This white paper describes the general principles of agile manufacturing and how these principles relate to manufacturing functionality within Microsoft® Business Solutions–Navision®. The first section describes in general terms the challenges that manufacturers are currently facing. The second section goes into more detail regarding the challenges arising from a changing marketplace and explains how agile manufacturing can help companies manage and master that change. The third section discusses the software needed to support agile manufacturing and, in particular, how Microsoft Navision for Manufacturing meets the needs of today’s manufacturers.