A Review of
Navision Attain
By J. Carlton Collins, CPA

Attain’s Core Modules and Sub Modules:  

To help you understand how to evaluate an accounting software product's list of modules, please refer to these two documents:

Carlton's Guide to Accounting Software Modules
Carlton's Checklist of the 90 Most Popular Modules

 1.      General Ledger
        a.       Cash Management
        b.      Navision Analyst (financial reporting)
        c.       Bank Reconciliation
        d.      Consolidations
        e.       Budget/Estimate    
        f.        Allocations
2.      Accounts Payable
        a.       Purchase Order
3.      Accounts Receivable
4.      Sales Order
        a.       Sales Tax
5.      Payroll
6.      Inventory
7.      Job Cost
8.      System Manager

Attain’s Advanced Modules:

Warehouse 
Human Resources
Foreign Trade
Service Management
Bill of Materials
Resources
Fixed Assets
Basic Manufacturing
Supply Planning
Capacity Planning Management
CRM

Attain’s E-Commerce Modules:

            User Portal (Remote user access via the Internet)
            Commerce Gateway (Supply Chain solution)
            Commerce Portal (Web catalog)

Attain’s Development Tools Modules:

Tools – Designer/Development

Attain's Missing Modules

Attain has all eight of the core modules you would expect. It also contains great development tools, nice e-commerce modules, and a wide range of advanced modules. There really are no significant modules missing from this product. However, sophisticated users would be forced to rely on third party applications to fill the following module needs:

Bar Coding
Fund and Encumbrance Accounting
Point of Sale
Property Management
Time & Billing
Travel Expenses
Plant & Equipment Maintenance
Materials Requirements Planning
Product Configurator

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