Visual Scheduling Blog

Do you work in construction? Today we are happy to announce that we are collaborating with ProjectPro from the USA to introduce a version of our signature extension the Visual Jobs Scheduler, now connecting with construction software ProjectPro for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

This joint product is meant to provide jobs and resources users of Dynamics 365 Business Central with better business control and streamlined accounting for construction firms.

The product, named Visual Jobs Scheduler (VJS) for ProjectPro, will be sold through ProjectPro, a Netsmartz company. This construction focused first version of the VJS for ProjectPro is available since April 2021.

The Visual Production Scheduler (VPS) is an interactive graphic planning board for Microsoft Dynamics NAV, visualizing production orders, production order (routing) lines, and operations in connection with the capacity utilization of work and machine centers. Operations can easily be moved by drag & drop, thus not only providing new transparency of the Dynamics NAV data but also enhancing the Microsoft Dynamics NAV production scheduling capabilities.

Fair enough: we are pretty focused on developing and enhancing our visual scheduling extensions for Dynamics 365 Business Central. Nevertheless, we also continue to maintain and develop our visual scheduling add-ins for Dynamics NAV ... supporting the large "Navision" customer base. 

Hence we are proud to announce a comprehensive release of a new version of the VPS. It comes with a truly wide range of new and powerful features the Visual Production Scheduler for Dynamics NAV has been equipped with.

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.

As we noted earlier this year, the pace of our developments has not slowed down despite the COVID19 pandemic. On the contrary, our entire team at NETRONIC has now learned to work even more efficiently through the intensive use of tools such as Microsoft Teams or Azure DevOps, for example, and through their close networking with each other, thus further increasing productivity. So, it is not surprising that we can now already publish another new major release of the Visual Scheduling Widget (VSW). Let yourself be excited by the innovations.

Keeping in sync with our goals of releasing a new version of our extensions every quarter, the new Visual Jobs Scheduler (VJS) for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central was recently approved by Microsoft and is now available for trial and download at the AppSource. So, why should you get the new version?

In this blog, I will briefly describe the new additional great features to seek for.

Fresh out the oven! We just released version 1.11 of Visual Production Scheduler (VPS) on Business Central. This new version is available on-prem and can also be downloaded from AppSource for cloud customers. The new version brings a lot of new functionalities to the visual drag & drop production scheduler for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Just in time before the summer break we can present you with version 1.6 of our Visual Advanced Production Scheduler (VAPS), the only available finite capacity scheduler that fully integrates with the manufacturing module of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. This version has already been approved by Microsoft and can be downloaded from AppSource as of now.

I hope you will enjoy reading about the new features and after that - who knows - play around with them directly ;-).

Our experience with hundreds of production scheduling customers from the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and Dynamics NAV market has proven very impressively that starting using an ERP system for production planning in most cases is perceived as difficult.

A lot of the ERP "beginners" come from having used the most diverse planning systems with the most diverse level of technological development, such as corkboards with tacks, whiteboards, and the famous homegrown Excel spreadsheet, to mention just a few.

To us, it seems that many people face significant difficulties in knowing where to start because ERP systems can be really overwhelming. So with this blog, we want to offer some assistance by sharing the insights we gained from our experience with our partners and customers and show what can be done to make you ready to jumpstart production scheduling in Business Central.