Supply Planning

Gain more control and visibility in Business Central over what you buy and when with our Quick Start Supply Planning module utilising Insight Works Enhanced Planning Pack.

Quick Start Price:

£2,000

Prerequisites:

Simple Stock

Quick Start Description

Ensuring you are buying the right products in the right quantity at the right time is never easy. By utilising existing functionality in Business Central and building on it with the Enhanced Planning Pack from Insight Works we’ll give you complete control over your purchasing.

Quickly update and maintain your ordering parameters to ensure that you are ordering in the most efficient quantities.

Integrate with Microsoft machine learning to automatically analyse trends to assist with your forecasting without even getting your calculator out!

Training will be provided to ensure your key users are maximising their use of the Insight Works functionality.

Pain Points

Does your business suffer from any of these? If so, our Quick Start Supply Planning can help you to address these pain points and make your business more efficient and productive.

Regular shortages of critical materials or products due to poor planning, leading to lost sales and production delays.
Overstocking of items, tying up capital and increasing storage costs due to inefficient forecasting and planning.
Higher operational costs due to inefficient buying, excess inventory, and emergency purchases that could be reduced through better supply planning.
Challenges in anticipating and responding to fluctuating customer demand, leading to inefficient production and order fulfillment.

Functionality - Enhanced Planning Pack

Enhanced Planning Worksheet

Extended forecasting for items, categories or locations based on historical sales data
Integration with Microsoft machine learning for accurate and efficient forecasting
Demand forecast update
Calculate inventory management parameters based on user formulas
Quickly update safety stock, reorder point, reorder quantity & max. inventory

Item Planning Review

Summary of supply & demand to understand calculated results
Visibility across multiple locations
Display planned spend with vendors
Visualisation of sales & purchase history to aid decision making
Detailed history tabular view of sales & purchase history for in depth analysis

Enhanced Forecasting Worksheet

Item planning review to manage planning parameters
Select time periods for review
Improved filtering
Show average usage data with multiple filtering options

BOM Viewer & Routing Analysis

Hierarchical view of materials required
See supply and demand for each component
Production feasibility based on component shortages
Comparison of actual and expected times & outlier identification
Analyse routings and BOMs for comprehensive analysis
Production order analysis based on routings used

Solution

Business Central is part of the Microsoft ecosystem of solutions that work together and scale as your business grows. Get seamless cloud access to real-time data connected to Microsoft 365 (Outlook, Excel, and Teams) and Microsoft Copilot.

Insight Works develop and support Business Central apps to enhance your manufacturing and distribution. Their Enhanced Planning Pack is a bundle of 5 of their key apps to help improve your planning efficiency.

Are you ready to build your Quick Start solution?

If you think you know what your business requires then complete our 5 minute Quick Quote Questionnaire. This no obligation estimate will give you an idea of the total cost to implement Business Central.

If you’re still not entirely sure what you require or would like some more information then contact us so we can discuss it further.