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Assembly Management versus Manufacturing in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team
As many of you may know, Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 includes a new application feature called Assembly Management. It is described as a set of features designed for companies that supply products to their customers by combining components in simple processes, such as assembly, light manufacturing, and...
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20 Nov 2012
Blog Post:
Timeline Visualization in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 ships with a fully integrated Timeline Visualization tool. It provides the user with a visual projection of future supply and enables the user to make modifications on the fly. The Timeline helps you understand and optimize your inventory profile with its visual projection...
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23 Oct 2012
Blog Post:
Supply Planning Changes in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team
The Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 release includes a set of new supply planning options, aimed at the following goals: Optimize supply handling cost by minimizing order changes. Provide a more precise setup for optimizing the inventory profile. Reduce the time spent on processing and changing...
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22 Oct 2012
Blog Post:
Jobs WIP Calculation Compliance in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team
Work in Process, WIP, and the related recognition of costs and revenues has a huge impact on the bottom-line for a project-based company. Project managers, accountants, and controllers are monitoring this recognition closely and for them it is crucial to have the process be as simple yet accurate as...
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16 Oct 2012
Blog Post:
Planning and Execution in Jobs and Services in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team
I think everyone agrees that keeping track of project performance is essential in all project-based delivery scenarios. It should be fairly easy to see if a project is on track and that everything that should be invoiced is invoiced. Project managers need to answer questions such as: What are...
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15 Oct 2012
Blog Post:
Backflushing consumption
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team
What is and when we will be using backflushing consumption? Method for issuing (reducing on-hand quantities) materials to a manufacturing order. With backflushing, the material is issued automatically when production is posted against an operation. The backflushing program will use the quantity completed...
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23 Feb 2012
Blog Post:
Vendors with specific shipping dates
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team
How to model a vendor where they only ship on Wednesdays? This is just an example ... That is something we need to be careful with. First of all, keep in mind the difference with Sales. In there, we have the "Shipping Agent" where we can define an "Agent Service" (F5790). This...
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23 Feb 2012
Blog Post:
How calendars are considered when calculating lead times
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team
Lead time calculation is the calculation that takes place to calculate "Expected Receipt Date" from the "Order Date" or the other way around. Similarly, sales have the calculation to calculate "Planned Delivery Date" from "Shipment Date" or the other way around...
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1 Feb 2012
Blog Post:
Post – Apply – From Item Entry Application Across Locations
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team
The following blog post is to provide guidance for users of the Inventory costing functionality within Microsoft Dynamics NAV. The specific article is designed for providing guidance that you are able to use Appl. – from Item Entry to create an Item Entry Application across locations. This feature...
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4 Jan 2012
Blog Post:
Order modifiers are not being considered with planning exceptions or emergencies
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team
This is related with How to work with "Warning icons" in Planning Worksheet Here, we have an scenario where NAV does not respect order modifiers (maximum/multiple/minimum order quantity) when there are exceptions. As we mentioned in earlier post, exceptions are ... exceptions!!! Yeah, I...
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15 Nov 2011
Blog Post:
Reorder items and forecast: is it the right thing to have both together?
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team
Forecast are used to prevent planning of any new demands coming. But, is it meaningful to use forecast with reorder point items? I would say no, just what I think. I am saying this because the reorder point is calculated from the safety stock + average demand during lead time. Thus, the reorder point...
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18 Oct 2011
Blog Post:
How to work with "Warning icons" in Planning Worksheet
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team
Take this post as my suggestion on how to work with "Warning icons". Any other idea is welcome, let's comment on that !! Back from NAV 5.0 SP1, warning icons were added to the Planning Worksheet to raise exceptional situations. There are three type of scenarios here: Emergency...
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11 Oct 2011
Blog Post:
Forecast netting in NAV: where the buckets are!!??
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team
As usual, let's start talking from a pure business perspective ... When a forecast is defined, it is always required to define for which period the forecast is defined. In other words, if you forecast a demand of 200 pieces, for which period is this for? Usually, forecast are defined for a week or...
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10 Oct 2011
Blog Post:
Rounding in ERP world
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team
As you might know, ERP tools are based in integers and decimals. There are other tools which are much more powerful from a mathematical perspective. These are the engineering tools which are mostly used in those environments where precision in calculation is higher than what we are used to. Also, these...
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6 Oct 2011
Blog Post:
Requisition vs. Planning worksheet: why having two planning tools?
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team
Well, this is more a licensing request. Requisition worksheet is on the basic license ... thus, it provides basic functionality. In the other hand, if you required more complex planning functionality, you should buy planning worksheet. And, what are these differences between Requisition and Planning...
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3 Oct 2011
Blog Post:
Are reservations being impacted with stock adjustments?
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team
Sometimes we need to post stock adjustments (negative adjustment, phys. inventory journal, ...). We need to correct the stock in NAV to make it consistent with physical stock. But, how does this affect the reservations that might already exist? If we have stock and we have reservations against that...
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30 Sep 2011
Blog Post:
Reservations vs. costing application: should both be consistent?
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team
Assume the following scenario: We have a FIFO item where we set automatic reservation We create a purchase with expected receipt on the 1st of October and another for the 15th of same month We now create a sales order for the 1st of December Question here is: how NAV determines what...
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30 Sep 2011
Blog Post:
Reschedule does not happen when this is "Lot-for-Lot" and reoder cycle is defined
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team
With Lot-for-Lot items, the reorder cycle needs to be considered when a change on the demand profile arise. As an example, we have a lot-for-lot item for which a replenishment exist which is consistent with demand profile. Now, the user changes a demand shipment date to an earlier date and the assumption...
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23 Feb 2011
Blog Post:
Planning does not respect reservations against stock with "Order" item
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team
Have in mind the following scenario: “Order” item with a sales order reserved against stock and sales order shipment date in frozen zone. Under these circumstances, we need to consider this scenario should only occur exceptionally in rare occassions: · Having an “Order”...
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23 Feb 2011
Blog Post:
Planning parameters vs. demand profile
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team
Most of the times, when a question arise about why NAV suggest such a planning proposal, it arises the question on how planning parameters are determined by the given company. When we talk about planning parameters, we refer to: reorder point, reorder quantity and safety stock. The safety stock is...
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30 Nov 2010
Blog Post:
NAV “core” Planning: CU 99000854 ( IV ): Planning states
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team
Not sure if you are familiar with this. But, I believe it worths covering it … Have you ever realized NAV Planning goes through different steps or phases of the planning? StartOver, MatchDates, MatchQty, CreateSupply, ReduceSupply, CloseDemand, CloseSupply, CloseLoop. All these steps are being...
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30 Nov 2010
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NAV “core” Planning: CU 99000854 ( III ): integrating MRP with Jobs planning
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team
This post is not for the reader to use the suggested code but to test it and enhance it as required. Yeap, this is a disclaimer so reader knows that testing should always be done. Also, the below code is not complete it but might provide a good idea on how to enhance NAV planning with Jobs material planning...
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30 Nov 2010
Blog Post:
Unforgettable: NAV Supply Chain Management
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team
Do you like that song? "Unforgettable", Nat King Cole, 1954. And yes, you are right: this is nothing to be with NAV. But, I was asked to start posting on this blog and wanted to explain what my posts would be about. "Unforgettable" is what SCM (Supply Chain Management) is about...
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29 Nov 2010