An overview of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, an easily adaptable ERP solution. it helps all small and medium sized business to automate and connect their sales, purchasing, operation, accounting and inventory management.
2. Contents
• What is an ERP?
• About Dynamics NAV
• History of Dynamics NAV
• Dynamics NAV Integrated functionalities
• Dynamics NAV Objects
3. What Is An ERP ?
• Enterprise resource planning integrates all the business process required to run a business
into one system or cloud to streamline processes and information across the entire
organization.
• It also provides some degree of synchronized reporting and automation. Instead of
maintaining different database for different departments it allows you to work on the
same database so that each department can automate their work and reduce time to
increase productivity.
4. About Dynamics NAV
• Microsoft Dynamics NAV an ERP solution developed by Microsoft is available in On
premises and cloud deployment as well, previously known as Navision built for
accounting operations by a company naming PC&C A/S (Personal Computing and
Consulting) from Denmark in 1983.
• Microsoft Dynamics NAV is one of the most popular ERP product among all the
Microsoft Dynamics family due to its multicurrency and Multilanguage capabilities.
• Microsoft dynamic NAV is an ERP product for small and medium size industries which
automates and streamline their processes.
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6. History Of Dynamics NAV
• It was a term given by Gartner in 1990 but it came into existence in 1960. Until then the concept was
applied to inventory management and control in manufacturing sector, before it software designer use to
create software to monitor inventory and control of an organization.
• By the 1970s, this had evolved into Material Requirements Planning (MRP) systems for scheduling
production processes.
• In the 1980s, MRP grew to encompass more manufacturing processes, prompting many to call it MRP-II
or Manufacturing Resource Planning.
• By 1990, these systems had expanded beyond inventory control and other operational processes to other
back-office functions like accounting and human resources, setting the stage for ERP as we've come to
know it.
7. Microsoft Dynamics NAV delivers integrated
functionality to provide support for:
With its wide range of functionalities and easy and quick setting to conform to the
customer’s needs, Microsoft Dynamics NAV provides possibilities for even more
efficient employee performance.
• Financial management
• Supply chain management
• Manufacturing
• Analyses
• Sales and marketing
• Service management
• Human resource management
• Project & Resource management
8. Finance management
• Efficiently manage accounting, inventory, and cash flow
• Control fixed assets
• Process receivables
• Operate with multiple currencies, locations, entities, and
companies
9. Supply chain management
• Prepare custom approval work flow processes
• Manage inventories
• Improve your reaction time
• Seek new market opportunities
• Work more efficiently with your partners
10. • Manage your budgets
• Consolidate your reports
• Find data relations
• Improve the cooperation among employees
Manufacturing
Analyses
Improve planning of manufacture orders and deliveries
Stay agile and ready to quickly respond to customer demands
11. Sales and Marketing
• Manage customers and sales data
• Create and manage marketing campaigns
• Organize the overall customer service
• Manage contracts and agreements
HR Management
Manage employee records
Track absentees
Prepare reports
13. Microsoft Dynamics NAV Objects:
• MS Dynamics NAV is not a object oriented solution but it is objects based solution.
• There are seven (7) objects in MS Dynamics NAV :-
1.Table
2.Page
3.Report
4.Codeunit
5.Query
6.XMLPort
7.MenuSuite
14. 1.Table
• Tables are the most fundamental objects in Microsoft Dynamics NAV.They store records
that are collected through pages, for example customers, sales, and inventories.These
records are then presented to users through pages and reports.
• A table can be visualized as a two-dimensional matrix, consisting of columns and rows.
Each row is a single record, and each column is a field in that record.
• A table consists of table data and the table description.The table data contains the actual
records and their fields.The table description specifies the layout and properties of the
table and the fields.
• The table description contains properties, triggers, fields, and keys.
17. 2. Page
• In Microsoft Dynamics NAV, you use pages to display, enter, and change data in
the client.
• Pages contain properties, triggers, and controls which define the behavior of the
page.
• The pages are shown for the client’s user interface .
21. 3. Report
• Reports print information, structure, and summarize information. Use reports to print
documents such as invoices, and to process data without printing.
23. 4. Codeunits
• Codeunits are similar to containers for code. Codeunits can hold functions that are
used repeatedly throughout large application projects.
• C/AL code can be stored in a table, page, report, or other object. In a simple
application, the common approach is to put the code in the object that calls the
functions.
25. 5. Query
• You can use query to retrieve data from one or more tables.
• You can specify how to join multiple tables in the result sets and how to order, group,
aggregate, and filter the resulting data.
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28. 6. XMLPort
• XMLport are objects that you can use to export from or import data into MS
Dynamics NAV.
• Xmlport can manipulate the data in XML format or Text format.
• Importing and exporting data is useful when data is collected outside of MS
Dynamics NAV and must be incorporated into the database, or when the
data must be distributed from the MS Dynamics NAV database to an
external location.