All of your store(s)’ processes are seamlessly connected: inventory, purchasing, sales, finance, and reporting. Fully integrated with Microsoft 365 and scalable for any retailer.
The retail industry is changing rapidly, and your software needs to evolve along with it. With Business Central, you can bring all your processes together on a single flexible and scalable cloud platform that integrates seamlessly with Microsoft 365. Alistar handles installation, support, and customizations that are perfectly tailored to the retail sector.
Advantages:
With Business Central for Retail, you can manage inventory, sales, finance, and stores all in one system. This allows you to work more efficiently, reduce errors, and create more room for growth.
With Business Central, you can keep your inventory perfectly balanced, no matter how large your product range is. Minimum and maximum levels, demand forecasts, reorder recommendations, and supplier agreements help you reduce costs and increase availability. Get real-time visibility into inventory levels, inventory locations, and turnover. You can process receipts, returns, and price changes easily and accurately—ideal for retailers with rapidly changing products, seasonal collections, or high volumes.
Thanks to the integration of Business Central with your point-of-sale system or online store, your sales data is automatically synced with the back office. This ensures you’re always working with accurate prices, promotions, customer information, and inventory levels. Whether you have a single store or manage a chain, all sales data is collected centrally and is immediately available in reports and analytics.
Business Central makes your financial processes easier than ever. Sales and purchase invoices are posted automatically, payments are linked, and your VAT returns are taken care of quickly. With dashboards, cash flow analyses, margin reports, and Power BI, you can integrate real-time insights into your daily operations. This helps you identify opportunities for optimization and areas where you’re missing out on profit margins more quickly.
Managing prices, product selection, promotions, and inventory are key, while stores continue to operate independently. Ideal for expanding from one store to multiple stores.
Alistar turns Business Central into a true retail solution through industry-specific integrations and extensions: point-of-sale, e-commerce (B2B and B2C), inventory optimization, and customized reporting. This allows you to get the most out of not only your ERP but also your retail business.
At Alistar, you get more than just an installation. In short: an ERP package that delivers results, thanks to:
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Business Central is the foundation for modern, digital retail. Combine it with your point-of-sale system, online store, and omnichannel processes, and you’ll create a scalable, future-proof environment that drives growth.
Business Central is a cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system from Microsoft for small and medium-sized businesses that helps manage and automate business processes such as finance, sales, inventory, and projects. It integrates these functions into a single platform, resulting in greater efficiency, fewer errors, and better insight. The solution is flexible, scalable, and integrates with other Microsoft products such as Office 365.
Out of the box, Business Central offers, among other things: financial accounting, basic CRM, sales, purchasing, inventory management, project management, resource management, reporting, and workflows. Functionality can be expanded with Microsoft AppSource extensions or custom solutions.
Financial
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central offers a comprehensive financial module that allows you to automate your accounting, manage cash flow, and generate accurate financial reports. Thanks to real-time insights and compliance tools, you can make more informed decisions and optimize your financial processes.
Purchasing
Manage your procurement processes efficiently with automated purchase orders, supplier management, and contract management. With smart analytics, you can optimize your procurement strategies, reduce costs, and improve collaboration with suppliers.
Sales
Increase your revenue and improve customer relationships with integrated CRM features. Track leads, automate quotes and orders, and gain AI-driven insights to make the most of sales opportunities. This helps your sales team work more efficiently and boosts customer satisfaction.
Warehouse & Logistics
Optimize your inventory management and logistics processes with real-time insights, automated order processing, and integration with transportation partners. With Business Central, you can minimize inventory costs, prevent shortages, and streamline your supply chain.
Projects (basic)
Manage projects effectively with clear planning, resource management, and budget monitoring. Thanks to real-time dashboards and integration with finance and HR, you can manage your projects more effectively, increase profitability, and improve productivity.
Production (basic)
Improve your production processes with dynamic production schedules, materials management, and workflow automation. Gain insight into production capacity, optimize efficiency, and respond quickly to changing market conditions.
Service (Basic)
Provide excellent service with efficient case management, automated workflows, and AI-powered support. Manage service requests effectively and increase customer satisfaction with fast and personalized support.
HRM
Keep detailed records of your employees and track absences for analysis.
Business Central is primarily aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), but is also successfully used by larger companies (with industry-specific extensions). So, is your company an SME? If so, then definitely. If not, it depends on various factors.
Yes, there are three ways to migrate (upgrade) from Dynamics NAV or Navision to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
In our webinar We'll compare the three different methods, share our best practices based on more than 100 upgrades, and give you insight into the factors that influence the cost of an upgrade and how to keep that cost as low as possible.
Download us e-book for a flying start.
Yes, Business Central integrates very well with other applications. These include Power BI, Microsoft 365, e-commerce platforms, CRM systems, WMS solutions, software for data visualization and production planning, direct banking, and industry-specific add-ons. Thanks to the open APIs and AppSource extensions, integrations can be implemented quickly and reliably.
