Microsoft Navision 4.0, SP1, DEU, MVL, CD 271-01828 User Manual

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Microsoft

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Business Solutions for Supply Chain Management–Navision

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Microsoft

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Business Solutions–Navision

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Manufacturing helps you respond

quickly to rapidly changing customer demands

Manufacturing Foundation for Microsoft

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Business

Solutions–Navision

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Manufacturing Foundation 4.0 is the entry point for our

manufacturing solution. It is a complete solution for

manufacturers with simple production requirements and at

the same time the basis for including more advanced

functionality that can be bought in separate granules.

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Manual Planning

This feature is a simple supply planning tool that

functions as a manual MRP system, where the user

makes planning decisions order-by-order based on

visibility and manual planning functions. The Order

Planning feature uses parts of the existing planning

engine to find and analyze new demand but it does not

consider planning parameters defined for the items and

is therefore much more transparent than the automatic

system.

The 

Order Planning 

window displays all new demand

along with advanced availability information and

suggestions for supply. It provides the visibility and tools

needed to manually plan for demand from both sales

lines and component lines and then create different

types of supply orders directly. It requires that a Planner

deals with demand level-by-level. That is, any

dependent demand for lower-level production items is

only visible to the system after the higher level is

planned. The Order Planning feature includes functions

to supply from alternative sources, to easily create

different supply orders and to quickly recalculate new

demand.

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Graphical Production Schedule

This feature provides a graphical representation of

production orders and capacity loading in an integrated

Gantt component.

Supply Chain Management

The 

Production Schedule 

window is a Gantt chart, which

is fully integrated with Microsoft Navision and allows a

user to reschedule operations by drag and drop in a

graphical interface and thus update the related

production order data. The feature does not provide

new scheduling functionality—it merely enables in a

graphical interface the tasks otherwise done in tabular

form in routings, task lists, load windows, etc. As such,

it is a consolidation of existing data and functions for

capacity planning and scheduling in one graphical

interface, which provides much improved overview and

simplicity of use for different user roles.

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Easy Production Reporting

This feature makes it possible to record consumption

and output from the context of a production order line.

The 

Production Journal 

window combines the functions

of the consumption journal and the output journal into

one journal, which is accessed directly from a released

production order line. When the journal is opened, it is

preset with the expected or remaining (by partial

posting) quantities or times to be recorded—both output

and consumption. With the use of routing link codes,

the consumption lines (components) will be indented

under the linked output lines (operations) thus

providing a nice process overview. Quantities and times

already recorded for the production order line are

displayed at the bottom of the journal as actual entries.

Manufacturing Foundation 4.0 does not include a number

of the more complex manufacturing granules, such as

Finite Loading.