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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Application Design

By : Marije Brummel
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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Application Design

By: Marije Brummel

Overview of this book

Dynamics NAV 2009 is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software product from Microsoft that can be used for variety of business needs. It is part of the Microsoft Dynamics family, and intended to assist with finance, manufacturing, Customer Relationship Management, supply chains, analytics, and electronic commerce for small and medium-sized enterprises. This book is a focused tutorial on Microsoft Dynamics NAV application development, so you can develop complete applications and not just application outlines. It will show NAV developers how to create different kinds of applications. Different kinds of application are vital in different industries like fashion, automobile, retail, books (education), and other industries. It starts off by introducing the supply chain that you will be using throughout the book. You will implement the Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP suite and learn how it is set up and customized for various industries. You will be able 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. Thus, you will be able to create a structure of your own in Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Preface
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Add-on flexibility

The add-on we have created in this chapter is definitely not ready to be used by a real company, but it demonstrates how to create a flexible solution that can be expanded by others easily.

Most modern logistic service providers offer other services to customers like Value Added Logistics, Item Tracking, and third and fourth party logistics.

Value added logistics

When a company offers Value Added Logistics services, they not only keep products on inventory but they also offer services around this like display packaging.

This can be best compared with Manufacturing in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. A list of items called a Bill of Materials is combined into a new product. This new product is then shipped to the customer.

When the displays are no longer necessary, for example, when a marketing campaign is finished, the displays need to be picked up from the customer and disassembled into the original products.

In our solution, this could be implemented...