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Microsoft Dynamics GP, formerly known as Great Plains Dynamics or eEnterprise, as other ERP and mid-market MRP applications has its own settings file. As it historically was coded in Great Plains Dexterity, this file is Dex.ini. This file could be found in Dynamics GP workstation directory for versions 9.0, 8.0, 7.5, 7.0, 6.0, 5.5, 4.0 and earlier, if you are on GP 10.0, then it should sit in Data subdirectory. In this small publication we would like to come through some of its settings and flags:
1. If you need to resynchronize Dynamics.dic file to its account structures, especially if you believe that your Dynamics.dic file was corrupt and you copied it one more time from GP CD #1. Change Synchronize to True and Initial to True. This will force Dynamics on the first user login to switch to Utilities and synchronize the dictionary, which is your Dynamics.dic – metadata and business logic file
2. Logging Dexterity, SQL and ODBC traces. This step is needed, when you sort of giving up in getting unknown error message in Great Plains. Assuming that you already did the research trying to find something about it in Microsoft Dynamics GP Customer Source. Even if you do not have support plan with Microsoft, you still can get reasonable explanation on what is going on and probably the idea on where the fix could be. Please make this changes in Dex.ini: SQLLogSQLStmt=TRUE
SQLLogODBCMessages=TRUE
SQLLogAllODBCMessages=TRUE
Then find Dex.log file in the same directory, where Dex.ini is located. We recommend you to make a copy of this file right after the moment when your error message triggers, and then review it with creativity of software programmer. More likely you will have the idea on what went wrong
3. GP Integration Manager Path. Here you typically have to fix this line: IMPath=. When you install IM, it tries to link installation to your local Great Plains workstation, however, there are known issues on Terminal Server/Ctrix and even fat GP clients. Please do not try to fix FRx client path in Dex.ini. Instead, find FRXDYN.ini file and change path there accordingly
4. Great Plains Dynamics legacy Dex.ini settings. Here you should know about location and locations translation theory in old Great Plains on Pervasive SQL (former Btrieve), or Ctree. The lines to review are: Workstation=WINDOWS – here WINDOWS with uppercases is the location ID to use for this specific GP workstation. Location Translation is complex topic form small FAQ stile article, please feel free to give us a call: 1-866-528-0577, help@albaspectrum.com
Andrew Karasev, Alba Spectrum LLC. http://www.albaspectrum.com help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577. Web portal: http://www.pegasplanet.com We are Microsoft Dynamics GP technology partner, ERP and software integrator, who serves you USA, Canada, Mexico and Latin America nationwide. Local service is available in Chicago, San Diego, Los Angeles, Houston: SAP Business One and Dynamics GP. We have customers in the following business metros: Phoenix, New York, Boston, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Rhino, San Jose, Miami, Atlanta, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Detroit, Montreal, Las Vegas, Oceania, Colombia, Caribbean, Poland, UK, New Zealand, Australia
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Richard Ross, Director of Industry Relations for TraceGains, Inc. is giving an Interactive Workshop on day one of the Food Technology & Innovation Forum conference, Tuesday, May 12th, from 2:25 -2:55pm. Ross will focus on “Protecting your company from the next peanut butter crisis: The power of e-affidavits.”
The mission at TraceGains (www.TraceGains.com) is to protect the brand of food and beverage clients by eliminating problems before product is shipped to the customer. If a problem does occur this unique solution can minimize the brand damage by using patented recall trace-back and track-forward technologies. A recall alert can be initiated within minutes, reducing potentially bad news to one news cycle, and saving customers millions of dollars in long-term brand rehabilitation costs. The Recall Detective analyzes critical risk factors, going beyond material movement tracking; the Recall Minimizer provides instant multiple scenarios for reduced brand damage.
TraceGains will showcase these critical technology solutions at the Food Technology & Innovation Forum, a very high-level executive event. The Food Technology & Innovation Forum 2009 brings together leading R&D, Innovation and New Product Development (NPD) professionals to discuss, innovate and shape the future of the food industry.
According to TraceGains:
- Recalls are reactive, costly, and do not offer sufficient protection in an increasingly complex global food chain
- Contracts, audits, and testing, while useful and necessary, are insufficiently proactive, and do not provide enough protection
- The e-Affidavits is a game-changer. Continuous compliance, risk monitoring, and exception-based alerts eliminate problems before you ship them to your customers
- This powerful new solution also provides the framework to increase you market share and profitability
According to Ross, “A new imperative has appeared. Consumer trust of food safety is shaken. Food businesses are realizing that traceability and supply-chain monitoring exposes an opportunity for additional profit. Although the consumer has always had the power to influence the food industry, that influence is being heard loud and clear – safe, flavorful and affordable food – and the food businesses are listening intently.”
By correlating and analyzing previously disparate data sets in the value chain, only TraceGains makes it possible to connect upstream inputs, suppliers, and raw materials to downstream outcomes such product quality or customer satisfaction. Firms can coach or replace poorly performing suppliers and counteract profit-draining events within the enterprise, as well perpetuate positive practices internally and throughout the supply chain, to achieve complete profit optimization. At TraceGains this is achieved through the Profit Optimizer.
According to Gary Nowacki, CEO of TraceGains, “Stuff happens. No matter how well HACCP, GMP, GAP or other systems work. Our solution continuously monitors all critical supply chain risk points, both within and outside the four walls of an enterprise. The system alerts busy managers to high-risk potential problems on an exception basis, so they can take action on the most critical and preventable problems before they are received for processing or shipped to customers.”
