Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an integrated, adaptable, business management solution which enables you to make important business decisions with greater confidence. Microsoft Dynamics NAV offers a familiar look and feel to other Microsoft software, together with a seamless integration, easing adoption and reducing the risks inherent with implementing a new solution. Microsoft Dynamics solutions include applications and services for retailers, manufacturers, wholesale distributors, and service companies, doing businessdomestically or in multiple countries.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV offers capabilities to meet the following business needs:

Financial Management
As the backbone of your business management solution, Microsoft Dynamics NAV accounting and finance solutions help you track and analyze your business information. With end-to-end integration, you can efficiently manage your general ledger, payables, receivables, inventory, analytical accounting, fixed assets, and cash flow as well as perform bank reconciliations and collections. You can also manage your financial processes across multiple currencies, locations, or companies.

Manufacturing
Microsoft Dynamics NAV provides an integrated suite of manufacturing applications that give you the tools to plan, manage, and execute a world-class manufacturing operation. You can boost operational efficiency and effectively manage production, including production orders, bills of material, supply planning, and capacity requirements planning. Manage your entire manufacturing process from product configuration, supply, and capacity requirements planning to scheduling and shop floor.

Supply Chain Management
Streamline your sales, purchasing, and pick/pack/ship cycle. With Microsoft Dynamics NAV, you can tailor workflow processes to meet specific needs and keep pace with competitive markets and low margins. Help increase customer loyalty with better responsiveness, rapidly pursue new market opportunities, and improve your profitability by working more efficiently with partners. Improve inventory management, manage single- or multi-site warehouses and handle order processing and demand planning.

Business Intelligence and Reporting
Bring strategic insight into your business processes with sophisticated reporting, analysis, and budgeting solutions that help you improve and propel critical decision-making throughout the organization. Direct access to real-time, business-critical information and a wide range of analytical and reporting tools can help you manage budgets, create and consolidate reports, and look for trends and relationships.

Customer Relationship Management
Customer relationship management enables automation of many day-to-day tasks for sales, customer service, and marketing professionals. Manage customer records and sales histories, create and launch marketing campaigns, and track customer activity. Make service operations more profitable by organizing your service resources for optimum efficiency, forecasting and tracking parts consumption, proactively managing contracts and service agreements, and gaining tighter control over costs. Accessible from Microsoft Office Outlook® and Employee Portal, Microsoft Dynamics NAV helps your sales team work without limits.

Workspace Collaboration
Help people across your business collaborate effectively by expanding access to business applications, information, and processes. In addition, you can use Microsoft Windows® SharePoint® Services to help create workgroups and teams to generate discussion and exchange information related to specific interests and projects.

Configuration and Development
Microsoft Dynamics NAV comes with built-in tools to adapt your business management solution to the way you do business. Designed to help you limit your requirement for highly qualified IT professionals, these tools enable system administrators and programmers to add new and modify existing functionality quickly and with limited coding. In addition, you gain access to a suite of powerful industry standard tools and technologies already used by developers around the world.

Human Resource Management
Microsoft Dynamics NAV provides support for your human resource processes by helping you organize and control information about your employees. Attach comments to employee records, track absences, and generate reports to keep on top of your most important asset—your people.

Project Management
Project management capabilities support long-term job- and project-related activities to help you budget project costs and automate billings, better manage your resources, track resource costs and usage, plan capacity, and predict availability.

Why use Microsoft Dynamics NAV?

Do you need an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution that can be implemented quickly? One that you can customise and maintain with minimal disruption to your work environment? If your company is small or medium sized, then try Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is designed for companies needing a solution that can be implemented rapidly, customised, and maintained, with minimal disruption to the work environment. Business goes on - which is why more than 45,000 companies in over 50 countries use Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

Empowered Users
Microsoft Dynamics NAV is based on the user interface of Microsoft Office Outlook® 2003 whilst providing new unique facilities. The interface gives users a familiar working environment, reduces the learning time for new users on the system, and provides an efficient user experience through the ability to tailor screens to job functions and roles.

Insightful Information
All areas of the application are now available as MS OLAP Services cubes that can be interrogated either through Microsoft Excel or a Web-based user interface. This allows users to accurately compare results across business entities and timelines, as well as produce trend analysis through data mining facilities. Business Notifications alert the user to business-critical conditions such as late orders, exceeded credit balances and threatened customer commitments. Any number of alerts can be created to cover all your business risks.

Connected Businesses
Microsoft Dynamics NAV uses industry standards to ensure that both mobile and office users and business processes can be inter-connected, as well as ensuring that business processes can synchronise with trading partners. Communication documents are formatted in industry-standard XML, to simplify the synchronisation process, as well as help comply with standards between organisations and software applications. Standard connectors are supplied by MS BizTalk Server and authentication and delivery through MS Commerce Server.

Adaptive Processes
Microsoft Dynamics NAV has built a formidable reputation around its adaptability to vertical industry requirements and individual companies' processes. With nearly 400 specialised Microsoft Dynamics NAV-based extensions for industries as diverse as construction, food and beverage, retailing and waste management, you can be sure that the right solution and partner expertise is available for your specific requirements.

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