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Microsoft Dynamics NAV:

This tool will help you achieve a greater level of competitiveness thanks to the integration with the already existing platform in your company, the access to the information from a single source, and a technically simple insertion to the processes with which your employees work. In this way, the management of your company in relation to customers and vendors will substantially improve..

Introduction to Microsoft Dynamics NAV

• Flexibility

  Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an ERP that helps small and medium-sized companies when integrating their processes of Finances, Manufacturing, Distribution, CRM and Electronic Commerce. It offers a complete, economic and very flexible business solution for the decision making. It is ideal for those companies that have complex business processes, unique characteristics or special necessities.

• Synchronization

  You will be able to synchronize your sales, marketing actions and purchase orders with the productivity offered by some tools like Microsoft Office and Microsoft Outlook.

• Key information in real time

  With Microsoft Dynamics NAV you will obtain data in real time about all your active contacts. This functionality will help you to identify the development of the key accounts and to evaluate the effectiveness of your company’s marketing actions.

• Distribution

  Small and medium-sized companies will be able to improve their distribution processes sensibly by optimizing the handling of inventories and the storage capacity. It will help you to develop some basic capacities such as the follow-up on each shipment or tracking, logistic of multiple allocations, cost of materials, product substitutions and control of inventory and storage since the product enters the warehouse until it leaves it for its distribution.

• Reliable Database

  If you choose either Microsoft SQL Server or Microsoft Dynamics NAV database server, you will be able to work with a reliable system to store data. The security system does not only control who has access to the data, but it also guarantees the absence of incoherences. Although your equipment switches off in the middle of a posting process, the posted transactions will not get unbalanced.

• Easy to learn

  The known aspect used by Microsoft Dynamics NAV contributes to accelarate the training of employees and new users. In the application area of Accounting, for instance, the screen will always have the same aspect, whether you are looking for a quote, creating a new account ao posting a journal in an already existing account. The exploration will be familiar to you because the interface is based on Microsoft Windows standards.

Main characteristics

• The best adhesion to the business

  Microsoft Dynamics NAV offers the best adhesion to your business process. This ERP works with a set of objects that represent all the charts necessary to carry out all necessary customizations for your company.

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  It is designed so that developers in Microsoft.NET can generate external applications by using Visual Studio .NET.

• An open but safe platform

  The object-oriented development environment and the compact source code of Microsoft Dynamics NAV make it easy to personalize, maintain and o connect this application with other systems.

• Reports with a limitless number of criteria

  Create reports and analyses based on a limitless number of criteria. You will be able to create reports and to analyze the sales by region, department, date or any other criterion that you define, either within Microsoft Dynamics NAV or through the function “Export to Microsoft Excel”.

• Instantaneous overview of you business

  You will be informed about everything that takes place in your company, from production orders and inventory levels to the status of your clients. The business and financial information will be completely integrated with the information of other areas of the program.

• Always updated information

  Whenever a transaction is posted at any part of the system, all the totals of clients, suppliers, accounts and products will be updated. If you make an error or you want to modify a registry during the process, you can cancel the registry without affecting the other accounts. You can focus on the details through the information filtrate (for example, you can filtrate by date, account or product number) and trust the precision of Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

Advantages

• You will only pay what you use. You can use Microsoft Dynamics NAV to replace your present system. You can choose among several different application areas such as Financial Management,Manufacturing, Distribution, Management of Relations, Management of Service, E-Business and Analysis. When receiving your order, a local Microsoft Certified Business Solutions Partner will adjust the software to your necessities.
• The information is available in any language so that you can offer a better service to your clients and vendors, offering them inventory descriptions, invoices and reports printed in their own language and currency. You can change the language whenever you want.
• Fast and effective implementation. With an integrated solution, you will only have precise information and you will not have to lose time adjusting numbers as you used to do working with several different systems.

Microsoft Dynamics AX:

Microsoft Dynamics Ax is an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) which has een especially designed for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). It includes serveral different applications for finances, customer relationship (CRM o Customer Relationship Management), Supply chain (SCM o Supply Chain Management), Human Resources, Project Management and Analysis.

