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. 🙂 Real-Time Scanning, Time Capture, Posting, and Labeling Without Leaving BC I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve watched great plans fall apart on the floor because data showed up late. Paper travelers, keyboard re-entry, and “I’ll post it later” 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 it—old 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 app—and most people are still acting like it’s 2015. I just came back from the...
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...
