01 / ERP & operations
Business Central implementation.
Bring finance and operations onto a shared foundation. ArcticTech helps plan and implement Dynamics 365 Business Central around your processes, data, reporting and the people who use it.
- Processes
Finance and operational fit
- Data
Migration and reconciliation
- Connections
Applications and reporting
- People
Testing, training and adoption
The starting point
When your finance system needs to do more
Business Central is an ERP platform for finance and operations, including purchasing, sales, inventory and project management. A useful implementation starts by checking how those capabilities fit the way your business actually works.
Consider a review when disconnected spreadsheets, manual reconciliations or an aging ERP make it difficult to understand performance. We work through the requirements with finance, operations and IT before deciding what to configure, connect or extend.
How we help
The work around the platform.
- Finance & operational design
Map the chart of accounts, entities, dimensions and core workflows. Review purchasing, sales and inventory requirements with the people responsible for them.
- Migration & business continuity
Decide what data to move, clean and reconcile. Plan opening balances, master records, test cycles and the activities needed around cutover.
- Reporting & connected systems
Identify the reports and integrations that need to work on day one. Consider Power BI, Power Automate and custom extensions where they serve a defined requirement.
The approach
From requirements to a working system
Assess the fit
Review the current system, process gaps and reporting needs. Identify decisions that require finance or operational ownership.
Design the foundation
Agree the configuration, data approach, integration boundaries and acceptance criteria before extending the solution.
Build & validate
Configure the agreed scope, rehearse migration and test real transactions with representative users.
Prepare for adoption
Plan training, go-live responsibilities and follow-up improvements around how the team will operate.
Plan with the right information.
What shapes scope & cost
Company and process complexity, data quality, integration count, extensions, reporting and the time your team can give to testing all affect effort and schedule. A discovery review defines the scope before an estimate.
Bring to the first conversation
- Your current ERP and number of entities
- Key reports, integrations and process issues
- Business deadlines and available process owners
Before you begin
Questions about Business Central ERP.
Is Business Central the right fit for our business?
That depends on your financial, operational and reporting requirements. A fit-gap review compares standard capabilities with the processes you need, identifies extensions or integrations, and highlights requirements that may need another approach.
What does an implementation cost, and how long does it take?
There is no useful fixed estimate without a defined scope. Start with the companies, users, processes, data, integrations and reporting involved. We can then discuss delivery stages and a realistic estimate; software licensing is considered separately.
Can we keep applications that already work?
Often, an existing application can remain part of the future design. Its interface, data ownership, supported connectivity and licensing need to be checked. Critical connections should be tested alongside business transactions before go-live.
Talk with ArcticTech
Start with the way your business works.
Bring your current system, the processes that need attention and the priorities ahead. We’ll help define the next step.