ERP in Manufacturing
Benefits of A Manufacturing ERP System
- Streamline production workflows and reduce delays
- Forecast material demand with built-in MRP tools
- Gain real-time inventory and cost insights
- Manage compliance and quality control with ease
- Cut down manual data entry with our custom PowerApp
- Access support, team training & tailored implementation


ERP Software for Manufacturing Businesses
With the manufacturing industry being more competitive than ever, you’re probably looking for ways to thrive even in the face of common challenges, such as rapid digitisation and tightening margins.
Traditional management systems no longer meet a manufacturing business’ high efficiency requirements, let alone the demands of changing supply chain complexities and growing expectations of customers. Because of this, you may find yourself at a crossroads, trying to choose between innovating and adapting to change or continuing with business as usual and hoping for the best.
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This problem means decision-makers need clear advice they can use, like choosing ERP systems for manufacturing companies. Whether you’re a small production business or a large manufacturing firm, manufacturing ERP solutions are a must-have to meet your operational needs and stay ahead of the competition.
Dynamics 365 Business Central is an important software for any manufacturing business looking to adapt to lean, agile manufacturing operations. Among the best ERPs for manufacturing businesses, Business Central equips your business with the tools to prevent operational issues, drive efficiency, and accelerate growth.
Brookland Solutions is a certified Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central partner, here to help you effortlessly integrate the platform into your operations.
Book a demo today to learn more about our services.
Why Manufacturers Choose Business Central
Microsoft Dynamics Business Central is a cloud-based software that helps manufacturing companies manage their supply chain, operations, and financials. This specialised software for manufacturing businesses boasts a wide range of tools and features, offering benefits from elevating your manufacturing process with real-time data insights to streamlining workflows and improving decision-making. The built-in Materials Requirement Planning, or MRP software, helps you forecast demand so you have the right amount of materials at the right time to meet your production schedules. With Brookland Solutions as your Microsoft Dynamics Business Central implementation and support partner, you’ll be able to make the most of this comprehensive ERP software. Our customised implementations, team training, and ongoing support are the ideal combination to enhance your production processes, inventory management, demand forecasting, and so much more.
Consulting & ERP Implementation
Our team of seasoned consultants will guide you through every step of the implementation process. From initial assessment to post-implementation support, we ensure a smooth transition that aligns with your business goals.
Team Training & Support
Empower your team with the knowledge and skills they need to make the most of your manufacturing ERP solution. We provide comprehensive training and ongoing support to ensure continued success.
Features of A Manufacturing ERP Software
Some of the useful features of an ERP for manufacturing companies include:
Supply Chain Management
Dynamics 365 Business Central will help you to manage and optimise your supply chain with a streamlined, smart interface. You’ll be able to maximise your profitability with an end-to-end outlook across operations, purchasing, manufacturing, stock and warehouse management. This means you can operate multiple warehouse locations and choose whether to examine the entire supply chain, a specific department or a single warehouse.
Automated Document Delivery and Archive
Modernise your document management procedure with automated processes for document distribution, archiving and retrieval. With electronic document management, your team all have access to the real-time information they need, when they need it.
Project Control for New Products
Deliver projects on time and to budget with Dynamics 365 Business Central. Managing your projects is easy with real-time metrics on resources, profitability, work schedule and progress. You’ll be able to plan with precision, preventing problems before they arise. You can oversee your project anytime, anywhere with mobile access and cloud delivery.
Materials Requirement Planning
Accurately calculate the materials required for projects or individual products to ensure you have the required stock when you need it. Dynamics 365 Business Central makes it easy to forecast the production cost, resources required and profit margin of your goods. You’ll be able to use this data to produce informative business reports to distribute to relevant departments.
Production Order Management
Dynamics 365 Business Central allows you to easily track and manage your production orders from start to finish. With the easy-to-use features of this manufacturing ERP system, you can quickly schedule jobs, assign resources, and monitor capacity planning, all in real-time. You can also create customisable workflows for make-to-order, assemble-to-order, and discrete manufacturing setups.
BOM and Routing tools
With Dynamics 365 Business Central, you can create and maintain Bills of Materials (BOMs) and routing configurations with no hassle. These processes are the backbone of any efficient manufacturing process. Create multi-level BOMs, even for custom products; define substitutes to handle supply chain issues; and track material usage and link with inventory levels to automate reordering.
Inventory and Warehouse Tracking
Take advantage of real-time tracking of raw materials, WIP, and finished goods to gain complete control and manage inventory across multiple locations. Dynamics 365 Business Central allows you to integrate inventory and warehouse tracking features with warehouse operations to take control of picking, put-away, and replenishment.
Manufacturing Cost Insights
The key to optimised manufacturing operations is understanding and reducing your manufacturing costs. With Dynamics 365 Business Central manufacturing accounting software, you’ll gain crystal clear visibility into the use of materials, labour hours invested, machine time, and overheads incurred. This ERP MRP system provides accurate costing for aggregated materials and variance tracking to help you make better decisions.
Real-Time Financial and Operational Reporting
Dynamics 365 Business Central features financial and operational reporting tools with live dashboards for customisable report creation. You’ll gain learned insights into key manufacturing and production metrics, including output efficiency, job profitability, inventory turnover, and order fulfilment rates. You can also sync financial and production insights to analyse growth.
Quality and Compliance Tracking
Product quality and regulatory compliance are essential to maintaining your customers’ trust and meeting industry standards, so you can avoid penalties and reputational damage. Dynamics 365 Business Central’s built-in quality and compliance tracking tools make it easy to maintain legally compliant business operations, supporting audit trails, inspection checkpoints, non-conformance tracking, and ISO documentation management.
Why Choose Brookland Solutions?
Brookland Solutions is a certified Microsoft Business Central partner, with impeccable expertise in implementing, managing, and supporting businesses with ERP software.
While it’s excellent as an end-to-end enterprise solution, Business Central doesn’t fully meet the needs of manufacturing and production businesses in its rudimentary form. This is where Production PowerApp helps.
Because we understand the challenges manufacturing companies face, we created the Production PowerApp to remove the need for manual data entry in production order processes.
Along with this, our team can provide you with the expert support you need to make the most of one of the best ERPs for big or small manufacturing businesses, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Let us help you take your business to the next level with our consulting services.
Ideal for the manufacturing industry, and a range of other industries, including wholesale and distribution, get in touch to learn more or browse our broader range of ERP Services.

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