MAXIMIZE YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN EFFICIENCY WITH MICROSOFT DYNAMICS 365 BUSINESS CENTRAL

Are you facing new challenges or discovering gaps in your supply chain? This blog explores several supply chain pain points we’ve seen in the market, along with strategies used to address them.  

Maximizing supply chain efficiency is crucial for businesses in today’s fast-paced and ever-changing market. The pandemic has brought new challenges to the forefront, including tight cash flow and social distancing measures, which have led to a smaller and less efficient workforce. Businesses must find ways to adapt and improve their supply chain resilience in order to survive and thrive.

By leveraging the tools found within Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, businesses are empowered to make better business decisions and improve overall end-to-end visibility in their supply chain. Let’s take a closer look at a few common pain points and solutions for how to address and tackle each point: 

Pain Point: Combined cash flow constraints and social distancing measures have resulted in a reduction in the workforce size and overall productivity. 

Solution: Business Central gives you the ability to enable better business decision-making by centralizing your data on a single platform, delivering a single source of truth supported through advanced analytics and insights. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a comprehensive enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution that can help businesses make better decisions by creating a single source of data. Comprehensive accounting software makes it easier to run and scale your business (Here are the top 3 signs that your business has outgrown QuickBooks) Additionally, Business Central’s advanced analytics and insights can help businesses identify trends and patterns, allowing them to make more informed decisions.

Pain Point: With the increasing complexity of the market, achieving end-to-end visibility and accurately forecasting demand has become an urgent need for businesses to stay competitive.

Solution: Achieving end-to-end visibility and forecasting demand is crucial for businesses to be successful. Business Central can help businesses improve their demand forecasting by integrating sales and purchasing with logistics, inventory, production, warehouse, and transportation management. This allows businesses to have a better understanding of their entire supply chain and make more informed decisions. Additionally, by integrating across geographies and time zones, businesses can improve their ability to forecast demand and make adjustments as needed.

Pain Point: The inability to anticipate and prevent capacity strain is leading to a significant increase in asset downtime and hindering overall operational efficiency. 

Solution: Increase uptime, throughput, and quality by proactively managing shop floor and equipment operations with a real-time view of your entire production and stock using IoT. Proactively managing shop floor and equipment operations is crucial for businesses to avoid asset downtime. Business Central can help businesses increase uptime, throughput, and quality by providing a real-time view of their entire production and stock. This can be achieved by utilizing IoT, which can provide real-time data and allow businesses to make adjustments as needed. Additionally, by proactively managing shop floor and equipment operations, businesses can reduce downtime and improve overall efficiency.

Pain Point: In the current market, implementing agile planning and distribution strategies to uncover cost savings has become essential for the survival and sustainability of a business.

Solution: Optimize fulfillment and reduce costs by synchronizing logistics across sites, warehouses, and transportation modes. Finding cost savings is crucial for businesses to survive in today’s market. Business Central can help businesses optimize fulfillment and reduce costs by synchronizing logistics across sites, warehouses, and transportation modes. This allows businesses to have a better understanding of their entire supply chain and make more informed decisions. Additionally, by synchronizing logistics, businesses can reduce costs and improve overall efficiency.

Businesses can significantly improve their supply chain resilience by utilizing the tools and resources within Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. With this new normal, businesses are shifting their focus from “just-in-time” to “just-in-case” supply chain management. With Business Central, businesses can centralize their data on a single platform, integrate sales and purchasing with logistics, inventory, production, warehouse, and transportation management, proactively manage shop floor and equipment operations, and synchronize logistics across sites, warehouses, and transportation modes. This will enable them to make better decisions, improve demand forecasting, increase uptime, throughput, and quality, and reduce costs.

If any of these pain points feel particularly relevant to your business, we’re here to help! We have a team of experts who can guide you through the process of implementing Business Central and help you achieve your desired supply chain efficiency.