Welcome to The Business Central Manufacturing Blog

Hi Everyone!

Welcome to the inaugural Business Central Manufacturing Blog.

I am super excited about the opportunity to post content about my two favorite subjects - manufacturing and Business Central!

I've been posting for some years on my own blog site, Dynamics 365 Manufacturing Blogs - but I always like to share my ideas with the entire Microsoft ecosystem and I am very excited that this forum now exists. I think it'll let me be a bit more technical for the right people.

I'll still be posting on the old site, but I want to create fresh content more focused on those using Business Central rather than those looking to get Business Central.

My Brief Thought About Manufacturing

I've always said that ERP implementations are significantly more complex for manufacturing than most other business types.  Likewise, manufacturing is much more complex than a service organization or one that just needs accounting function.

I'd say the complexity increase is especially true with smaller businesses.  A small business implementing accounting in Business Central is probably going to be much (much) less complicated than doing the same size business for manufacturing.

I made this chart up (very quickly) to demonstrate how I see this.

You might disagree with me, but from my point of view the complexity of manufacturing in Business Central is caused by the need to coordinate and synchronize activities. We need to make sure the components and raw materials are available - all of them - when we need them. Distribution has some of this requirement, but you can part ship an order because a book or a product is missing. You can't part ship a motor if parts inside are missing.

This need to coordinate makes things much more complicated.

What I Want to Achieve With This Blog on Business Central Manufacturing

My goal is to take Lean manufacturing concepts manufacturing best practices and the technical capabilities of Business Central (and some of my favorite ISV addons) and share how these things can work together. It is really important (especially with manufacturing) that we marry real world examples and supply chain concepts together.  

It's great that my colleagues find ways to do tedious tasks more quickly.  I love the technical blogs that get into how to create Power Apps or find a great "life hack" in Business Central.  I want to write more about addressing real-world challenges like supply chain shortages and stock-out situations in a real shop floor.

Let Me Know If I Succeed

I look forward to all of your feedback in the coming years - letting me know how I am doing.

If someone wants to find me on Linked In I am linkedin.com/in/robjolliffe.

You can find out more about me on my website www.sabrelimited.com

And of course ...

I am really looking forward to hearing from you in the comments.

Thank you for reading!  I'm super excited to see where this goes!

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