Posts related to the Manufacturing functionality in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, things like Production BOM, Routing, MRP, Planning, Production Orders, Manufacturing Costs, etc..
This is a bit of a continuation of the post related to the Business Central Mobile App that I wrote a couple of weeks ago. It is to provide some inspiration for development for the mobile app and maybe also to promote our Shop Floor App that we think is the best. š Real-Time Scanning, Time Capture, Posting, and Labeling Without Leaving BC Iāve lost count of how many times Iāve watched great plans fall apart on the floor because data showed up late. Paper travelers, keyboard re-entry, and āIāll post it laterā are the usual suspects. Over the last...
I’m excited to share another case study todayāthis time featuring ZOOK, a manufacturer of rupture disks and pressure-safety devices. If you’re in manufacturing, especially if your business involves any level of engineer-to-order or custom production, this one’s worth your time. This isn’t a story about a company that deployed Business Central out of the box and called it a day. It’s about a manufacturer with genuinely complex requirements who found a way to make Dynamics work for themāfirst on NAV, and now on their way to Business Central. What Makes ZOOK Different ZOOK doesn’t make thousands of identical widgets. They...
I’ve been watching companies buy expensive third-party mobile applications for Business Central for years now, and I keep asking myself: why? I get itāold habits die hard. For decades, if you wanted warehouse staff scanning barcodes or shop floor workers capturing production data on a tablet, you had to buy something from an ISV. That’s just how it was. But somewhere around Business Central version 23, that stopped being true. Microsoft gave us native barcode scanning, tablet support, and AL extensibility in the standard mobile appāand most people are still acting like it’s 2015. I just came back from the...
I’m excited to share a case study that really captures what I love about working with Business Central in high-volume manufacturing environments. World Emblem has been a Naviona client since 2017, and watching them grow from Dynamics NAV through multiple Business Central upgrades while quadrupling their revenue has taught me a lot about what it takes to scale an ERP system alongside a fast-moving business. The case study attached to this post tells their story, but I wanted to add some context about why their approach worked and what other BC users can learn from it. Because the real story...
I’ve been implementing Business Central (and Dynamics NAV before that) for manufacturing companies for over two decades now. And in almost every single implementation, at some point during the requirements workshops, someone from quality or operations asks: “Can the system handle quality inspections?” The answer used to be: “Not really, not out of the box. We’ll need an add-on for that.” Well, that changes with Business Central version 28. Microsoft has added native quality management functionality, and from what I can see in the early access preview, it’s not just a checkbox featureāit actually looks great š , it is...
This is a continuation of my last post where I described the Copilot Inventory Queries extension that I developed (available for free in AppSource). I have now taken that concept and applied it to the Planning Worksheet in Business Central. With this you get a Copilot user interface that can help explain the suggestions created by the material planning (MRP). I created this in a way that the AI model includes all the suggestions for the same item number, location and variant code for each query. So, if the plan makes multiple suggestions for the same item, you have the...
Hello! I am still around and working with Business Central. I know itās been more than 8 years since my last blog post, but better late than never. š I went to Directions North America in April this year and met people that are still using and reading my blog, which was great to hear. I also learned that it is now possible to Reopen Finished Production Orders in Business Central, something that people have been waiting on for years (I have wanted this feature for 25 years now, finally!!). This made me so happy I decided to write this...
Production orders in Dynamics NAV allows you to consume both less and more than whatās defined on the components and to output both less and more than whatās defined on the operations in the routing. There is no check when you post, which is nice (sometime I which it was like that on sales and purchase orders as well, but thatās a topic for another post). But when you post more than you wanted you need to be able to reverse it. Luckily reversing production output and consumption is easy if you know how to do it (if the production...
This blog post is about the return merchandise (or material) authorization process in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, this is another topic that is more or less always discussed during Dynamics NAV implementations. The typical scenario is that a customer calls and wants to return a product that they have purchased to get a refund, replacement product or to get it repaired. For this they need an authorization, an RMA. So, how is this done in Dynamics NAV? The short answer is by using a sales return order, which is similar to a sales order but it goes the āother wayā and...
My last post about adding a field to the item tracking lines turned out to be very technical, so this time I am doing a post that is completely without any programming or changes to the application. The topic is parallel routings in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, it is nothing new but something that I get a fair amount of questions about and someone once suggested that I should write a blog post about it. So, here it is! š Parallel routings (sometimes also referred to as parallel sequences) are used when multiple manufacturing operations/processes can or is need to be...
