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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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Trade in vertical industries

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is used in many different vertical industries that often require specific features. Rather than trying to implement all these features in the standard product, Microsoft Dynamics NAV supports the framework, and allows developers to design and create vertical features.

For these features the 80/20 rule applies. Microsoft delivers 80% of the framework which costs 20% of our time to implement. The missing 20% of the functionality is developed at a cost of 80% of the budgeted time.

In this chapter we will discuss how Microsoft Dynamics NAV is used for trade in five different vertical industries. For each industry we will discuss two specific vertical features and how they could be solved.

Most industries have solid add-on solutions available designed by certified Microsoft Dynamics NAV partners that have been implemented at multiple sites. It is highly recommended to look at those add...