Microsoft Dynamics® NAV (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions - Navision) enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution frees you to focus on your business. More than 58,000 mid-sized to enterprise companies with 1 million + users in over 60 countries rely on this solution to help them run their operations, so you can feel confident about building your business with it.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV delivers integrated functionality to support solutions for financial management, supply chain collaboration (including manufacturing and distribution), customer relationship management (including marketing, sales, and service management), and e-commerce.

Key features of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0

Financial Management

Record and store financial records in a central general ledger that includes charts of accounts, balances, VAT and reporting;

1. Define your preferred currency
2. Create accounting periods based on your fiscal and business cycle
3. Manage bank accounts and cash
4. Manage your fixed assets, and keep track of insurance information
5. Automate routines such as check-writing, bank statement reconciliation

Human Resources Management

Manage your employees, and keep track of their payment and deduction details.

1. Manage employee information
2. Record and track loans & salary advances
3. Track leave entitlement, and usage
4. Produce statutory and tax return reports

Manufacturing

Respond quickly to customer demands and improve manufacturing performance by automating and improving processes such as Production-order management, Supply and capacity planning, Graphics-based production schedules. 

Business Intelligence

Use raw data to understand how a business is operating;

1. Choose from basic or advanced analytics functionality
2. Provide decision makers with a 360-degree view of performance
3. Set up graphical reports and displays, using an interface similar to Microsoft Outlook 2003

Sales and Marketing

Put customer information at the fingertips of managers and employees to help your people build better customer relations.

1. Manage contact information
2. Organise sales campaigns
3. Automate sales tasks
4. Set up automatic reminders
5. Document approval

Distribution

1. Track and manage inventory, including in multiple locations.
2. Get up-to-date information about in-stock quantities.
3. Implement better warehouse management, including tailored pick orders and stock replenishment by pre-set thresholds.
4. Get real-time data regarding inventory and shipments.

Integration with your systems

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is designed to work smoothly with other Microsoft products such as Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Microsoft Windows Vista and XP.

Documents written with Microsoft Word can take data from the Microsoft Dynamics NAV database and incorporate that information into a customer letter. Workers can use Microsoft Excel to create reports with up-to-date figures imported from Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Commerce portal capabilities also allow a company to create a web site and integrate it with Microsoft Dynamics NAV - enabling you to work easier with customers and partners.