You know what you shipped last month. You are not always sure what you have right now.
Wholesale and distribution businesses run on stock accuracy, supplier performance, and order fulfilment speed. When your ERP cannot tell you in real time what you have, where it is, and when it will run out, you are making decisions based on yesterday's data. Business Central gives distributors end-to-end visibility — from purchase order to customer delivery — on a single platform.
The problems we hear every time
Stockouts and overstock happen at the same time.
One warehouse has too much of a product. Another has run out. Neither system knows about the other. You are tying up cash in stock you do not need while losing sales on stock you do. Manual stock takes confirm the problem after the damage is done.
Supplier performance is tracked in a spreadsheet no one trusts.
Lead times vary. Deliveries arrive short. Invoices do not match purchase orders. You know which suppliers are unreliable — but without data, you cannot negotiate better terms or make the case to switch.
Margins erode because pricing and costs are not connected.
Sales quotes prices from a list. Purchasing buys at a different cost. Finance reconciles the difference at month-end. By the time anyone notices a customer is unprofitable, you have been shipping to them for six months.
From problem to solution
Every challenge your team faces today has a specific answer in Business Central.
No real-time stock visibility across locations
Business Central tracks inventory by location, bin, serial number, and lot in real time. Stock transfers between warehouses are logged instantly. You see your true stock position across every location on one screen — not in a spreadsheet exported from three different systems.
Reactive purchasing based on gut feel
Demand forecasting in Business Central analyses sales history and generates replenishment recommendations automatically. Available-to-promise (ATP) shows your sales team what you can commit to before they quote a customer. Purchase orders are created from the plan, not from memory.
Supplier invoice discrepancies eating admin time
Three-way matching in Business Central automatically compares purchase orders, delivery receipts, and supplier invoices. Discrepancies are flagged before payment, not after. Copilot maps e-document invoices to purchase orders — reducing the manual matching process from hours to minutes.
Unknown margin per customer and product
Business Central connects your customer-specific pricing, actual landed costs, and fulfilment costs in one system. You see the margin on every order, every customer, and every product line — in real time. Low-margin customers and products become visible before they become problems.