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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.
Products
Product information in Business NXT is divided into a number of tables.
Price calculation
Price calculation is performed during order entry, generating price lists and printing product catalogues. Business NXT will always suggest the most favourable price and/or discount for the customer/supplier.
Price refund processings
The following processings are available for the Price refund 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.
  - Product
    The Product table contains one row for each goods or service.
  - Product processings
    The following processings are available from the Product table:
  - Product reports
    The following report is available for the Product table:
  - Delivery alternative
    This table is used when creating purchase estimates, purchase orders and generating orders.
  - Barcode
    This table contains one row for each barcode, including product number, unit and other fields.
  - Unit
    This table contains one row for each unit. You can enter descriptions of the various units in which you buy and sell products.
  - Product category
    This table contains one row for each product category and can be used to group products hierarchically.
  - Product description
    In the Product description table you can enter an alternative product description per language.
  - Alternative product
    In the Alternative product table, you enter which alternative products can replace a product if the original product is currently sold out or you have too few in stock.
  - Product customer
    This table is used to save the customer's own product number which will be suggested in the Trans. information 2 field on the Order line if you have selected Suggest customer product no. in the Order processing 2 field in the Company information table.
  - Structure
    The Structure table defines which sub products each structure product consists of.
  - Structure processings
    The following processing is available for the Structure table.
  - Search product
    When you search in the Product no. field, the search is made in both number and description fields.
  - Price calculation
    Price calculation is performed during order entry, generating price lists and printing product catalogues. Business NXT will always suggest the most favourable price and/or discount for the customer/supplier.
    - Price- and discount matrix
      This table is used to define prices and line discounts/additions, based on different criteria.
    - Price- and discount matrix processings
      The following processing is available for the Price- and discount matrix.
    - Price refund
      This table is used to log reductions in purchase prices, for suppliers with a price refund agreement.
    - Price refund statuses
      When you get feedback from suppliers, you can run different processings in the Price refund table to update the refund status.
    - Price refund processings
      The following processings are available for the Price refund table:
    - Price factor
      The price factor can be used to calculate line amounts on order lines by multiplying it with the Price and Quantity fields.
  - Processing method
    The Processing method menu item in the Processing menu in the Product table has a large number of options that you can use to control how Business NXT processes each product or underlying structure products.
  - VAT- and accounting information
    You divide the products into groups using the VAT and accounting group field in the Product table, while in the Associate table you can refer customers/suppliers to Account set cust./ Account set sup..
  - Import of product data
    Product data can be imported to Business NXT from Visma AutoInvoice as a product catalogue XML file.
- 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.
- Statistics
  The following tables and processes are related to statistics.

Price refund processings

The following processings are available for the Price refund table:

Credit received

You run this processing when a refund has been received from the supplier. The selected rows must have the value 2 - Confirmed set in the Refund status field to be processed.

Starting the processing

Select the Price refund rows you want to process.
In the Processing menu, select Credit received.

The Refund status field is now changed to 4 - Credit received.

Price refund confirmed

You run this processing when a requested refund has been confirmed by the supplier. When running the processing, the selected rows cannot already have the value 2 - Confirmed set in the Refund status field.

Starting the processing

Select the Price refund rows you want to process.
In the Processing menu, select Price refund confirmed.

The Refund status field is now set to 2 - Confirmed.

The field Price protection proc in the Company information table is suggested in price refund lines in connection with logging price reductions or when you add new rows yourself, and determines which actions are to be performed when saving price refund lines for which the refund status has been changed to 2 (Confirmed).

Price refund refused

You run this processing when a requested refund has been refused by the supplier. When running the processing, the selected rows cannot already have the value 3 - Refused set in the Refund status field.

Starting the processing

Select the Price refund rows you want to process.
In the Processing menu, select Price refund refused.

The Refund status field is now set to 3 - Refused.