Confessions of a Dynamics NAV / Navision consultant. A blog about my experiences being a Navision consultant and developer. Confessions of a Dynamics NAV / Navision Consultant
2013-1-29 23:49

Processing and Fixing Vendor 1099 Codes in Dynamics NAV

It’s that time of the year again. Time to send out those 1099 to your vendors in Dynamics NAV. Here’s a quick video of how to process 1099s in Dynamcis NAV and how to process vendor 1099 invoices and and … Read more »
Posted by Alex Chow
Filed under:
2012-12-4 20:58

Quick Video on Closing the Year in Dynamics NAV

It’s that time of the year again. Close out the year! Most companies align their fiscal year to the calendar year so right around this time, we usually get a ton of support calls from people that forgot how to … Read more »
Posted by Alex Chow
Filed under:
2012-11-8 6:26

Survive and Thrive using Dynamics NAV in Any Economy

Hypothesis Companies that bought Dynamics NAV and make continuous improvements in the system are less likely to go out of business or sold off. Informal Research This was the conclusion I had while I was speaking with my fellow Dynamics … Read more »
Posted by Alex Chow
Filed under: ,
2012-10-31 10:39

Dynamics NAV 2013 is Here – Recap of Microsoft Directions 2012

It’s Microsoft Directions 2012 Yes. Microsoft Directions. The theme for this year’s Directions is Dynamics NAV 2013 is here! This is release is what 2009 should’ve been. Microsoft reiterated that with Dynamics NAV 2013, it’s ready and you will not … Read more »
Posted by Alex Chow
Filed under:
2012-9-21 18:26

Hardware Requirements for Dynamics NAV 2013 “NAV 7″

Overview Looking through the hardware requirements for Dynamics NAV 2013, it looks like there are a couple of things the end user will need. More noteable, it looks like now the computer has to be running at least Windows 7 … Read more »
Posted by Alex Chow
Filed under:
2012-9-7 2:30

Thought Process on Receiving Defective Inventory in Dynamics NAV

Overview Receiving items from vendor can be a tricky thing. This question has come up quite a bit during implementation regarding defective inventory. I know a lot of companies has put a lot of modifications into receiving defective inventory, I’d … Read more »
Posted by Alex Chow
Filed under: ,
2012-7-14 1:20

Entering A/P Credit Card Transactions in Dynamics NAV

Overview Here’s quick tip on entering transactions for the credit card. Sometimes, when you make a purchase using your credit card, but you want to keep track of the purchase against the vendor, you don’t want the credit card statement … Read more »
Posted by Alex Chow
Filed under:
2012-5-29 18:47

Different Flavors of Warehouse Management in Dynamics NAV

Overview Dynamics NAV (Navision) is a comprehensive ERP system. As such, it has many features that caters the different needs of businesses, for example, manufacturing, service managment, CRM, distribution, etc. Each one of these functional areas can be configured a … Read more »
Posted by Alex Chow
Filed under:
2012-5-16 18:30

NAV 2013 Technical Documentation on What is New

Just a quick note. If you don’t have this link already, here’s the MSDN article on what’s new in version 2013: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh174007(v=nav.70)?lc=1033
Posted by Alex Chow
Filed under:
2012-5-11 20:52

Cost Effective Microsoft Resources That You Did Not Know

Overview Microsoft is a technology organization. It’s their job to develope new technologies that business and individuals can use to improve upon their lives. Having said that, there are A LOT of products that Microsoft releases and as an end … Read more »
Posted by Alex Chow
Filed under:
2012-3-20 2:33

The Best Business Practice

The Hype Often times when I go into an implementation, some clients will want to implement it based on the “best business practice”. The idea is that somehow using the “best business practice” will reduce their implementation cost. In reality, … Read more »
Posted by Alex Chow
Filed under:
2012-2-21 3:35

Why Your Inventory Cost is Wrong

The Problem I hate beating a dead horse to death, but there are a couple of incidences that prompted me to write this article. Navision 1.0 has been out since 1996, yet it always astounds me when I walk into … Read more »
Posted by Alex Chow
Filed under:
2011-12-20 21:35

Import Budget into Excel in Dynamics NAV RTC

When you’re working in the RTC environment in the G/L Budgets, the standard NAV function is that you can export the Budgets into Excel, edit it, then import it back in in the same Excel format. This works fine in … Read more »
Posted by Alex Chow
Filed under:
2011-12-20 21:18

Auto-hide Taskbar Does not Autohide in Windows 7

This post is not Dynamics NAV (Navision) related, but I hope it’ll be extremely helpful because real estate space is really scarce on the desktop. Especially when you’re trying to cram all that data on to your screen. This was troubling me … Read more »
Posted by Alex Chow
Filed under:
2011-11-3 2:48

Price does not find the Lowest Price

Working with Navision for the last 12 years, there are certain functionality that you assumed worked a certain way. I was under the impression that Navision always finds the lowest price whent he sales order is entered. Recently, one of … Read more »
Posted by Alex Chow
Filed under:
More Posts Next page »