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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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Summary

With this chapter we end our quest to explore the production and trade functionality around the items in Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

We discussed the application design of sales and purchase documents in Microsoft Dynamics NAV and how they are mirrored. We've talked about the different Document Types and how they work together from Quote or Blanket Order to Order and Invoice or Return Order, and Credit Memo.

The sales and purchase line validation methodology helps us to calculate the pricing, inventory, and VAT, using a special structure of functions that is linked to the way end users create these lines.

Sales and Purchase orders have a mandatory release process that can be extended with Document Approval and Prepayments.

The items have a two layer inventory process using Item Ledger Entries on Locations and Warehouse Entries on Bins and Zones. We can use Transfer Orders to move items from one location to another and Warehouse Documents to move items from bin...