As a distributor, you have a unique set of industry specific requirements that are critical to the way you do business. Business issues might include serial number and lot tracking, warranty tracking, use of bar coding devices, or sophisticated usage based procurement for inventory replenishment. Designed to conform to your unique distribution and supply chain requirements, NAV provides a solution to fit your needs.
NAV for Distribution consists of the following functionality options:
- Item Substitution
- Item Cross Reference
- Non-Stock Item Processing
- Contract Pricing
- Returns Managmement
- Usage Based Procurement
- Extended Shipping & Receiving
- Location Transfers
- Warehouse Management
- Bar Coding Devices
What's It Costing You?
Industry statistics tell us that the average distributor's inventory consists of approximately 40% dead stock and overstock. In addition, according to Gordon Graham, this idle inventory costs you another 28% of its original cost per year in various carrying costs. So the question is - what is it costing you?
Sales and marketing
With Microsoft Dynamics NAV you can synchronize sales, marketing, and ordering with Microsoft Office productivity tools, such as Microsoft Outlook. Contact, task, meeting, and e-mail information appear directly within the NAV screen. In addition, real-time information about all your contacts can help you identify key accounts and target marketing efforts.
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Illustration: NAV helps you manage sales order processing with an intuitive interface and drill-down capabilities.
Distribution
Microsoft Dynamics NAV helps small and midsize businesses streamline distribution processes and improve inventory management and warehouse efficiency. Key capabilities include item tracking, multiple location logistics, bills of materials, transfers, item substitutions, and warehouse management ranging from internal picking to shipping and delivery.
Connect business processes across technologies
By using the XML document exchange feature, Commerce Gateway, NAV streamlines processes, helping you communicate with your supply chain partners more quickly and effectively, even if they are using a different system. In addition, it uses extensible business reporting language (XBRL) to export financial reports across all software and technologies to streamline the exchange of financial data.
Ease of use
NAV is both easy to use and simple to maintain. Its interface, which mirrors that of familiar Microsoft Office applications, requires little to no training and gives employees simultaneous access to data from a single screen. Furthermore, you can streamline workflow by allowing employees, customers, vendors, and business partners to interact with your system through personalized Web portals. Or you can take advantage of XML and XBRL to communicate with other entities across different technologies.