Business NXT is specially developed for companies with high demands on inventory and logistics management. The broad and advanced functionality facilitates the work of optimising logistics flows.
Business NXT provides a variety of functionalities to ensure efficient handling of orders.
These tables/functions aren't used in Business NXT.
The tables in this section include base data that applies to products.
Product information in Business NXT is divided into a number of tables.
This section deals with the various tables, layouts and processes that affect the warehouse.
The purchase estimate process is described in the Order processes section.
This table contains one row for each order.
In the Accounting instances field, section Logistics, in the Company information table, you define when batches are to be produced by selecting the Accounting column for the specific process. Direct update determines whether the batch shall be directly updated or not.
The following processings are available from the Order table.
This table is populated when an incoming document is processed and an order number is found on it.
The following processings are available from the Document table.
This table may contain one or more rows for each version of a document, with references to rows in other tables.
Several reports are available for the Order table.
You can finish entire orders or part of orders.
Orders can remain in place for as long as you want before you finally delete them.
If you, for example, want to issue a credit, select Credit note in the Order options field in the order head.
Prepayment is used to prevent an order from being processed further until a payment has been entered in the accounts, or the prepayment setting has been removed.
The Company information table contains four fields in which you can enter freight components and one for customs.
Business NXT performs credit control based on the parameters you have set in the Credit control dialog in the Company information table.
Delivery time is calculated on the basis of the various time fields imported from delivery alternatives for purchase and production orders, and from stock balances for sales, consumed goods, hire and loan orders.
The authorities have declared that specific special taxes must be calculated for individual products. This may be an environmental tax or a tax on alcoholic beverages.
This section describes some of the fields that are unique to loan/hire orders.
This procedure describes how to convert a quotation order to an order/invoice when a customer has accepted the quotation.
Business NXT contains several fields for specifying and calculating weight and dimensions for products and units.
There are two recommended methods for handling serial numbers in Business NXT. The preferred method is using the Reservation table, which ensures complete inventory control and traceability. Alternatively, the Serial no. table can be used, but it lacks comprehensive stock control.
Under the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), goods such as wood, cocoa, coffee and soya must be covered by a due diligence statement (DDS) filed in the EU information system, TRACES. Businesses further down the supply chain must receive and keep the statement's reference number, and pass it on when they sell the goods.
The order document - archive window stores the printed and approved order documents, for subsequent printing of copies.
This table is used when sending email to customers or suppliers that use different email addresses depending on document type.
Note is a field on both header and line in the XML document that includes text information to the receiver regarding the document or the specific line.
This table is used when receiving despatch advice messages from Visma.net AutoInvoice.
An order contains order lines with information about each item in the order.
Accounting cost is a string that may contain accounting information given by the customer to the suppliers so that the invoice can be processed and posted automatically when received.
This table functions as a link between order lines, pick lists, shipments and transactions. If you want full follow-up on serial numbers, you use this table to update shipments with serial numbers for stock increases and decreases.
The following processings are available from the Reservation table.
This table contains one row for each pick list printed for an order.
The following processings are available from the Pick list table.
The Serial no. table can be used to define multiple serial numbers for a sales order line, independent of shipments.
This table contains one row for each archived order document.
The document archive stores the printed and approved order documents, for subsequent printing of copies.
The following processings are available from the Order document table.
When printing an outgoing order document, the notes from Order note or Order line note are copied to Order document note or Order document line note.
You can add a tracking ID to the despatch advice document before sending, using the Outgoing tracking table.
This table contains one row for each line on an archived order document.
The following processings are available from the Order document line table.
When an invoice is printed, the Accounting cost value is copied to the Order document line addition table, from where it is written to the invoice XML.
This table contains one row for each form element on an archived order document.
This table contains one row for each delivery of the document.
When attachments are added to orders, they are stored in this table.
Attachments that haven’t been printed can be deleted directly in the Order attachment table.
The following processings are available from the Order attachment table.
When order documents are printed and approved, and document copies are used for this document type, rows for each attachment are created in this table.
The following processings are available from the Order document attachment table.
Sales orders, incoming order responses, incoming despatch advices and incoming product catalogues are downloaded from AutoInvoice to the Incoming document table for further processing.
The following processings are available from the Incoming document table.
For each document download, a new post with a unique external document ID is added to the Incoming document change table.
Attachments for the downloaded document, including the XML data and PDF data embedded in it, are added to the Incoming document attachment table as separate rows.
The following tables and processes are related to statistics.
