January/2010

Welcome to Advanced Business Systems, LLC

Welcome to January's Advanced Business Systems Newsletter. This newsletter is designed specifically for our customers and associates. I will always try to stay quick, informative, and practical. If I have made an error in sending you this newsletter, please accept my apologies and simply "unsubscribe" at the bottom. Your name will be removed immediately. If you like this letter, please use the "Forward Email" button at the bottom and send it to a friend.

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All the Best...Chris Carrigee

Save-the-date! Microsoft Dynamics Convergence 2010 is coming to Atlanta

Mark your calendar now to attend the premier Microsoft Dynamics® event April 24-27 in Atlanta, Georgia!  Don't miss this exciting opportunity to come together with your peers, industry experts, and Microsoft product experts to share ideas and knowledge that you can use to optimize your business.  This is an excellent way to gain a stronger sense of community through interacting with industry leaders, the Microsoft team and other customers.  As part of this effort, the Dynamics User Groups will be heavily involved in determining the session topics to be covered.  You will also have the opportunity to test drive new technology and gain insight that can help you get the most out of your Microsoft investment, now and in the future. 

Convergence is your opportunity to participate in an exceptional program including a variety of tracks, speakers, detailed product demonstrations and hands-on learning sessions to better understand how you can further leverage your existing business solution to tighten supply chains, deepen customer relationships, empower your workforce and sustain profitability.

Please join Advanced Business Systems and Microsoft for this annual event!

TRIMIT Product Configuration and Manufacturing for Dynamics NAV 

When working with production of customizable products, creation and handling of BOMs (Bill of Materials) is often very comprehensive and time consuming.  Furthermore, if the BOM is not correct, detailed and updated it will inevitably result in numerous errors in both material consumption and cost calculation.

TRIMIT Product Configuration for Dynamics NAV reduces the number of BOMs significantly, due to the use of master BOMs and generic item BOMs, making it very simple to create and maintain BOMs. The formula calculator is a tool that con­trols the BOM creation, by using logical expressions for calculating, routing, material- and time consumption, etc.

This tool enables you to set up all the necessary conditi­ons in order to control what can and cannot be configured.   This way, your sales persons can only configure what you allow them to, which minimizes errors significantly, and by using the configuration all relevant specifications for both production and purchase are generated automatically.  This reduces the bottlenecks that often occur when handling special orders and gives you a very quick turnaround on orders.

TRIMIT Product Configuration combines calculation of actual prices and standard cost prices. The prices are continuous all the way from the supplier order through the BOM to the sales lines, giving all involved employees a complete overview over the prices, costs and contribution margins of all products.

Furthermore, TRIMIT Product Configuration automati­cally recalculates and deletes orders, which means that cancellation of orders removes all related orders, prices etc. while adjustments of orders lead to an automatic recalculation of everything involved in the order. This way reducing time spent on errors and bottlenecks.

TRIMIT Production is fully integrated with Dynamics NAV making it possible to calculate cost- and sales prices in the moment of configuration.  This improves customer service significantly as customers get answers requests instantly(e.g. price inquiries).