Business Central for Project-Based Manufacturing
Ensure predictable project results without any surprises. With Business Central, you can integrate planning, project management, and finance into a single, centralized solution.
- Full control over projects
- Efficient Planning of People and Resources
- From Estimation to Completion
- Insight into profitability and project results
A robust ERP foundation for project-based manufacturing
Project-based production combines customization with tight deadlines, budgets, and available capacity. Business Central provides a single, robust digital foundation to make that complexity manageable and to efficiently manage projects from start to finish.
Overview and flexibility—at every stage of the project
With Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Bring your planning, project management, inventory, and finances together in a single, integrated ERP platform. This gives you real-time insight into costs, progress, and profitability, allows you to collaborate more efficiently, and helps you achieve predictable project results without any surprises.
From estimation to completion, Business Central supports every phase of your project, allowing you to plan more effectively, make adjustments more quickly, and maintain control over budgets and resources.
Unique in-house expertise
Every manufacturing environment is different. Alistar understands the processes and challenges faced by manufacturing companies and translates that industry knowledge into digital solutions tailored to your business operations.
Mechanical Engineering
From engineering to assembly: it’s all about customization and complex bills of materials. Support your processes with a solution for planning, bill of materials management, and production tracking, so that projects remain manageable and run efficiently.
Metal Construction
Coordinating projects, including estimating, production, and installation—often with tight deadlines and changing requirements. Our solutions provide you with insight into scheduling, materials, and costs, ensuring efficient execution and reliable delivery.
Interior Design and Custom Work
Widely varying customer requirements and unique designs call for flexibility and a clear overview. Our solutions bring structure to the quoting, production, and follow-up processes, ensuring that custom work remains manageable and profitable.
Technical Systems
Prefabrication and project execution must align seamlessly. Integrate production, scheduling, and site monitoring into a single solution to ensure a smooth workflow—from preparation to installation.
Specialized Construction
Small production runs and unique projects make predictability a challenge. Our solutions provide you with insight into costs, scheduling, and progress, so that every project is better managed and executed.
Process Plants
Industrial modules and systems require coordination between engineering, production, and delivery. Our solutions ensure integration and control throughout the entire process, with a focus on traceability and quality.
Manage every project from start to finish
With Business Central, you can integrate the key ERP processes within project-based manufacturing and maintain a clear overview from cost estimation to final cost analysis.
Plan projects and keep track of your budget
Coordinate purchasing, inventory, and production
Track projects and resources in real time
Focus on costs and profitability
All project information in one central location
With Business Central, Alistar offers manufacturing companies a future-proof ERP platform that grows along with their organization. This gives you greater control over processes, better insights, and a solid foundation for further growth.
Predictable project results
Bring planning, budgeting, and execution together in a single environment and maintain control over every project, from estimation to completion.
Efficient Management of Custom Projects
Manage customer-specific projects and variants more efficiently thanks to streamlined collaboration between engineering, production, and implementation.
Real-time insight and control
Get up-to-date insights into progress, costs, resource utilization, and profitability to make faster and better decisions.
Stronger collaboration between teams
Integrate sales, pricing, production, and execution into a single platform and collaborate more efficiently across teams and departments.
Maximizing capacity utilization
Plan your people, machines, and materials more efficiently and make the most of your available capacity.
Smarter Decisions with AI
Use AI and data analysis for forecasting, planning, and decision-making so you can proactively manage your projects.
Customized Workflows
Improve productivity with built-in or custom workflow templates using the embedded Power Automate experience.
Pre-built apps
Extend Business Central with Power Apps to meet unique vertical and business needs.
Seamless integrations
Work more efficiently with automated workflows and seamless integrations with Microsoft 365 and external systems.
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What is the ERP implementation process like at Alistar?
Every implementation begins with an analysis of your business processes and objectives. Our specialists then guide you through configuration, data migration, training, and go-live. Thanks to a structured approach, we minimize risks and ensure maximum user adoption.
Alistar also assists manufacturing companies with migrations from both legacy ERP systems and modern solutions. We support the entire process—from analysis and data migration to training and post-implementation support—to ensure a smooth and efficient transition.
View the step-by-step guide for a successful ERP implementation.