Inventory Visibility Add-in for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management

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Users by admins, makers, or analysts	Nov 30, 2020	Aug 9, 2021

Business value

This feature enables organizations to maintain a single, global inventory position and easily extend real-time inventory visibility through related applications. The Inventory Visibility Add-in for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management is an independent microservice that is highly scalable, empowering high-volume retailers and manufacturers to manage millions of inventory updates every minute and gain real-time visibility to cross-channel inventory position.

Feature details

Inventory Visibility lets organizations manage global, on-hand inventory with minimal setup. This highly scalable microservice can handle simultaneous requests from a variety of endpoints. The feature comes with an easy-to-use RESTful API that enables painless integration with ancillary systems.

The RESTful API supports queries based on standardized inventory dimensions, combined with configurable, calculated quantities. External systems can query Inventory Visibility to retrieve a list of available inventory quantities based on these dimensions.

Inventory Visibility is built on Microsoft Dataverse, which provides extensibility using Power Apps applications and Power BI analytics. These straightforward tools, together with Inventory Visibility, empower organizations to deliver advanced, customized functionality to meet specific business needs.

See also

Inventory Visibility Add-in (docs)