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Alternative Production BOMs and Routings

Using alternative production BOMs or routings is quite common in a manufacturing environment. It could for example be that larger orders are run in higher capacity machines, versions of products are produced with slight variations in components (like different colors), or you might produce the same…

23 June 2015

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Production Lead Time using Routings

The production lead time if you are using routings in Microsoft Dynamics NAV is the sum of the lead times for the operations that each can have 5 different time components; queue time, setup time, run time, wait time and move time. Bron : Olof Simren…

17 June 2014

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Simple Production with Generic Backflush Routing

You can run production in Microsoft Dynamics NAV with only production BOMs and without any routings. A reason for this is typically that you don’t have a requirement to capture capacity costs (labor and overhead) and you don’t want to do any scheduling of work centers…

15 May 2014

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Using Alternate Bills of Materials or Routings in Dynamics NAV

Do you need to use alternate bills of materials (BOM) or routings in your business? Let’s first define what I mean by “alternate BOM or routing.” An Alternate BOM or routing is a predefined process or set of components that can be used to make an…

24 April 2014

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Setting Up Production Lead Time in Microsoft Dynamics NAV if You’re Not Using Routings

There are manufacturing companies using Dynamics NAV that want to offset the start time on production orders to accommodate production time even though they are not using Routings. To illustrate, I set up a test item called BOB PRODUCED. Note that the item has a BOM,…

6 November 2013

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Using Send-Ahead Quantity in Microsoft Dynamics NAV Routings

From a production scheduling point of view, it may be advantageous to ‘overlap’ production steps to reduce the elapsed time to produce a lot of goods. From the APICS Dictionary Send-Ahead is the movement of a portion of a lot of material to a subsequent operation…

15 October 2013

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Understanding Concurrent Capacities on Microsoft Dynamics NAV Routing Lines

There is a field in the Dynamics NAV Routing Line named Concurrent Capacities. The question is, “What is it used for?” I have set up a simple example to illustrate the use of this field. First, I created a Work Center named ASSEMBLY. I set the…

6 August 2013