Now that the sales department has sold the company’s products and services or even before the sale happens, your group has to deliver. Maintaining a careful balance between supply and demand is critical to the success and profitability of your organization. In today’s business environment, a powerful and reliable management information system is the foundation piece you need. Costing, quality control, scheduling, access to scarce resources, expediting, and optimization of operating practices are just a few of the things you need to consider on a daily basis.

The Microsoft Navision solution provides a real world answer to your company’s issues. While Navision has powerful solutions for manufacturing, supply chain management, job cost, and other areas, it also has the advantage of being configurable to match your unique business requirements. This flexibility offers your company access to significant competitive advantages and operational efficiencies through the use of a rapid application development toolkit that delivers high quality code with a minimum of time and cost. Some of the more unique features available to assist you in your role as Chief Operating Officer include:

• Real-time operations and financial data - Your information is as up-to-date as the last posted transaction. This allows operations and financial decisions to be made on current data and can be easily displayed in a dashboard format using a number of different products.

• A Comprehensive Supply Chain Management System - The wide functionality available within Microsoft Navision allows a company to meet its needs right from marketing through to receipt of the payment from the customer.

• Manage Demand Planning and Minimize Inventory - The flexible manufacturing, distribution, advanced warehousing, and service management modules allow the software to be configured to match your company’s requirements.

• Enhanced Warehousing Capabilities - Microsoft Navision offers a number of warehousing modules that enhance receiving, stocking, picking, shipping, warehouse optimization, and returns functions, among others.

• Accessibility of information - All information is immediately available from a summary report level down to the detailed transactions underlying the report.

• A Completely Integrated System - Never again will precious resources and time be wasted on trying to integrate a variety of third party systems. Information is immediately available to all users. System upgrades become much simpler as well.

• Configuration to Fit Best Business Practices - Microsoft Navision can be installed as an “off the shelf” solution or be configured to fit best practices available for your organization.

• Low Total Cost of Ownership - The Microsoft Navision solution is priced as a mid-market package and saves significant amounts in the cost of the software, the initial implementation, and the ongoing software assurance program.

• Guaranteed Software Investment from Microsoft - As one of the key applications from Microsoft Business Solutions, Navision continues to be enhanced through a significant portion of a $2B research and development budget. As long as a customer remains current on their annual software enhancement program, Microsoft guarantees a free software license upgrade to any new technology it brings out.

• Web Portals - The Navision system allows web portals to be easily configured to match the unique requirements of your salespersons or customers.

• E-Commerce - A powerful e-commerce solution is available, which allows all customer, item, and vendor information to be maintained directly within Navision. Web maintenance is significantly reduced while still maintaining the security needed for today’s Internet environment.

• Call Center Module - A powerful Call Center module is available to allow customer issues to be tracked and outgoing calls to be made to any control group defined by customer group, industry group, inventory purchases, or a number of other criteria.