Usefulness of Microsoft Dynamics NAV in Warehouse Management

Today, all types of small, medium and large supply chain businesses face a range of myriad challenges in their day to day business. Tracking the flow of items (both internal & external), making best use of the resources at hand, and controlling the inventory management costs can become very painstaking. In such circumstances, a warehouse manager can at best expect the warehouse management work to be difficult because at worse it can even become deliberating. Hence, nowadays many warehouse or inventory managers are making use of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and inventory management solutions to simplify their work. Most business analysts believe that using an ERP solution is far better than using an inventory management tool because an inventory management solution only helps in tracking the items in the warehouse, whereas an ERP solution also helps in better utilizing the employees working in the warehouse.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV, being a leading global, ERP solution is the most-preferred choice of managers looking for an ERP tool to help them in managing their inventory better. This is because of the immense advantages MS dynamics NAV implementation offers in warehouse management, key amongst them being:

€ Better Control: NAV implementation offers the warehouse managers better control over the inventory, by helping him/her in tracking the movements of goods in & out of the inventory. NAV ensures that the manager has complete knowledge of all the items being added into the entry, their location in the inventory, and delivery status posts its dispatch from the inventory. Besides tracking movement of items, Dynamics implementation also facilitates the manager in maintaining optimal stock levels.

€ Customization: No to businesses today are similar, even if they are from the same industry or niche; the same is true for warehousing companies as well. Every individual warehousing company has its own unique operations and requisites. Dynamics NAV is the most easily customizable ERP solution available today. This is because Microsoft markets Dynamics NAV through its partner companies, who are experts in efficiently customizing the solution with different businesses, strictly adhering to their specific requirements.

€ Plugging-in the loopholes: Alike NAV implementation in other industries, implementing NAV in warehouses also help in identifying/locating and plugging-in the loopholes in the internal operations of the warehouse. This streamlines the processes inside the inventory, making the management work more comfortable. Also, due to the automation of key data management operation because of NAV implementation, the chance of human errors in entering and editing data is also eliminated.

€ User-friendliness: Most people are familiar with spreadsheets, word and other MS office applications, these days. Much of NAV interface is similar to these applications, so the users usually don't face any problems in working with NAV. Note that despite the user-friendliness of Dynamics, a short training might be required in some cases.

€ Reliability: Microsoft is a huge name in the computer and IT industry. NAV being a product of Microsoft offers utmost reliability & peace of mind to its users, delivering them the maximum worth for their money.