Overview Looking through the hardware requirements for Dynamics NAV 2013, it looks like there are a couple of things the end user will need. More noteable, it looks like now the computer has to be running at least Windows 7 in order to use the NAV 2013 Windows client. There are mixed feelings about this,Read more
Overview Receiving items from vendor can be a tricky thing. This question has come up quite a bit during implementation regarding defective inventory. I know a lot of companies has put a lot of modifications into receiving defective inventory, I’d like to propose an out of the box solution to receiving goods that have someRead more
Overview Here’s quick tip on entering transactions for the credit card. Sometimes, when you make a purchase using your credit card, but you want to keep track of the purchase against the vendor, you don’t want the credit card statement to come in at the end of the billing period to enter that information. TheRead more
Just a quick note. If you don’t have this link already, here’s the MSDN article on what’s new in version 2013: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh174007(v=nav.70)?lc=1033
Overview Microsoft is a technology organization. It’s their job to develope new technologies that business and individuals can use to improve upon their lives. Having said that, there are A LOT of products that Microsoft releases and as an end user, it’s really hard to keep up with everything going on. Being in an ITRead more
The Hype Often times when I go into an implementation, some clients will want to implement it based on the “best business practice”. The idea is that somehow using the “best business practice” will reduce their implementation cost. In reality, more often than not, enforcing “best business practice”, without proper analysis, ususally leads to goRead more
When you’re working in the RTC environment in the G/L Budgets, the standard NAV function is that you can export the Budgets into Excel, edit it, then import it back in in the same Excel format. This works fine in the classic client, however, when you try to import the budget in Excel in theRead more
Working with Navision for the last 12 years, there are certain functionality that you assumed worked a certain way. I was under the impression that Navision always finds the lowest price whent he sales order is entered. Recently, one of our customer pointed me to the contrary. Note that this scenerio will only occur ifRead more
Overview Dynamics NAV is a ERP software that’s built on best business practice. However, that’s not to say that the users of Navision operates on best business practice. This post describes what I would like to call Abnormal Item Charges. Again, as with what I’ve described with Abnormal Posting Date, don’t bother looking it upRead more
Looks like I jumped the gun when I wrote about the book release on this post. For real, the Dynamics NAV 2009 reporting book is now officially released. Again, you can buy a copy of the book here: https://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-dynamics-nav-2009-for-professional-reporting/book Back when I was asked to review this, I knew this was going to be aRead more