Dynamics Great Plains (GP) Bakersfield

Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) is a comprehensive business-management solution built on the highly scalable and affordable platform of Microsoft technologies. It offers a cost-effective solution for managing and integrating finances, e-commerce, supply chain, manufacturing, project accounting, field service, customer relationships, and human resources.

Microsoft Dynamics GP Editions (Great Plains)

Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) business solution works with and like other Microsoft products that are well known throughout businesses worldwide. That means people across your organization can use skills and products that they already know like a web browser, Microsoft Office System products, and Microsoft SQL Server to access and communicate information managed within the system.

Business Intelligence and Reporting

Microsoft offers effective business intelligence and reporting solutions that you can put to work immediately. They can help you look deeper into key performance factors—and pinpoint your most profitable customers, most efficient vendors, and potential issues within your organization that require swift action.

Collaborative Workspace

Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) Collaborative workspace capabilities include: Increasing the productivity and efficiency of your people and teams, being more responsive to customers, and staying true to your goals. All these features can help you reduce the cost of doing business.

Customer Relationship Management

Empower every employee to boost sales, satisfaction, and service with automated CRM that's easy to use, customize, and maintain.

Financial management

Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) provides detailed financial management options that range from general ledger, accounts payable, and accounts receivable modules to bank reporting, cash flow management, and easy reconciliation. Employees can analyze financial data by whatever criteria they require, while the company gains an accounting solution that reflects changes instantaneously.

Human Resource Management

With Dynamics GP (Great Plains) Human Resource edition you can work smarter, faster, and more efficiently to manage every aspect of your organization's most important business asset - your employees.

Manufacturing

Microsoft Dynamics GP (formerly Microsoft Great Plains) offers powerful, cost-effective resource planning and management tools that enable you to collaborate with trading partners, manage the entire financial life cycle of the manufacturing business process, and build a sustainable advantage in your industry.

Project Accounting

Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) provides the tools organizations need to effectively manage project performance while ensuring budgets are met and billing is both accurate and timely.

Supply Chain Management

Maintain tight control over distribution and streamline your pick/pack/ship cycle to gain competitive advantage. From forecasting to delivery, Microsoft Dynamics GP (formerly Microsoft Great Plains) can help you accelerate sales order processes and lower costs per transaction. Integrated applications let you better manage inventory, fill orders faster and provide e-commerce-driving superior customer service

More About Bakersfield

In the fall, Bakersfield hosts the annual Kern County Fair, which showcases much of the area`s agriculture as well as putting on entertaining concerts and holding a small carnival.

In March, Auto Club Famoso Raceway holds the annual March Meet nostalgia drag racing event. The event dates back to the U.S. Fuel and Gas Finals held in March 1959.

Every Spring, Bakersfield hosts one of California`s Scottish Games and Clan Gathering. In the late summer, the local St. George`s Greek Orthodox Church hosts an annual Greek Festival.

The US Lung Association ranked Bakersfield as the most ozone-polluted city in the nation in 2006. It was also ranked as the second-most polluted city in terms of both short-term and year-round particle pollution.

Bakersfield`s weather is a semi-arid dry steppe weather (Koppen weather classification BSh), defined by long, hot, dry summers and brief, cool, sometimes rainy winters. In fact, Bakersfield is one of the sunniest cities in the U.S. (just behind Yuma, Arizona and Palm Springs, California). Bakersfield enjoys long-lasting, mild autumns and early springs, giving the region a unique weather suitable for growing a wide variety of crops (ranging from citrus to carrots to almonds and pistachios). With an avg rainfall of only 6.49 inches (165mm) per year, most precipitation falls during winter and spring. Since Bakersfield receives less than 10 inches (250mm) of rain per year, some consider Bakersfield to be a desert. Typically, no rain falls from May through September. Summers tend to be very hot in Bakersfield with daily temperatures usually exceeding 100°F from mid June to as late as mid September, and occasionally exceeding 110°F. Winters often have mild daytime temperatures reaching into the low 60s°F (15°C). Mornings and nights however, tend to be cold (especially in December and January), where lows can reach as low as 20°F, often coming with dense Tule Fog and low visibility, causing many schools to have fog delays as long as three hours.

According to the US Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 114.4 sq miles (296.3 km²), of which 113.1 sq miles (292.9 km²) is land and 1.3 sq miles (3.4 km²) is water (1.14%).