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...
This is the fifth post on my blog related to subcontracting in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. It describes how you can setup and use Dynamics NAV when you are performing subcontracting on behalf of a customer (e.g. if you are a subcontractor for a customer and perform operations on parts belonging to the customer). This is actually quite straight forward. The key is to create separate items that represent the customer’s parts. Whatever is received from the customer as components should not have an inventory value and whatever is sent back to the customer should have a value representing the value...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
How Microsoft Dynamics NAV posts into the general ledger from production orders is something that you must know when implementing it in a manufacturing environment. It is critical in order to get the posting groups and their related accounts correctly defined. This blog post will focus on the general ledger accounts and the amounts, for details about what dimensions that are used, see my previous post; Dimensions on Production Orders. The examples that are described are using the expected cost posting (setup in the inventory setup), which to me is the preferred way to setup Dynamics NAV. Without the expected cost posting...
