Your manufacturing operations are unique. Your ERP should be too. We configure Business Central around your production workflows, BOMs, costing methods, and quality requirements — not force you into a one-size-fits-all template. Whether you run discrete, process, make-to-order, or make-to-stock, we build the system around your plant.
The hidden tax of systems that don't fit how your plant actually runs.
20%
Margin erosion
from untracked variances
5+
Disconnected systems
feeding the shop floor
30%
OEE improvement
with live shop-floor data
100%
Lot traceability
raw material to shipment
The problems
Most manufacturers don't have an ERP problem. They have a visibility problem, a margin problem, and a compliance problem — and they're all connected.
Production status lives in the heads of supervisors, not in your system. MRP runs overnight on stale data. By the time you spot a bottleneck, you've already missed a delivery date. Every decision is a guess wrapped in a spreadsheet.
You know your standard costs. You don't know your actual. Material price variances, scrap rates, labor overruns, and overhead allocation errors hide until month-end close — when it's too late to do anything except explain the miss.
Inspection points tracked on paper. Certificates of analysis generated manually. Lot traceability that requires a person to reconstruct from memory. Every regulatory audit is a fire drill — and the next one might not go your way.
Every manufacturer hits a point where gut feel and spreadsheets aren't enough anymore. That's where we come in.
What your operation looks like before and after Business Central goes live.
MRP runs overnight on stale data — decisions wait until morning
Real-time MRP recalculates on every change, with capacity-aware scheduling
Actual costs surface at month-end, too late to recover the margin
Live variance reporting by material, labor, and overhead — every day
BOMs and routings in spreadsheets, drifting out of sync with the floor
Multi-level BOMs with version control, audit trails, and automatic engineering change flow
Quality documented on paper — every audit is a scramble
Automated inspection plans, non-conformance tracking, and instant certificates of analysis
How We Get You There
No vendor templates. No big-bang go-lives. No production downtime. We start with how your plant actually runs and work outward.
Phase 01
Before we touch software, we run structured discovery sessions with your operators, planners, and quality leads. We map how work actually moves through your plant — not how the org chart says it should.
Deliverable
Documented current-state and target-state for every workflow.
Phase 02
Business Central gets configured around your production types, costing model, and quality requirements. Your data — BOMs, routings, master items — gets loaded and validated before anyone sees a screen.
Deliverable
A working BC environment with your real master data loaded.
Phase 03
We go live on a single production line with real orders, real cost capture, and real OEE data. You see live variance and traceability before committing the whole plant.
Deliverable
Live cost-variance and lot-traceability data within weeks.
Phase 04
We migrate area by area with your legacy system running alongside. Production never stops. Your team builds confidence one workflow at a time until the old system switches off quietly.
Deliverable
Fully migrated plant in 4–6 months with zero missed shipments.
What we deliver
Business Central becomes the production backbone — connecting engineering, purchasing, the shop floor, quality, and finance into one system that reflects how your operation actually runs.
From sales order to shipped product in a single system. Real-time production order status, operation progress, machine utilization, and capacity planning — with barcode scanning and kiosk-based data capture replacing paper on the floor.
Standard, average, or actual costing with automated variance reporting for material, labor, and overhead. Know your true cost of goods manufactured by product, by order, by period — not thirty days after the fact.
Inspection plans tied to receiving, in-process operations, and finished goods. Quality orders with specification limits, non-conformance tracking, root cause analysis, and certificate of analysis generation — all connected to lot and serial traceability from raw material to shipment.
Case Study
A mid-market dairy manufacturer was running production on spreadsheets and disconnected systems. We implemented Business Central with full BOM management, batch tracking, quality control, and lot traceability — giving them real-time cost visibility and audit-ready compliance documentation.
Read the Full Case StudyGet a free assessment from ERP consultants who understand manufacturing. We'll evaluate your production workflows and show you exactly where Business Central eliminates the gaps.
