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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

In this chapter we learned how to implement the Job functionality of Microsoft Dynamics NAV. We discussed different strategies of setting up Jobs and Job Tasks.

We created several examples with different invoicing methods using the Job Planning Lines in a creative way.

The Job Journal should be used to register usage on Jobs, but we discussed how to enhance this by creating a simple but effective Time Sheet application.

When Purchasing Items for Jobs the Items are not used for Costing, but in the Work in Progress calculation we discussed in detail.

Invoicing is done automatically when everything happens as it should.

Lastly, we designed some small enhancements for the Job module without making big changes in the standard application.

This was the last chapter about the functionality of Microsoft Dynamics NAV. We discussed all possibilities of the application, and how they should be changed without risking breaking anything.

In the next chapter we will look...