Manufacturing for Microsoft Navision®
Respond quickly to rapidly changing customer demands.
Key Benefits:
- Take advantage of new revenue opportunities
- Provide more responsive customer service
- Improve business performance from shop floor to bottom line
“With the old system it was
nearly impossible to keep up with all the changes. But with Navision we
are on top of it, with great visibility into all our processes. Since we
got Navision we’ve been able to increase productivity by 15-20% and cut
lead times by around 2.5-5%.”
-Joachim Baum, IT Manager, Herzog GmbH
Demo Available - "Respond Quickly to Rapidly-Changing Customer Demand" See how multiple planning options, tracking, and action messaging in Microsoft Navision let you quickly and easily make exceptions and last-minute changes to give customers what they want, when they want it. Approx. 11 mins.
Key Features |
Description |
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Basic Manufacturing
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Production Orders § Production orders (including simulated, planned, firm planned, released and finished orders) created and handled § Production orders planned from sales orders as standard, project, or multiline § Reservation system provides for hard and soft allocation § Blanket orders created for the efficient execution of long-term contracts § Serial and lot number processing handled § Flexible costing system provided for standard, average, FIFO, LIFO and specific costing § Multi-dimensional tracking and pegging provided to make data more visible § Forward, backward and manual flushing supported § Consumption and output journals produced § Production reports produced (for example, “where used” reports) § Costs tracked and landed costs handled
Production Bill of Materials § Production Bills Of Material (BOMs), including phantom BOMs, created
Version Management § Versions of manufacturing bills of materials and routings created and handled |
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Supply Planning |
Basic Supply Planning § Order promising provides for both available-to-promise (ATP) and capable-to-promise (CTP) § Multilocation planning facilitates efficient information and material flow through the supply chain § Intelligent MRP scheduling (incl. regenerative, net change and action message planning) § Interactive action messaging—for the immediate balancing of supply and demand § Simultaneous planning of materials, capacities and costs § Item availability windows allow planners to instantly view the results of MRP § Multiple worksheets for reviewing various production options § Make or buy decisions implemented on the fly § Variants in planning
Demand Forecasting § Forecast and Master Production Schedule (MPS) |
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Capacity Requirements Planning |
Basic Capacity Planning § Shop calendar and work shifts § Routings § Parallel scheduling § “Send ahead” functionality for Just-in-Time (JIT) production § Routing link codes for automatic flushing per operational steps on the routing § Scrap and stop codes can be defined to reduce data entry § Automatic flushing of the work or machine center provides automatic recording of expected output § Subcontracting by work center or operation
Machine Centers § Allocates work and machine centers as capacities to the manufacturing process
Finite Loading § Finite loading of capacity constrained resources § Capacity constraints taken into account (to help planners make more reliable plans) |
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Additional Navision |
§ Financial Management § Marketing and Sales § Service § Distribution § User Portal § Commerce Gateway § Commerce Portal For more information about Microsoft Manufacturing and to find out how to obtain additional fact sheets, please contact your local Microsoft Certified Business Solutions Partner or visit our Web site at www.microsoft.com/BusinessSolutions |