Made-to-Order
Manufacturing
Is always guessing the cost of your production making pricing a pain?
If you don't know your production cost, how can you ever hope to charge a fair price to your customers? You want to ensure your costs are covered and you make a reasonable profit without going over. With the wide variety of possible parts, configurations, and labor times in made-to-order manufacturing, it's even harder to get to that final number.
With Microsoft 365 Business Central, you see your costs and where they come from, so you can make better choices on what to charge and when something is profitable or not.
Advanced Costing
Is your team losing valuable time entering the same data twice?
One of the best productivity tips out there: don't repeat work. However, when your business relies on multiple information systems to handle finance, manufacturing, reporting, and more, it's nearly unavoidable. How much time a week does your team lose to double-entering information?
Business Central is a fully integrated solution that works on both your finance and manufacturing sides, as well as tying into other Microsoft services like Microsoft 365 and Power BI to give you the security and reporting capabilities you need.
One System, Many Uses
How's your inventory? Too much of one thing and too little of another?
One of the trickiest parts of running a make-to-order shop is ensuring the right stock levels. After all, your demand and production availability can swing dramatically based on sales volume, the season, and more.
What if your system could more intelligently track your usage so you know what items are "must stocks," which ones only have a small amount of demand, and which ones just don't move? Would those insights help you keep your inventory lean so your margins stay high? Business Central can help!
Smart Inventory Tracking
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Dynamics ERP Software for Made-to-Order Manufacturing
As a job shop or made-to-order manufacturer, you operate in a highly fragmented, unpredictable landscape. It's just part of the job. But all the different variables, such as changes in energy prices, construction spending, and commodity prices, make it easy to feel like you’re not the one in control.
Let Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (formerly known as NAV or Navision) software help disarm this volatility with a single system that connects all the moving parts of your business. This best-in-class ERP system streamlines everything your business does, including quoting, order entry, inventory control, production, labor collection, shipping, invoicing, and more. This synergy drives productivity, improves decision-making, and generates value for you and the business. Most of all, it puts you back in control of your business.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central lets you deliver on time while minimizing inventory levels and the number of unfinished products. It is a complete, quote-to-cash software solution that fully integrates into just about any software you need it to.
Do I Need an ERP at My Job Shop?
An ERP system like Business Central can help just about any business succeed. Still, as manufacturing expert John Grant argues, it may be more pivotal to job shops than other types of manufacturers. The fast and unpredictable nature of these operations puts tremendous strain on both material resources and staff, so anything that makes information more challenging to access and share will be a significant hindrance.
Grant offers five questions to ask yourself to determine if your shop should mplement an ERP solution.
- Do you struggle to get the inventory visibility you need to ensure that demand can be satisfied?
- Are you entering the same information into several different systems or spreadsheets?
- Are your quotes and cost estimates inaccurate and taking too much time to generate?
- Do you have difficulty getting the job costing information needed to make timely decisions?
- Are you concerned about the ability of your existing financial/accounting system to fit your future business needs?
If you answered "Yes" to any of these questions, it is time your business put an ERP system in place, and Business Central is one of the best options for your industry with its unparalleled flexibility.
With the expertise of Innovia and the capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, we’ve continued to be very competitive in the market while saving a huge amount of operational costs. We couldn’t have done it without Innovia’s guidance and owe much of our continued success to the Innovia team. Mary Lowe Vice President
We’ve Got Your Back with Business Central Support
Just like the products you produce, your job shop itself is unique. We know this and let that reality guide our entire process. We invest the time to understand every aspect of your business before we build your ERP project. Because Innovia has been a Microsoft Dynamics Partner since 1984, we have the experience to back our recommendations.
We know Business Central / NAV, so you don’t have to. Let’s get to work.
Ready to Find Out What Business Central Can Do For You?Schedule a call with Innovia today to learn how you can do more with your made-ot-order manufacturing business in Business Central!
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