NAVAX delivers manufacturing ERP on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, with the add-ons manufacturers actually need, from a graphical planning board to shop floor data collection.
Global competition demands shorter lead times while price pressure keeps rising. Here are four places where manufacturers lose the most time, and what helps.
Who uses which machine and when sits in a spreadsheet maintained by one person. When a delivery date changes, everything is recalculated by hand.
How NAVAX solves it: The graphical planning board shows orders, operations and capacities straight from the ERP. Rescheduling means dragging, not recalculating.
Times and quantities are noted on job tickets and typed in later. By the time they reach the system, the order has long moved on.
How NAVAX solves it: Shop floor data collection and mobile data capture post actual times, quantities and scrap where they happen: directly to the production order.
Every order is a little different. Whether it paid off becomes clear weeks later, if at all.
How NAVAX solves it: Overhead costing before the order, post-calculation after it, both on the same bills of materials and routings. You see deviations while you can still react.
A customer asks which batch is in their device. The answer is scattered across delivery notes, inspection reports and binders.
How NAVAX solves it: Lot, serial and package numbers follow every part from goods receipt to delivery. Traceability is a query, not a search.
Sixteen add-ons for Business Central, developed in projects with manufacturers. Filter by the area you are working on right now.
All production orders with material availability and status at a glance. Only what can really start gets released.
PlanningDetailed scheduling by drag and drop: assign operations to machines and work centers, see bottlenecks before they occur.
PlanningDerive safety stock, lot sizes and replenishment lead times from actual consumption instead of estimating them.
PlanningRecord start, interruption and end of an operation at the terminal. Actual times flow directly into the production order.
ProductionGoods receipt, transfers, physical inventory and confirmations by scanner or smartphone, posted where the goods are.
ProductionLabels for semi-finished goods, finished parts and packages directly from the order, with barcode, batch and serial number.
ProductionComplete traceability from raw material to the delivered device, forward and backward.
Warehouse & trackingThe system suggests what expires first or was stored first. Less waste, less searching.
Warehouse & trackingCondense material, production and overhead costs into a quoted price you can trace, for variants and one-off orders too.
Costing & controllingInventory changes and own work capitalized correctly in the income statement, without side calculations in controlling.
Costing & controllingMachines and equipment with depreciation, maintenance intervals and costs, linked to the work centers used in planning.
Costing & controllingIncoming invoices and delivery notes are read, matched and routed for approval, paperless and archived in an audit-proof way.
DocumentsDo you produce in batches or one-offs, often to customer order? Then NAVAX knows your starting point and starts from your processes, not from a model company.
Long lead times, many assemblies, installation at the customer site.
Series with variants, inspections before delivery.
Material as the largest cost block, remnants and offcuts in view.
One-off parts, a high share of labor hours, tight deadlines.
Short product cycles, many components, strict proof requirements.
The NAVAX customer list includes many well-known manufacturers. One voice and two results from projects in industry and manufacturing.
Whitepapers, webinar recordings and articles from our projects. Something to read when no machine is waiting.
NAVAX starts where your orders are created and produced, not in the meeting room. That way the solution fits your processes, not the other way around.
Together with production, warehouse, purchasing and controlling, we walk through your processes: on site, with a real order.
What does standard Business Central cover, which add-ons are added, what is deliberately left out? In writing, before anything is built.
Step by step instead of everything on one cut-over date: each stage goes live before the next one starts. Key users are trained along the way.
Support and further development from a single source, with a team that knows your production, not just your ticket.
What manufacturers most often want to know before choosing an ERP system.
For most midsize manufacturers, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is the right foundation: production, warehouse, purchasing, sales and finance in one system. Where the standard ends (for example with detailed scheduling, shop floor data collection or traceability), NAVAX add-ons take over. For large companies with several plants, Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management is also an option.
Yes. Business Central includes bills of materials, routings, capacities and material requirements planning as standard. For detailed scheduling on machines and work centers, NAVAX adds the graphical planning board, turning rough-cut planning into a plan you can see and move on the shop floor.
Not necessarily. Many manufacturers manage with shop floor data collection and mobile data capture: times, quantities and scrap are posted directly to the production order. Whether your requirements go further, for example connecting machines directly, is something we clarify in the initial meeting.
Every part receives a lot, serial or package number at goods receipt or in production. It is carried along with every posting, so you can trace in both directions which material is in which product and which customer it went to.
No. Moving from Navision or Dynamics NAV to Business Central is an upgrade, not a fresh start: master data and processes are carried over, customizations are reviewed and, where possible, replaced by standard functionality or add-ons.
Both are possible. Business Central is available as a cloud service from Microsoft and for operation in your own data center. Which option suits you depends on factors such as your IT landscape and the interfaces in production.
