Topic: ‘System’

If your company generates, basically, any type of letter(s) to customers, vendors or employees individually or in mass quanity then this Dynamics GP 10 functionality can save you a lot of time.  Read the rest of this entry »

As international trading increases more and more clients are making use of the “Country Code” field in Microsoft Dynamics GP. Especially used if you are using Dynamics GP to track Intrastat statics, calculate VAT tax or keep address data for international vendors and customers.  There are other Dynamics GP modules that can use the Country Code field, such as, Payroll, EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer), Invoicing and Purchase Order Processing.

This field can be accessed on the Vendor Card, Customer Card or Company Setup window. The initial setup can be found by going to Tools>>Setup>>Company>>Company and clicking on the blue underlined Country Code name. This will open the Country Code Maintenance window. Just fill in the fields and click save. It’s that easy.

If you are new to using country codes or just curious as to their importance here is a brief overview. Country codes do have a standard which is set by the ISO (International Standards Organization). Information regarding the code standards can be found on the ISO website http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists.htm

The general coding list used is called the ISO 3166-1 code list. They reference what they call an alpha-2 character and short country name. These codes are used in the world’s postal services, European Union, Internet Domain Name system and even Federal Express who uses the IATA code list based off of the ISO 3166-1 standard, just to name a few. The ISO not only sets standards for Country Codes but Currency Codes and 17,500 other types of international standards as well. For more examples of the many areas of life and work where ISO standards provide technical, economic and social benefits, visit http://www.iso.org/iso/theisocafe.htm

We found this nice Sharepoint Server 2007 products comparison download and thought that we would pass along as more and more folks are asking about sharepoint as a part of their Dynamics GP infrastructure.

In case you missed it last week, Service Pack 3 for Dynamics GP 10 is now available. SP3 is doesn’t contain nearly as many changes as FP1/SP2 did. It’s more updates and fixes and less new functionality. As always, test before you implement any fixes and if you feel you want help putting this in, give us a call.

At iSight last week, I presented a high speed session titled 50 Dynamics GP Tips in 50 Minutes. Attendees got the presentation and notes on a USB drive but in case you’ve lost your drive or just need to point a colleague to the presentation, you can get the presentation with related notes here.