Mason Whitaker
Microsoft Dynamics 365 | Simplify your IT footprint and make decisions faster.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.