ERP Software

Working with Microsoft ERP Software

Microsoft is becoming a major player in the enterprise business sector. The world’s biggest software company wants a piece of this action and it is getting it. Microsoft ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Software is gaining market share as well as recognition. Its Microsoft Dynamics AX product is a multi-language, multi-currency enterprise resource planning ERP solution. This software is popular in the manufacturing, wholesale and services industries. It offers companies the broad functionality that supports build-to-order, engineer-to-order, and build-to-forecast supply chain models, across both discrete and batch-process manufacturing modes.

This is software that can serve the global demands of a company as well, because it supports high transaction rates and thousands of users across multiple sites, and supplies built-in languages, currencies, and legal requirements for more than 30 countries. And users of other Microsoft products such as Windows and the Microsoft Office suite of programs will find that this software integrates seamlessly with them. This is a major convenience in terms of training, because of the familiarity employees already have with these administrative tools.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV (formerly Navision), is another Microsoft enterprise resource planning (ERP) software product from Microsoft. It is designed to assist with finance, manufacturing, customer relationship management, supply chains, analytics and electronic commerce for small and medium-sized enterprises. Value-added resellers (VAR)s can have full access to the business logic source code, and it has a reputation as being easy to customize. That’s good news for other service providers who use Microsoft code and features to beef up their own product offerings. They realize that people are familiar with Microsoft’s products and may be more apt to use associated applications.

Microsoft NAV, is licensed using what is called a Business Ready License (BRL). It allows the customer to purchase user sessions, which have access to certain parts of the system included. The system is designed for two types of users - Business Essentials (BE) and Advanced Management (AM); AM provides access to more functionality than BE. Under the previous licensing model, "Module Based License" (MBL), users came with no functionality - this all had to be bought separately. Microsoft offers a path for customers to transition from MBL to BRL licensing.

This software is designed for distribution and manufacturing companies that want more functionality and flexibility. It has been noted that it is a solution that can be thought of as an "ERP System construction set,” giving a company the ability to customize the software as they wish and as they grow. And that’s what Microsoft enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is doing too, growing.

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kristine H