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ERP JumpStart: A Better Way to Get Started with Business Central

The Problem: Large ERP Methodology for Smaller Companies I’ve been implementing Business Central (earlier Microsoft Dynamics NAV) for larger and more complex manufacturing companies for the last 20+ years. It has almost exclusively been implementation where custom tailored processes where combined with industry best practices. Each project typically follows an established path taking the customer through Discovery, Analysis, Design, Development, Deployment and ending with post go-live Support. This method works well for larger companies but has proven hard to apply to smaller companies. From time to time I run into someone with a small company that wants to transition to […]

By Olof Simren June 26, 2026 Finance, General, Miscellaneous No Comments

Quality Management in Business Central Version 28

I’ve been implementing Business Central (and Dynamics NAV before that) for manufacturing companies for over two decades now. And in almost every single implementation, at some point during the requirements workshops, someone from quality or operations asks: “Can the system handle quality inspections?” The answer used to be: “Not really, not out of the box. We’ll need an add-on for that.” Well, that changes with Business Central version 28. Microsoft has added native quality management functionality, and from what I can see in the early access preview, it’s not just a checkbox feature—it actually looks great 🙂 , it is […]

By Olof Simren April 8, 2026 Inventory, Manufacturing, Miscellaneous, Purchase No Comments

Business Central Configuration Audit using Vibe Coding

You can install this extension for Free from the AppSource here: Naviona Configuration Audit And here is my story behind this extension: 20+ years ago I was working at Tectura in Copenhagen, it was a fairly big office with something like 120 employees. About one third were Navision consultants, one third were Axapta consultants and one third was a mix of infrastructure, BI, etc. In the Axapta department there was a person named Alan. Alan was a very positive and likable person, his ‘claim to fame’ was that he had created some kind of report that could be run against […]

By Olof Simren February 13, 2026 Development, General 3 Comments

Copilot in Planning Parameter Worksheet

The development of the Copilot Inventory Queries extension that I described in my previous blog posts has inspired me to apply the same concept of using Copilot (or actually Azure OpenAI) to enhance the other extensions that we use. This blog post is an example of an application that hopefully can inspire others to apply AI to their Business Central extensions. In this case we have an extension called Planning Parameter Worksheet that allows Business Central users to set up rules and have the system suggest the planning parameters to use for each Item or Stockkeeping Unit. This is a […]

By Olof Simren October 31, 2025 Development, Inventory No Comments

Copilot in Planning Worksheet

This is a continuation of my last post where I described the Copilot Inventory Queries extension that I developed (available for free in AppSource). I have now taken that concept and applied it to the Planning Worksheet in Business Central. With this you get a Copilot user interface that can help explain the suggestions created by the material planning (MRP). I created this in a way that the AI model includes all the suggestions for the same item number, location and variant code for each query. So, if the plan makes multiple suggestions for the same item, you have the […]

By Olof Simren October 16, 2025 Development, Manufacturing 3 Comments

Copilot Inventory Queries

As we all know, Microsoft is adding Copilot features to everything these days. Every new version of Business Central has more Copilot than the last version and soon there is not a single place in the application that does not have a Copilot feature. This is great and most people are excited about it. The Copilot features and the underlying AI capabilities are what get people talking when we present Business Central to customers. Most of what I work with are manufacturing companies and almost all of them have their own AI initiatives, sometimes those are just around being creative […]

By Olof Simren October 8, 2025 Development, Inventory, Miscellaneous 2 Comments

Record Deletion Tool for Business Central in AppSource

10+ years ago I created a Record Deletion tool for Dynamics NAV that I published here on my blog. It was a tool that could be used to clean up test transactions in a company in Dynamics NAV, and it quickly became very popular. People have reach out to about getting this tool available for Business Central (I also think some have done the work of converting this tool into a BC extension themselves). So here we go; it is now available via AppSource and can be accessed for FREE here: Record Deletion Tool for Business Central The functionality is […]

By Olof Simren August 19, 2025 General, Miscellaneous 3 Comments

Reopen Finished Production Orders

Hello! I am still around and working with Business Central. I know it’s been more than 8 years since my last blog post, but better late than never. 🙂 I went to Directions North America in April this year and met people that are still using and reading my blog, which was great to hear. I also learned that it is now possible to Reopen Finished Production Orders in Business Central, something that people have been waiting on for years (I have wanted this feature for 25 years now, finally!!). This made me so happy I decided to write this […]

By Olof Simren July 29, 2025 Manufacturing 15 Comments

XML Buffer and CSV Buffer Tables

Most of us that’s been programming in Dynamics NAV for a while are aware of the Excel Buffer table. It is a super useful table that can be used to create and read Excel files from C/AL code. This table have been around as far as I remember, and now it has some siblings, the XML Buffer and CSV Buffer tables. The concept is the same, a table with functions to create or read files, this time XML/CSV files instead of Excel files. Just like with the Excel Buffer table, the XML buffer and CSV buffer table should be used […]

By Olof Simren March 27, 2017 Development, Miscellaneous 17 Comments

Functionality Improvements in NAV 2017

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017 was released last week. I have installed it and poked around in the new functionality a bit and there are some awesome improvements and new features. 🙂 Through this blog post I share some of my thoughts on some of the new functionality. The look and feel when first launching the windows client is more or less the same as with version 2016, and I was happy that it could co-exists with all my older installations of NAV (always interesting when installing a new version). Below are some of the new functionality that I have looked […]

By Olof Simren November 6, 2016 Development, Finance, General, Inventory, Miscellaneous, Purchase, Sales 36 Comments

Olof Simren - Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Blog

ERP JumpStart: A Better Way to Get Started with Business Central

Quality Management in Business Central Version 28

Business Central Configuration Audit using Vibe Coding

Copilot in Planning Parameter Worksheet

Copilot in Planning Worksheet

Copilot Inventory Queries

Record Deletion Tool for Business Central in AppSource

Reopen Finished Production Orders

XML Buffer and CSV Buffer Tables

Functionality Improvements in NAV 2017

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