Preface

Dynamics NAV is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system targeted at small- and medium-sized companies. An ERP is a system, a software, which integrates internal and external management information across an entire organization. If you search the Internet, you will find plenty of documentation, web forums, and all kinds of information covering Dynamics NAV from many technical points of view, but you will find little or nothing covering Dynamics NAV from a functional point of view, meant for end users. Thousands of users from all around the world who use Dynamics NAV as their main tool for daily work complain that they cannot find information about what they need from the system. And they are right.

This book is written for them, after the experience of training many end users on each implementation we have worked on. We have found out that most users do not care about system configuration; they just want to know how the system works. They contact Dynamics NAV consultants to set up when needed. But in the little end user documentation they find, each topic starts with a full setup introduction that confuses readers and possibly even discourages them from reading.

In this book, we have changed the established structure of official manuals. Instead, we have used a logical structure that makes it easy to read and very easy to understand; this is how we teach Dynamics NAV in our training courses, and this is how people tell us they have learned and understood the application.

Don't think this book is meant only for financers and accountants; this book is also meant for Dynamics NAV consultants and developers. You need complete functional knowledge of Dynamics NAV to become an expert, and this book can help you with it.

You will never finish learning about new features and functionalities. The idea behind the book is that you learn enough to be able to keep learning on your own. Every single field in every single table can hide a mini functionality that can help you in your work.