Commerce Gateway

Microsoft Dynamics–Navision ® Commerce Gateway lets you easily take advantage of new opportunities for business-to-business collaboration.

Key Benefits:

Participate cost-effectively as a supply chain partner.
Accommodate the changing requirements of any partner quickly.
Use Microsoft ® BizTalk ® Server to orchestrate business processes smoothly, both within and between business organizations.

Microsoft Dynamics-Navision Commerce Gateway is a business-to-business (B2B) solution that opens up your Microsoft Navision solution to electronic exchange of trading documents with other systems.

Make Changes Fast

Commerce Gateway doesn’t slow down your whole business every time you need to adapt your program. You can easily add new documents or add new information to existing ones. For example, you might want to exchange sales and purchase quote documents in addition to the existing exchange of sales and purchase orders. You can also add to existing documents if you decide to exchange new types of information. For example, you may want to include location information that you hadn’t exchanged before.

Accommodate Changing Partner Requirements

Commerce Gateway makes it possible to expand your market. It makes it easier both to find new trading partners and to meet the changing needs of existing partners. It enables you to exchange information faster electronically.

You have great flexibility in meeting the demands of your partners; regardless of the industry they’re in, the program they use, or the standards they require. You can map data between different formats like XML, EDIFACT, and flat files, using an XML standard, which has the support of the industry. This is handled by Microsoft BizTalk Server, which also maps the information between the documents you have specified in your partner setup. The mapping of information between two documents is handled in a graphical user interface, which makes it very easy to create new document maps or change existing ones.

Orchestrate Business Processes Smoothly

Today’s business model requires the ability to work proactively with customers and vendors. It is critical that you share information (such as stock availability) both externally and internally. Commerce Gateway offers a quick, easy, and efficient way to automate business processes. You can reassign staff to more strategic assignments because you do not need to re-enter sales order information into Microsoft Navision.

Commerce Gateway and Microsoft BizTalk Server handle all aspects of communication between e-business partners securely and reliably. You can improve interdepartmental operations by automating the transfer of information. In this case, the program wouldn’t need to conform to any particular EDI standard but could be tailored to the company’s specific organizational needs.