10 Ways Business Central Boosts Productivity in DCs

Demand for industrial space hit a whopping 26.3 million sq ft in 2024, driven by manufacturing, retail, and 3PLs, now accounting for over 60% of total demand. To stay competitive, DCs (distribution centres) need smarter, faster, and more scalable operations, and that’s where Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central helps.

Let’s explore the top 10 ways Dynavics can supercharge productivity in DCs

1. Real-Time Inventory Visibility & Warehouse Layout

Business Central provides:

• Live stock insights across warehouses and zones, reducing stockouts and overstocking
• Configurable warehouse layouts, bins, zones, shelves, streamlining pick and pack

Dynavics pairs this with Tasklet WMS, for mobile barcode scanning and guided picking, enabling your team to locate items in record time and significantly reduce walking delays. Tasklet is a real productivity boost to DCs.

2. Automated Replenishment & Procurement

Manual ordering is both costly and uncertain; automation is the way forward:

• Requisition Worksheets auto-suggest ordering needs based on demand, lead times, and existing stock inside Business Central

Dynavics enhances this with threshold-driven triggers and smarter vendor integration via TrueCommerce for example, minimising stock-outs and capital locked in excess inventory.

3. Optimised Picking & Packing Processes

Disjointed picking seriously erodes productivity, but is quickly solved:

• Business Central supports advanced methods like zone, batch, or wave picking, integrated with barcode support
• Combined with Tasklet, your team can pick and pack more orders faster, slash errors, and boost on-time delivery performance.

4. Integrated Shipping & Order Fulfilment

Hitting shipping deadlines requires real precision, and that is where Business Central helps:

• BC integrates carrier services (FedEx, DHL, etc.) to generate labels and track shipments automatically
• This ensures rapid dispatch, real-time tracking, and improved customer satisfaction

5. Unified Sales & Finance Integration

Disconnected systems slow operations down, and time is money:

• Business Central ties orders, invoicing, and inventory with finance and D365 CRM, so there are no siloed processes
• Dynavics enables journals-to-ledger automation, ensuring sales data instantly informs financial forecasting and reconciliations.
• Yavrio can be used for any currency related operations required.

6. AI-Driven Forecasting & Demand Insight

Today’s warehouses need future-ready capabilities, and Microsoft is ahead of the curve with AI:

• Business Central offers forecasting and inventory projections within its suite
• Add-ons like Jet Reports and Power BI, again, deployed by Dynavics, visualise trends by hour, location, or season, allowing you to make real-time data driven decisions

7. Path to Automation & Robotics

UK warehouses are seeing a 15% annual rise in automation investment. Business Central, especially when paired with Warehouse Execution Systems (WES), can:

• Automate processes like pick and pack
• Orchestrate robotics and conveyors through integration layers
• Align physical systems with inventory data for full automation

8. Scalability for Expansion

UK industrial property is costly, relocation is difficult, so expansion is about using your spac/sites more wisely perhaps. BC allows distributors to:

• Scale operations into multiple DCs without adding silos
• Manage users, warehouses, and analytics centrally

Dynavics handles migrations, integrations, and governance for multi-site setups, with many years of experience in this sector.

9. Compliance & Traceability

Food, medical, or tech items require rigorous traceability, that is for sure; compliance is super important:

• Business Central supports serial/lot tracking, expiry controls, and batch trace
• With Continia, documents and compliance become automated, crucial for ISO audits, safety, and liability

10. Productivity-Driven ROI

UK productivity growth is sluggish, so driving as much productivity from the business as a whole, with holistic solution, can make all the difference:

• Business Central replaces spreadsheets and manual work, raising productivity across the board
• Dynavics’ automation and streamlined operations empower DCs to push productivity forward

In a world where warehouse demand grows and land costs and regulations tighten, efficiency is essential, and as we have explored, productivity isn’t just output, it’s excellence across fulfilment, accuracy, and efficiency. With Business Central and our years of experience in this fast-paced sector, we can really help.

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