Key Features

Description

Financial Management

Microsoft Navision makes it easy to spot trends and gain insight into your business activities, so you can capitalize on your knowledge and unearth new business opportunities that might have otherwise been difficult to spot. You can automate many of your financial practices and procedures according to your needs, so you define the level of control that you want.

Microsoft Navision helps you take the pain out of key accounting tasks with the ability to reverse journal postings while maintaining a complete audit trail, and to define and apply partial payments.

Microsoft Navision makes it easy to connect financial transactions and information smoothly across affiliate companies and different locations via intercompany posting capabilities.

From integrating payment information with purchase data to complete drill down and filtering capabilities, Microsoft Navision provides clear visibility for all your financial transactions.
 

Supply Chain Management

Efficiency is the number one item on every company’s wish list, but translating a wish into reality means choosing a solution that manages your manufacturing and distribution processes for increased efficiency.

With Microsoft® Business Solutions Supply Chain Management–Navision®, you can adapt your business to the opportunities of today’s rapidly changing marketplace.

Microsoft Navision manufacturing and distribution functionality helps you increase your customer loyalty through better responsiveness and lets you rapidly pursue new market opportunities and increase your collaboration with key business partners.

Customer Relationship Management

CRM is a business strategy that helps you increase your profits by putting your customers’ needs at the center of your organization. The level of success you achieve with your CRM solution will directly correspond to the degree in which your organization embraces it.

Sales & Marketing

Sales & Marketing helps you make smarter decisions faster based on accurate information about every contact. With a precise overview of your contact information right at your fingertips, you can become more efficient and increase your employees’ and customers’ satisfaction.

Sales & Marketing deliver the right CRM solution so you can get the job done better and faster.
Sales & Marketing gives you the power to:

• Improve your customer relationship success to increase your productivity.

• Make well-informed decisions about customers to sharpen your competitive edge.

• Customize the solution to fit your processes and grow your business.
   

Multiple Currencies, Multiple Languages

Companies engaged in cross-border business operations need to manage multiple currencies in all their operations. With Microsoft Navision, you can easily set up and maintain multiple currencies throughout the solution for a variety of application areas, including payables and receivables, general ledger reports, bank accounts, and resource/inventory items.

Microsoft Navision also makes it easier to run a multilingual company that meets the needs of customers, vendors and employees. The solution’s Multilanguage functionality allows users to select the language in which they communicate with customers, partners, and other business contacts.

Business Analysis

Business Analytics for Microsoft Navision allows you to turn your data into business critical information. Business Analytics supports Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) services with interactive graphical views for analyzing key performance indicators and visualizing trends, patterns, and relationships.

Business Analytics maintains simplicity and ease of use for Microsoft Navision, presenting information within a familiar Microsoft Outlook-style interface, and providing easy-to-use tools that allow all users in your organization to perform dynamic analysis and reporting across all areas of your business.

System Management

The Microsoft® Business Solutions–Navision® System Management application allows you to set up and define activities within the Microsoft Navision database.

The Microsoft Navision main menu has a Navigation pane, similar to the one in Microsoft Outlook 2003, combining easy-to-access menu information with personalization options.

Customized menus and windows can be assigned for specific users so that each user only has access to the functionality they need for their particular job. In addition, access rights for subsidiaries and users can be defined and controlled by an administrator, and Internet access can also be permitted.

Manufacturing

Manufacturing allows you to improve your business performance through efficient manufacturing processes and to take advantage of new revenue opportunities. You can instantly change your manufacturing methods and processes to reflect changing customer needs.

If you have less complex production processes, Manufacturing Foundation for Microsoft Business Solutions–Navision provides the core planning and process management capabilities you need. It offers an entry point for smaller manufacturers, along with the ability to add modules and capabilities at your own pace.

Manufacturing can be implemented with little disruption to your current manufacturing processes. You can start with a basic implementation and benefit immediately and then add value later with phased software implementation – expanding functionality as your business needs require it.

Distribution

To move ahead of the competition, you need to keep your customers satisfied, and you cannot do this without an efficient and flexible distribution system. Microsoft® Business Solutions Distribution–Navision® gives you the power to act more responsively to your customers’ demands, track and monitor events and processes across your supply chain, and reduce your inventory and distribution costs.

With the advanced warehousing functionality included in Microsoft Navision Distribution, you can reduce costs and increase efficiency in your warehouse. Microsoft Navision Distribution also helps you to increase and maintain the accuracy of your inventory data with features such as item tracking and an automated data capture system (ADCS).

With user-specific alerts and notifications, you can maintain tight control over your distribution processes, for example, you can track and monitor mission-critical events, potential item shortages, production processes, and cash flow issues. When your customers know that all your distribution resources are geared towards serving their needs, you become more than just today’s supplier of goods, you become a long-term partner.

Service Management

Microsoft® Business Solutions Service Management–Navision® makes it profitable for you to deliver superior customer service by allowing you to meet and exceed customer expectations, place tighter controls on your costs, and organize your service resources for maximum efficiency.

The solution enables you to keep track of the profitability of your service operations through a number of reports, as well as use statistical and analytical tools for short- and long-term analysis.

E-Business

Users can access Microsoft Navision through a variety of methods, including the PC and the Internet. The solution supports Internet-based features such Microsoft® Business Solutions–Navision® Commerce Gateway and Microsoft® Business Solutions–Navision® Commerce Portal.

Commerce Gateway and Commerce Portal let you leverage the power of the Internet to streamline your commercial interactions with vendors and customers. Commerce Gateway opens up Microsoft Navision for the electronic exchange of trading documents with other systems. It reduces human error and the amount of time spent on entering data, such as purchases and sales orders – without a complex EDI system. Commerce Portal is an Internet-based solution integrated with Microsoft Navision that provides a company’s customers and business partners with an online Web portal containing relevant information and services needed to carry out commercial transactions with each other.