Wholesale and Distribution

Obtain competitive advantages and support for fast adaption to rapidly changing conditions with ERP.

Dynamics 365 for Wholesale & Distribution encompasses support of all key processes from a supply chain point of view – from delivery and invoicing, through procurement and supplier management to comprehensive inventory management, accounting, and quality assessment and control.

These key processes are closely integrated and connected in real time in every transaction in any part of the system. The D365FO industry functionality for wholesale and distribution supports any size of business and any of the key processes of a modern supply chain setup – from vendor/product qualification/management to goods distribution and client delivery.

SCALES considers ERP a strategic tool through which companies can obtain competitive advantages and support for fast adaption to rapidly changing conditions. Here D365FO is the answer.

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Functionality and security configuration in D365FO are process-oriented and built upon a role-tailored approach; Every business process is mapped into a process cycle of one or more (typical) sub-processes which results in a unique role-driven system setup and –use offering option for naturally segregation of the different main process into sub-processes aligned with the different organizational roles of the business.

SCALES believes that keeping up with the ever changing business requirements and environments in most industries today requires an agile and powerful platform that can easily be adapted to changing needs in the business and supply chain. This is exactly what is offered within the integrated business capabilities in D365FO.

The ability to adapt to new/changed business processes as well as the flexibility to scale the ERP solution that must support such changes are some of the core capabilities of D365FO.

  • Work faster in a familiar interface
  • Streamline access to key business process information with Role Centres that present relevant tasks and information, including powerful business intelligence tools for reporting, key performance indicators (KPI’s), and data cubes.
  • Wall-to-Wall ERP solution to minimize cost of inventory, ensuring transparency in the supply chain processes and supporting the ‘just-in-time’ efficiency approach of any modern W&D business of today.
  • Unique traceability of any end-to-end inventory transaction to support faster and fully control of the quality assessment from supplier to customer.
  • System controlled delivery optimization utilizing known principle such as ATP, CTP and lead time handling to ensure fast and reliable delivery confirmation to the customer
  • Quickly match qualified and available resources to tasks with a robust scheduling engine to help maximize profits, reduce costs, and increase client satisfaction.
  • ‘All-in-one’ Enterprise resource solution to reduce/eliminate the need for/integration to other resource systems
  • Comprehensive pricing framework with multiple features for price group handling, smart prices, mark-up pricing and trade agreement etc.
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Manufacturing

D365FO reflects Microsoft’s commitment to deliver the width and depth of Microsoft innovation to manufacturers. Dynamics 365 for Manufacturing encompasses support of all key processes from a supply chain point of view – from delivery and invoicing, through production/assembly to procurement, supplier management, comprehensive inventory management, accounting, and quality assessment and control.

Manufacturing is a mature industry, and today’s leaders are facing some of the same challenges their predecessors have encountered over the years. These include:

Cost pressure

As companies compete in a global market, they are under constant pressure to reduce end-item manufacturing costs as well as plant operating costs. This requires streamlining processes and increasing production efficiency. There is a continued need for insight into cost drivers of operations.

Time to market

Getting products to market faster than your competition will give you a competitive advantage. Shorter product life cycles due to technology innovation and changes in consumer behaviour force organisations to focus on reducing the time to market of their products. This requires extensive insight into and a good grip on operations.

Product quality

Delivering defective products is no longer acceptable. Not only does it damage your reputation; warranty and liability costs can quickly escalate and eliminate all profits.

Inventory visibility

The risks and costs of inventory are rising due to increasing product ranges, shorter product life cycles and the importance of a healthy cash flow. Maintaining visibility of inventory across distributed organisations remains a challenge.

A world-class software solution should help manufacturers address these traditional challenges. But it should also help them identify and respond to emerging challenges. ERP is a strategic tool through which companies can obtain competitive advantages and support for fast adaption to rapidly changing conditions. And at SCALES, we believe D365FO is the answer.

Globalisation of supply chains, increasing customer demands for innovation and low cost, growing environmental and social awareness, and the need for instant operational insight all create new opportunities as well as challenges. D365FO can help manufacturers address these. It is a powerful ERP solution built for manufacturing businesses.

Functionality and security configuration in D365FO are process-oriented and built upon a role-tailored approach. Every business process is mapped into a process cycle of one or more (typical) sub-processes, which results in a unique role-driven system setup and –use offering option for natural segregation of different main processes into sub-processes aligned with the different organizational roles of the business.

SCALES believes that keeping up with the ever changing business requirements and –environments in most industries today requires an Agile and powerful platform that can easily be adapted to changing needs in the business and supply chain. This is exactly what is offered within the integrated business capabilities in D365FO.

The ability to adapt to new/changed business processes as well as the flexibility to scale the ERP solution that must support such changes are some of the core capabilities of D365FO.

