Category Archives: Dynamics 365 Business Central

Export to Excel in Dynamics 365 Business Central v19

Overview Relax folks, Microsoft didn’t remove the Export to Excel function in Dynamics 365 Business Central starting from v19. It’s just been moved. The Difference Old Version (or versions prior to Business Central v19): Starting from Business Central v19: Why The Change? The direction from Microsoft is to integrate more and more Microsoft 365 applicationRead more

How to Enter Beginning Bank Balance for Dynamics 365 Business Central v18 and Above

Overview On Dynamics 365 Business Central release 18, Microsoft made significant changes to the bank reconciliation features. Most of the articles and videos on entering beginning bank balances are still based on the older versions Dynamics 365 Business Central or Dynamics NAV. Just thought I would share with the community on setting up your beginningRead more

Accepting Dynamics 365 Business Central as a Mediocre Solution

Overview I’ll admit that I’m a bit of an old school person when it comes to implementing Dynamics 365 Business Central (formerly called Dynamics NAV). I believe when you make a decision to implement Dynamics 365 Business Central for your business, the transition should be smooth with minimal disruption. In fact, these transition often makeRead more

The One Huge Mistake You’re Making When Setting Up WMS for Dynamics 365 Business Central

Overview I mentioned In my previous article that there are multiple ways of setting up warehouse management. In reality, however, there really are two ways: there’s the option of setting up your warehouse with Directed Pick and Put-away…and the wrong way. In almost all companies where bin location management (or warehouse management using wireless scanners)Read more

Different Flavors of Warehouse Management in Dynamics 365 Business Central

Overview Dynamics 365 Business Central (formerly known as Dynamics NAV) is a comprehensive ERP system. As such, it has many features that caters the different needs of businesses, for example, manufacturing, service managment, CRM, distribution, etc. Each one of these functional areas can be configured a number of ways depending on the needs of theRead more

Using Gmail Account with SMTP Setup with Dynamics Business Central / Dynamics NAV

Overview Not all customers uses Office 365 as their e-mail. The other popular option companies use is G Suite from Google. When you’re trying to setup the SMTP Mail using Gmail accounts in G Suite, you may encounter this error: The mail system returned the following error: “Failure sending mail. Unable to read data fromRead more

Changing Protection Level to Boost Performance

Overview Just a quick note about boosting the client performance for full Windows or RTC clients for customers using Dynamics 365 Business Central (aka Dynamics NAV). This was brought to us by one of our customers that is looking for ways to reduce the lag for their users using the full Windows client. One ofRead more

Is Inventory Periods Needed to Control Inventory Posting?

Overview Over the years, I’ve written a lot of articles about inventory and inventory costing. I realize there are some tools that I do not mention that are in the inventory module. This is not because I don’t know about them, it’s because I don’t think companies need them. Everyone is super busy these days,Read more

Game Changing Concept for Cloud ERP with Dynamics 365 Business Central

Overview One of my personal complaints about any cloud based ERP software the inability to make customizations that your business needs to maintain a competitive edge. The assumption of a cloud ERP software is that every business should be able to fully utilize the software as the software developers intended. But as we all knowRead more