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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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The storage application

In a storage warehouse, products come and go all the time. A big difference between a storage company and a production plant is that the storage company does not care about the exact products they have but the amount of space they require for storage. The business is selling storage handling, storage space, and transportation.

For our application, we'll assume that our warehouse has a receipt and a shipping region, an 'in between' staging region and a bulk storage region.

If we simplify the warehouse it might look like this floor plan:

  • Receipt: When the products come in, they are first unloaded from the truck into a receipt region. This is often located close to the unloading dock so the truck can quickly move on to its next stop after the products are unloaded and the loading documents are checked.
  • From the receiving location, the products should be stored away as quickly as possible since another truck might come and the...