Business Needs
Canari Cyclewear manufactures top-of-the-line cycling gear that is resold by independent bike shops and large sporting-goods retailers around the world. The company also sells custom gear to professional and semi-professional cycling teams. From 2005 to 2008, the company saw sustained double-digit growth in sales, which put pressure on the company to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of its inventory management and reporting systems.

“We were using a DOS-based system and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to keep track of orders and roughly $5 million worth of inventory and to try and forecast demand,” explains Chris Robinson, Chief Operating Officer at Canari Cyclewear. “This method required us to manually collect and enter data. Overall, the process was tedious and prone to error, especially because some part numbers exceeded 50 characters.”

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Provides Manufacturers with Integrated, End-to-End Automation for EDI Transactions

WESTBOROUGH, Mass., – April 23, 2010 – RedTail Solutions, Inc., which delivers managed services for electronic data interchange (EDI) and global data synchronization (GDS) to manufacturers and distributors, today released RedTail EDI managed services for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, a popular enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for mid-sized organizations from Microsoft Corporation.

RedTail EDI handles all order-to-cash transactions between suppliers and their trading partners. Complex EDI transactions are seamlessly processed, including sales and purchase orders, advanced ship notices (ASNs) and invoices. RedTail EDI is ideal for mid-sized companies selling to large trading partners like Wal-Mart and The Home Depot, particularly because they need to process large volumes of EDI transactions with the highest levels of automation and integration. RedTail, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for ISV/Software Solutions, also offers RedTail EDI integrated with the most current version of Microsoft Dynamics GP.

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In its recent Statement of Direction (SOD) document for Microsoft Dynamics NAV, the company lays out its plans for the product over the next few years.  Their strategy involves focusing on creating relevant core business functionality and by further developing the application to support current and emerging regulatory requirements. As Microsoft continues to add new functionality to Dynamics NAV, they will focus on five basic values:

• Simplicity
• Productivity
• Continuously take advantage of Microsoft Technology
• User Experience Leadership
• Rapid Time-to-Value

Microsoft continues to invest over $1 billion dollars annually in R&D to further advance Dynamics NAV and the entire family of Microsoft products.  This illustrates Microsoft’s commitment to its products and technologies.  Companies considering technology investments, should consider this factor when allocating capital resources and protection of investment. Read the rest of this entry »

OfficeOps is pleased to welcome Eric Boes as Vice President of Operations.

Eric has over 20 years of technology experience and has held various positions including work as an IT Director at a leading footwear and apparel brand, as well as a Senior Navision Analyst for one of the first Navision Solution Centers established in the US.

Eric has extensive experience with Navision/Microsoft Dynamics NAV, having spent over 10 years working as a developer, project manager and analyst. He has a wide breadth of experience implementing custom software solutions for businesses in the Action Sports industry, Distributors, Manufacturers, and Service Firms. In addition to working with Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Eric has lead a variety of other software projects including several web and e-commerce applications and multiple business intelligence/enterprise reporting projects.

“As OfficeOps continues to grow, it is important that our existing clients as well as new prospects continue to receive world-class service,” said Cris Searle, Vice President of Professional Services. “Eric’s abilities and expertise are essential to realizing this goal.”

REDMOND, Wash. – April 30, 2007 – Nixon Inc., a fast-growing maker of premium accessories based in the fashion and action-sports industry, has chosen Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV to manage the rapid growth, diverse product lines and other distinct challenges of its nontraditional wholesale distribution.

The Encinitas, Calif., company replaced its old enterprise resource planning (ERP) software with Microsoft Corp.’s premier ERP software when it could no longer handle the manufacturing and distribution challenges that came with the company’s 40 percent annual growth in revenues. Nixon selected Microsoft Dynamics NAV to help the company stay on top in an industry where fashions quickly emerge – and just as quickly disappear if companies can’t nurture nascent trends among style-conscious surfers, skateboarders and snowboarders.

OfficeOps LLC, a Microsoft Certified Partner, developed Microsoft Dynamics NAV add-ons that will address Nixon’s production, inventory and distribution needs. “Microsoft Dynamics NAV is a perfect fit for rapidly growing action-sports companies; the wealth of features, the ease of configuration and the speed of implementation allow us to provide our customers benefits very quickly,” said Jack Gentle, president of OfficeOps.

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From its origins in the 1980s, Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV, formerly Microsoft® Business Solutions-Navision® has grown from a relatively simple financial management system into a full-featured business management solution on which more than 50,000 small to midsize companies in more than 150 countries depend. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 builds on years of incremental growth and technology innovation to deliver a superior business management solution that gives you the freedom to focus on your business-not on maintaining your business management software.

In the following pages, we’ll show you how Microsoft Dynamics NAV has evolved over the past few years. Along the way, you’ll see how upgrading can provide powerful new functionality to help your business grow, including improved integration with the Microsoft Office system and other Microsoft products, easier customizations, and numerous productivity enhancements. Our new Business Ready Enhancement Plan makes it easier and more cost-effective to keep your business management solution up to date and your people empowered to drive business success. From our earliest version to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0, we just keep getting better and better-so your business can stay competitive.

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Microsoft® Business Solutions-Navision® is now part of Microsoft Dynamics™, and with the introduction of version 5.0 will be known as Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

What is Microsoft Dynamics? What is Microsoft Dynamics NAV?

Microsoft Dynamics is a line of integrated, adaptable business management solutions that automate and streamline financial, customer relationship, and supply chain processes in a way that helps you drive business success. More specifically, Microsoft Dynamics NAV is a product within this line that offers growing small and midsize businesses a powerful, yet cost-effective solution that can be tailored for your company. It can support customization and add-in software to meet industry or other specific needs. In addition, it can adapt as a growing business needs more power and functionality.

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