Nav Model Infomatrics

NAV DYNAMICS-DEPARTMENTS & ROLES

NAV model is represented in two views:

1. People and departments view

• It shows eighteentypical departmental organizational charts for different types and sizes of business. It shows how fifty eight roles are organized in Five Major departments: Operations , sales & marketing, HR, Finance and IT

2. Departments and work view

• It shows 32 process groups (such as pay collect, treasury management) which contain over 150 processes (such as pay for product or service, collect for product or service and so on.)

These models can be put forward to the potential users and they can be asked if they need to any more category of any kind of role they play or departmental function or process which is missing, this customization feature helps people to relate with the software more.

Roles:

Role is a duty or responsibility that a person plays in an organization. NAV focuses on making this conceptual definition of role to make a real experience for NAV user.

In NAV all roles are actually linked to the person who actually performs them; and take care of security measures that designated person will only be able to access the data and information which is relevant to his/her role, thus securing and allowing access is major concern.

Figure 1-People according to their profiles(roles) allowed accessing the data

In programing world role is called a profile. NAV-2009 has twenty-one pre-configured profiles. And we mentioned earlier people are allowed accessing data in accord to their profile only. This integration of all needed information in one place is what really make NAV or any other ERP software useful to reduce workload and help the person to perform his/her task more smoothly and efficiently.

Role of President in Cronus

Now Using NAV as an example here we are going to discuss what role does the president play in an organization and how does NAV help him/her in performing them.

Typically president of an Organization keeps the business viable by determining product and company directions. Some of the roles that a president expected to play in an organization are:

 Checking and verifying Account Schedules

o Determining the Capital structure of the firm

o Monitoring Balance sheet of the firm, Revenues and profit and losses.

 Managing Liquidity of the firm and calculating the different Ratios

 Allocating Budgets: Sales Budget, Marketing Budgets

 Analyzing Benefits