Exploring the Manufacturing functionality
Everything you want to know about the Manufacturing functionality can be found in the Dynamics NAV Help file by navigating to Design and Engineering | Operation Planning | Production.
If we buy components and/or raw materials, and then fabricate and assemble them into finished goods, we should use Manufacturing to help us manage this process.
In a nutshell, the following are some of the benefits of using Manufacturing in Dynamics NAV:
It allows you to create complex bills of materials and routings per item, and it also allows different versions of it.
It controls the materials and machines that are used per production order. It also calculates the proper costing of the items used and produced. After all, this is one of the main reasons why ERP software was invented.
It allows you to plan the inventory demands (and surpluses) of the company. The Material Requirements Planning (MRP) calculation can be location specific or for the company as a whole.
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