Our current client using NAV 2016 NA and they like to setup warehouse in another country(germany) and they are looking into using NAV there as well. Can they be able to service both locations? Would there be any additional costs? Would it be better to have the users at the other location remote into our database or have two separate databases that get merged periodically? Any guidance you can provide in regards to setting up NAV in another facility, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Hi,
we have the same scenario here in Germany with one of my clients. they have two warehouses one in Germany and one in Hong Kong. I would say the simplest way is to have one system and you can let the other part (New location user) to log into your main system by remote. you will be able to save a lot of cost!
The decision to have more than one system have to be carefully revised. You just have to put in mind that if you established two system you have to be able to exchange information between both system. which is possible but still a lot of work and customization have to be done in order to make this possible.
Best way to avoid customization as much as possible when you can, thats way having one system would be a win win situation. of course you have to provide your system in German language two :), coz Germans employees would ask for this 100 %.
Hi Shyam,
As Mohamed says, then there are many things to consider. But most important then you need to understand that this is NOT standard functionality within Navision. If you wanted it as standard, then you should consider using Dynamics AX instead.
I used to work for a large international company (GN/Jabra), where we had developed such functionality in-house. Here if the users selected the “EU warehouse”, then NAV made an online lookup in the other database (http requests) for availability. And when they created a order, then the order was also created in the “EU warehouse company” automatically (similar to an intercompany order). And when shipped/posted in the “EU company” then it also posted and sent the invoice from the original company.
But it’s not a small project. My guess is that we spent a few 1000 hours (over a year or two) getting it right. And eventually this requirement was one of the main reason to shift from NAV to AX - where the functionality as said is standard.