Microsoft Dynamics NAV Manufacturing features and functions help Manufacturing companies to address the following key business requirements in managing and planning for production capacity, bill of materials and shop floor control.
- Integrate different types and variations of BOMs
- Support time-to-market and time-to-volume objectives
- Create, track, and process multiple versions of BOMs and routings.
- Improve coordination of made-to-order requests
- Simplify make-or-buy decisions
- Modify components and operations as needed, even on released production orders
- Plan product family orders that share the same routing to create efficient build schedules
- Access an overview of production schedules displayed in Gantt charts
- Use drag-and-drop functionality to reschedule operations
- Promise orders more accurately with available-to-promise (ATP) and capable-to-promise (CTP) insight
- Quickly make exceptions and last-minute changes to meet customer needs
- Plan from the sales order, production order, or purchase requisition, or use traditional master production schedule (MPS) or material requirements planning (MRP) methods
- Facilitate materials flow through the supply chain with multi-location planning capabilities
- Update and change all materials, costs, and operations simultaneously
- Analyze sales patterns from multiple perspectives
- Compare forecasted demand with actual sales
- Consolidate and distribute demand plans with multiple stakeholders for collaborative planning
- Implement realistic plans according to all incoming resource capacity demands
- Redefine order modifiers and reorder policies as needed
- Accommodate changing shop floor workloads
- Simplify planning with calendars and machine center allocation tools
- Integrate manufacturing and warehousing functionality
- Manage and track manufacturing costing
- Understand item costs throughout the production process, including inventory, WIP, and cost of goods sold (COGS)
- Effectively utilize your automated data collection system (ADCS)