Planning and demand forecasting
Master planning, planning optimisation, safety stock policy and forecast handling, so replenishment reflects what is actually happening rather than what was true last quarter.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
The operation,
running to the same number.
Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management covers planning, procurement, warehouse, manufacturing and inventory for organisations where volume, sites or complexity have outgrown a lighter ERP. It works when stock accuracy and process discipline are designed in, not assumed.
UK Microsoft partner delivering Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management implementation and support.
What it covers
Supply chain capability, in operational terms.
The functional areas we implement most often, and what has to be true in each before the release survives contact with the warehouse.
Warehouse management
Locations, licence plates, directed put-away and picking, wave and load management, mobile device flows and the stock accuracy discipline the design depends on.
Manufacturing execution
Discrete, process and lean production, bills of material and routings, capacity, subcontracting, shop floor registration and production costing that survives audit.
Procurement and sourcing
Requisitions, vendor collaboration, purchase agreements, approval workflow and landed cost, connected to the same item and supplier data finance reports on.
Inventory and costing
Costing methods, valuation, cycle counting, batch and serial traceability, and recall-ready genealogy for regulated goods.
Asset management and service
Maintenance planning, work orders and asset history where uptime is the constraint on output rather than materials.
Who this is for
UK manufacturers, distributors and multi-site operations where availability, margin and traceability depend on the system telling the truth: several warehouses, real production complexity, or a supply base that has to be managed rather than simply ordered from.
Problems we are usually asked to fix
- Stock figures the warehouse does not believe.
- Planning run overridden by a spreadsheet every week.
- Production costs that only become clear months later.
- Traceability that cannot be evidenced quickly enough for a recall.
- Warehouse mobile flows too slow for the people using them.
- An AX estate still running the operation with no supported path forward.
Operations design before configuration
We start with how orders, stock and production actually flow, including the workarounds. Configuring around an idealised process is the usual reason a go-live fails on the warehouse floor.
Business Central where it fits
Lighter manufacturing and distribution operations often run better on Business Central. Supply Chain Management earns its place at higher volume, multi-site complexity or advanced warehouse requirements.
Data and integration are the risk
Item master quality, EDI, shop floor and warehouse device integration decide whether the release survives week one. We treat those as scope, not as an afterthought.
For the financial side, see Dynamics 365 Finance. Sector detail sits on manufacturing and distribution.
Before you call
The questions operations leaders ask us first.
A conversation, not a demo
Start with a week in the warehouse.
Tell us how planning, picking, production and counting work today, including the workarounds. We will tell you whether Supply Chain Management is the right platform or whether Business Central would carry it.