The business scenario

In this business scenario, a retail company manages many shop centers around the world. The retail company (here called RC) has Microsoft Dynamics NAV as the main ERP. The shop centers (SC1 .. SCn) are geographically distributed in different countries and have different local applications for collecting sales orders. Periodically during the day, the shop centers have to transmit the orders to the retail company for handling:

Transmitting orders to the retail company can be very time-consuming (a shop center might collect a large number of orders during the day) and this data transaction must be reliable (we don't want to miss orders).

The transmitted sales orders must be processed one-by-one by the central retail company. The retail company's ERP (Microsoft Dynamics NAV) must be able to receive all orders from the different shop centers and from different countries in a reliable way without impacting on the ERP performance.

How can we handle this scenario?

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