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Your Supply Chain Runs on Spreadsheets and Everyone Knows It.

Demand plans live in Excel. Purchase decisions depend on who has been there longest. Inventory numbers are directionally correct at best. Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management connects planning, procurement, production, warehousing, and fulfillment on one platform — with AI and Copilot doing the work your planners currently do by hand. Qixas implements it around how your operation actually runs, not how a demo says it should.

20+

Years of Dynamics expertise

2,000+

Engagements delivered

Microsoft

Solutions Partner

Sound familiar?

Sound Familiar?

Most supply chains don't fail dramatically. They leak — a stockout here, an expedite fee there, a planner spending Friday rebuilding a forecast by hand.

You find out about problems too late to fix them

A supplier slips a delivery date and nobody knows until the line stops. By the time the issue surfaces in a report, the expedite freight has already been booked.

Too much of the wrong inventory, not enough of the right

Working capital is tied up in slow movers while your best sellers go on backorder. Safety stock is a number someone set years ago and nobody has revisited.

Planning is a spreadsheet ritual, not a process

MRP runs overnight — if it finishes. Demand plans are rebuilt manually every cycle, and sales, finance, and operations each work from a different version of the truth.

You can't promise a delivery date and mean it

Order promising is guesswork because on-hand, in-transit, and in-production quantities live in different systems. Customers hear an estimate; you hope it holds.

The platform

What Is Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management?

Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management is Microsoft's enterprise platform for running the physical side of a business — forecasting demand, sourcing materials, manufacturing product, storing it, and getting it to the customer. It unifies planning, procurement, production, warehousing, transportation, and asset maintenance on one data model, with AI agents and Copilot embedded in the day-to-day work rather than bolted on top.

Warehouse inventory tracking in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management

AI-Driven Demand Planning

Improve forecast accuracy using built-in AI, your own machine learning models, and external market signals. Planners collaborate on consensus forecasts in Microsoft Teams instead of emailing spreadsheets back and forth.

Procurement & Sourcing

Surface purchase risk from historical supplier performance, apply negotiated pricing automatically through purchase policies, and use Copilot to assess order changes and route approvals without manual chasing.

Manufacturing Execution

Run discrete, process, and lean manufacturing side by side. Real-time shop floor views, MES data integration, and detailed production costing give you throughput and margin visibility on the same screen.

Warehouse Management

Directed put-away, wave and load planning, mobile scanning, and robotics integration. Warehouse management-only mode lets you modernize a distribution centre without replacing your existing ERP first.

Intelligent Order Fulfillment

Distributed order management picks the right fulfillment location using on-hand, in-transit, and future availability — so you can promise a delivery date backed by real inventory and real transportation data.

Asset Management

Predictive, preventive, corrective, and condition-based maintenance on business-critical equipment. Sensor data and anomaly detection push equipment effectiveness up and unplanned downtime down.

Core capabilities

Supply Chain Capabilities We Implement

You do not need all of it on day one. We start with the module that stops the biggest leak, prove it in production, then expand.

Supply Chain Planning

Forecast demand, plan supply, and set inventory policy on evidence instead of instinct. Demand planning and the planning optimization engine replace the overnight MRP batch with runs you can execute during a working conversation.

AI-assisted demand forecasting using history, seasonality, and external market signals
Bring-your-own machine learning models where you already have data science capability
Planning Optimization for full MRP regeneration in minutes rather than overnight batches
Dynamic safety stock and DDMRP buffers that adjust to actual demand variability
Consensus demand planning across sales, finance, and operations in Microsoft Teams
Scenario and simulation planning to test supply disruptions before they happen
Copilot-assisted exception review so planners work the list instead of building it

Outcomes

Where the Money Actually Shows Up

Typical improvement ranges for mid-market and upper mid-market operations after a properly scoped rollout. We size your specific numbers during the assessment.

10-25%

Lower inventory carrying cost

Dynamic buffers replace static safety stock

Minutes

Full MRP run time

Planning Optimization instead of overnight batches

15-30%

Fewer expedite and stockout events

Earlier signal on supplier and demand variance

12-18mo

Typical payback period

Driven by working capital and freight, not licence savings

Why Qixas

Supply Chain Projects Fail on Data and Process, Not Software

Supply Chain Management is a deep product, and that depth is exactly where implementations go wrong. Item masters get migrated dirty. Warehouse flows get configured to match the manual, not the building. Planning parameters get set to defaults and never tuned, so planners quietly go back to Excel within six months. Qixas has spent two decades in Microsoft ERP for operational businesses — we know which decisions matter in week two and which ones you can defer.

Dirty master data? We profile items, BOMs, routings, and vendor records before migration and tell you what has to be cleaned versus what can be archived

Over-scoped rollout? We phase by business pain — warehouse first, or planning first — and get something into production before the momentum dies

Planners drifting back to Excel? We tune planning parameters against your real demand history and train planners on exception management, not screen navigation

Warehouse flows that fight the building? We walk the floor and configure put-away, picking, and replenishment to match how your DC physically works

Business Central already in place? We assess honestly whether Supply Chain Management is the right move or whether extending Business Central serves you better

Integration sprawl? We connect EDI, carriers, MES, and e-commerce through supported patterns so upgrades don't break your interfaces

Ready to stop paying for inventory you can't see?

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions, Answered

What is the difference between Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management and Business Central?
Business Central is Microsoft's mid-market ERP — it includes solid inventory, purchasing, and light manufacturing, and it suits most companies under roughly 300 users with straightforward operations. Supply Chain Management is the enterprise-tier application in the Finance and Operations family. You move to it when you need advanced warehouse management, multi-mode manufacturing, distributed order management, formal demand planning, or asset maintenance at a depth Business Central does not cover. Qixas implements both, and we will tell you plainly if Business Central is the better fit — an over-sized platform is a real risk, not a nicer problem to have.
Can we implement only the warehouse module?
Yes. Supply Chain Management supports a warehouse management-only deployment, which runs the WMS capability against an existing ERP rather than requiring a full replacement first. It is a common way to modernize a distribution centre while a longer ERP decision plays out. We integrate it to your current system of record for items, orders, and inventory balances.
How long does a Supply Chain Management implementation take?
A focused single-site rollout covering core inventory, procurement, and warehouse typically runs 5 to 8 months. Adding advanced manufacturing, demand planning, distributed order management, or multi-site and multi-country scope moves that to 9 to 18 months. We phase deliberately — get one site or one capability live and stable, then roll the template forward rather than attempting a single large cutover.
Does it integrate with Dynamics 365 Finance?
Supply Chain Management and Finance are built on the same platform and the same data model, so this is configuration rather than integration. Inventory transactions, production costs, vendor invoices, and revenue post directly to the general ledger without a middleware layer. Most customers license both, and the combined footprint is where the strongest ROI usually sits.
How do the AI agents and Copilot features actually help?
The useful ones remove clerical work rather than replacing judgment. The procurement agent monitors supplier communications and flags delivery risk before it becomes a shortage. Copilot assesses the downstream impact of a supplier order change so a buyer sees consequences instead of reconstructing them. Planners get a prioritized exception list rather than building it themselves each cycle. We configure these against your actual thresholds — an agent that raises alerts nobody trusts is worse than no agent.

Ready to Connect Demand to Delivery?

Talk to a Qixas consultant about where your supply chain is leaking working capital — and what a properly scoped Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management rollout would actually cost and return.