Selected Project Portfolio

Selected ERP, integration, data and solution-architecture projects.

This portfolio focuses on the type of challenges, architecture and delivery responsibility involved in selected projects. Customer names and commercially sensitive information have intentionally been omitted.

For professional experience, employment history, education and certifications, see my full CV.

Multi-Company ERP Implementation Across Three Countries

Solution Architect / ERP Consultant

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central · TRIMIT · Five companies · Three countries

Implementation of a new common ERP platform for five legal entities operating across three countries.

The project combined a shared Business Central and TRIMIT architecture with country-specific financial, banking and operational requirements. A significant part of the implementation involved coordinating the ERP platform with several external business-critical systems.

Responsibilities

  • Overall solution architecture
  • Multi-company ERP design
  • Cross-country process harmonization
  • Business-process analysis
  • Business Central and TRIMIT configuration
  • Integration architecture
  • Financial and banking process design
  • Data-flow design
  • Testing and validation
  • Go-live preparation
  • Post-go-live optimization

Integration Landscape

The solution included integrations and process coordination involving:

  • Continia
  • Finexa
  • Nordea
  • Traede
  • Business Central APIs
  • External financial and operational systems

Architecture Focus

  • Shared processes across multiple legal entities
  • Country-specific financial requirements
  • Master-data governance
  • Banking and payment processes
  • Sales and purchasing flows
  • External order processing
  • Data synchronization
  • Integration monitoring and exception handling
  • Scalability for future companies and integrations

Project-Driven ERP & External Platform Integration

Solution Architect

Business Central · TRIMIT · APIs · B2B · 3PL

Design of an ERP architecture where an external industry platform acts as the commercial front end while Business Central and TRIMIT provide the ERP, financial, procurement and logistics backbone.

The solution supports project-driven sales where individual areas and work packages remain traceable throughout the complete commercial and operational process.

Core Process

Project → Alternative → Case → Quotation → RFQ → Sales Order → Purchase Order → Warehouse → Installation → Invoice

Responsibilities

  • End-to-end solution architecture
  • Business-process modelling
  • Integration architecture
  • API strategy
  • Project and case structure
  • RFQ workflow
  • Customer approval processes
  • Procurement automation
  • Warehouse process design
  • Third-party integration coordination
  • Functional specifications
  • Workshop facilitation

Key Solution Areas

  • Automatic RFQ generation
  • Supplier quotation workflows
  • Customer quotation approval
  • Automated sales-order creation
  • Automated purchase-order creation
  • Project identifiers throughout the transaction chain
  • Case-level logistics
  • B2B customer approval
  • 3PL communication
  • Installation-cost handling
  • Project-cost tracking
  • Invoice and project-closure controls

Manufacturing & Configurable Products ERP Architecture

Solution Architect / Presales Consultant

Business Central · TRIMIT · Manufacturing · Configurable Products

Design and demonstration of an end-to-end ERP solution for a manufacturing organization producing configurable products.

The objective was to demonstrate how commercial, manufacturing and logistical processes could be managed as one integrated ERP flow.

Process

Product Configuration → Project → Quotation → Sales Order → Procurement → Production → Warehouse → Invoice → Project Analysis

Focus Areas

  • Configurable products
  • Product variants
  • Bills of Materials
  • Manufacturing
  • Procurement
  • Inventory
  • Project management
  • Automated order creation
  • Project profitability
  • B2B customer portal

Responsibilities

  • Customer-process analysis
  • Solution architecture
  • Demonstration design
  • Manufacturing-process design
  • Product and BOM modelling
  • Procurement architecture
  • Project accounting
  • ERP fit/gap assessment
  • Presales technical advisory

Cross-Border Finance & VAT Architecture

Solution Architect

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central · Finance · VAT · EU

Design of the financial structure for a Nordic legal entity operating in an ERP environment based on another Nordic localization.

The objective was to retain a group-standard chart of accounts while supporting domestic, EU and international accounting and VAT requirements.

Areas Covered

  • Chart of Accounts
  • VAT Posting Setup
  • Domestic VAT
  • EU B2B transactions
  • Export transactions
  • Localization assessment
  • External VAT reporting
  • Group accounting requirements
  • Configuration strategy

Business Central to Microsoft Fabric Data Architecture

Solution Architect

Business Central · Microsoft Fabric · OneLake · Azure · Entra ID

Evaluation and implementation of architecture for making Business Central data available in Microsoft Fabric.

The objective was to create a scalable data foundation for reporting, analytics, AI and future agent-based solutions.

Architecture Areas

  • Microsoft Fabric
  • OneLake
  • Lakehouse architecture
  • Delta storage
  • Business Central Open Mirroring / BC2ADLS
  • Entra ID
  • Business Central APIs
  • Authentication architecture

Architecture Comparison

Business Central → Fabric → Analytics / AI

compared with

Business Central → MCP / APIs → AI Agent

The comparison included performance, cost, scalability, read/write requirements, security, reporting, data transformation, AI accessibility and implementation complexity.

