their books when it leaves the vendor’s dock.
- Those needing better visibility and accountability for general intra-site transfers.
Yes. PanatrackerGP for Manufacturing includes the Directed Transfer infrastructure.
Yes. Our Transfer Request transaction creates the transfer order. Transfer requests can support several different entry methods:
- Count against min/max setup in GP.
- User Entry.
- Kanban for bins.
We have a Sales Module add-on for any of our inventory solutions. This transaction allows you to create a new sales order in GP or to add order lines to an existing sales order in GP.
‘License plating’ is a term which is a bit abstract and may mean different things to different organizations. Please contact us to discuss your requirements and we will help determine if our solution is a good fit.
PanatrackerGP was designed to extend Dynamics GP data-entry onto mobile scanning devices so that transactions can be captured when and where the inventory activity occurs. To achieve efficiency and accuracy, a mobile device option is ideal to record transactions when users are interacting with the inventory. Therefore, we do not have a redundant desktop interface. Many of our customers have opted to use tablets with the Android OS.
Yes. We have partnered with best-of-breed manufacturers for mobile devices and barcode printers in order to simplify your implementation.
Already working with a hardware vendor? No problem, we play nicely with others. (Just confirm your device selections with us before implementing to avoid any surprises.)
Yes! Even if the vendor’s barcode is a different number than your Dynamics GP item number, PanatrackerGP can associate alternate item numbers to your GP item number when receiving inventory (or as a separate transaction). It creates the association in GP under the Manufacturer Item Number Maintenance screen in GP.
Yes. PanatrackerGP is offered both as a perpetual license and as a subscription. Subscriptions are annual.
We use state-of-the-art secure remote support tools to allow us to work with you to gain access to your system. We install the server component and then assist you throughout the installation of the mobile application. Next, we train your team and stand ready to assist you as needed.
Yes. We are here to help when you need guidance on best practices for inventory or help to identify other features within GP that can improve your inventory and asset control. Our optional on-site implementations include a process review and general consulting services.
