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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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Basic production principles

Before going into Microsoft Dynamics NAV, we will discuss some terminology that is important to understand as a basis for the concepts of production in ERP.

Bill of materials

The bill of materials defines what components are used to assemble or manufacture one item. The components in the Bill of Materials are also items, so before creating a new Bill of Materials all component items must be created in the system.

In Microsoft Dynamics NAV there are two separate Bill of Material definitions. One is for assembling and the other is for manufacturing.

MRP

Material requirements planning was introduced in the 1960's as a calculation method for production scheduling and was quickly replaced by Manufacturing resource planning or MRP II.

While ERP replaces MRP, MRP is still a crucial part of ERP Applications.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV has a built-in MRP algorithm but also allows...