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7 Ways Microsoft Dynamics NAV Helps Take the Pain Out of Daily Work Processes
1. Daily Insight to Help Manage and Grow Your Business: More Powerful Analytical Tools
| • | Microsoft Dynamics NAV displays data about business performance the way you want it with Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) |
| • | Easy analysis with an advanced Microsoft Windows viewer, a report writer, a Web interface, and capabilities for data mining |
| • | New features for reporting, Analysis Reports, Sales and Purchase Budgets, and Analysis views by Dimensions (ideal for smaller companies with few concurrent users and data of limited complexity) |
| • | New key performance indicators (KPIs) for financial management, supply chain management, and CRM can be viewed in a generic graph component, and also allow you to drill down into your Microsoft Dynamics NAV application for even better business insight |
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See how Microsoft Dynamics NAV helps you visualize data in different ways according to what's relevant for you. Gain Business Insight (Approx. 5 Min)
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Click on the screenshot to see an example of a sales cube you can easily manipulate to analyze the company's profit at a global level, and, at a more detailed level, per region and over a time period.
2. The Freedom to Focus on Critical Business Issues: Better Control of Your Financial Information
| • | Detailed visibility into every transaction |
| • | Inter-company transactions between any two companies within a group controlled by the same legal entity |
| • | Transparency and analysis tools for efficient processing of sales orders |
| • | Design your own simple reports for better analysis |
| • | Improved user interface on sales documents as well as new features for employees who require simple reporting functionality |
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Click on the screenshot to see the Intercompany Inbox window, where an employee can receive sales and purchase orders from an intercompany partner.
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3. Take the Pain Out of Daily Accounting Practices: Partial Payment and Consolidation:
| • | Reverse all postings and changes related to an application, regarding both customer ledger entries and vendor ledger entries |
| • | Reverse entries created from lines manually entered in the general ledger, including a clear audit trail of the process |
| • | Global customers can choose which method to use when translating the general ledger account from a foreign entity |
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Click on the screenshot to see the Consolidated Trial Balance report, in which the financial statement data of a subsidiary appears.
4. More Efficient Employees: Personalization and Navigation Features
| • | Easier navigation helps employees work more efficiently |
| • | Employees can personalize their own menus |
| • | Manufacturing Foundation helps the production planner manage his or her work |
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Click on the screenshot to see a Gantt chart, which is fully integrated with Microsoft Dynamics NAV. It allows a user to reschedule operations by dragging and dropping in the Gantt chart, thus updating the related production order data.
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5. Prevent Business Show-Stoppers: Notifications and Alerts
| • | Easier navigation helps employees work more efficiently |
| • | Employees can personalize their own menus |
| • | Manufacturing Foundation helps the production planner manage his or her work |
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Click on the screenshot to see a window where you can subscribe to e-mail message notification. The window could be populated with various critical business issues.
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6. Work and Grow the Way You Want: Built to Adapt
| • | Improved upgrade toolkit makes it possible for partners to reduce upgrade costs |
| • | Expertise of independent software vendors makes it easier to implement a business-specific solution that suits your budget |
| • | Retain the flexibility to respond to, add more capacity, and adapt to changing market conditions |
| • | Simplified foundation available for manufacturers that rely on manual planning and straightforward production processes, with option to add modules as manufacturing processes become more complex |
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Click on the screenshot to see a window where you can subscribe to e-mail message notification. The window could be populated with various critical business issues.
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7. Work in Familiar Applications: Better Together with Microsoft Office
| • | New main menu navigation pane, similar to the one in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, can be tailored to your specific needs |
| • | Analyze reports using familiar Microsoft Office Excel interface, or in the front-end solution of your choice |
| • | Make full use of Microsoft SQL Server for Microsoft Dynamics NAV Business Analytics |
| • | Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 and XML input/output makes it easier to manage electronic exchange of data and business documents |
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Click on the screenshots to see how a contact from Microsoft Dynamics NAV is added to your Outlook contacts.
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