From the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Blogs: Clarifying traceability; Great ERP deployments; Label printing with RDLC; Upgrade speed

A selection of the latest insight from the Dynamics NAV blogs:

• Lot and Serial Tracking in Microsoft Dynamics NAV Clarified;
• Why You Cannot Find a Good Service Based Solution Center;
• Printing Label Sheets Through RDLC;
• Performance in Data Upgrade - Let's Speed Things Up

Lot and Serial Tracking in Microsoft Dynamics NAV Clarified

In the ArcherPoint blog, Bob Bergman says Dynamics NAV provides for very robust serial number and lot number tracking.

When he advises his clients about serial and lot tracking, he says, "Only do it if you have to, as it adds additional user effort to record a transaction." He says there are situations where have to use serial or lot tracking but those are primarily in the life science industries, where you might be producing medicines or if there is a human safety aspect to your product. Another example is if you're subject to recalling defective products.

To accommodate most of the lot and serial number tracking scenarios that are found in manufacturing and distribution, Dynamics NAV offers setup screens to pick and choose what you want to track.

In his post, Bergman offers screenshots from NAV 2013 to illustrate the information. You can view the screenshots and read the rest of the post here.

Why You Cannot Find a Good Service-Based Solution Center

On his Confessions of a Dynamics NAV consultant, Alex Chow says recently he had a meeting with an owner of a company that, to put it mildly, was not a happy camper.

It seems the ...