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Assembly Order Posting to General Ledger

I have previously described how production orders are posting into the general ledger which I have received a lot of positive feedback on. This time I will described how assembly orders are posting into the general ledger in Microsoft Dynamics NAV (which is a lot simpler). The assembly orders in Microsoft Dynamics NAV was introduced in the 2013 version and they are a great compliment to the production orders, you can read one of my previous blog posts about assembly vs. production orders to get a feeling about what to use when. The only thing on assembly orders that creates entries […]

By Olof Simren July 20, 2015 Assembly, Finance, Inventory 3 Comments

Alternative Production BOMs and Routings

Using alternative production BOMs or routings is quite common in a manufacturing environment. It could for example be that larger orders are run in higher capacity machines, versions of products are produced with slight variations in components (like different colors), or you might produce the same item in two different locations and therefor need two different routings. These are just some examples, there are many more scenarios like that where you might need to change the production BOM or routing based on different factors. Microsoft Dynamics NAV allows you to manually change both the routing and production BOM used on […]

By Olof Simren June 14, 2015 Development, Manufacturing 22 Comments

Assemble to Order with Inventory Picks and Movements

One of the nicer things about the assembly functionality in Microsoft Dynamics NAV is the option to assemble to order. What this means is that you can stock the components and not assemble them until it is time to ship the order (very useful if you sell kits of products for example). In this blog post I will describe how this works together with the inventory picks and movements. This is in my mind a setup that works well and supports scenarios where the personnel that are picking the products also assembling/bundling them at the same time. I have previously […]

By Olof Simren May 20, 2015 Assembly, Inventory, Sales 10 Comments

Batch Creation of Warehouse Shipments

In one of my previous blog posts about processing shipments I mentioned a batch job I developed many years ago 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 downloads section and the details about the functionality is described below. I hope you will find this useful.

By Olof Simren May 10, 2015 Development, Warehouse No Comments

Consignment Inventory

Being able to handle consignment inventory in Microsoft Dynamics NAV is a common requirement. There are four scenarios of consignment inventory that I frequently bump into; 1. Inventory at a Customer 2. Inventory at a Vendor 3. Customer Owned Inventory 4. Vendor Owned Inventory Some may argue that case 2 and 3 is not consignment, and they might be right, but nevertheless they are cases that needs to be handled and to me the overall concept is closely related to consignment inventory and therefor I included them here. Case 2 and 3 are typically found in relation to subcontracting or […]

By Olof Simren April 26, 2015 Finance, Inventory 21 Comments

Autofill Variable Name in NAV 2015

By accident I discovered something quite interesting last week and I thought it was worth sharing it through a blog post. When you create an object type variable in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 and you leave out the name then NAV will automatically suggest the name based on the subtype. So, when creating variables that are forms, records, reports, xmlports, etc. then there is no need to enter a variable name anymore. Nice! 🙂 Here is how it works;

By Olof Simren April 16, 2015 Development 3 Comments

Maintenance Production Orders

A way to handle maintenance on machines in Microsoft Dynamics NAV is to create production orders with operations that represent the maintenance. The beauty of this is that you can then include the maintenance when scheduling the production orders, you also maintain history about when the maintenance was done and you have the option to capture the labor cost related to maintenance. Below is an example of how it can be done.

By Olof Simren March 24, 2015 Manufacturing 4 Comments

Processing of Shipments

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 don’t want to change your mind half way through the project). […]

By Olof Simren March 9, 2015 General, Inventory, Miscellaneous, Warehouse 60 Comments

Block Postings

This might be ‘the oldest trick in the book’ but it is still a frequently asked question and therefor I thought it was worth a small blog post. The question is how do you block/prevent users from posting something in Microsoft Dynamics NAV?

By Olof Simren February 17, 2015 Finance, General, Miscellaneous 1 Comment

Work Centers vs. Machine Centers

A topic that is discussed on all manufacturing implementations is Work Centers vs. Machine Centers. Questions like ‘should we be using machine centers?’ and ‘what are the differences?’ are always raised and discussed. It is very important to understand the differences and how to apply the functionality in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. I have seen several installations where the setup has been much more complicated than it needed to be and therefor the system became hard to work with. I have also seen cases where standard functionality that could have added lots of value was not utilized and even modifications being […]

By Olof Simren February 2, 2015 Manufacturing 27 Comments

Olof Simren - Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Blog

Assembly Order Posting to General Ledger

Alternative Production BOMs and Routings

Assemble to Order with Inventory Picks and Movements

Batch Creation of Warehouse Shipments

Consignment Inventory

Autofill Variable Name in NAV 2015

Maintenance Production Orders

Processing of Shipments

Block Postings

Work Centers vs. Machine Centers

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