Brummel M. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Application Design 2010

First published: June 2010. - 496p.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Introduction to Microsoft Dynamics NAV, will introduce you to Microsoft Dynamics NAV. We will talk briely about the history of the application and talk about the concepts. We will cover some of the basics such as Number Series and Navigation. Then we will discuss the Data Model principles used by Microsoft Dynamics NAV using Master Data, Journals, and Ledger Entries covered by Documents.
Chapter 2, A Sample Application, will implement the theory we learned in the first chapter to make a sample application. The goal of this chapter is to better understand how Journals and Ledger entries work throughout the system and how to create your own Journal application. You will learn how to reverse engineer the standard application to learn from it and apply this to our own customizations. We will integrate the application with Relationship Management and Sales in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, and extend Navigation and Dimensions for our solution.
Chapter 3, Financial Management, will explore how the Financial Management part of the application can be used and how it is designed. You will learn important concepts such as VAT, Posting Groups, Closing Dates, Entry Application, and Financial Data Analysis. We will make some changes in the core application by adding new information to the General Ledger, and learn how to integrate Financial Management into our add-on solution.
Chapter 4, Relationship Management, will help us to analyze the sales data in our system and be more productive towards our customers. We will explore the unique design of this part of the application and integrate this with the sample application we created in Chapter 2.
Chapter 5, Production, will show us how to set up Microsoft Dynamics NAV for Production companies. We will discuss the BOM Journal, Manufacturing, and Kitting. Item Costing and Item Tracking are key elements when using this part of the application. We will look at the Planning Worksheet and how to create Production orders using Make-to-Order and Make-to-Stock policies. We will reverse engineer the Inventory Proile Offsetting codeunit and see how this leads to a planning and Purchase Orders. At the end of this chapter we will look at ten ways to customize Production for vertical industries.
Chapter 6, Trade, will discuss the relationship between Sales, Inventory Management, and Purchasing, and how Warehousing can be involved using different levels of complexity. We will learn how Reservation Entries are used in the system from a technical perspective.
Chapter 7, Storage and Logistics, will design and build a solution for planning routes for shipments, a feature that is not available in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. We will design a solution that can be used by trading companies not only for their own shipments but also for storage companies. The solution is seamlessly integrated with the Dynamics NAV product. We will extend the journal knowledge we learned in Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 with new document structures we learned in Chapter 5 and Chapter 6.
Chapter 8, Consulting, will discuss how to implement the Job functionality using four example jobs, and extend jobs with an issue registration and timesheet application using resource groups and calculations.
Chapter 9, Interfacing, will discuss how to design a rock solid business to business interface. We will show what technologies are available to use for interfacing and how these technologies are implemented in the standard product. We will discuss all the built-in interfaces with other Microsoft applications such as Office, SharePoint, BizTalk, and Exchange.
Chapter 10, Application Design, will focus on the concepts of application design and how they apply to Microsoft Dynamics NAV. We will focus on Design to Use, Maintain, Support, Upgrade, Perform, and Analyze. This includes concepts for User Interface, Version Management, and the Development Methodology.