ERP system for medium-sized business

The ERP system Microsoft Dynamics NAV for finance and accountancy, inventory management and production.

ERP systems (“enterprise resource planning”) integrate different economic business applications for finance and accountancy, inventory management and production. ERP solutions, e.i. Microsoft Dynamics NAV, form the starting point for the development of business potentials and the rationalisation by means of active business process management. The avoidance of redundancies in data management, central application administration and a uniform planning and set-up of the technical IT infrastructure (servers, networks, work stations etc.) are also very important arguments for a company-wide utilisation of ERP system.

ERP systems: solid decision basis 

By means of the storage of all data in a central database, all economically relevant data can be linked to each other and with the use of business intelligence tools, can be summarised in convincing evaluations.

Function of ERP system Microsoft Dynamics NAV 

The essential function areas of the medium-sized business ERP system Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV include the following modules as standard:

• Finance and accountancy (financial accounting, costs and performance calculation, asset bookkeeping, monetary transactions, payroll and salary accounting)
• Sales and marketing (CRM, order processing)
• Allotment and procurement (SCM and purchasing)
• Inventory and logistics (inventory management, product logistics)
• Production (manufacture and capacity planning)
• Resources and projects (personnel, project planning, capacity management)
• Service management (resource planning, contract management)

By means of modification (design, customising), the standard application of the ERP system can be precisely adjusted to individual data models and processes, which are optimal for the company in which Microsoft Dynamics NAV is utilised.

The requirements of the “ERP II” concept can be depicted with Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV on the Microsoft platform, in which collaboration of different company-internal software systems as well efficient cross-company, software-supported cooperation are required. The web services capability of the enterprise software Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 increases the possibilities in this area greatly.