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Hi Experts,

You now have the chance to choose the topic for the next NAV SCM Webinar!

Visit http://twtpoll.com/npbvmgyeyiehg3h and choose from the topics listed.

Poll closes on 15 Nov 2014.

Thanks!

PS: Standing by for comments and suggestions :)

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Roberto Stefanetti 12,998 on at

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hi,

my best topic ? .... "planning" !

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keoma 32,729 on at

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hi,

i prefer Inventory Availability and Assembly Mgmt.

Please start a survey without the need of an twitter account. thx.

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Mohana Yadav 61,005 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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All options one by one.. start with Order Promising..

agree with Jonathan, please start survey without need of twitter account.

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Tharanga Chandrasekara 23,118 on at

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I would go with the Planning

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How about data entry - best methods?

I just entered an 18" stack of invoices, a thousand invoices (1,356 to be exact), in 5 hours, using our current system. Let's call it 240 invoices per hour, 4 per minute. This includes selecting a vendor, entering the invoice number, invoice date, receipt date, and the account level breakdown for the invoice. I can't get our current consultants to release a 'working' NAV environment to test data entry in, so, how does this input speed compare with others' experience? What recommendations would be made to either speed up entry in basic NAV or modify it to speed up entry?

I'd enter this topic on your poll, but I'm not registered on Twitter.

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Jens Glathe 6,092 on at

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Raokman, well done. Welcome to the party pooper club ;) But I think it's a valid entry anyway. I know some people who reach this speed with NAV Classic Client, with a few customizations. But I highly doubt that you will reach the same speed in RTC (any version). The UI just isn't designed for speed. Even if you know every code from memory, know all keyboard shortcuts, the UI is too slow for this. By design. :(

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so I tell the CEO he has to triple/quadruple/quintuple? his data entry headcount?

I was just helping out for a person who'd been out 2 weeks sick and got curious. I am by no means the fastest at data entry. Most of the clerks average 10,000 invoices per week.

What do you mean the UI is "slow by design"? ??? !!???

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Jens Glathe 6,092 on at

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Hi Raokman,

the answer I got (on NavTechDays, in 2012 I guess) from a Microsoft rep was "Nobody is doing heads-down data entry anymore, these are all electronic interfaces and should be. But when you have a process of heads-down data entry and the client is too slow, you need to write your own application for the data entry." Needless to say that I was quite pissed at the answer.

Regarding "slow by design": The UI response times (screen redraw, initial rendering of pages) is glacially slow when you set this in relation to the graphics power available in today's desktop machines. And there are elements which work with a delay on mouse hover (drill down, for example) or a delay (lookup on code entry). Buttons are relegated to the ribbon, which is always a game of "where is gopher" when you look for something. So maybe it's a mixture of bad design decisions (latencies), bad UI toolkit (WinForms) and bad UX design. The thing that baffles me is that Windows nowadays is screeching fast, but every Winforms UI feels like a dreaded Web Client when you use it, even if it's a "native" application. The WinXX and GDI interfaces can be talked to directly, it IS possible to write fast UI applications. But apparently nobody has to do any actual work on computers anymore. Or is it?

with best regards

Jens

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keoma 32,729 on at

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i agree to Jens. the technology of the RTC client is wpf. it is a rich client technology. many opportunities, low speed.

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Sigfredo Beerman on at

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Hi,

I am not sure if this is an issue about how much data is required to enter in NAV, or if this is an issue about time required to move from one field to the other, or if this is truly a performance issue ...

To me, botton line here is User Experience (UX) design. Based on the Customer process, we might optimize this by:

- Optimize page by organizing fields in Promoted or Additional

- Promote important fields to the General tab

- Use Quick Entry to define how focus will move from one field to the other

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In the other hand, I guess that we need to understand what is the business scenario to have 1K invoices created in a row. If this is a standard business, I would assume company might prefer to use an E-system to automatize this manual task and focus they employee in other added-value tasks. Not sure ...

Thanks,

Sigfredo

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