Microsoft Business Central Manufacturing
Discover more about a Microsoft manufacturing ERP solution
Reduce Costs Across Your Manufacturing Operations With A Microsoft ERP Solution
Achieve operational excellence across your production processes with, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
As an expert Business Central manufacturing partner, Akita tailors Microsoft’s ERP application to meet the unique requirements of manufacturing operations.
Whether a small-scale manufacturer looking to optimise your shop floor, or a large enterprise aiming to streamline your global operations, we can implement and support advanced manufacturing ERP solutions (MRPs) that drive improved operational efficiency and profitability.
Schedule a consultation to explore the potential of Dynamics 365 for manufacturing:
Business Central Manufacturing Services With Akita
Akita is an expert partner in Microsoft Dynamics 365, with specialist experience in delivering Business Central ERP solutions for manufacturing.
With our focus on delivering customised solutions, we can configure Business Central’s Manufacturing module to perfectly align with your unique business needs, enabling you to unlock its full potential.
Our consultants understand the complexities involved in managing production, inventory, and supply chain activities, and we are dedicated to providing you with a solution that enhances your efficiency, reduces costs, and accelerates growth.
And they have the capabilities to expand Business Central to meet new business and production requirements, such as just-in-time manufacturing.
Whether involved in discrete manufacturing, process manufacturing, or a combination of both, our team of skilled consultants and developers can guide you through every step of the manufacturing ERP implementation process.
Manufacturing Functionality In Business Central
Business Central offers an advanced range of MRP features and tools:
- Production Planning: Create and manage production orders within Business Central with tools for planning and scheduling. Define routings, calculate material requirements, and optimize production schedules.
- Bill of Materials (BOM) Management: Define and maintain detailed BOMs with multiple levels and versioning to keep track of changes/updates.
- Quality Control: Define quality criteria, perform inspections, and record quality results. Ensure that products meet specified standards and track quality issues and non-conformances.
- Resource Planning: Manage manufacturing resources such as machinery, equipment, and labour. Define and allocate resources to production orders, track resource usage, and optimise resource utilisation.
- Demand Forecasting: Business Central offers forecasting tools that use historical data, sales trends, and other factors to predict future demand.
- Capacity Planning: In-built tools to define and manage capacities for work centres and machines. It allows you to schedule operations based on available capacity and identify bottlenecks or underutilized resources.
- Shop Floor Control: Manage shop floor operations by enabling operators to record time, material consumption, and quantities produced. Can be integrated with wider shop floor terminals, barcode scanning, and IoT devices.
- Costing and Financial Management: Integrates with Business Central’s financial management capabilities and wider finance systems, enabling better cost accounting and budgeting. Track manufacturing costs, calculate product costs, and analyse profitability.
- Inventory Management: The solution provides comprehensive inventory management capabilities, including tracking and control of raw materials, work-in-progress (WIP), and finished goods. It supports inventory valuation methods, and reordering point calculations, and provides real-time visibility into inventory levels.
Wider Features Of Business Central For Manufacturing
Further functionality that can benefit organisations includes:
- Sales Management
- Supply planning
- Integrated Accounting
- Production Orders
- System Automation
- Production Planning
- Order Management
- Supply Chain Management
Benefits Of Adopting Business Central for Manufacturing
Business Central’s MRP features can help your organisation achieve the following operational benefits:
- Integrated MRP and MPS – Operate a single, powerful system for all your manufacturing, resources, finances, sales and much more – with seamless dataflow between all of them.
- Improved Efficiency – From materials to shopfloor operations – have the information needed to drive new cost and time efficiencies.
- Cost Control & Resources – Make overspending and production bottlenecks a thing of the past with an ERP production system.
- Improve Business Intelligence – Receive the insights needed to make production decisions, helping you decide when to ramp up or scale back production on specific lines.
- Scale with ease – Proven to support organizations of all sizes, from SMBs to enterprises, so you can grow with confidence knowing that it won’t hold you back.
Case Studies
Discover wider Microsoft business applications solutions we’ve delivered for our manufacturing customers:
Business Central ERP Integration For Vehicle Safety Manufacturer
We supported a global manufacturer of vehicle safety equipment with sales CRM system deployment and ERP integration. Find out about how our Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Implementation tightened operations for this international manufacturing company, giving them more accurate tracking of data and revenue information.
Dynamics 365 Sales Solution For Manufacturing Company
We created a custom Microsoft Dynamics 365 sales solution designed to increase the efficiency of a sales team and streamline the company's ordering and invoicing process. Find out more about how our implementation allowed them to automate and simplify areas of their quoting processes, permitting the sales team to have a higher volume of sales interactions and in turn secure more customers.
SharePoint Project Management Solution For Furniture Manufacturer
We designed a modern SharePoint project document management solution for an industry-leading manufacturer of bespoke furniture. Find out more about how our SharePoint solution improved efficiency across the entire business and rectified their issues with authentication as well as the frustrating user experience they were dealing with previously.
Choosing Akita As Your Business Central Manufacturing Partner
As a leading developer of Micrsosoft ERP solutions, trust Akita to deliver Dynamics 365 for manufacturing.
From locations across the UK, our Business Central developers undertake new deployments of Business Central for manufacturing, expansion work for existing Microsoft ERP production systems, migrations from legacy Dynamics Navision solutions, plus ongoing Business Central support services.
And as our Business Central consultants are skilled in ERP and wider business applications, we have the expertise and vision to drive all areas of your organisation’s digital transformation.
And with Akita’s wider managed IT solutions, we can deliver an all-encompassing technology service to support your organisation’s growth at every stage.
