Manufacturing
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Microsoft Dynamics for Manufacturing – differences between various Dynamics flavors
Houston Neal from Software Advice recently wrote a nice and a very detailed article on the Differences Between Microsoft Dynamics products. It’s an interesting…
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Parallel or serial?
Long time no see, eh? I know I’ve promised to write about a lot of stuff here, and I see this queue of you hardly waiting to read my next topic on process…
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Discreet and process manufacturing difference
When implementing NAV in manufacturing companies, I’ve sometimes heard complaints that the type of manufacturing supported in NAV doesn’t fit the customer…
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Mystery laptop
I had no clue how good my laptop was. Seriously. Today it kicked ass of an 8-processor server. Tomorrow we have a go-live of a Microsoft Dynamics NAV…
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Architectures: Good, Bad and Ugly
Four months ago I attended a conference, where I had a chance to listen to Miha Kralj, an architect at Microsoft, talk about architectures. It was one of the…
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Not-so-elementary costing: The Change
They say the only constant is change. I’d say that the only other constant is error. We humans tend to err. Give a repeatable task to a human, and they’ll mess…
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Output journal confusion
A few days ago, I’ve got a question from a customer, about an alleged bug in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. According to online help, when you are posting output in…
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Scrap doesn’t just happen
In reality, if you need 1,000 of whatever product, the manufacturing process is rarely going to yield exactly 1,000 of it, even if you feed into the first…
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Scrap the crap
Scrap happens. So does sh*t. In my last blog post about scrap I gave a crappy explanation of how forward calculation of fixed scrap works. So instead of…
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Cut the (s)crap
[I had to edit this post on April 01, 2008. And no, it’s not April Fool’s Prank] Have you ever wondered how manufacturing scrap works? Or what it really is?…