Visual Scheduling Blog

Whether project management, production planning or simply coordinating employees for service calls - for scheduling a graphical planning board is the ideal tool to work with. For Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central we offer ready-made graphical planning boards for both production scheduling and project/resource planning which fully integrate into the ERP system. If these extensions (or Add-ins for previous NAV versions) are not enough for your scheduling processes, you can use our Visual Scheduling Add-in Developer Toolbox (VSADT) to develop your own planning board, without any knowledge of HTML5, but only with the help of AL (or with C/AL, if you are still using NAV). We have now extended our "toolbox" with some important visualization functions, which I would like to present to you now.

Is Excel a suitable add-on tool to support the production scheduling in a company? Many manufacturing companies using the EPR System Microsoft Dynamic 365 Business Central including the Manufacturing module will answer this question with a clear yes. They work with it and have come to terms with its minor and major shortcomings. But is Excel really a suitable tool for reliable and optimal production scheduling ? What are the dangers of using Excel to manage your production in Microsoft Dynamics 365 BC? That's what this blog post is all about.

Looking for ideas on how to intelligently design graphical planning boards? In my blog series about our Visual Scheduling Add-In Developer Toolbox I not only describe the development background of this product, but also how we use it for our own planning boards for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. In this article you can have a look at functions that we use on a planning board for production scheduling. 

When you have read the previous 4 blog posts you know that the Visual Scheduling Add-In Developer Toolbox is a unique tool that supports AL developers in creating planning boards in HTML5/JavaScript. Since we "eat our own dog food", we also use the toolbox for our own Visual Scheduling Suite. So I interviewed Frank Köhnen, the product developer of our Visual Jobs Scheduler, and asked him how he uses the toolbox. He shares his experiences here and gives some nice visualization tips.

We recently launched a new product. How did the new product come about? What is the idea behind it? I'm looking into this question in my blog series, for which I have interviewed different colleagues involved in product design, development and overall strategy. For this blog post, I talked to Martin, CEO and Co-Owner about the first steps towards the Visual Scheduling Add-in Developer Toolbox.

Today, I'd like to give you more insight about the story behind the Visual Scheduling Add-In Developer Toolbox that we developed for ISV partners with scheduling solution extensions for Microsoft Dynamic 365 Business Central. I'm pretty sure that if you grasp the ideas that drove us to create this product you will also see how much value it will bring to your company and your solution and also what you can realize with it. So I started interviewing our experts and my today's interview - the third in line - I made with our CTO, Sascha Hermann who is responsible for our Visual Scheduling Suite and I asked him how our company itself uses the toolbox. 

This is the second part of my series about the story behind our Visual Scheduling Add-In Developer Toolbox. In the first part, I interviewed our CEO and asked him how NETRONIC got the idea to develop a toolbox with which AL developers can build their HTML5/JavaScript planning boards without having to know HTML5/JavaScript. This time I asked Dieter Temme, Team Lead HTML5 Development, how the toolbox is built and why it is unique.

Sharing the ideas behind a product, such as the company's background, why the product was developed, which way it took to enter the market, and much more, provides a very good understanding of its value - sometimes much better than just a functional description.

So I started a series of blog posts to reveal our Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central audience how the product with the strange name - Visual Scheduling Add-In Developer Toolbox - saw the light of day. I interviewed several persons primarily responsible for the product to get an insight from different perspectives. My first interview was with our CEO Martin Karlowitsch