EPCIS solutions for NAV?

Miklos_Hollender

We are thinking about implementing serial number tracking on the whole chain from our manufacturers to the customers to aftersales. But this is not something you do inside Navision, primarily because it is not about we ourselves scanning bar codes, but about our various partners uploading these data to our servers: manufacturer, external warehouse, service center. We ourselves have no such operations so the partners can scan bar codes or RFID tags however they want to and what we would need to there is interfacing from their systems.

For exampel in the SAP world they are not using the SAP ERP as such for this, but a product called SAP Object Event Repository. An object is a package with a serial number, an event is that it went in this warehouse or went out or came back for repair. I reserached it further and found that there is a GS1 standard for exchanging this information and it is called EPCIS:

"In computer science, Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS) is a global GS1 Standard for creating and sharing visibility event data, both within and across enterprises, to enable users to gain a shared view of physical or digital objects within a relevant business context.[1] "Objects" in the context of EPCIS typically refers to physical objects that are handled in physical steps of an overall business process involving one or more organizations. Examples of such physical objects include trade items (products), logistic units, returnable assets, fixed assets, physical documents, etc. “Objects” may also refer to digital objects which participate in comparable business process steps."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPCIS

Is there such a thing for Navision? A good EPCIS implementation?

For the data interchange, BizTalk could be used, as it is EPCIS 1.0 certified, albeit I cannot find the Commerce Gateway in later versions of Navision.

But the repository? Storing the data?

Any partner who have heard about this?