Category: How To NAV

We came across a situation using Dynamics NAV 2013 Assembly Orders that, at first, we didn’t know how to handle. The scenario: You have set up a Dynamics NAV Item with the Replenishment System set to “Assembly Order” and the Assembly Policy set to “Assemble to Order”. For some reason, you have some of that… Continue reading Sales and Assembly Order Quantity Change in Dynamics NAV 2013

We frequently get the question, “Why does Dynamics NAV post additional output when I change a Production Order status to Finished?” The scenario: You create a Released Production Order for Quantity = 10. During the course of production, you record the output of 5. When you change the Production Order to Finished, NAV automatically records… Continue reading Changing Production Order to Finished Posts Additional Output in NAV

For users who have been working with Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision) for years, one of the key features available was to create an account schedule with up to 12 columns of data for analysis. This Schedule report was called the Landscape Account Schedule. In Dynamics NAV 2013, the report for Landscape Account Schedule does not… Continue reading Microsoft Dynamics NAV: Where is My Landscape Account Schedule

The Recurring General Journal window in Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision) is used to post transactions that recur with few or no changes to G/L, bank, customer, vendor and fixed assets accounts. In a recurring general journal, you enter the relevant information for the transaction, such as the posting date, amount and the accounts to which… Continue reading Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 – Creating Recurring General Journals

One of our Blog readers asked us to do a Blog on the Dynamics NAV Subcontracting Process. There is good documentation available for this process in the Dynamics NAV Manufacturing Training Manual that you can get through Partner Source or Customer Source, so we will write an abbreviated version here. The scenario: Your company sends… Continue reading Quick Start Guide for Setting up Microsoft Dynamics NAV Subcontracting

The scenario: When you look at the on-hand inventory for an item, you see fractional quantities in stock. Your natural instinct would be to look at the Rounding Precision Field on the Item Card and change it to 1. You then would expect that from that point on you would not see any fractional on… Continue reading The Rounding Precision Field on the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Item Card

There are a couple of very important setups in Dynamics NAV that shouldn’t be ignored during a new implementation or, for that matter, in an existing implementation. The scenarios are quite common: Sales and Purchase Returns. The question is that, when a Sales Return is put back into inventory, how should it be valued? And,… Continue reading Exact Cost Reversing in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013

I am often asked by manufacturers, “Which costing method should we ue in our Microsoft Dynamics NAV system?” Before addressing the question, let’s set the stage with some important definitions. In large part, “Cost Accounting” should be considered “Managerial Accounting,” not “Financial Accounting.” The exception to this is that cost accountants are responsible for providing… Continue reading Costing Methods for Manufacturing in Microsoft Dynamics NAV

The other day, a client presented me with a scenario that took some thinking on to how to set it up in Dynamics NAV without requiring a customization. The client, who is running Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 with the Role Tailored Client, sells wooden stakes.  A vendor supplies green (not dry) stakes, which the… Continue reading Creative thinking and NAV flexibility beats customization