Of course, we at NETRONIC have a passion for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and manufacturing. And although our core focus is rather narrow (scheduling), we always have been looking in a broader sense at manufacturing topics. An example that underlines is my podcast, the Business Central Manufacturing Show.
Oftentimes, when we speak to customers (and also to partners), we are confronted with requirements that are outside our scheduling core competency. Sometimes, we are asked for shopfloor solutions and time tracking. Another time, it is product configuration. And yet another time, it is that people request some warehouse functionality from us. Not seldomly, we are also asked for manufacturing solutions that are specific to one particular industry.
Hence, we grasped a general need for more transparency on the Business Central manufacturing apps and solutions landscape. We took that need seriously and launched the Business Central Manufacturing Exchange to address this need.
The Business Central Manufacturing Exchange is an event series that we run under our "next by NETRONIC" event brand. The idea of next by NETRONIC events was to run online events in which we just play a facilitating role. A facilitating role to run panel discussions, dive into Business Central-related topics, and avoid NETRONIC scheduling demos.
Hence, the "next by NETRONIC" event brand is ideal to run an event series in which actually other ISV solutions play the key role.
To some extent, we regard the Business Central Manufacturing Exchange as the "event frontend to Microsoft's AppSource". We want to provide manufacturing ISVs the opportunity to showcase their AppSource apps to a broader audience. We - by the way - will only allow presenters that have their apps in Microsoft AppSource.
With the Business Central Manufacturing Exchange, we want to make it easier for our customers and partners to find manufacturing apps that close requirement gaps ... just like our visual scheduling apps do.
So, for launching the Business Central Manufacturing Exchange, we first identified solution areas that we get asked for frequently. This is:
Honestly, we were overwhelmed by the resonance we got, and are happy that we could win six ISVs for the first round of the Business Central Manufacturing Exchange.
In alphabetical order, these are:
We ran a one-hour kickoff event this week. In this event, each ISV had a ten minutes speaking slot to briefly their solution(s) and create some appetite for the topical events that follow later this and next week. Here is what they showed to us:
Clever Dynamics
Insight Works
Naveksa
Printvis
Softera
To-Increase
Over the course of this week and the next, we will run three events to have a deeper dive into
If you want to join us short-term, you can register here.
We already can see us doing the same format (one kickoff, three topical events) later this year.
If you have a need for a manufacturing app, please let us know and we'll find some ISVs to present.
And if you have a manufacturing app and want to present it, please let us know as well.
See you in one of our events :-)