Primary data such as sales orders, purchase orders, production orders, and financial transactions flow through the NAV system as follows:
Initial setup: Essential Master data, reference data, control, and setup data is entered. Much of this preparation is done when the system (or a new application) is prepared for production use.
Transaction entry: Transactions are entered into Documents and then transferred as part of a Posting sequence into a
Journaltable, or data may be entered directly into aJournaltable . Data is preliminarily validated as it is entered with master and auxiliary data tables being referenced as appropriate. Entry can be via manual keying, an automated transaction generation process, or an import function which brings in transaction data from another system.Validation: Provides for additional data validation processing of a set of one or more transactions, often in batches, prior to submitting it to Posting.