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  • Confessions of a Dynamics NAV Consultant: Quick Video on Closing the Year in Dynamics 365 Business Central and Dynamics NAV

    Alex Chow
    Alex Chow
    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 close the year end and need a quick refresher…
    • 2021-1-4
    • Mirror post
    • Implementation
    • 140 views
    • 0 comments
    • 22 days ago
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  • Confessions of a Dynamics NAV Consultant: The One Huge Mistake You’re Making When Setting Up WMS for Dynamics 365 Business Central

    Alex Chow
    Alex Chow
    Overview I mentioned In my previous article that there are multiple ways of setting up warehouse management . In reality, however, there really are two ways: there’s the option of setting up your warehouse with Directed Pick and Put-away …and…
    • 2020-12-22
    • Mirror post
    • Warehouse management
    • dynamics 365 business central
    • WMS
    • warehouse location
    • directed pick and put-away
    • 151 views
    • 0 comments
    • 1 month ago
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  • Confessions of a Dynamics NAV Consultant: Different Flavors of Warehouse Management in Dynamics 365 Business Central

    Alex Chow
    Alex Chow
    Overview Dynamics 365 Business Central (formerly known as Dynamics NAV) 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…
    • 2020-12-16
    • Mirror post
    • Warehouse management
    • dynamics 365 business central
    • WMS
    • Implementation
    • 108 views
    • 0 comments
    • 1 month ago
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  • Confessions of a Dynamics NAV Consultant: Why you should build a healthy relationship with your data

    Alex Chow
    Alex Chow
    Overview Having worked with Dynamics 365 Business Central (Dynamics NAV) for years, one of the biggest concerns I have when working with clients is receiving a really big Excel file with a message saying “my numbers don’t match! Please match it…
    • 2020-8-11
    • Mirror post
    • implementations
    • DYN365BC
    • Dynamics NAV
    • MSDyn365BC
    • Business Central
    • 412 views
    • 0 comments
    • 5 months ago
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  • Confessions of a Dynamics NAV Consultant: Importance of Testing

    Alex Chow
    Alex Chow
    Overview So, you’ve decided to switch to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and finished the hard work of development, migration, and training. Now you’re ready to go live, right? But, I’ll bet there’s one thing you’ve unknowingly neglected…
    • 2020-7-2
    • Mirror post
    • Implementation
    • 415 views
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    • 6 months ago
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  • Confessions of a Dynamics NAV Consultant: Importance of Testing

    Alex Chow
    Alex Chow
    Overview So, you’ve decided to switch to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and finished the hard work of development, migration, and training. Now you’re ready to go live, right? But, I’ll bet there’s one thing you’ve unknowingly neglected…
    • 2020-7-2
    • Mirror post
    • 383 views
    • 0 comments
    • 6 months ago
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  • Confessions of a Dynamics NAV Consultant: How to Avoid a Mutually Assured Destruction While Implementing a New ERP System

    Alex Chow
    Alex Chow
    Overview While working with companies on ERP implementation (in our case, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central), what I tend to notice more often than not is that companies know what they want to get out of ERPs, but not how to do it. The result…
    • 2020-5-19
    • Mirror post
    • Self Sabotage
    • 367 views
    • 0 comments
    • 8 months ago
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  • Confessions of a Dynamics NAV Consultant: How to Avoid a Mutually Assured Destruction While Implementing a New ERP System

    Alex Chow
    Alex Chow
    Overview While working with companies on ERP implementation (in our case, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central), what I tend to notice more often than not is that companies know what they want to get out of ERPs, but not how to do it. The result…
    • 2020-5-19
    • Mirror post
    • 345 views
    • 0 comments
    • 8 months ago
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  • Confessions of a Dynamics NAV Consultant: How to Avoid a Mutually Assured Destruction While Implementing a New ERP System

    Alex Chow
    Alex Chow
    Overview While working with companies on ERP implementation (in our case, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central), what I tend to notice more often than not is that companies know what they want to get out of ERPs, but not how to do it. The result…
    • 2020-5-19
    • Mirror post
    • 359 views
    • 0 comments
    • 8 months ago
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  • Confessions of a Dynamics NAV Consultant: How to Avoid a Mutually Assured Destruction While Implementing a New ERP System

