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
Overview Hopefully, by now every company that uses the inventory module in Dynamics 365 Business Central (aka Dynamics NAV) knows that they MUST run the Adjust Cost – Item Entries process. If not, please check out my other articles on the subject on how to properly care for the inventory module in Dynamics 365 BusinessRead more
Overview At the end of every month, we will inevitably get some questions on why their inventory valuation figures does not match the G/L inventory account. We would investigate and find out why and provide solutions on how to fix them. Some of the reasons are pretty common so I’d thought I compile a listRead more
Just saw a slide from Marko regarding the state of Dynamics 365 Business Central aka Dynamics NAV and thought I’d like to share. This is just for Dynamics NAV, not including any other Dynamics 365 products. Quite amazing numbers…
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
Overview Microsoft has officially launched the Dynamics 365 Business Central. This is basically the next version of Dynamics NAV but can be deployed on as a subscription as part of your Office/Dynamics 365 portal. Microsoft has tentatively stated that the on-premise will be released the summer of 2018. When that rolls around, you’ll have multipleRead more
Overview If you’ve recently upgraded to Dynamics NAV 2017 or later versions, you will have undoubtedly noticed that the new version of Dynamics NAV (or Dynamics 365 Business Central) is incredibly slow… It’s so slow that it took one of our customers that’s using NAV 2017 3 minutes and 38 seconds to open a customerRead more
Here’s the screenshot released by Marko during Directions Asia regarding the future of Dynamics 365 Business Central (formerly Dynamics NAV) It looks like the name Dynamics NAV 2018 will be the last release where the product is called Dynamics NAV… For what it’s worth, I still prefer the name Navision.
Overview As more of our clients are going live with NAV2017, we’re finding some inconsistencies on the features that were working as we thought it should, verses the way it’s working now. One of such feature is the Job Queue function. Note that this only applies to NAV 2017, they’ve since rewrote how this processRead more
Overview When you first sign up for Microsoft Dynamics 365 For Business, you will get a very simple application that will most likely satisfy only the most basic accounting needs. Using only the basic accounting functions is NOT the reason why you signed up for Dynamics 365 for Business. You signed up for D365 becauseRead more