  • Work faster in a familiar interface
  • Streamline access to key business process information with Role Centres that present relevant tasks and information, including powerful business intelligence tools for reporting, key performance indicators (KPI’s), and data cubes.
  • Uniquely traceability of any end-to-end inventory transaction to support faster and fully control of the quality assessment from supplier to customer.
  • Quickly match qualified and available resources to tasks with a robust scheduling engine to help maximize profits, reduce costs, and increase client satisfaction.
  • Comprehensive costing framework to support standard cost principle and calculating multi-level BoM structures in an automated fashion. Incl. price version maintenance tools.
  • ‘All-in-one’ Enterprise resource solution to reduce/eliminate the need for/integration to other resource systems.
  • Gantt chart interactive planning features; easy graphical overview of resource scheduling maintenance.
  • Fully integrated with comprehensive warehouse and inventory capabilities
  • Quality assessment modularity throughout the complete end-to-end material stream.

Professional Services

Quickly match qualified and available resources with tasks using a robust scheduling engine, which will help you maximise profits, reduce costs and increase client satisfaction.

Dynamics 356 for Professional Services provides professional services and project-based companies with an end-to-end solution that delivers a greater level of control over project accounting practices and resources and improves usability with a familiar Microsoft Office-like user interface.

Dynamics 356 for Professional Services brings new levels of project and contract management capabilities to users and administrators. Boost your resource utilisation and revenue with a new scheduling engine that matches qualified resources with tasks based on task requirements, and create comprehensive custom project quotations to meet client specifications. Significant improvements to project functionality – e.g. the ability to create complex visualisation structures and track detailed project information and approvals – will increase your business insight and improve productivity.

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Professional services firms are uniquely people-driven organizations depending on the knowledge and skills of their employees to sell and deliver a range of advisory and specialty services, develop and service complex systems and structures, or creating engaging analytical content.

The Services sector spans IT services, engineering, management consulting, accounting, architecture and marketing and advertising, and other professions engaged in research and development, business optimization, training etc.

The most critical success factor for professional service companies are and must be perfect execution for on-scope, on-time and on-budget delivery. It is the foundation on which successful project execution, client satisfaction, and financial results rest.

SCALES believes that one effective pathway for obtaining outstanding results is to implement an integrated performance management solution that ties together all key business focus areas and roles within the organization. By taking advantage of integrated business capabilities in D365FO that work across multiple business focus areas like CRM, HRM, CPM and PSA and individual roles, professional services organizations can get a 360-degree view into project and cost controls. D365FO can also offer better expense management and can provide practice managers and CFOs with up-to-date, detailed operational insights that can lead to better, more-informed decision-making and impact.

The result of intentional commitment to implementation of integrated systems is a holistic view of clients and of work conducted, past and present. With this view, professional services firm leaders can chart future engagements for both current and prospective clients with a higher degree of confidence than before, and they can forecast delivery capacity requirements and costs, bringing greater predictability to business results.

  • Work faster in a familiar interface
  • Streamline access to critical project information with Role Centres that present relevant tasks and information, including powerful business intelligence tools for reporting, key performance indicators (KPI’s), and data cubes.
  • Easily monitor project finances and tasks.
  • Assess project progress using flexible reporting to gain a consolidated, real-time project view, and build custom quotations for clients with the ability to create more than one quotation per project request.
  • Optimize resource utilization.
  • Quickly match qualified and available resources to tasks with a robust scheduling engine to help maximize profits, reduce costs, and increase client satisfaction.
  • Reduce non-billable time with workflow.
  • Minimize physical paper routing and reduce invoice cycle times with automated workflow for Project Request, Timesheet, Expense, Quotation, and more.

We have solid experience with many other industries – including charity organisations

In addition to these industries, SCALES and its resources have delivered numerous implementations within many other industries, e.g. utility, freight and logistics services, low fare-carrier airlines, public sector and multiple combinations of the above. The nature of a successful implementation with substantial competitive advantages lies in implementing what others have not, but should have, and not in doing exactly the same as everyone else.

Have a look at the interesting project we did together with the Danish Refugee Council.

Jabra in-ear headset

Another great example of the many different industries we work with is our strong and long-lasting collaboration with GN, who offer brands such as Jabra, ReSound and SteelSeries.

Get ahead of your competitors with D365FO

A lot of companies have successfully used ERP to gain competitive advantages over their competitors. While certain functions are standard (accounting, GL, payroll processes); a big challenge is leveraging ERP systems to address areas that are unique to a given business, e.g. CRM, project execution, manufacturing or distribution.

If you choose SCALES as your supplier of D365FO, we will make sure the system matches your business criteria and processes, no matter which industry you belong to.

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