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Drop Shipment in NAV

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Drop shipment is the shipment of the article directly from vendor to the customer. This is used when we have an urgent delivery or somtime when we avoid the warehouse storage cost. Basically, drop shipment involves two process i.e. purchasing of goods from the vendor and instruct vendor to deliver it directly to the customer's address. This means the linked sales order is also created for invoicing customer. Below are the steps to use drop shipment. 1. Create the sales order. Refer below as an example. Under lines, you can see the highlighted column "Drop Shipment" and "Purchasing code". This is mandatory to use this functionality. When you try to post this purchase order, system will give below error message. This means that the sales order will be only be posted after the associated purchase order will be marked as recieved. 2. Create the new purchase order and fill the "Sell to customer number" field value with the customer mentioned...

Assembly Order usage in Sales order

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Assembly orders are also known as Kiting in retail where the retailers are combining the different materials/items and sell it as a gift pack. Assemby Item can be suppllied by using two different ways. 1. Assemble to Order : Used for items that you do not want to stock because you want to minimize inventory costs or because you expect customers to request changes to the items during sales order entry. 2. Assemble to Stock   : Used for items that you want to assemble and put in inventory before a sale, and where the assembly process is easy. For example: In case of Furniture where i can order dining table with different charis. Let's have a look in system on how to configure assemble item and to use in sales order. Item Setup In Base NAV, search for the article 1924-W or you can create a new article also with below confirguration .i.e. Mark Assembly Policy as Assemble to stock. Under the item, check the BOM (Bill or material) associated to it. For this ...

Navision to support default file export as ANSI encoding

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As and when we export any data from Navision in txt format, this should always export in the format ANSI encoding, as default. With this one, some of the languages like  Arabic, or Hebrew or even Turkish don't support ANSI encoding.  For example: when i try to get the context " ğşiğ"  in notepad and save the file with ANSI encoding, then it's automatically saving it as "ðþði". Either the text will be scattered especially in case of Arabic or the special characters will show some random vague pictures But, when you convert the file with the format Encoding UTF-8, then the file characters in file will show in correct format as it should be.