From the Microsoft Dynamics GP Blogs: Cash collection; State, fed wages mismatch; Purchase receipt number; Unauthorized purchase orders

From this week's Microsoft Dynamics GP blogs:

• Cash Collection per Customer per Salesperson
• My State Wages Do Not Match Federal, or Should They?
• Stored Procedure to Get Next Purchase Receipt Number
• "You Cannot Receive Against Unauthorized Purchase Orders."

Cash Collection per Customer per Salesperson

On his Dynamics GP Essentials blog, Mahmoud M. AlSaadi wrote that people usually think of commissions from a sales perspective, meaning the more a person sells, the more commission he receives.

However, AlSaadi wrote that when you work with large distribution companies, you realize that collecting cash for the sale is more important than making the sale.

The concept is pretty much straight forward, when evaluating sales force and salesperson, it is not only important to give commissions for sales persons who can up-sell and increase sales, but rather the ones who can sell and collect high as well.

AlSaadi wrote that when you try to understand this from a Dynamics GP perspective, you soon realize that system doesn't keep track of a salesperson's per cash receipt, but rather it's stored on the customer card level.

You can see a report that retrieves all the cash receipts per customer per salesperson here.

My State Wages Do Not Match Federal, or Should They?

On the Dynamics GP Support and Services Blog, Terry Heley wrote that this year the team received a lot of questions asking why state wages don't match federal wages. 

Because this issue wasn't very well documented, she wrote a post ...