Connecting finance, production and projects in Business Central

A UK manufacturer of specialist pipeline products and equipment, combining configurable products, manufacturing and customer projects.

The manufacturer needed a single system to connect quotations and product configuration with production, materials planning, project costs, billing and finance.

• Implemented Business Central across finance, sales, purchasing, inventory, materials planning, manufacturing and projects.
• Configured product and bill-of-material design for configurable quotations and connected shop-floor time recording.
• Migrated master data, opening balances, open orders and invoices, and active projects and contracts before testing and rollout.

• Connected project work in progress, costs and billing with the financial records.
• Linked configured quotes, bills of material and routings to production planning.
• Gave teams a common view of materials, manufacturing activity and customer projects.