Microsoft

Navision

Distribution

Navision Distribution

Respond to Customers Quickly with Navision

The competition for business today is fiercer and faster paced than ever before. To keep customers happy, you need to be able to respond to their needs quickly.

Navision helps you give your customers what they want, when they want it.

 

 

Navision for distribution is an enterprise business solution that gives you a powerful way to satisfy your customers.

It helps you:
 

Win customer loyalty by providing better service

Improve responsiveness to customers

Reduce costs and offer competitive prices

To survive in business, you need to keep your customers satisfied. You cannot afford to miss an order because an item is not in stock. You need to know the answers when customers ask questions.

Navision makes it easy to find the information you need to provide better customer service and win customer loyalty.

When your business is well organized, it is easier to be responsive to your customers. Navision for distribution helps you organize your business to improve planning and keep delivery promises. It lets you focus your resources on responding to the needs of your customers.

Both you and your customers benefit from streamlined operations. Reduced operational costs save you time and money, allowing you to offer more competitive prices.

Navision helps you trim excess inventory, run your warehouse operations more effectively and work more closely with your vendors.

 

Navision - Distribution Overview

Navision Distribution

Item Substitution:

 

Offer customers alternative items when the items they order are out of stock

Item Cross-References:

 

Identify items by cross-referencing customer codes, internal codes, or vendor codes

Nonstock Items:

 

Prepare quotes

Create nonstock item numbers automatically

Process orders for nonstock items in the same way as for stock items

Contract Pricing:

 

Create and maintain different prices for different customers and vendors

Multiple Locations and Responsibility Centers:

 

Manage and handle inventory in multiple locations

Create cost and profit centers

Manage inventory levels and item costs differently at each warehouse

Location Transfers:

 

Track the movement of inventory between warehouses

Get overviews and reports of inventory in transit

Apply and trace additional costs

Order Promising:

 

Calculate item availability

Available to promise (ATP) feature for planning

Capable to promise (CTP) feature for “what if?” scenarios

Item Tracking:

 

Track and trace items with serial numbering and lot tracking

Returns Management:

 

Handle returned inventory and account for additional costs such as restocking charges

Credit memos

Replacement goods

Returns to vendors

Account for additional costs

Partial or combined return of shipments

Partial or combined return of receipts

Shipping Agents:

 

Control distribution by relating shipping agents to the services they offer

Warehouse Management:

 

Cross-dock alerts

Efficient picking methods

Order and shipment filtering

Warehouse Management Systems (Advanced):

 

Organize warehouse management and reduce operational costs

Full control of goods (receipt, put-away, and shipment)

Directed pick and put-away with fixed and floating bins

Organize cycle counting

Cross-docking control

Usage-Based Procurement:

 

Make the right buying decisions at the right time

Usage-based or tailor-made procurement

Min/max inventory control

Determine the best vendors

Radio Frequency and Bar Coding:

 

Increase inventory accuracy by using bar-code readers

Gain control over picking and put-away

Create internal bar codes on labels and reports

Item Charges:

 

Improve cost control by including the value of additional cost components to the unit cost or unit price of an item.

Additional Features:

 

Web access to information and data exchange with customers and vendors

Production Bill of Materials (BOM) including phantom BOMs

Blanket orders for organizing long term contracts

Handling of landed cost

Flexible costing for standard, average, FIFO, LIFO sales