ERP + MCP + AI Agent Architecture

Solution Architect / Technical Research

Business Central · MCP · Copilot · AI Agents · APIs

Architecture and proof-of-concept work exploring how AI assistants and agents can interact with ERP systems through modern interfaces such as Model Context Protocol and APIs.

Areas Evaluated

  • MCP servers
  • Business Central APIs
  • Microsoft Copilot
  • AI agents
  • Authentication and authorization
  • Read access
  • Write-back scenarios
  • Performance
  • Security
  • Cost

Potential Use Cases

  • Natural-language ERP queries
  • Customer and order information
  • Inventory analysis
  • Financial analysis
  • Sales intelligence
  • Automated ERP actions
  • Management reporting
  • AI-assisted ERP support
  • Agent-driven workflows

Business Central Database & Media Optimization

Solution Architect

Business Central · Azure · Data Lifecycle · Storage

Architecture work focused on reducing Business Central database consumption, particularly in environments where Tenant Media and document storage represent a significant part of database usage.

Areas Investigated

  • Tenant Media management
  • Media cleanup
  • Retention policies
  • Historical-data strategies
  • External Azure storage
  • Blob storage
  • Document archiving
  • Automated cleanup
  • Database monitoring
  • Development-based storage alternatives

The objective was to develop repeatable strategies for reducing database growth, storage costs and unnecessary historical data while maintaining required document and data accessibility.

Banking & Payment Platform Migration

Solution Architect / Business Central Consultant

Business Central · Continia Banking · Payments · Bank Integration

Assessment and migration planning for moving customers from legacy payment functionality to a modern banking platform integrated directly with Business Central.

Responsibilities

  • Migration assessment
  • Banking architecture
  • Payment-process evaluation
  • Migration-tool analysis
  • Configuration
  • Testing strategy
  • Risk assessment
  • Customer advisory
  • Troubleshooting

Automated Purchase Invoice Processing

Solution Architect / Business Central Consultant

Business Central · Continia Document Capture · Procurement Automation

Design and optimization of automated supplier-invoice processing, including complex purchasing scenarios where incoming invoices do not always correspond directly to individual purchase orders.

Areas Covered

  • Invoice capture
  • Purchase-order matching
  • Multiple purchase orders per invoice
  • Consolidated supplier invoices
  • Template configuration
  • Automated posting
  • Approval workflows
  • Exception handling
  • Invoice rounding

Project Cost & Installation Cost Architecture

Solution Architect

Business Central · TRIMIT Project · Finance · Payroll · Expenses

Design of ERP processes for handling installation hours, internal labor, external installation services and associated project costs.

Architecture Areas

  • Installation time
  • Internal labor costs
  • External labor
  • Project profitability
  • Financial posting
  • Project-cost allocation
  • Payroll interaction
  • Expense management
  • External time registration

The architecture considered interaction between the ERP project module, finance, payroll, expense-management systems and external operational platforms.

Warehouse & Logistics Architecture

Senior Consultant / Solution Architect

Business Central · TRIMIT · Mobile WMS · 3PL

ERP projects involving warehouse, inventory and logistics architecture, with particular focus on making ERP processes practical for warehouse users while maintaining traceability and financial control.

Areas Covered

  • Warehouse receipts
  • Warehouse shipments
  • Picking
  • Put-away
  • Inventory management
  • Location management
  • Item tracking
  • Order fulfilment
  • Purchase logistics
  • Sales logistics
  • Mobile warehouse solutions
  • External 3PL integrations

E-Commerce & ERP Integration

Integration Consultant / Solution Architect

Business Central · Shopify · APIs

Integration architecture between ERP and e-commerce platforms, keeping Business Central as the operational and financial system of record while enabling automated digital sales processes.

Areas Covered

  • Product synchronization
  • Customer synchronization
  • Sales-order integration
  • Inventory availability
  • Order fulfilment
  • Status synchronization
  • Exception handling
  • API architecture

Architecture Approach

Business Process → ERP → Integration → Data → Automation → AI

A recurring part of my project work is connecting the different layers of a modern ERP landscape rather than treating Business Central as an isolated application.

Depending on the project, the wider architecture may include industry-specific applications, e-commerce, banking, warehouse systems, 3PL providers, document automation, Microsoft Fabric, Power Platform, Azure services, APIs, MCP and AI agents.

The objective is to create solutions that are practical for users, maintainable for IT, scalable for the organization and aligned with the actual business process.

Professional Background

For my complete employment history, technologies, certifications, education and professional background, see my Curriculum Vitae.