We thought this would be of interest to many of the GP and RMS users here in regards to "mastering" items in one or more locations.
Although you may have the ability to share product data between systems, integration alone is typically not enough. First of all, one system is always overwriting the other’s data. Second, anything beyond simple integration from point A to point B is difficult to accomplish. For example, if you need to assign complex categories or HTML to multiple sales channels, neither GP nor RMS has an easy way to assign, track or manage those values.
Full article: www.nchannel.com/.../mastering-data-in-microsoft-dynamics-rms-and-gp