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Dual Write - How Pricing and Inventory On-Hand works in CE?

In the recent updates of Dual Write, Microsoft released a pricing and inventory on hand integration in CE. Real time pricing calculation and inventory on hand as per FinOps business logic. In this post, I wanted to cover how it seems to magically work.

As you know by now, Dual Write uses a push architecture. Where either FinOps pushes to CE or CE pushes to FinOps. Both call a web service on the other side to sync data. Any errors that occur are presented to the user in real time. However, the pricing and inventory on-hand feature is different. These two features pull limited calculated data as needed. Watch the "Prospect to cash in dual write" tech talk from Microsoft and you will see why. 

You wouldn't want to integrate (replicate) inventory levels or pricing logic in CE. The reason this is done this way is because integrating this kind of data would cause performance problems or a lot of chattiness. So, what Microsoft has done is a pull the data as needed (pull architecture). 

In the below screenshot, you can see there are two new buttons on the Quote or Order form. 

1. On-hand inventory - Shows real time inventory on hand information in a pop up form.

2. Price Quote/Order - Recalculates the price on the quote or order on the lines

The Inventory On-hand form shows calculated data from FinOps.