Microsoft Dynamics NAV

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Fact Sheets Inventory Management Kitting

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INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

Inventory Management in Microsoft Dynamics NAV

• Help reduce purchasing and inventory costs. Connect inventory control, purchasing, and sales order processing with demand planning and help reduce costs, improve cash flow, and help ensure that you have the right stock available when you need it.

• Gain visibility into inventory processes. Effectively balance availability with demand and track items and their possible expiration dates throughout the supply chain to help minimize on-hand inventory, optimize replenishment, and increase warehouse efficiency.

• Improve customer satisfaction. Make more accurate order promises and intelligent last-minute exceptions with access to up-to-date inventory information. Respond quickly and knowledgably to customer queries for improved customer service.

• Reduce time to market. With integrated order, inventory, and distribution processes, as well as item tracking capabilities, your business can reduce manual data entry and get your goods to market fast.

KITTING

Kitting in Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Improve management of kits and streamline related accounting processes by integrating kits and kit resources into your sales, inventory, accounting, and pick-and-pack operations. Microsoft DynamicsTM NAV supports assembly and disassembly of kits and order processing with kits including rollup pricing, kit components on documents, and order promising, reservations, and item tracking at the kit component level.

Give your salespeople the ability to view and modify kit BOMs when quoting or entering orders. Configure the solution to automatically set pricing based on kit components and resources needed to build the kits. With real-time access to information about inventory availability, your people can choose to ship kits from stock, build on the fly using instant production, or link kit orders directly to a purchase order. Microsoft Dynamics NAV can even help break down unsold kits more efficiently by supporting separate disassembly BOMs that represent the true cost of moving components back into inventory.

Benefits

• Create flexible BOMs. Develop kit bills of material (BOMs) that salespeople can change at order time to meet customer needs. Incorporate and track both consumption resources and setup resources to help improve inventory management and capture costs.

• Manage inventory better. Track kits as inventoriable items or build the kits at order time with full support for item setup, tracking, component reservations or allocation, costing, order promising, and gross purchasing requirements calculations.

• Take control of item visibility. Configure printing options to choose when kit components should be shown on sales orders, pick tickets, packing slips, and invoices.

• Improve visibility on kit sales. Increase visibility on kit margins and kit availability through enhanced reporting.

• Enable more accurate pricing. Help ensure that the latest prices are included in the kit by configuring it to automatically roll up component prices.