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Work Centers vs. Machine Centers

Feb 2, 2015

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...

Subcontracting Part 1: The Basics

Aug 5, 2014

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...

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