Navision: Features And Advantages
A reliable platform for growth
An open, but secure platform. Navision's object-oriented development environment and compact source code make it straightforward to customize, maintain, and connect to other systems.
A reliable database. Whether you choose Microsoft SQL Server or Attain Database Server, you can count on a reliable way to store data. The security system not only controls who can access what, but also ensures that you never have inconsistencies, even if your machine loses power in the middle of a posting process. The transactions recorded will not be out of balance.
Easy to learn. The consistent and intuitive interface makes training employees and new users fast. In the general ledger, for example, the screen will always look the same whether you are looking for a balance, creating a new account, or posting a journal entry to an existing account. You'll find navigation familiar because the interface is based on Microsoft Windows Standards. There is extensive online Help to which you can even add your own tips.
Wherever the job takes you. With User Portal employees use the Web to access data in Navision wherever they're working. Remote users, such as traveling sales representatives, can log on to their personal homepage, which is customized to help them perform their particular role. All they need is Internet access.
Take a quick look at your business from any angle
Unlimited reporting criteria. Report and analyze based on an unlimited number of criteria. Let's say you create a dimension called "salesperson," and then add all your sales people as values within that dimension. You can then create reports and analyze sales by region, by department, by date, or by any other criteria that you set up, within Navision or via the Export to Microsoft Excel feature.
Make a complete and accurate budget with a minimum of hassle. Create and maintain budgets and sub-budgets in an easily comprehensible matrix form. Save time and keep things accurate by copying budgets from one period or unit using an adjustment factor on either actual or budget entries. You can even distribute your budgets across your organization in Microsoft Excel format and import the adjusted versions straight back into Navision.
Track all your fixed assets. Navision gives you an accurate account of fixed assets — from present book value to accumulated depreciation. Your fixed asset management is totally integrated with the rest of Navision, meaning less re-keying, less effort and greater accuracy.
Access information in any language. Offer customers and vendors better service by giving them inventory descriptions, printed reports and invoices in their own language and their own currency. You can switch to any installed language on the fly.
Sharpen your competitive edge. Better service by handling orders more efficiently. Handle non-stock orders just as you would any other sales order. The system processes them, and the customer never knows the difference. You can also specify that an order be handled as a cross-dock or drop shipment to save time on delivery. And you can handle inventory across multiple locations (for example, warehouses in New York, L.A. and Atlanta) from a single database.
Deliver superior customer service. Whoever picks up the phone can give customers the information they need. You can categorize contacts based on profiling questions and personalize the way you approach them. For example, a personal profile can tell you how often a customer wants to be billed and whether they have preferred technicians and service times. And you can make sure that you satisfy customers by making to-do lists in the system and assigning tasks to other users or teams of users.
Offer Web access to personalized information. Customers, vendors and other partners serve themselves directly from their Web portal — anytime, anywhere. They can seek information, buy, sell, and serve themselves using a range of functions found in Navision, depending on their particular role and access rights.
Master change
Make exceptions and last-minute changes with multiple planning options, tracking, and action messaging. Plan from the sales order, the production order, the purchase requisition, or by the traditional MPS/MRP planning methods. You can handle last-minute changes by replanning from any point in the delivery cycle. Costs, materials, and operations are simultaneously replanned to reflect shop floor changes.
Choose the most profitable manufacturing process. When planning production orders, for example, you can plan product family orders that share the same routing. This allows you to make more efficient build schedules.
Improve warehouse organization and reduce labor costs with put-away and picking processes. Put-away notes and picking notes can complement your company's working methods. Serial numbering and lot tracking help you trace items at any time during the sales, purchase or transfer process. And you can handle returned inventory, and account for additional costs such as restocking charges.
Streamline interactions with key vendors and customers. Commerce Gateway, which is based on Microsoft BizTalk Server, opens up Navision for the electronic exchange of trading documents with other systems. It reduces human error and the amount of time spent on entering data such as purchases and sales orders without a complex EDI system.
Reduce purchasing costs. Use reverse auctions to find the vendor with the most attractive offer on given items or services. You enter details regarding the desired item, quantity and delivery time. Your vendors then bid on the item, and you can convert the most favorable quote to an order at a click of a button.
