Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Manufacturing

Fact Sheets Manufacturing Supply Planning

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MANUFACTURING

Boost operational efficiency
With Manufacturing in Microsoft DynamicsTM NAV, you can boost operational efficiency and effectively manage production, including production orders, bills of material, supply planning, and capacity requirements planning. Flexible processes and integrated information equip you to make accurate promises to customers, respond quickly to last-minute requests and changes, and take advantage of new business opportunities to help your business stay ahead of the competition.

Any size company can benefit from Microsoft Dynamics NAV manufacturing capabilities. Growing businesses can streamline their manufacturing processes by taking advantage of a simplified manufacturing foundation that includes rapid visibility into work-in-process (WIP), support for order-by-order workflow, and the ability to implement additional functionality as business needs become more complex.

Simplify manufacturing processes
Growing businesses can take advantage of a simplified manufacturing foundation that includes rapid visibility into work-in-process (WIP), support for order-by-order workflow, and the ability to implement additional functionality as business needs become more complex.

Benefits

• Improve business performance from the shop floor to your bottom line. Streamline your operations by automating manufacturing processes and gain greater visibility into all aspects of your operations from order entry to production, warehouse management, and delivery.

• Provide customers with information they can count on. Increase the accuracy of promised orders and respond quickly to customer queries about order status and delivery.

• Respond quickly to changing customer demands with agile manufacturing. Plan rush orders, make exceptions, and handle last-minute changes to your manufacturing processes with multiple planning options, tracking, and interactive action messages.

• Open your business to trading partners around the clock. Using a Web browser, vendors can manage catalogs, enter drop shipment orders, and maintain delivery dates.

SUPPLY PLANNING

Supply Planning in Microsoft DynamicsTM NAV helps you satisfy demand while improving operational efficiencies by providing insight into the utilization and cost of materials throughout your production process. With multiple planning options, tracking, and action messaging, you can choose the right course from among make or buy options, quickly implement those decisions, make last-minute order changes, and offer satisfactory exceptions to give customers what they want, when they want it.

Benefits

• Take advantage of new revenue opportunities. Provide a simple overview of the production process while avoiding the complexity and expense of full material requirements planning (MRP).

• Know what's in your inventory. Calculate item availability and deliver on your promises using tools that give you real-time information about what is in the warehouse.

• Provide more responsive customer service. Constantly adapt your manufacturing methods and processes to reflect changing customer requirements.

• Increase operational efficiency. Use multiple planning options to satisfy demand while minimizing the total cost of producing and storing the items. Quickly adapt production to meet new demand with clear, graphical display of your production schedules.

• Understand materials costs throughout the production process. Make better pricing decisions with simultaneous replanning of costs, materials, and operations when changes occur on the shop floor.