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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Third Edition

By : Alex Chow
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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Third Edition

By: Alex Chow

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application used in all kinds of organizations around the world. It provides a great variety of functionality out-of-the-box in different topics such as accounting, sales, purchase processing, logistics, or manufacturing. It also allows companies to grow the application by customizing the solution to meet specific requirements. This book is a hands-on tutorial on working with a real Dynamics NAV implementation. You will learn about the team from your Microsoft Dynamics NAV partner as well as the team within the customer’s company. This book provides an insight into the different tools available to migrate data from the client’s legacy system into Microsoft Dynamics NAV. If you are already live with Microsoft Dynamics NAV, this books talks about upgrades and what to expect from them. We’ll also show you how to implement additional or expanding functionalities within your existing Microsoft Dynamics NAV installation, perform data analysis, debug error messages, and implement free third-party add-ons to your existing installation. This book will empower you with all the skills and knowledge you need for a successful implementation.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV Third Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Choosing the right time


It is important to choose the right time to make a functional change on an existing Dynamics NAV implementation. Some functional changes can be implemented at any time. Some of them may require a lot of time and no users to be working and changing data; you may want to choose a weekend for that. Some others could be implemented at any time, but to keep a better track of the time at which it began to work differently, you might want to choose the start of a fiscal year or the start of a month.

The important thing is to think about it, analyze it, and choose the right time for every functional change implementation.

The Requisition Worksheet

Using the Requisition Worksheet to automatically calculate and plan the replenishment of items is something that could be done at any time. It could even be done progressively, starting with a few items to get familiar with the requisition functionality and adding new items to this process by progressively configuring their replenishment...