Finance
Multi-entity structures, intercompany, consolidation and multi-currency, with dimension design built around how you actually report rather than how the chart of accounts happens to be numbered. Audit trails that hold up when someone asks.
Business Central by sector
We already know where it gets awkward.
Business Central looks the same in every demo. It does not behave the same in a cold store, a job shop or an oilfield yard. These are the sectors where we have already met the difficult parts and do not need you to explain them from first principles.
- Sector experience across the eight areas below
- 20+ international projects
- Finance to cold chain
Eight sectors, one Business Central team
Context
The generic implementation is the expensive one
Almost every failed implementation we are asked to rescue has the same origin. The configuration was correct in general and wrong for that specific operation. Costing set up in a way that works for a distributor and quietly falls apart in process manufacturing. Item tracking configured without lot expiry in a business where everything expires. Dimensions designed before anybody asked how the company actually reports.
Sector knowledge is not marketing here. It is the difference between an ERP that fits and one that everybody works around.
What that looks like in practice
- Costing method chosen against the production model rather than the default.
- Item tracking configured for how stock actually expires and moves.
- Dimensions designed around the reports the business already runs on.
- Warehouse setup matched to the physical layout, not to the manual.
Sectors
Where we work
Eight sectors where we have direct Business Central experience, and the parts of the application that decide whether the fit is right in each one.
Manufacturing
Production BOMs and routings, work and machine centers, subcontracting, capacity, scrap and yield. Costing set up to match the production model rather than the default, so standard versus actual variance means something to the people reading it.
Retail
Point of sale and e-commerce feeding BC without duplicate items or a nightly reconciliation ritual. Item variants and attributes, promotional pricing, returns handling, and stock visibility across locations that reflects reality closely enough to sell against.
Oil and Gas
Project and job costing against equipment and crews, field service and consumables, high-value assets and heavy compliance documentation. Long procurement lead times and the purchase order behavior that goes with them.
Logistics
Freight cost allocation onto landed cost, third party logistics integration, multi-leg movement, customs and duty documentation, and the difference between what your system says shipped and what your carrier says shipped.
Perishable Logistics
Lot and batch tracking with expiry driving picking, FEFO rather than FIFO, temperature and quality hold status, rapid recall traceability, and catch weight where the unit sold is not the unit stocked. This is one of the least forgiving BC configurations and one of the most commonly done wrong.
Warehousing
Bin setup, directed put-away and pick, warehouse shipments and receipts, cross docking, cycle counting and the scanning hardware in between. Configured to the physical layout, not to the manual.
Automotive
Parts catalogues and interchange, serialized and VIN-linked components, core returns and exchanges, warranty claims, and supplier release schedules on the OEM side.
Everything else
If your sector is not here
The list above is where we have direct experience, not a boundary. Business Central mechanics carry across, and most sectors are three or four unusual requirements away from one we already know. Tell us the parts you think are unusual about your operation. If we have not seen them before we will say so rather than learn on your budget.
Next step
Talk to someone who knows your sector
Send a short note about your operation and the sector. We will put you in front of whoever on the team has done the closest work, not whoever is free.