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Subcontracting Part 2: Shipping Components to Subcontractors

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. […]

By Olof Simren August 11, 2014 Manufacturing, Purchase 8 Comments
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Subcontracting Part 1: The Basics

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 […]

By Olof Simren August 5, 2014 Manufacturing, Purchase 51 Comments
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Total Cost Allocation for Multiple Outputs

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 […]

By Olof Simren July 29, 2014 Development, Finance, Inventory, Manufacturing 5 Comments
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Assembly or Manufacturing?

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 […]

By Olof Simren July 20, 2014 Assembly, Manufacturing No Comments
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Scrap in Production

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. […]

By Olof Simren July 16, 2014 Development, Inventory, Manufacturing 17 Comments
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Shop Floor Terminal Role Center

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 […]

By Olof Simren July 9, 2014 Development, Manufacturing, Miscellaneous 5 Comments
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Sort on Multiple Columns in Dynamics NAV 2013

This is something I first discovered some months ago, and back then I didn’t think that much about it. Recently someone asked me if it was possible, and I thought it would be worth a quick small blog post. Yes, you can sort on multiple columns in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 (with some limitations though). You do it by holding the shift key down while clicking the next column(s). This way Dynamics NAV sorts the data based on multiple columns.

By Olof Simren July 6, 2014 General 2 Comments
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Custom Filter Formula in Dynamics NAV 2013

One of the new features in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 is the ability to enter formulas like ‘%me’ and ‘%myitems’ while setting filters. Dynamics NAV then replaces the formula with values while applying the filter. Some of the formulas that comes standard are for example; ‘%me’ and ‘%user’ will be converted in to the USERID, ‘%company’ will be converted into the COMPANYNAME, ‘%myitems’ will be converted into a string with the item numbers you listed in the My Items role center part (same goes for ‘%mycustomers’ and ‘%myvendors’). This is nice but what is great is that you can also […]

By Olof Simren July 1, 2014 Development, General, Miscellaneous 5 Comments
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Microsoft OneNote Integration with Dynamics NAV

I have never used Microsoft OneNote that much, never really seen a need for it (I usually just have my notes in Word). So, when Microsoft announced that there will be a OneNote integration with Dynamics NAV last year I didn’t think that much about it. But when I finally tried it out myself I was very impressed. I saw a very usable tool for both capturing comments/files related to entities NAV and for doing company specific instructions for the different parts of the application. The OneNote notes can be related to individual records or to a page in Dynamics NAV.

By Olof Simren June 24, 2014 General, Miscellaneous 7 Comments
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Connect a Customer with a Vendor

Sometimes a customer is also a vendor and sometimes a vendor is also a customer. It can for example be that a customer provides some components for an assembly that they have ordered or a vendor that also orders items from you. Microsoft Dynamics NAV has the option to link a customer with a vendor through the contact functionality. When you create a customer or a vendor, Dynamics NAV automatically creates a contact record for your. If you create them separately you will end up having duplicated contacts and a customer that is not linked to the vendor. The way […]

By Olof Simren June 19, 2014 Purchase, Sales 4 Comments
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