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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Third Edition
About this book
Explore the capabilities of Dynamics NAV 2016 and discover all you need to implement it
About This Book
- Learn the key roles of your Dynamics NAV partner and the roles within your customer's organization
- Create configuration packages and perform data migration on your own
- Find out how to troubleshoot your problems effectively with your Dynamics NAV partner
Who This Book Is For
This book is for Dynamics NAV partners and end users who want to know everything about Dynamics NAV implementations. It is aimed at those who want to be project managers or get involved with Dynamics NAV, but do not have the expertise to write code themselves.
What You Will Learn
- Study the roles within a Dynamics NAV partner and within a customer's company
- Create reusable data migration packages
- Work with the debugger to pinpoint error messages
- Get to grips with the key tables used in data reporting and analysis
- Successfully upgrade your installation to the latest version
- Manage and expand your existing installation with additional functionalities
- Explore the free third-party add-ons that can leverage your existing installation
In Detail
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application used in all kinds of organizations around the world. It provides a great variety of functionality out-of-the-box in different topics such as accounting, sales, purchase processing, logistics, or manufacturing. It also allows companies to grow the application by customizing the solution to meet specific requirements.
This book is a hands-on tutorial on working with a real Dynamics NAV implementation. You will learn about the team from your Microsoft Dynamics NAV partner as well as the team within the customer's company. This book provides an insight into the different tools available to migrate data from the client's legacy system into Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
If you are already live with Microsoft Dynamics NAV, this books talks about upgrades and what to expect from them. We'll also show you how to implement additional or expanding functionalities within your existing Microsoft Dynamics NAV installation, perform data analysis, debug error messages, and implement free third-party add-ons to your existing installation.
This book will empower you with all the skills and knowledge you need for a successful implementation.
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This book is step-by-step guide to implementing Dynamics NAV from start to finish.
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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV Third Edition
Table of Contents
Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV Third Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the color images of this book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Exploring Microsoft Dynamics NAV – An Introduction
Understanding Microsoft Dynamics NAV
The functional areas within Dynamics NAV
History of Dynamics NAV
Functional areas
Financial Management
General Ledger
G/L budgets
Account Schedules
Cash Management
Fixed Assets
VAT reporting and intrastat
Sales tax
Intercompany transactions
Consolidation
Multicurrency
Sales and marketing
Customers
Order processing
Approvals
Pricing
Marketing
Purchase
Vendors
Order processing
Approvals
Pricing
Planning
Warehouse
Items
Locations
Transfer orders
Assembly
Pick and put-away
Inventory
Manufacturing
Product design
Capacities
Planning
Execution
Costing
Subcontracting
Job
Job card
Phases and tasks
Planning
Time sheet
Invoice jobs
Work in process (WIP)
Resource planning
Resource card
Pricing
Service
Service items
Contracts
Price management
Service orders
Service tasks
Fault reporting
Human resources
Employees
Absence registration
Country localizations
Vertical and horizontal solutions
Accessing Dynamics NAV
Windows client
Web client
Tablet client
SharePoint client
Web Services
Development Environment
Summary
2. What's New in NAV 2016?
Application changes
Improvements for the application users
Cues with color indicator
Mandatory fields
Simplified user interface for small businesses
Tablet client
New application features
Automatic payment and bank reconciliation
Signing up for the Bank Data Conversion Service
Reconciling payments automatically
Reconciling bank statements automatically
Social Listening
Power Business Intelligence
RapidStart services
Schedule reports
E-mailing documents
Document exchange service (OCR Services)
Exchange rates update
Native integration with Dynamics CRM
Universal app
Workflow management
Posting Preview
Deferrals
Development changes
Document reporting
Upgrade automation – an overview
Upgrade automation – the application code
Upgrade automation – data
Enhancement in security and encryption
Changes to C/AL functions, data types, properties, and triggers
.NET interoperability
Enhancements in RoleTailored client control add-ins
IT changes
Dynamics NAV Server administration
Windows PowerShell cmdlets
Summary
3. Dynamics NAV – General Considerations
The data model
Master data
Documents
Journals
Entries
Creating ledger entries
Combining all concepts
No save button
The main advantage
When is the data verified?
The main drawback
The posting routines
Posted data cannot be modified (or deleted)
Navigating through your data
The Navigate functionality
Other ways to browse data
Sorting on list pages
Filtering for the data you need
Saving views for the filters you've set
Real-time data gathering – the SIFT technology
Everything leads to accounting
The Dynamics NAV database
The TableRelation property
Coded data rules
Summary
4. The Implementation Process – From the Reseller
What is an implementation?
Methodology
The Waterfall approach
The Agile approach
Using the best of both
Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step
Project types based on the Waterfall approach
The Rapid project type
The Standard project type
The Enterprise project type
The Upgrade project type
The Agile project type
Roles
Salesperson
Project manager
Business consultant
Key users
Analyst
Developer
Implementer
End users
Summarizing the roles
Phases
Presales
Getting the project requirements
Designing the solution
Configuration
Modifying standard Dynamics NAV functionality
New functionalities
Data migration
Development
Deployment
Software and hardware installation
Configuration
Data migration
User-acceptance test
End users' training
Go-live!
Post Implementation Support
Summary
5. The Implementation Process on the Customer Side
Definition of goals
Measuring goals
Defining the internal processes
Questions to be asked
Improve before automating
Getting the requirements
Change management
Get involved in testing the system
Involve end users
Summary
6. Migrating Data
Tools to migrate data
RapidStart Services
Creating a new company using PowerShell
Changing the profile to RapidStart Services Implementer
Using the configuration wizard
Creating a data conversion package
Creating a configuration package
Applying a configuration package
Configuration worksheet
Creating the migration structure
Copying related tables
Using Excel templates
Configuration templates
Creating a configuration template
Using configuration templates
Configuration questionnaire
Creating a configuration questionnaire
Completing the configuration questionnaire
Summarizing RapidStart Services
Using XMLports to migrate data
The XMLport structure
Running the XMLport
Writing code inside the XMLport
The document structure
Filling ...
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