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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Design - Second Edition

By : Marije Brummel
Book Image

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Design - Second Edition

By: Marije Brummel

Overview of this book

This book is a focused tutorial on Microsoft Dynamics NAV application development to help you develop complete applications and not just application outlines. This hands-on guide starts off by introducing the supply chain that you will be using throughout the book. You will then implement the Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP suite and learn to set it up and customize it for various industries. You will learn how to customize Dynamics NAV to suit the different aspects of a business such as financial management, relationship management, production, jobs, trade, storage, logistics, and so on. The book will take you through these Microsoft-designed application features and show you how to customize and extend them safely. Therefore, by the end of this book, you will be able to create a structure of your own in Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Vertical industry implementation

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is used in many different vertical industries. Vertical industries often require specific features. Rather than trying to implement all these features in the standard product, Microsoft Dynamics NAV supports the framework and allows developers to design and create vertical features.

For these features, the 80/20 rule applies; Microsoft delivers 80 percent of the framework, which costs 20 percent of our time to implement. The missing 20 percent of the functionality is developed costing 80 percent of the budgeted time.

In this chapter, we will discuss how Microsoft Dynamics NAV is used for production in five different vertical industries. For each industry, we will discuss two specific vertical features and how they could be solved.

Most industries have solid add-on solutions available designed by certified Microsoft...