An accurate understanding of inventory and their location in the chain will ensure efficient production and distribution. It is also critical to have an understanding of inventory as many organizations use multi-channel execution. That is why they need to be able to manage multiple operations with inventory located in different locations at any given time.

The Inventory Visibility add-in for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management is now available for preview. This add-on helps manufacturers track multi-channel inventory online with precision. An add-on that was built for scalability can handle a large number of transactions every minute. Inventory Visibility will help reduce inventory and overstocking that occur when the entire inventory is not visible enough.

Feature highlights

Inventory Visibility for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management provides real-time global inventory visibility using external systems.

• All information related to inventory is exported using low-level integration with SQL Server in near real time. Inventory changes are tracked through the index and analytic modifier. Real-time queries generated in RESTful APIS provide a list of available positions. Also, legal entities can also participate in the request to obtain a global view of the state of stocks.

• The schema that groups data and executes smart queries is determined by the schema that is derived from the split. This improves the visibility of the inventory. By default, site and warehouse are section keys.

• Indexing is responsible for the flexibility of tuning queries by combination or change parameter.

The add-in is a highly scalable microservice based on Microsoft Dataverse. Microsoft Dataverse supports scalability and also provides improved data management by providing the ability to create Power Apps and use them in order to advance Power BI customizations.

Integration with third-party systems

Inventory Visibility is an add-on that is easily extensible and easily integrated with other systems.

• The add-in configuration is responsible for maintaining standards for publishing, organizing, and querying across different inventory change systems.

• Supply Chain Management is the default data source for the add-in. You can add new data sources to the inventory system configuration object to connect to third-party systems.

• If the data source publishes inventory changes, the add-in publishes a physical measure, which acts as a modifier list that summarizes the state of the inventory transaction. Updated physical measures can be configured for custom modifiers for inbound or outbound changes from the data source.

• For query display, a custom calculated measure allows you to customize calculated quantities

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