Introduction

DATANORM Item Import reads your suppliers' article, price and part list data straight into Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

DATANORM is the standard format manufacturers and wholesalers in the German building trades use to exchange article data. This app reads those files into Business Central: articles, long texts, prices, product groups, discount groups and part lists – and turns them into item master data, purchase price lists and assembly BOMs.

What you can do with the app

Area	Summary
Import	Read DATANORM 4 and DATANORM 5 files manually or automatically via SFTP. The version is detected for you.
Review	Every file lands in staging first. You inspect the data, resolve duplicates and approve before any item is created.
Prices	Purchase prices are written as real price lists for the vendor, optionally with discount groups, scale prices and sales prices.
Part lists	DATANORM sets become assembly BOMs on the set item, including nested sets.
Export	Publish your own article and price data back out as a DATANORM file.

How this documentation is organised

1

Understand the basics

Purpose of the App, Feature Overview and the Record Type Reference explain the format and what the app covers.

2

Set it up

Quick Start gets you to your first import in minutes. Base Configuration documents every setup field.

3

Work with it

The Import Process is the core workflow. The Prices and Part Lists chapters build on it.

4

Run it in production

Logging, Common Problems and the Built-in Tests help you diagnose issues.

New in this version: you assign each import to a specific vendor as you read the file in, the app writes purchase price lists, and it builds assembly BOMs from DATANORM sets. See Manual Import and Vendor Assignment, Purchase Price Lists and Building Assembly BOMs.