From the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Blogs: Lot Accumulation Period; Uploading large files; Managing huge databases; Multi to single tenancy

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

• Lot Accumulation Period vs. Rescheduling Period for Dynamics NAV Manufacturing;
• Uploading Large Files From the Web Client;
• My Dynamics NAV Database Is Huge! What Is Using Up All That Space?;
• NAV 2013 R2: Migrating From Multi-Tenancy Back to Single-Tenancy

Lot Accumulation Period vs. Rescheduling Period for Dynamics NAV Manufacturing

Over at his Confession of a Dynamics NAV Consultant blog, Alex Chow tells us that the releases of Dynamics NAV 2013 and NAV 2013 R2 have brought with them a few improvements in the functionality related to creating the planning worsheet.

"Ordering for Manufacturing: Most manufacturing companies will plan what they want to make within a period. How long that period is will be determined by the company running the plan. Speak to any manufacturer and they will tell you that they are a Make-To-Order manufacturing company. This means they don't, or at least intend to, make any items if there are no existing demand for the item."

Chow says typically, the Reordering Policy for these types of companies will be set to Lot for Lot. And that means that when the MPS and MRP plan are run, it will look to consolidate orders within the period and make the most efficient production order(s) and purchase orders to satisfy the demand.

You can read about the old way of doing things as compared the new way here.

Uploading Large Files From the Web Client

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