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In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central or Dynamics NAV, typical processes for updating the standard cost for a purchased item are as follows: For a new purchased item, the standard cost can be updated on the Item Card.For a purchased item that already has ledger entries, the revaluation journal is used to populate the entries… Continue reading How To Use the Configuration Package to Update Standard Cost in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and Dynamics NAV

With any software, no matter how simple or complex, you can experience performance issues. This is especially true for business systems that allow customizations and have add-ons available, as many ERPs offer. Typically, when this happens, you or whoever you use for technical support must track down and debug the offending code, if applicable. But… Continue reading Now Available to End Users: Performance Profiler for Dynamics Business Central 2022 Release Wave 1

If you need to track multiple units of inventory in your business – for example, you purchase an item in one unit of measure, like pieces but then sell that same item in another unit of measure like packs – you did not have this option in previous versions of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.… Continue reading How To Synchronize Multiple Units of Measure Between Dynamics 365 Business Central and Dynamics 365 Sales

Manufacturers require visibility into production, and utilizing Insight Works’ Shop Floor Insight add-on with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central gives you that visibility. Shop Floor Insight is a comprehensive manufacturing execution system add-on for Business Central that eliminates the need for many manual inputs, including time entry and operational data (consumption, output, scrap, quality, etc). You… Continue reading How To Use Insight Works’ Shop Floor Insight with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 release wave 1, Microsoft introduced a new way to extend price calculation so developers and ISVs could build solutions that address industry or business-specific pricing needs. If you record special prices and line discounts for sales and purchases, here’s good news. As part of 2020 wave 2 release, Microsoft added… Continue reading How To Enable and Use the Pricing Experience Feature in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central for Purchasing

When performing IT maintenance and identifying issues from a cyber-risk/cyber-defense perspective, you can use playbooks. Users can create playbooks easily using Visual Studio and can be used for a variety of system administrative tasks. In this blog, we discuss how create playbooks for routine preventative and detective tasks related to cybersecurity defense. How Microsoft Used… Continue reading How To Use Visual Studio Code to Create Cybersecurity Defense Playbooks for Routine Preventative and Detection Tasks

Both Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Dynamics 365 Business Central come with pack and ship functionality out of the box. However, for companies that need more sophisticated functionality, particularly for packing, the Dynamic Ship add-on from Insight Works fills the gap. This packing functionality is of particular interest to manufacturers that need to track the packing… Continue reading How To Use the Dynamic Ship Add-On for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

This blog explains how to import account schedules into a database in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central or Dynamics NAV. Important steps include: Export Customer Data Export Default Cronus data Export Default Cronus Package Import Cronus package into Customer database Import Cronus data Let’s get started with a backup. Normally, you do a backup of… Continue reading How To Import Account Schedules in Microsoft Dynamics Business Central or NAV

Order Promising in Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a very helpful feature, especially for industries like manufacturing in which customers place orders and customer service reps or salespeople need to provide the customer with a promised delivery date. In the scenario where the customer wants a promise date, typically they… Continue reading How To Set Up and Use Order Promising In Microsoft Dynamics NAV or Dynamics 365 Business Central

Connecting to Excel with OData fields can be very powerful, not only for Power BI, but also for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. By simply connecting to a Business Central page as an OData feed, you can pull data into Excel to create pivot tables and more, opening the door to many benefits. In this… Continue reading How to Use Data from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central In Excel Using OData Feeds