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Good planning defines business success. However, when a planning gap occurs, the ability to utilize available substitute resources can become a safeguard against unwanted financial and reputation losses, especially if sales orders have been created and confirmed by the customers. In this article, we will discuss a business case in which a company needs to transfer quantities from one item to another substitute item, and how to avoid the pitfalls that come with this process, such as when item tracking and directed put-away and pick locations are used.
With the introduction of the Help Server back in the days of the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 release, Microsoft introduced a new work process in terms of managing documentation for Microsoft Dynamics NAV. The User Manuals for standard functionality were no longer provided in the .doc or .pdf formats, while the online Help system transitioned from the .chm files to HTML files on the Help Server. So, should you also move your help content exclusively to the HTML format? Well, it depends…
Multiple subsidiaries or divisions tend to conduct many transactions between each other. At some point, the parent company performs a consolidation of all general ledgers and faces the need to eliminate the intercompany flows in order to avoid inflation of the receivables and payables accounts. This is the point at which it may turn out that tracking intercompany document mismatches down is way too time-consuming.
Quite often performance is the key element that makes customers either very happy with a solution or very unhappy. We, at Xpand, have seen millions of lines of code and I must admit that NAV developers too seldom think about the speed of execution of what they write. Even though it is a rather compelling topic, we are not going to explore it within this article. Instead, let us concentrate on how to rewrite your code using queries and increase the speed of a solution a thousand fold!