Olof Simren - Microsoft Dynamics NAV & 365 Business Central Blog

Production orders in Dynamics NAV allows you to consume both less and more than what’s defined on the components and to output both less and more than what’s defined on the operations in the routing. There is no check when you post, which is nice (sometime I which it was like that on sales and […]

This describes how to ship components to a subcontractor as part of a subcontracting process in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. It is a frequently asked question, so I thought it deserved its own blog post. As the title indicates, this is a second post in a series of posts related to subcontracting. It might make sense […]

To allocate the total costs posted against a production order towards multiple outputs is a bit tricky in standard Microsoft Dynamics NAV, you more or less have to manually separate the different costs and post them against each of the production order lines (this since the cost calculations in Dynamics NAV is per production order […]

Microsoft Dynamics NAV has multiple ways in which you can handle scrap in the production. There are scrap related to an operation in the routing, there are scrap related to individual components and there are scrap related to the product being produced. Just like any other functionality, it is important to know all the options […]

How Microsoft Dynamics NAV posts into the general ledger from production orders is something that you must know when implementing it in a manufacturing environment. It is critical in order to get the posting groups and their related accounts correctly defined. This blog post will focus on the general ledger accounts and the amounts, for details about […]

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.