Manufacturing-General

Manufacturing is a complex and competitive business, so it requires software that can be adaptive and flexible to the environment it serves. Microsoft’s Dynamics NAV can be structured to support your current manufacturing process and can change to support a new or second process in the future to take advantage of new business opportunities to help your business stay ahead of the competition. With Microsoft Dynamics NAV for Manufacturing, any size company can boost operational efficiency and effectively manage production.

Production management

  • Improve coordination of made-to-order requests
  • Simplify make-or-buy decisions
  • Modify components and operations as needed, even on released production orders
  • Plan product family orders that share the same routing to create efficient build schedules

Bills of Materials (BOMs)

  • Integrate different types of BOMs and customized definitions into manufacturing operations
  • Support time-to-market and time-to-volume objectives
  • Create, track, and process multiple versions of BOMs and routings

Graphical scheduling

  • Access an overview of production schedules displayed in Gantt charts
  • Use drag-and-drop functionality to reschedule operations

Order promising

  • Promise orders more accurately with available-to-promise (ATP) and capable-to-promise (CTP) insight

Exceptions handling

  • Quickly make exceptions and last-minute changes to meet customer needs

Supply planning

  • Plan from the sales order, production order, or purchase requisition, or use traditional master production schedule (MPS) or material requirements planning (MRP) methods
  • Facilitate materials flow through the supply chain with multi-location planning capabilities
  • Update and change all materials, costs, and operations simultaneously

Demand forecasting

  • Analyze sales patterns from multiple perspectives
  • Compare forecast demand with actual sales
  • Consolidate and distribute demand plans with multiple stakeholders for collaborative planning

Capacity requirements planning

  • Implement realistic plans according to all incoming resource capacity demands
  • Redefine order modifiers and reorder policies as needed
  • Accommodate changing shop floor workloads Simplify planning with calendars and machine center allocation tools

Warehouse and inventory management

  • Integrate manufacturing and warehousing functionality
  • Optimize warehouse layout and space utilization
  • Maintain up-to-date inventory information

Manufacturing costing

  • Understand item costs throughout the production process, including inventory, WIP, and cost of goods sold (COGS)
  • Manage sales and purchase prices with customers and vendors

Automated data collection system (ADCS)

  • Collect and use accurate inventory data in real time
  • Increase the visibility of accurate inventory data throughout your business
  • Improve warehouse efficiency