    Alex Chow
    Alex Chow
    Overview While working with companies on ERP implementation (in our case, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central), what I tend to notice more often than not is that companies know what they want to get out of ERPs, but not how to do it. The result…
    • 2020-5-19
    • Mirror post
    • 407 views
    • 0 comments
    • 8 months ago
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  • Confessions of a Dynamics NAV Consultant: Ways You Are Sabotaging Your ERP Implementation. Going Parallel.

    Alex Chow
    Alex Chow
    Overview A continuation of an article published last time . This is another one of the biggest causes of the owners/management causing the demise of their own ERP projects. Going Parallel Most proponents will state that going…
    • 2019-10-24
    • Mirror post
    • Uncategorized
    • 646 views
    • 0 comments
    • over 1 year ago
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  • Confessions of a Dynamics NAV Consultant: Ways You Are Sabotaging Your ERP Implementation. Part 1

    Alex Chow
    Alex Chow
    Setting Unrealistic Live Dates Overview Typically in an implementation, there will be a lot of moving parts. A lot of things has to go right for a successful implementation. If any of the key tasks don’t go right, no matter how small the…
    • 2019-9-21
    • Mirror post
    • Uncategorized
    • 467 views
    • 0 comments
    • over 1 year ago
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  • Confessions of a Dynamics NAV Consultant: Ways You Are Sabotaging Your ERP Implementation. Part 1

    Alex Chow
    Alex Chow
    Setting Unrealistic Live Dates Overview Typically in an implementation, there will be a lot of moving parts. A lot of things has to go right for a successful implementation. If any of the key tasks don’t go right, no matter how small the…
    • 2019-9-21
    • Mirror post
    • Uncategorized
    • 759 views
    • 0 comments
    • over 1 year ago
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  • Confessions of a Dynamics NAV Consultant: Why the Idle Client Timeout Won’t Work

    Alex Chow
    Alex Chow
    Overview Just a friendly reminder (or reminder for myself) that in order to get the Idle Client Time to work properly. Make sure you change the Keep Alive Interval to something greater than Idle Client Timeout. If you set the Idle…
    • 2019-7-19
    • Mirror post
    • Implementation
    • Security
    • 462 views
    • 0 comments
    • over 1 year ago
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  • Confessions of a Dynamics NAV Consultant: Why the Idle Client Timeout Won’t Work

    Alex Chow
    Alex Chow
    Overview Just a friendly reminder (or reminder for myself) that in order to get the Idle Client Time to work properly. Make sure you change the Keep Alive Interval to something greater than Idle Client Timeout. If you set the Idle…
    • 2019-7-19
    • Mirror post
    • Implementation
    • Security
    • 852 views
    • 0 comments
    • over 1 year ago
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  • Confessions of a Dynamics NAV Consultant: Using Gmail Account with SMTP Setup with Dynamics Business Central / Dynamics NAV

    Alex Chow
    Alex Chow
    Overview Not all customers uses Office 365 as their e-mail. The other popular option companies use is G Suite from Google. When you’re trying to setup the SMTP Mail using Gmail accounts in G Suite, you may encounter this error: The…
    • 2019-7-9
    • Mirror post
    • g suite
    • SMTP
    • Dynamics NAV
    • dynamics 365 business central
    • Programming
    • 565 views
    • 0 comments
    • over 1 year ago
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  • Confessions of a Dynamics NAV Consultant: Using Gmail Account with SMTP Setup with Dynamics Business Central / Dynamics NAV

    Alex Chow
    Alex Chow
    Overview Not all customers uses Office 365 as their e-mail. The other popular option companies use is G Suite from Google. When you’re trying to setup the SMTP Mail using Gmail accounts in G Suite, you may encounter this error: The…
    • 2019-7-9
    • Mirror post
    • g suite
    • SMTP
    • Dynamics NAV
    • dynamics 365 business central
    • Programming
    • 987 views
    • 0 comments
    • over 1 year ago
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  • Confessions of a Dynamics NAV Consultant: From 5 Months to 5 Minutes

