We believe that we all have experienced the challenges of modern ways of doing business. Annual business plans are being set up ambitiously. Company growth is expected to be higher than market growth, with continuous improvement, forecasting and timely adjustments to market and legislative alterations. Philosophy that drives everything is “faster, higher, stronger”, regardless of the market segment you are present in. Furthermore, not only it is necessary to retain the existing, but also gain new customers, and last but not the least, to have satisfied employees, and employ new ones. Those are just some of the imperatives of today's market economy.
In order for company to establish its position in the market and fulfil its business objectives, it is necessary to establish an organization that will support and upgrade business, facilitating the adjustments to all future changes. The solution that enables it is Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision).
Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an integrated business solution that, by its functionalities, belongs to ERP systems category (Enterprise Resource Planning). It is indented for small and medium companies, and is equally successful in companies of all sizes – from one to hundreds of employees. It is implemented in over 60.000 companies worldwide and in Croatia in over 250 companies. NAV is exceptionally flexible solution that unites business information and provides the possibility of integrated management of business processes covering following business areas:
- finances and accounting,
- sales and marketing,
- supply,
- inventory and storage,
- production and capacity planning,
- resource planning and project monitoring,
- service management,
- human resource management.
Especially important solution features are:
- by its standard functionalities it satisfies most of the business needs of wide range of activities,
- easy adjustment to specific business mode and
- successful implementation in each company in a short period of time.
Additionally, already known Microsoft user interface greatly facilitates user's introduction into application work, requiring minimum education. Microsoft Dynamics NAV offers to the user an extremely broad and powerful functionality, but it does not obligate user to use it.
Microsoft Dynamics NAV secures increased competitiveness and efficiency enabling:
- efficient planning and business management,
- facilitated operational work and decision making based on the set of business rules and constant information availability,
- reduction of quantity while improving quality of internal communication in a company,
- automation of time consuming activities,
- reduction or elimination of the effects of physical distance (and other obstacles) on connected business activities and
- improvement of communication with your business partners.
Usage examples
Example 1. Storage business
Microsoft Dynamics NAV enables:
- precise storage management – the possibility of regulating special places where the specific stock is set,
automated planning of arrangement of items in order to optimize storage and manipulation of items and
automated recording of all storage movements or data such as batch or serial number.
Example 2. Production
By using Microsoft Dynamics NAV in manufacture, machinery and machine groups can be defined and command the system to optimally plan working orders based on the detailed plans of production. In those kinds of systems, tasks and activities can be assigned to an extensive number of users. It is important to mention that the order of the activities is not important, the user determines it himself and the stock data is accurate at any time.
Microsoft Dynamics NAV enables planning, enforcement and supervision of business towards specific user's demands, regardless of the number of employees or business process complexity.
How to choose the right solution?
With an extensive increase of the number of quality market solutions, it is very hard to find real competitive advantage of the individual solution. What makes the difference is a partner that will help you implement and maintain the solution.
Professional strength of COMBIS is our presence during the whole sales cycle, providing services of consulting, development, implementation, integration and maintenance of complete information-application–communication solutions on the turn-key basis.
References (in alphabetical order)
- KPMG Croatia d.o.o.
- Podzemno skladište plina Okoli (Oil & gas industry)
- Prirodni plin d.o.o. (Oil & gas industry)