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About Olof Simren

I am a Microsoft Dynamics NAV and 365 Business Central Expert, I started implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV in 2002, back then it was called Navision Attain. Throughout the years there has been many exciting implementations in different parts of the world, all of them with different challenges but with one common theme; manufacturing. As a consultant, I bring over 20 years of experience in implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV and 365 Business Central within manufacturing and distribution companies. The services I offer includes project management, consultation, development and training. Feel free to contact me if you need help with anything related to Microsoft Dynamics NAV or 365 Business Central. I work through my company Naviona where I team up with other skilled Microsoft Dynamics NAV and 365 Business Central Experts.

Business Central Configuration Audit using Vibe Coding

Feb 13, 2026

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...

Copilot in Planning Parameter Worksheet

Oct 31, 2025

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...

Copilot in Planning Worksheet

Oct 16, 2025

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...

Copilot Inventory Queries

Oct 8, 2025

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...

Record Deletion Tool for Business Central in AppSource

Aug 19, 2025

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...

Reopen Finished Production Orders

Jul 29, 2025

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...

XML Buffer and CSV Buffer Tables

Mar 27, 2017

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...

Functionality Improvements in NAV 2017

Nov 6, 2016

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...

Reversing Production Output and Consumption

Oct 27, 2016

Production orders in Dynamics NAV allows you to consume both less and more than what’s defined on the components and to output both less and more than what’s defined on the operations in the routing. There is no check when you post, which is nice (sometime I which it was like that on sales and purchase orders as well, but that’s a topic for another post). But when you post more than you wanted you need to be able to reverse it. Luckily reversing production output and consumption is easy if you know how to do it (if the production...

Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA)

Aug 30, 2016

This blog post is about the return merchandise (or material) authorization process in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, this is another topic that is more or less always discussed during Dynamics NAV implementations. The typical scenario is that a customer calls and wants to return a product that they have purchased to get a refund, replacement product or to get it repaired. For this they need an authorization, an RMA. So, how is this done in Dynamics NAV? The short answer is by using a sales return order, which is similar to a sales order but it goes the ‘other way’ and...

Olof Simren - Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Blog

About Olof Simren

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

Reversing Production Output and Consumption

Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA)

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