These solutions, which can be easily customized, are the most suitable ones for huge commercial structures, because, thanks to their architecture type, they do not need reengineering for their application. Moreover, with this ERP, they can also access to some other modules such as Advanced Manufacturing, Multicurrency and Multilanguage.

Introduction to Microsoft Dynamics Ax

• Manufacturing

  Provides access to the Manufacturing process to improve the efficency of the production and to reduce all possible costs. Microsoft Dynamics AX can be adjusted to support all specific necessities of the manufacturing industry, maintainig a low total cost of ownerships(TCO). Thanks to it, the Bill of Materials (BOM) can be easily managed and all necessary resources to satisfy the customer can be easily controlled by planning the capacity resource availability, analyzeng the finite and infinite programming and the material planification.

• Financial Management

  Microsoft Dynamics AX offers a wide range of financial tools that help companies to strengthen their accounts with subsidiary companies or supply centers without mattering where they are. Moreover, all allowed employees will be able to accede to the company's accounting with a detailed analysis and several reports adapted to their different levels.

• Customization

  Thanks to its flexibility, Microsoft Dynamics AX makes possible to reduce time and costs related to the development of customizations. This is possible due to the fact that it is an all-in-one tool that improves the potential of companies so that they can grow within the market. With Microsoft Dynamics AX the relationship and collaboration with customers, partners, vendors and employees will become more effective. All in all, it has been designed to help the company grow step by step.

• Loyalty

  Microsoft thinks that the manufacturing industry does not need extremely huge or complex technological solutions to increase its competitiveness. This solution also incorporates all functionalities of critical mission required by manufacturing companies in the present economic scene. In this way, it will allow you to improve the service offered to the client and to obtain a greater loyalty from them.

• Reengineering

  A reengineering application in the TI infrastructure represents an investment that Small and Medium-sized Enterprises cannot always face. The flexible architecture of Microsoft Dynamics Ax will allow you to avoid these costs and each update that is will be carried out in the future will be able to be handled with the customization tools included in this solution.

• Connectivity

  Microsoft AX is an ERP solution that provides a greater connectivity for the business. The module Manufacturing interchanges information with other functional areas of the solution, including Logistic, Production Masterful Planning and Financial Management. This has been designed to increase the performance of all the business management.

• Commercial environment

  For being part of Microsoft Product Family, it widely integrated with the functionalities of Microsoft SQL Server, BizTalk Server, Exchange, Office, and Windows. Therefore, it makes possible for users to work within well-known commercial environments and to reduce qualification costs.

Main characteristics

• MRPII

  Microsoft Dynamics AX offers a solution strongly focused on MRP II (Manufacturing Resource Planning). It has been designed to improve the management of the provision chain, to maximize the productivity and to integrate all resources of a manufacturing company. Its implementation helps to reduce operative costs by automating processes of the provision chain.

• MorphX

  MorphX You will be able to use only the functionalities that you need in a given moment and to enable additional capacities as your necessities change or multiply. In addition, through MorphX Development Suite , software developers will be able to design, publish and compile in the same screen visualizing all modifications entered in the solution.

• Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

  Integrated Development Environment of Microsoft Dynamics AX has been specially adapted for the application. It is object-oriented and has a totally open code. Many other products have IDE, but few have open code or are object-oriented. The advantages of Integrated Development Environment are: centralization of the source code in a same Server, fast distribution of the updates for users (clients) and integration with other products. This makes possible to carry out a fast development of customizations, with total access to the library of objects already developed.

• OLAP (On Line Analytical Processing)

  Microsoft Dynamics AX is a powerful management analysis tool that makes possible to combine your data with data of other applications. OLAP is a tool for the visualization and extraction of data for the creation of inventories or consultations. The use of OLAP guarantees a multidimensional analysis of the information.

Advantages

This tool offers an excellent differentiating advantage : It offers the greatest level of adaptation to a company’s style. This is possible due to the fact that the applications have a strong degree of flexibility that allows them to work with total compatibility whatever the format of their processes is.

• The Manufacturing module includes the following sections: Purchase Control, Sales Control, Manufacturing Processes with Control of Inventories, Storage and Design included in a system.
• It reduces operative costs by reducing errors related to the production processes.
• It identifies the changes that are included in each order and analyzes inefficiencies through an internal Transaction Log that stores all changes made in the database.

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