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Subcontracting Part 4: Warehouse Receipts

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 […]

By Olof Simren September 3, 2014 Development, Manufacturing, Warehouse 9 Comments

Run Objects in NAV 2013 using GETURL and HYPERLINK

Here is a small tip (some of you might already know it): the GETURL together with the HYPERLINK can be used to run objects in NAV 2013 (even tables 🙂 ). I am working on a tool to delete records from a database (to ‘clean’ a company from transactional data for example). Part of this tool is a function to view the data in the tables, and for this I needed a way to run a table from the NAV 2013 windows client (not the development environment). This turned out to be quite easy using the GETURL and HYPERLINK functions.

By Olof Simren August 24, 2014 Development, Miscellaneous 8 Comments

Subcontracting Part 3: Transport Charges

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 […]

By Olof Simren August 22, 2014 Finance, Manufacturing, Purchase 10 Comments

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Olof Simren - Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Blog

Subcontracting Part 4: Warehouse Receipts

Run Objects in NAV 2013 using GETURL and HYPERLINK

Subcontracting Part 3: Transport Charges

Subcontracting Part 2: Shipping Components to Subcontractors

Subcontracting Part 1: The Basics

Total Cost Allocation for Multiple Outputs

Assembly or Manufacturing?

Scrap in Production

Shop Floor Terminal Role Center

Sort on Multiple Columns in Dynamics NAV 2013

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