This is a story of our Dynamics NAV implementation in Taiwan. One of the things that I’m most proud of is the people that choose to work with me and the company that we built. I am proud that everyone shares the same vision on what software implementations should be. That we care about doingRead more
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Overview This is a story of upgrading one of our clients from Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 (we recommended going to NAV 2017, but they didn’t want to be guinea pigs). The upgrade itself was done on the customer’s live server, which was a brand new powerful server on VM (virtual)Read more
Overview With the release of Dynamics NAV 2017 and Dynamics 365 for Financials (which is technically NAV2017), the buzz word in the Dynamics NAV development community is the development function called Extensions. What are Extensions? Extensions is a way for NAV Developers to put modifications in your live environment without modifying your core NAV system.Read more
Straight from the official announcement from the NAVUG Summit at Tampa yesterday. Rebranding of Dynamics Product Line So there won’t be Dynamics CRM or AX anymore in the future. It’ll be called Dynamics 365 for <insert business function> The only Dynamics products that will retain it’s name are the NAV, GP, and SL lines. SoRead more
Overview This is a recap of my experience at Directions US 2016. NAV Directions is an event hosted by NAV partners for NAV partners. In reality, it’s just a large Microsoft infomercial for partners. Microsoft has giving us what’s to come and the directions (pun?) they’re taking with the future of business software. Welcome to DirectionsRead more
Overview When people talk about WIP account, it’s what it is. An intermediary account where the raw material is being worked on, but it’s not yet a finished good for sale. This is important for companies to audit in a manufacturing process where the inventory is being produced or in the middle of being produced.Read more
Been working on this book for the past few months. Although it’s not a book that I wrote from scratch, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time updating the contents for Dynamics NAV 2016. You can order a copy of the book here: Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV – Third Edition I hope you enjoy readingRead more
Overview Having visited numerous SMB (Small or Medium Business) companies and implementing Dynamics NAV since 1999, I’ve had the wonder pleasure of meeting unique and interesting people. The business problems that were discovered are both exciting and challenging. Over the years, I’ve learned a lot both about businesses in general, as well as myself andRead more
Overview Recently, I’ve been contacted by one of our readers on why their inventory cost was wrong. This particular company utilizes standard cost and the inventory cost never matched their inventory G/L account. Learning about how they updated standard cost, it was very apparent what went wrong. It was how the user updated their standardRead more
Overview One of the powerful tools in the old Navision classic client was the ability to do a Find/Replace. For example, if you wanted to change the Salesperson Code on the Customer Card from one value to another, just go to the field you want and click on Find, then Replace. When you click onRead more