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Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

By : Stefano Demiliani
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Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

By: Stefano Demiliani

Overview of this book

Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV in the real world often requires you to integrate the ERP with external applications or solve complex architectural tasks in order to have a final successful project. This book will show you how to extend a Microsoft Dynamics NAV installation to the enterprise world in a practical way. The book starts with an introduction to Microsoft Dynamics NAV architecture and then moves on to advanced topics related to implementing real-world solutions based on NAV and external applications. You will learn how an enterprise distributed architecture with NAV at the core can be implemented. Through a series of real-world cases on every topic and every industry (sales, retail, manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, and so on), you’ll see step by step how to efficiently solve a technical problem. These common problems encountered in a NAV implementation will be solved using the entire technology stack that Microsoft offers. By the end of the book, you will have the knowledge to efficiently solve certain scenarios, you will know which is the best solution architecture to propose to a customer and how to implement it.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Credits
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Preface

The business scenario


In this business scenario, a retail company manages many shop centers around the world. The retail company (here called RC) has Microsoft Dynamics NAV as the main ERP. The shop centers (SC1 .. SCn) are geographically distributed in different countries and have different local applications for collecting sales orders. Periodically during the day, the shop centers have to transmit the orders to the retail company for handling:

Transmitting orders to the retail company can be very time-consuming (a shop center might collect a large number of orders during the day) and this data transaction must be reliable (we don't want to miss orders).

The transmitted sales orders must be processed one-by-one by the central retail company. The retail company's ERP (Microsoft Dynamics NAV) must be able to receive all orders from the different shop centers and from different countries in a reliable way without impacting on the ERP performance.

How can we handle this scenario?

We have some...