Logistics and distribution operators running Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management increasingly need the product of live operational data: shipments tracked by GPS, inventory reads from RFID, vehicle status from telemetry. The question isn't whether to do it - the question is whether to build custom pipelines or use what Microsoft already ships.
Three architectures show up in discussion. Two of them fail at scale.
The pattern that doesn't survive contact with reality
Teams unfamiliar with the Azure telemetry stack often draft one of:
Excel + batch imports: store sensor readings in spreadsheets, import to F&O via DMF every hour. Fails because sensor volumes (thousands of readings per second across a fleet) break Excel long before they get close to F&O's batch window.
