How to Use the Business Central MCP Server to Automate Your Shop Floor
Introduction Business Central have a lot of data about manufacturing operations - production orders, capacity, routings, quality, everything is there. The problem is that to get useful information out of it, you need to know exactly where to look. Which page, which filter, which report. For users that are not BC experts this is not easy. The MCP Server for Business Central, released in BC 27.1 (2025 Wave 2), change this situation. MCP stands for Model Context Protocol and it allow AI agents to connect directly to BC and query the data using natural language. Instead of navigate to a page and set filters, the user just type a question and the agent find the answer. This article explain how MCP work in practice for manufacturing scenarios. The focus is on what API pages you need to build in AL to expose production data to an AI agent, and what kind of actions the agent can perform. Pseudocode is used throughout to keep the focus on the logic rather than th...