TraceGains Inc.
www.tracegains.com
Marc Simony, Director of Marketing
traceability@tracegains.com
(303)682-9898
Professional Marketing Firm for the Manufacturing Community and Manufacturing Journalist to most manufacturing magazines
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Ultriva, the lean leader, with an electronic kanban focus, is featured in the current issue of Accounting Software 411. Manufacturing journalist, TR Cutler, profiled Ultriva in a feature article titled, Becoming Lean: The Bottom-Line.
Ultriva (www.Ultriva.com) is live at over 120 plants across 10 countries. Companies like Emerson, BE Aerospace, Trane, Ingersoll-Rand, McKesson, AO Smith, FRANKE and AGCO among others are using Ultriva to collaborate with over 4000 suppliers and transacting $1.5 billion of purchased parts every year.
“Using solutions to synchronize production and material replenishment across the factory via a lean assessment produces impressive results. Order-to-ship lead times are reduced by over fifty percent, on-time delivery performance is improved by more than twenty percent, and work-in-progress (WIP) inventories are reduced up to forty percent,” according to Narayan Laksham, Founder and President of Ultriva, a lean solutions leader based in Cupertino, California.
Indeed a lean assessment impacts distribution, factories, and the supply chain. Lean distribution allows companies to manage finished goods inventory in a dynamic, efficient, and real-time environment. It provides the right product mix, visibility, stock, out alerts, and analytics to be fully streamlined. A lean factory process allows firms to orient production around customer demands instead of capacity optimization. Increased flexible scheduling allows adjustments to be made on the fly. Laksham insists that, “A lean supply chain allows for the replenishment system of choice including kanban, MRP orders, VMI, or 3PL, on a collaborative platform that seamless connects plants and suppliers.”
The lean supply chain is still largely controlled by MRP and ERP systems which use forecasted or planned demand to set up supplier replenishments. Every run generates changes to the existing demand while also creating new demands; the result is a series of inconsistencies across the supply chain, late shipments, costly expediting, and stock outs.
As manufacturing spreads horizontally, the global supply chain is becoming the most critical factor in determining customer demands. Laksham urges, “Managing this chain is no longer a matter of reducing costs but of optimizing a key process that is fueled by integration, trust, common metrics, and aligned goals.” One of the important methods utilized by Ultriva is the Supplier Portal for Purchase Order Execution which offers a platform to improve collaboration between plants and suppliers so they can interact and perform in synergy to deliver the right parts and the right time. This type of seamless integration between manufacturing plants and supply bases is best achieved through order visibility, exception alerts, inventory health, performance metrics, and analytics for continuous improvement. A single platform also allows for immaculate integration from kanban-based replenishment to MRP/forecast-driven supply.
Ultriva
www.ultriva.com
Cindy McGowan
pr@ultriva.com
408.248.9803
Professional Marketing Firm for the Manufacturing Community and Manufacturing Journalist to most manufacturing magazines
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Search for a software and the site Alternative to will give you a list of alternatives you can select from. You can filter your searches to be limited to operating systemts or net services you want to search. You can also choose whether you only want to search the free software or also include the ones you have to pay for. Flexibility is built into the system, enabling you to get fast what you want.
The Alternative To service is free to use, but if you register to this service, you will be able to add alternatives you know about yourself, which is not registered in Alternative To service. The service offer software alternatives for Linux, Windows, Mac OS and a variety of net services. The service can be found at www.alternativeto.net.
AlternativeTo is a new approach to finding good software. Users will tell what application they want to replace and the web service give you suggestions on great alternatives. Instead of listing thousands of more or less crappy applications in a category, Alternative To make each application into a category. Think of it like forever evolving blog posts about good alternatives to the software that users are not satisfied with. And the “blog posts” are generated by users through suggestions, comments and votes.
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Most of people want to play FLV on your ipod, But do you know how to convert FLV to M4V files on Mac? This article must be helpful.
This guide will show you the steps of converting FLV to M4V files on Mac fast and easily with a few clicks. Using iSkysoft Video Converter for Mac, one of the best Mac FLV to M4V files converter tools, you will not confused by converting FLV files and other files any more.
This professional Mac converter can not only help you convert FLV to M4V files on Mac, but also convert AVI to M4V file for Mac at ease, even can convert all sorts of video from one to another such as MOV, AVI, MPG, MKV, etc.
The FLV to M4V files converter also can convert DVD movies to almost all sorts of video and audio formats, and all popular digital devices with the same quality.
Step-by-step Guide: convert FLV to M4V files on Mac.
Step1 : Download and install Video Converter for Mac, then run this program.
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Step2 : Add FLV files.
Click the “Add Files” button or directly using drag & drop to add video or audio files you want to convert to the program.
This Mac video converter supports batch conversion, it allows you to import several multimedia files so that you can convert several videos or audios at one time.
Step3 : Choose the output format , Set the output setting.
Click Format, Then elect an output format for each video file and specify a directory to save the output files. Like this:
Of course, If you don’t know what formats your device supports, you can just select the format according to your device’s name.
If you don’t want to use the default video and audio encoding settings, just click the “Settings” button to set these settings.
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Step4 : Start the conversion.
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Step4 : Start the conversion.
After setting the output settings, you can just click the Convert button to convert FLV to M4V files on Mac.
OK! Now you must know how to convert FLV to M4V files on Mac with Video Converter for Mac. Try it by yourself.
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