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’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...
This blog post describes how you activate the āDirected Put-away and Pickā functionality (also known as WMS or advanced warehousing) for an existing location in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. It could for example be that you have been using Dynamics NAV for a couple of years and your business has grown or changed and you want to start using the WMS functionality for an existing location (or at least check the functionality out in a test environment). Below is the process to do this, step by step. The screenshots are done by converting the āBLUEā location in a Cronus company (the...
Just like with processing of shipments, there are four ways to process receipts of inventory in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Choosing the most suitable method is important in order to get the software to support the business as efficient as possible. Below is a description of each of the four methods together with some of the pros and cons. If you have read the previous blog post describingĀ processing of shipmentsĀ then you will notice that there are lots of similarities between the options on the receiving and shipping side, in fact a lot of the functionality just āmirrorsā each other. On the...
In one of my previous blog posts about processing shipments I mentioned a batch job IĀ developed many years agoĀ to automatically create warehouse shipments. I have since that post received many requests and questions about this batch job, so here it is! The objects themselves are available in the downloadsĀ section and the details about the functionality is described below. I hope you will find this useful. (more…)
There are four ways to process shipments of inventory in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Which way to choose depends on the business requirements and what processes that are most suitable. I typically discuss the different options early in the analysis phase of an implementation to establish the preferred method as soon as possible (if it is not obvious which one to apply that is). It is important to get it right early since the procedures, work instructions, potentially modifications and printouts all will depend on the method chosen (and you donāt want to change your mind half way through the project)....
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 āDirected Put-Away and Pickā (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...
In 2005 I developed a simple barcode system that allowed you to put barcodes on printouts for displaying the documents in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Initially the system was called āDocument Lookupā because it was exactly what it did; you scanned the barcode and Dynamics NAV displayed the form in the client. This barcode system turned out to be a big success and it was extended to perform different functions as well (such as creating picks, finishing production orders, etc.). Since then I have used it in most places where I implemented Dynamics NAV and it now goes under the name...
From time to time I see users struggling with a list of warehouse receipts, the question is then ‘how can I find the warehouse receipt I am looking for?’. Well, you make it too complicated. A warehouse receipt should be created at the time of receiving not before that. If you create your warehouse receipts in advance you will have problems finding them since the list of warehouse receipts does not really include any useful information. (more…)
