Inventory Visibility Add-in for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management (preview)
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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|
| Users by admins, makers, or analysts | 
Nov 30, 2020 |
Dec 31, 2020 |
Business value
The Inventory Visibility Add-in for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management (preview) enables real-time global inventory visibility with external systems. The solution empowers companies to maintain a single, global view of on-hand inventory information and access it in real time from their ancillary systems and applications. Built for scalability, Inventory Visibility can handle large numbers of transactions across multiple channels. Inventory Visibility is highly scalable and easily extensible to integrate with your third-party and ancillary systems.
Feature details
The Inventory Visibility Add-in for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management (preview) is a standalone microservice that lets companies track global, on-hand inventory balances with minimal setup. This microservice is highly scalable and can handle the needs of high-volume retail and distribution operations. Inventory Visibility comes with an easy-to-use RESTful API that enables developers to integrate your ancillary systems.
The Inventory Visibility RESTful API supports queries that can access your on-hand inventory records in near real time. External systems can use on-hand inventory queries to retrieve inventory balances based on dimension sets, which lets you retrieve lists of available on-hand positions.
This highly scalable microservice is built on Microsoft Dataverse, which means that your developers can build Power Apps applications and Power BI analytics that deliver advanced, customized functionality that meets your specific business needs.
Inventory Visibility provides simple configuration options to integrate with multiple third-party systems. It uses the standardized inventory dimension combined with customized extensibility and standardized, configurable calculated quantities.
See also
Inventory Visibility Add-in (docs)