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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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Structure of this book

This book will cover most functional elements of Dynamics NAV in a number of vertical industries. We will do this in a supply chain matrix. The specific industries we will look at are fashion, automotive, medicines, food, and furniture. For production and trade we will look at the general process and we will see how consultancy and distribution companies help in this process.

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For all these industries we will look at what parts of the standard product can be utilized and where we need vertical solutions. We'll discuss how these vertical solutions will interface with the standard package or maybe even change the behavior of the standard product.

Two parts of the product however are so general in their use and usability for all industries that we'll discuss them in their own chapter. These are Financial Management and Relationship Management.

To emphasize the strength of the vertical concept, we'll design and create a vertical solution for a distribution company.

Now we will look at some of the basic concepts of the application.