Posts related to the Manufacturing functionality in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, things like Production BOM, Routing, MRP, Planning, Production Orders, Manufacturing Costs, etc..
Implementing MRP (material requirements planning) successfully in Microsoft Dynamics NAV is one of the more complex tasks. There are lots of moving parts and to make it work in an efficient way you not only need to know Dynamics NAV and the theories behind MRP but also the product structures and how the business wants to operate. This is my guide to how to make it work, it is based on my experience and how I normally approach MRP. It does not guide or dictate how you should setup NAV, just some guidance on how to get there (I guess...
This is the fifth post on my blog related to subcontracting in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. It describes how you can setup and use Dynamics NAV when you are performing subcontracting on behalf of a customer (e.g. if you are a subcontractor for a customer and perform operations on parts belonging to the customer). This is actually quite straight forward. The key is to create separate items that represent the customer’s parts. Whatever is received from the customer as components should not have an inventory value and whatever is sent back to the customer should have a value representing the value...
This is the fourth post related to subcontracting in Dynamics NAV. The topic is how to use warehouse receipts together with subcontracting purchase orders (previous parts are here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). It is a quite common requirement to be able to use the warehouse receipts to process receipts of subcontracting purchase orders. It could for example be that your location is setup to use the ‘Directed Put-Away and Pick’ (sometimes referred to as advanced warehousing) and therefore you are required to use the warehouse receipts or it could simply be that the warehouse receipts are used standalone...
This is the third post in a series of subcontracting blog posts, and it starting to get a bit tricky. The topic is how to handle transport charges for subcontracting operations. In other words if you have a vendor that handles parts of the production process and you receive an invoice from a shipping agent/transportation company for the transportation of products either to and/or from the subcontractor. If you haven’t read part 1 and part 2 it might be a good idea to read those first, this post assumes you know the basics of subcontracting and uses the same items...
This describes how to ship components to a subcontractor as part of a subcontracting process in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. It is a frequently asked question, so I thought it deserved its own blog post. As the title indicates, this is a second post in a series of posts related to subcontracting. It might make sense to read part 1 first since this kind of built on top of it (using the same items, etc.). The key to shipping components to a subcontractor is to create a location that represent the vendor location and use transfer orders to ship the components....
This is the first part of a series of blog posts about the subcontracting functionality in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. It describes how to setup and use the basic functionality, which is something that is very common to use for manufacturers (3 out of 4 places I go to uses some kind of subcontractors to perform operations that they can’t or don’t want to do in-house). Future posts on the subject subcontracting will describe things like how to ship the products to the subcontractor in a proper way, how shipping charges can be applied, how to receive subcontracted parts using warehouse...
To allocate the total costs posted against a production order towards multiple outputs is a bit tricky in standard Microsoft Dynamics NAV, you more or less have to manually separate the different costs and post them against each of the production order lines (this since the cost calculations in Dynamics NAV is per production order line). For material and capacity costs this involves dividing the quantities consumed and times spent between the production order lines and then post them individually against each of the lines. And for subcontracting costs it is more or less impossible (although nothing is impossible in...
With Dynamics NAV 2013 came the assembly management. It is a great addition to the functionality in Dynamics NAV and gives companies with basic assembly operations a simpler option compared to using the manufacturing functionality in NAV. The question when implementing Dynamics NAV is then; when do you recommend the assembly functionality instead of the manufacturing functionality and is it wise to use both at the same time? My approach to manufacturing is always to keep it as simple as possible and to use the functionality that is needed, that adds value and not just because something is available. Most...
Microsoft Dynamics NAV has multiple ways in which you can handle scrap in the production. There are scrap related to an operation in the routing, there are scrap related to individual components and there are scrap related to the product being produced. Just like any other functionality, it is important to know all the options when configuring and implementing Dynamics NAV. The scrap related setup has an impact on both the material and capacity planning. If you are using the standard costing method to value your inventory then the scrap related setup also has an impact on the cost roll-up....
For those of you that are reading my blog posts you probably know that I have been working on a Shop Floor Terminal role center for Microsoft Dynamics NAV (mostly for my own training, kind of how I learn). I have finally got some time to finish it (was stuck at Tampa airport for 3 hours before a 3 hour flight, more or less an entire work day in transit), so here it is! The concept with the Shop Floor Terminal role center is to provide an interface for a terminal in the production where the operator can see upcoming...
