Is Delivered! the best way to get your distribution business onto Business Central?

Distribution is all about getting things out the door quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively – and Delivered! brings that same philosophy to your Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central implementation. 

With Tecman’s fixed cost, fixed outcome approach, Business Central is adapted specifically for distributors. The process streamlines your operations, supports your growth ambitions and makes moving to Business Central a reality in as little as four months. But does Delivered! Tick all the right boxes for your business? 

Whether you’re a small distributor or part of a global enterprise, Delivered! is suitable in lots of different scenarios. Here, we explore a few to help you understand if it’s your best option for implementing Business Central. 

Small to mid-size distributors 

You’ve got your eye on Business Central but want to avoid a lengthy and pricey project. 

Our team have extensive experience customising and rolling out Business Central for distributors – and it’s off the back of that experience that we’ve created Delivered! 

We’ve had hundreds of conversations with distributors just like you and gained invaluable insight into the parts of Business Central that are most useful, so we can skip the discovery phase and get straight down to delivering a system that works for you. 

One consumer product distributor in the education sector had outgrown their existing ERP system. As an SME with a need for stock visibility across five third-party locations (and an existing NAV user), Business Central was their platform of choice and Delivered! offered them a quick, cost-effective and low-risk route to upgrade. They now use Business Central for inventory and warehouse management, financial management, order processing and assembly. 

Small to mid-size divisions of global distribution companies 

You have specific requirements that make Business Central a good fit for certain divisions in your global organisation. 

If you’re a global giant in the distribution space, the chances are Business Central isn’t quite right as your business-wide ERP solution. But it can work wonders for smaller, more localised divisions. 

Delivered! gives you Business Central straight out of the box but with a distribution focus and its fixed scope makes it much easier for small divisions of a large company to implement the software as individual entities. 

One Tecman customer delivering safety-critical products globally did exactly that, introducing Delivered! for their distribution-only subsidiaries, with an intention to bring in manufacturing capabilities later down the line. 

Dynamics NAV and Business Central upgraders 

You’re stuck on Dynamics NAV or an older version of Business Central and need to make the upgrade. 

When it comes to upgrading your ERP system it can be all too easy to bury your head in the sand. But outdated systems can leave your business vulnerable to interruption, risking your ability to deliver on time and in full. (And with Dynamics NAV already out of mainstream support and going out of extended support in 2028, an upgrade needs to be top-of-list for any existing NAV users.) 

Delivered! is already built around the day-to-day needs of distributors, so you can modernise your existing ERP without needing to factor in expensive customisations and time-consuming switchovers. 

When a reputable, wholesale food and drink supplier turned to Tecman, they were using an outdated, on-premises version of Business Central (BC14) after using it to bridge the gap between their legacy Dynamics NAV system and Business Central. 

Searching for a SaaS upgrade, replicating all of their existing customisations would have been incredibly time consuming and expensive, so Delivered! presented the perfect upgrade solution for them. 

Fast-growing and forward-thinking distribution companies 

You’re looking for an ERP solution that grows alongside your business. 

If Business Central without all the bells and whistles is what suits your business right now but you want to make sure your ERP is future-proofed, Delivered! is for you. 

You might be on the cusp of outgrowing your existing ERP software? Or perhaps you’re interested in laying foundations that allow for long-term growth from the get-go? 

Whatever your reasons for shortlisting Business Central, Delivered! gives you the chance to get the software up, running and ticking all the right boxes for your distribution business – just like it did for one raw material and ingredient supplier looking to expand internationally and grow a subsidiary to the size of its parent company. 

Holding and acquiring companies 

You need an ERP solution for the businesses you’re bringing onboard. 

Delivered! makes it possible to implement Business Central in as little as four months, so it’s a strong contender if you’re a parent company with entities you don’t want to bring across to your main corporate system.  

It’s also easy to transfer, so holding companies – like one Tecman customer focusing on UK-based, European and Northern American companies – can relax confident in the knowledge that they have an ERP solution to support any subsidiaries once they’re purchased. They can then keep them there for the duration of their ownership, before selling the subsidiary and repeating the process all over again. 

In 2024, Business Central was named the best cloud ERP software and Delivered! gives distributors a hassle-free way to call it their own. Want to talk to a member of the Tecman team to find out whether we can make Delivered! work for you?

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