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  2. Logistics

    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.

  3. Orders

    Business NXT provides a variety of functionalities to ensure efficient handling of orders.

  4. Order reports

    Several reports are available for the Order table.

  • Logistics

    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.

    • Base data

      The tables in this section include base data that applies to products.

    • Products

      Product information in Business NXT is divided into a number of tables.

    • Warehouse

      This section deals with the various tables, layouts and processes that affect the warehouse.

    • Purchase estimates

      The purchase estimate process is described in the Order processes section.

    • Order processes
    • Orders

      Business NXT provides a variety of functionalities to ensure efficient handling of orders.

      • Order

        This table contains one row for each order.

      • Posting orders

        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.

      • Order processings

        The following processings are available from the Order table.

      • Document

        This table is populated when an incoming document is processed and an order number is found on it.

      • Document processings

        The following processings are available from the Document table.

      • Document link

        This table may contain one or more rows for each version of a document, with references to rows in other tables.

      • Order reports

        Several reports are available for the Order table.

      • Partial finishing of orders

        You can finish entire orders or part of orders.

      • Deleting orders

        Orders can remain in place for as long as you want before you finally delete them.

      • Credit note

        If you, for example, want to issue a credit, select Credit note in the Order options field in the order head.

      • Prepayment

        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.

      • Consignment costs

        The Company information table contains four fields in which you can enter freight components and one for customs.

      • Credit control

        Business NXT performs credit control based on the parameters you have set in the Credit control dialog in the Company information table.

      • Delivery planning

        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.

      • Special taxes

        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.

      • Special features for loan/hire

        This section describes some of the fields that are unique to loan/hire orders.

      • Converting a quotation order to an order/invoice

        This procedure describes how to convert a quotation order to an order/invoice when a customer has accepted the quotation.

      • Weight and dimensions

        Business NXT contains several fields for specifying and calculating weight and dimensions for products and units.

      • Serial numbers

        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.

      • EUDR due diligence statement reference number

        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.

      • Printing order documents

        The order document - archive window stores the printed and approved order documents, for subsequent printing of copies.

      • Order types and order documents
      • Document delivery e-mail

        This table is used when sending email to customers or suppliers that use different email addresses depending on document type.

      • Order note

        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.

      • Incoming tracking

        This table is used when receiving despatch advice messages from Visma.net AutoInvoice.

      • Order lines

        An order contains order lines with information about each item in the order.

      • Order line addition

        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.

      • Order line note

        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.

      • Reservation

        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.

      • Reservation processings

        The following processings are available from the Reservation table.

      • Pick list

        This table contains one row for each pick list printed for an order.

      • Pick list processings

        The following processings are available from the Pick list table.

      • Serial no.

        The Serial no. table can be used to define multiple serial numbers for a sales order line, independent of shipments.

      • Order document

        This table contains one row for each archived order document.

      • Order document archive

        The document archive stores the printed and approved order documents, for subsequent printing of copies.

      • Order document processings

        The following processings are available from the Order document table.

      • Order document note

        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.

      • Outgoing tracking

        You can add a tracking ID to the despatch advice document before sending, using the Outgoing tracking table.

      • Order document line

        This table contains one row for each line on an archived order document.

      • Order document line processings

        The following processings are available from the Order document line table.

      • Order document line addition

        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.

      • Order document line note

        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.

      • Order document formula

        This table contains one row for each form element on an archived order document.

      • Order document delivery log

        This table contains one row for each delivery of the document.

      • Import document basis

        These tables/functions aren't used in Business NXT.

      • Import basis

        These tables/functions aren't used in Business NXT.

      • Import line basis

        These tables/functions aren't used in Business NXT.

      • Order attachment

        When attachments are added to orders, they are stored in this table.

      • Deleting order attachments

        Attachments that haven’t been printed can be deleted directly in the Order attachment table.

      • Order attachment processings

        The following processings are available from the Order attachment table.

      • Order document attachment

        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.

      • Order document attachment processings

        The following processings are available from the Order document attachment table.

      • Incoming document

        Sales orders, incoming order responses, incoming despatch advices and incoming product catalogues are downloaded from AutoInvoice to the Incoming document table for further processing.

      • Incoming document processings

        The following processings are available from the Incoming document table.

      • Incoming document change

        For each document download, a new post with a unique external document ID is added to the Incoming document change table.

      • Incoming document attachment

        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.

      • EDI transaction log

        These tables/functions aren't used in Business NXT.

    • Statistics

      The following tables and processes are related to statistics.

Order reports

Several reports are available for the Order table.

You find details about the different reports in context in the different Order processes sections.

See also: Translation during order printout

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