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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
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Preface

An overview of the business scenario


A sales company needs to integrate its core ERP (Microsoft Dynamics NAV) with an external B2B website in order to have a complete web shop (e-commerce). The business requirements are as follows:

  • The items catalog must be read from NAV.

  • Every item has a BRAND dimension.

  • Customers' details and their shipment addresses must be read from NAV.

  • Only customers properly enabled on NAV should be exposed to the B2B website.

  • Customers in NAV have a dimension called CUSTOMER_TYPE. This dimension value will affect a behavior on the B2B website (they can see a different menu item, only prices, prices + discounts, and so on).

  • Items availability must be obtained in real-time from the NAV inventory.

  • Items sales prices must be obtained from NAV in real-time according to the ERP sales price logic.

  • When a user from the B2B website confirms a sales order, this must be transmitted to NAV for processing.

  • The B2B website is located on an external server (no LAN communication).

To satisfy...