Posts related to the Manufacturing functionality in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, things like Production BOM, Routing, MRP, Planning, Production Orders, Manufacturing Costs, etc..
31Apr 2, 2014
The MPS/MRP suggestions in the Planning Worksheet has an ‘Accept Action Message’ field that determines if the suggestion should be accepted or not. The value of this field is by default set to TRUE if there are no warnings. This sounds great, by my experience is that most planners would like this to default to […]
32Mar 24, 2014
Having additional outputs on production orders (sometimes refereed to as by-products or reclaimed material) is a common requirement. It could be scrap that should go back into inventory for further processing (melting it down, regrinding it, etc…) or it could be multiple products that are produced at the same time in a process.
33Mar 12, 2014
In the demo company from Microsoft (also known as Cronus) the Manufacturing Setup has been configured to use different number series for the different production order statuses. Configuring it this way make Dynamics NAV to assign a new production order number each time the status is changed (except when it is changed to finished). I have […]
34Feb 10, 2014
An old but still relevant topic is the different flushing methods you can use in Dynamics NAV. Flushing basically means that you can have NAV to automatically post consumption and/or output/time based on expected quantities.