Navision
Can You Feel the Pressure?
Once upon a time, you knew what to expect of competitors, partners and customers. But the rules of the game have changed. Today’s partners can become tomorrow’s competitors, and they can take your customers with them. Customers are more important than ever, and they expect better service and more competitive prices than ever before.
Microsoft Distribution helps you win customer loyalty, increase responsiveness and offer more competitive pricing based on lower operational costs.
Are You Ready to Move Ahead of the Competition?
To survive, you need to keep your customers satisfied. You cannot afford to miss an order because an item isn’t in stock. You cannot afford to tell customers you'll get back to them when they ask for the delivery time or the price of a product.
But is survival enough? What does it take to get ahead of the competition?
Customers Feel Like Part of the Team
If you want to get ahead of the competition, you need to make your organization responsive to your customers’ needs. When your customers know that all your resources are geared towards serving their needs, you become more than just today’s supplier of goods: you become a long-term partner.
Reduce Costs, Increase Competitiveness
Microsoft Distribution streamlines operations to benefit both you and your customers. Reducing operational costs saves time and money for your entire organization and allows you to offer more competitive prices. Cost reduction is a worthwhile business goal in itself, but it’s also another way to strengthen your relationships with customers.
Microsoft Distribution reduces costs by helping you reduce excess inventory, run your warehouse operations more cost effectively, and work more closely with your vendors.
Create Customer Loyalty
If you handle your customers’ orders efficiently, you will get repeat orders. Microsoft Distribution makes it easy for you to provide your customers with accurate, up-to-date information — so you can quickly answer all their questions.
Improve Your Organization
To be able to consistently satisfy your customers’ orders, you must have an efficient and flexible distribution setup. Microsoft Distribution helps you to concentrate your resources on adapting to your customers’ needs.
Reduce Costs and Offer Better Prices
Microsoft Distribution helps you reduce lead times, increase responsiveness, and better collaborate with your suppliers and customers. Ultimately, it allows you to offer more competitive pricing thanks to lower operational costs.
Ask Your Partner
To learn more about Microsoft Distribution, contact your local Microsoft Certified Business Solutions Partner. They have the expertise to design a solution that fits your specific business needs. Or, visit our Web site at:
http://www.microsoft.com/BusinessSolutions
About Microsoft Business Solutions
Microsoft Business Solutions, a division of Microsoft, offers a wide range of integrated, end-to-end business applications and services designed to help small, midmarket and corporate businesses become more connected with customers, employees, partners and suppliers. Microsoft Business Solutions' applications optimize strategic business processes across financial management, analytics, human resources management, project management, customer relationship management, field service management, supply chain management, e-commerce, manufacturing and retail management. The applications are designed to provide insight to help customers achieve business success. More information about Microsoft Business Solutions can be found at
http://www.microsoft.com/BusinessSolutions
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Key Features |
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Item Substitution |
- Offer your customers alternative items when:
- Those they want are out of stock.
- The alternatives are cheaper with a higher profit margin.
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Item Cross-References |
- Identify what your customers want by cross-referencing any customer code, internal code, or vendor code.
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Nonstock Items |
- Provide customers requesting nonstock items:
- Immediate quotes.
- Nonstock item numbers automatically created.
- Orders for nonstock items processed in the same way as for stock items.
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Multiple Locations and Responsibility Centers |
- Handle inventory in more than one location (for example, warehouses in Atlanta, New York and Los Angeles) from one database to:
- Gain a complete real-time business overview.
- Create cost and profit centers.
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Stockkeeping Units |
- Manage items individually per location. With stockkeeping units, items can be described and managed individually per location including:
- Replenishment methods
- Safety Stock
- Costs
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Location Transfers |
- Manage the movement of inventory between warehouses. Produce an overview and report of inventory in transit whenever you or your customers require it.
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Order Promising |
- Calculate item availability and deliver on your promises:
- Available to Promise feature for planning.
- Capable to Promise feature for “what if?” scenarios.
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Calendars |
- Specify working and non-working days designated to customers, vendors, locations, company and shipping agents.
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Item Tracking |
- Track and trace items at any time during the sales, purchase, transfer process, and afterwards with serial numbering and lot tracking.
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Returns Management |
- Handle returned inventory and account for additional costs such as restocking charges. You can also automatically organize:
- Credit Memos.
- Replacement goods.
- Returns to vendors.
- Account for additional costs.
- Partial or combined return of shipments.
- Partial or combined return of receipts.
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Shipping Agents |
- Control your distribution by relating shipping agents to the services they offer.
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Warehousing |
- Order-by-Order Warehousing enables your employees to efficiently complete warehouse tasks and have an overview of where items are located. Order-by-Order Warehousing is easy for your employees to learn and use.
- Multiple-order Warehousing is an affordable extension that gives you the functionality you need and grows with you.
- Reduce costs through effective warehouse processes with Warehouse Management Systems:
- Plan Shipments
- Directed Pick and Put-away.
- Picking items can be performed in several different ways: per order, to stage, to tote.
- Putting items away either into the warehouse or cross-dock to shipping.
- Replenishment of bins based on pre-defined maximum or minimum bin quantities
- Receipt and shipment filtering of released source documents.
- Efficient picking methods.
- Cross-docking.
- Achieve cost savings by streamlining your inventory management processes with Automated Data Capture Systems:
- Collect and use accurate, real-time inventory data.
- Simplify and speed up your data capture system using radio frequency technology.
- Increase the visibility of accurate inventory data throughout your company.
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Cycle Counting |
- Maintain and increase inventory accuracy by verifying inventory record data.
- Allows you to differentiate the counting frequency per item or stock keeping unit.
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Pricing |
- Efficiently manage sales and purchase prices and line discounts with customers and vendors.
- Specify specific sales/purchase prices and line discounts for individual customers and vendors.
- Manage general sales prices and line discounts for groups of customers or all of your customers.
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Item Charges |
- Improve cost control by including the value of additional cost components to the unit cost or unit price of an item. For example, such cost components could be freight or insurance.
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| Additional Application Areas of Navision |
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- Manufacturing
- User Portal
- Commerce Gateway
- Commerce Portal
- Financial Management
- Marketing and Sales
- Service
For more information about Microsoft Business Solutions–Navision and to find out how you can obtain additional fact sheets, please contact your local Microsoft Certified Business Solutions Partner or visit our Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/BusinessSolutions |
System Requirements |
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To obtain all of the features mentioned in this fact sheet,
the following modules and technologies are required: |
- Microsoft Exchange Server (min. version 5.5 with service pack 4) for E-Mail Logging for Microsoft Exchange.
- Microsoft Business Solutions–Navision supports graphical 32-bit technology and genuine client server, multitasking environment. The following operating systems are supported:
- Client 32-bit: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, and Windows 98
- Server: Microsoft Business Solutions–Navision Database Server: Windows 2000, Windows NT, IBM AIX, IBM OS/400
- Microsoft SQL Server Option for Navision:
- Operating System: See requirements for Microsoft SQL Server 2000. See requirements for MSDE 2000
- Other Applications: Microsoft SQL Server 200, SP3, MSDE SP3.
- Please refer to the detailed system requirements document for more information.
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