Scenario: Your business builds product XYZ and installs product XYZ for one price for both building the product and installing the product. You have two areas to take into consideration—installation of the product and building the product. For both areas, you will charge the customer one price for all the parts that go into the… Continue reading How to Plan for Job Demand in NAV 2009 and NAV 2013

The other day a colleague of mine at ArcherPoint pointed out that there is a change in Dynamics NAV 2013 setups that may change the advice that I have been giving to clients regarding Automatic Cost Posting and GL setup. If we look at the Inventory Setup in the screenshot below, we can see that… Continue reading Changes to Automatic Cost Posting and General Ledger Setup in NAV 2013

  This question often comes up:  What date does the Dynamics NAV Adjust Cost – Item Entries program use for prior period adjustments? To understand the function of the Adjust Cost-Item Entries program, you first need to understand NAV’s Value Entries. When an inventory transaction is recorded in NAV, an associated Value Entry is automatically… Continue reading Adjust Cost – Item Entries Program and Prior Period Adjustments in Microsoft Dynamics NAV

There are times when it becomes necessary for a company to revalue inventory. This blog entry explains how to revalue inventory using the Revaluation Journal in Dynamics NAV. NOTE: Because Standard Cost is handled differently, I will explain it in a future entry and deal only with costing Methods of FIFO, LIFO, Average, and Specific… Continue reading Revaluing Inventory with Microsoft Dynamics NAV Revaluation Journal

In my last blog, How to Create a Sales Credit Memo in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009R2 (http://www.archerpoint.com/blog/Posts/microsoft-dynamics-nav-2009r2-how-create-sales-credit-memo), I demonstrated how to create a Sales Credit Memo and would advise reading that blog before you read this one. In this blog, I will explain and demonstrate how to reverse a sales entry using the Copy feature… Continue reading Reversing a Sales Entry in NAV 2009R2 – Creating a Sales Credit Memo

In a production environment where the production cycle is long (greater than one week) and you want to schedule in component material on a just in time basis, you can use Routing Link Codes in Dynamics NAV. Routing Link Codes are used to make an association between a routing operation step and the BOM components… Continue reading Using Routing Link Codes in MRP Planning in Microsoft Dynamics NAV