Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software product.

What is Microsoft Dynamics NAV? Microsoft Dynamics NAV offers growing small and midsize businesses a powerful yet cost-effective solution that can be tailored for your company. It can support customization and add-on software to meet industry or other specific needs. In addition, it can adapt as a growing business needs more power and functionality. Financial information is always up-to-date, so you can easily view the specific information you need to make informed decisions. Microsoft Dynamics NAV also helps you manage a broad range of other business areas such as manufacturing, distribution, sales & marketing and more. You can add functionality as you need it and grow at your own pace.

The product 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. Value-added resellers (VAR)s can have full access to the business logic source code, and it has a reputation as being easy to customize.

Microsoft NAV provides distribution and manufacturing companies more than "out of the box" functionality. Yes the solution has a strong feature set, but more importantly it can be thought of as an "ERP System construction set". The Pascal like development language is easily accessible to appropriate developers and is designed for rapidly customizing the software. There is no need for complex server side Transact SQL stored procedures as the one language manages the application and database. This typically results in new development or modifications that take about 1/2 the time of traditional ERP applications.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Add-ons is a software products supplementing NAV functionality. Add-on solutions are developed and distributed by Microsoft Partners worldwide network as granules or modules to improve functionality of NAV system or make it applicable in some business spheres. You can download NAV add-ons list here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/5/1/15118B1F-285E-4B24-B056-3079D9760277/MicrosoftDynamicsNAVAdd-ons.pdf

There are vertical and horizontal add-on solutions. Horizontal add-on solutions supplement one of the NAV functions or add new function (e.g. financial management, human resources management etc.). Vertical (or industry-specific oriented) add-ons expand NAV functionality to support some industry (e.g. healthcare, financial services etc.). Majority of add-on solutions are multilingual, most commonly one of the languages is English.

Usually, ERP systems are considered to be complex, difficult for use with steep learning curve. Seeing that as one of the challenges Microsoft has deliver Role Tailored user experience for products like Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009. Below is a link to an article relating to the role tailored experience.

http://www.uxpassion.com/2008/11/what-is-roletailored-user-experience-in-nav-2009-part-1/

For an overview, go to: http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/nav/product/overview.mspx

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Manufacturing:

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Manufacturing can help you become more responsive to your customers and improve overall performance by providing the tools to manage your manufacturing processes. This solution offers the functionality you need to make informed decisions about many critical issues which you face every day. Its powerful MRP functionality assists you in determining what and when you need to produce and/or order. Navision's flexible MRP allows you to calculate in a regenerative or net change mode. You define the critical manufacturing and reorder policies that MRP will use to calculate net requirements. The system suggests what to order based on fact rather than guesswork. And it offers the flexibility to adapt and adjust manufacturing policies, on the fly, as your ever-changing business demands dictate

This solution can be implemented with little disruption to your manufacturing processes in use. Beginning with the basic implementation gives you immediate benefits and you can add value with phased software, expanding functionality by adding new modules, full MRP, etc, as your business needs change and grow.

Manufacturing allows you to:

·         Achieve the visibility you need to manage projects 

·         Gain an at-a-glance graphical overview of capacity planning & scheduling

·         Get faster overviews of orders through the multi-level order structure

·         Grow your business at your own pace with minimum disruptions

·         Instantly change your manufacturing methods and processes

·         Manage complex operations through parallel routings

·         Plan on an order-by-order basis

·         Quickly identify processes that could be changed to operate more efficiently and profitably

·         Features & Functionalities

·         Ability to monitor progress on a job-by-job basis 

·         Deep visibility into work-in progress 

·         Easy management of production orders, bills of material, & manual planning processes

·         Graphical overview to quickly spot problems & resolve bottlenecks before they cause trouble

·         Support for order-by-order planning

·         Microsoft Dynamics NAV Manufacturing provides clear and concise production information, giving visibility that is both trustworthy and timely.

Distribution:

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Distribution helps businesses streamline distribution processes and improve inventory management and warehouse efficiency. Navision can help you gain market advantage with fully integrated distribution software that give your business complete awareness of customers´ order statuses, suppliers’ service levels, and levels of product and service efficiency!

Distribution allows you to:

·         Accurately answer questions pertaining to stocked items, product cost & delivery time

·         Reduce cost by reducing excess inventory

·         Run your warehouse more efficiently

·         Work more closely with your vendors

Additional values are the Distribution Warehousing functionalities. The Order-by-Order feature enables your employees to efficiently complete warehouse tasks and provides an overview of where items are located. Multiple-order Warehousing is an affordable extension that gives you the functionality you need and grows with you. These features can be implemented at various levels to fit your specific needs.

Features & Functionalities:

·         Advanced Forecasting & Procurement

·         Automated Data Capture Systems (ADCS)

·         Bills of materials

·         Inventory Costing

·         Inventory Management

·         Item tracking

·         Multiple location logistics

·         Multiple-order Warehousing

·         Order Processing

·         Pricing for Sales & Purchasing

·         Returns Management

·         Shipment & Delivery

·         Shipping Integration to: UPS, FedEx, Airborne Express/DHL, etc

·         Warehouse Management Key capabilities

·         Accounts for additional cost such as restocking charges

·         Helps you win customer loyalty

·         Increase responsiveness

·         Offers more competitive pricing based on lower operation costs

·         Processes returned inventory

·         Provides tracking status on orders at any given time

·         Simplifies and manages your stock-keeping

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