    Alex Chow
    Alex Chow
    Overview Even though we’re at the age of the internet, a lot of companies still print hard copy catalogs . If you work in any one of these organizations, you’ll know when it’s catalog season, it’s becomes a very stressful period in that the…
    • 2019-5-29
    • Mirror post
    • Uncategorized
    • 416 views
    • 0 comments
    • over 1 year ago
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  • Confessions of a Dynamics NAV Consultant: From 5 Months to 5 Minutes

    Alex Chow
    Alex Chow
    Overview Even though we’re at the age of the internet, a lot of companies still print hard copy catalogs . If you work in any one of these organizations, you’ll know when it’s catalog season, it’s becomes a very stressful period in that the…
    • 2019-5-29
    • Mirror post
    • Uncategorized
    • 758 views
    • 0 comments
    • over 1 year ago
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  • Confessions of a Dynamics NAV Consultant: Changing Protection Level to Boost Performance

    Alex Chow
    Alex Chow
    Overview Just a quick note about boosting the client performance for full Windows or RTC clients for customers using Dynamics 365 Business Central (aka Dynamics NAV). This was brought to us by one of our customers that is looking for ways to…
    • 2019-1-23
    • Mirror post
    • dynamics 365 business central
    • Performance
    • Security
    • 363 views
    • 0 comments
    • over 2 years ago
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  • Confessions of a Dynamics NAV Consultant: Changing Protection Level to Boost Performance

    Alex Chow
    Alex Chow
    Overview Just a quick note about boosting the client performance for full Windows or RTC clients for customers using Dynamics 365 Business Central (aka Dynamics NAV). This was brought to us by one of our customers that is looking for ways to…
    • 2019-1-23
    • Mirror post
    • dynamics 365 business central
    • Performance
    • Security
    • 962 views
    • 0 comments
    • over 2 years ago
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  • Confessions of a Dynamics NAV Consultant: Addressing Inefficient Business Processes

    Alex Chow
    Alex Chow
    Overview Addressing inefficiencies in any company is a crap shoot. Often times, the management of a company will have a discussion with us to discuss their challenges. The conversation in these meeting usually leads to how can they address…
    • 2019-1-22
    • Mirror post
    • Warehouse management
    • Implementation
    • 347 views
    • 0 comments
    • over 2 years ago
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  • Confessions of a Dynamics NAV Consultant: Addressing Inefficient Business Processes

    Alex Chow
    Alex Chow
    Overview Addressing inefficiencies in any company is a crap shoot. Often times, the management of a company will have a discussion with us to discuss their challenges. The conversation in these meeting usually leads to how can they address…
    • 2019-1-22
    • Mirror post
    • Warehouse management
    • Implementation
    • 658 views
    • 0 comments
    • over 2 years ago
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  • Confessions of a Dynamics NAV Consultant: Why You Should Set Automatic Cost Adjustment to Never in Dynamics 365 Business Central

    Alex Chow
    Alex Chow
    Overview This was one of the topics that came up frequently while working with users at the last NAV/BC User Group Summit at Phoenix. Many people have different opinion to setup their inventory so costing is done properly. Naturally, knowing a few…
    • 2018-11-28
    • Mirror post
    • inventory
    • Performance
    • Implementation
    • costing
    • 341 views
    • 0 comments
    • over 2 years ago
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  • Confessions of a Dynamics NAV Consultant: Why You Should Set Automatic Cost Adjustment to Never in Dynamics 365 Business Central

    Alex Chow
    Alex Chow
    Overview This was one of the topics that came up frequently while working with users at the last NAV/BC User Group Summit at Phoenix. Many people have different opinion to setup their inventory so costing is done properly. Naturally, knowing a few…
    • 2018-11-28
    • Mirror post
    • inventory
    • Performance
    • Implementation
    • costing
    • 817 views
    • 0 comments
    • over 2 years ago
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