Unify purchasing, stock, pricing, logistics, finance and customer service in one connected ERP. Dynamics 365 Business Central helps wholesalers improve accuracy, streamline fulfilment and scale with confidence.
Wholesale operations depend on accuracy, efficiency and visibility. Wholesalers manage large volumes of stock, complex pricing structures, multi-location warehouses, supplier relationships, purchase cycles, fulfilment and customer service. When these processes sit across disconnected systems or spreadsheets, it becomes difficult to maintain stock accuracy, provide reliable delivery dates or scale operations.
Dynamics 365 Business Central is a comprehensive ERP designed for small and medium-sized businesses, helping companies streamline operations across finance, sales, supply chain and inventory. It handles everything from ordering and stock allocation to warehousing and dispatch, enabling wholesalers to improve productivity and reduce manual work.
The platform provides configurable warehouse management, from simple locations to advanced bin-level setups, allowing wholesalers to run accurate and efficient logistics processes without needing a separate WMS. With the support of partner extensions, wholesalers can also enhance scanning, shipping and multi-warehouse processes for high-volume environments.
Wholesalers need real-time visibility of stock, reliable fulfilment processes and accurate financial oversight. Business Central brings these capabilities together in one system.
Business Central centralises purchasing, inventory, pricing, customer orders, finance and warehouse processes. It supports everything from receiving stock to shipping orders within one unified environment. For wholesalers, this reduces the need to maintain separate tools for warehouse, inventory and sales management.
Leaders gain real-time insight into stock levels, inbound deliveries, order demand, margins, replenishment needs and warehouse efficiency. Business Central's adaptability and strong mobile-enabled warehouse tools make it one of the most effective cloud ERPs for inventory-heavy environments.
Business Central supports single-site wholesalers, multi-warehouse distributors and international supply-chain organisations. With advanced warehouse apps such as MetaWMS, wholesalers can handle barcode scanning, multi-location logistics and container-based movement tracking.
Automation reduces time spent on replenishment, picking, stock counts, invoicing, routing and reporting. It also streamlines warehouse challenges and improves operational efficiency.
Wholesalers often manage thousands of SKUs, contract prices, volume discounts and customer-specific pricing. Business Central provides accurate inventory tracking, flexible price lists and automated calculation logic.
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Business Central strengthens purchasing, inventory management, warehousing and order fulfilment by unifying data across teams.
Manage suppliers, negotiate pricing, monitor lead times, track purchase orders and automate reordering. Business Central supports replenishment using demand forecasting, vendor lead-time management and order suggestions.
Automated replenishment rules and bin-level accuracy reduce stockouts and over-purchasing. Business Central handles inventory and warehouse processes with a unified approach.
Barcode scanning and optimised picking workflows increase throughput and reduce errors. Advanced warehouse apps enhance efficiency and scalability.
Centralised purchasing data supports better negotiations, cost control and lead-time accuracy.
Consistent processes across depots improve fulfilment reliability and reduce internal friction.
As order volumes and SKU counts increase, Business Central supports expansion without requiring replacement systems.
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Most trials drop you into a generic demo company that looks nothing like the way you actually work. Ours doesn't. We configure your free trial around your business and the use case you care about, so you and your team can test real scenarios with data and processes you recognise.
It starts with a short questionnaire about your industry, your current systems and what you want to prove out. Once that's back with us, your tailored trial can usually be made available within a few working days. Prefer a guided walkthrough first? A standard demo is still on the table - just tell us which you'd like.
Complete a short questionnaire covering your industry, processes and the things you most want to test.
We set up a Business Central environment around your use case, so you're not clicking through a generic demo company.
Your tailored trial is typically ready within a few working days of the questionnaire coming back to us.
These are the problems that come up again and again when we talk to wholesale businesses about their systems. If two or three of them sound familiar, the issue is usually structural rather than a matter of trying harder with the current setup.
Price lists by customer, volume break, promotion and contract multiply quickly. Held outside the system, they lead to invoices that don't match what was agreed.
Supplier rebates earned and customer rebates owed accrue continuously but are often only calculated at year end, which means reported margin is wrong all year.
Without demand-based reorder points, buying is driven by supplier minimums and gut feel, which ties up cash in slow lines while fast lines go short.
Trade orders arriving by phone, email and portal all get rekeyed. Errors are corrected downstream at the cost of a credit note and a redelivery.
Three situations that reflect the patterns we see most often in wholesale. Each one describes a type of business, the problem it started with and what changed once Business Central was set up around it.
These are anonymised, illustrative scenarios built from common patterns in the sector. They aren't customer stories, and no figures here are attributed to any individual organisation.
Wholesale distributor, several thousand active lines
Illustrative scenarioRegional wholesaler supplying trade customers
Illustrative scenarioWholesaler adding a trade ordering portal
Illustrative scenarioLicensing is published and predictable. Implementation isn't, because it depends on what you ask the system to do. Here's the licence position, then the things that genuinely move the number in this sector.
£6.20per user / month
Read, approve, enter time and expenses. No full transactional access
£61.50per user / month
Finance, sales, purchasing, projects, basic stock and warehousing
£84.60per user / month
Everything in Essentials plus manufacturing and service management
Microsoft UK list prices, per user per month on an annual subscription, correct at the time of writing. Check the current figure on Microsoft's pricing page.
Wholesale businesses usually need Business Central Premium once warehousing is involved, though a straightforward operation can run on Essentials. Sales office and finance users need full licences, while warehouse operatives are typically covered by a scanning application rather than individual named user seats.
Pricing complexity is where wholesale implementations grow. It's worth auditing how many pricing rules genuinely exist and retiring the ones that are historic accidents before configuring them all into a new system.
Wholesalers need dependable systems that keep stock accurate, fulfilment timely and operations efficient. Business Central unifies purchasing, inventory, sales, warehousing and finance so your team can operate with clarity and confidence. To learn more about Business Central for wholesale, or to book an assessment, get in touch using the form below.
It is an ERP system that unifies purchasing, inventory, sales, warehousing, logistics and finance for wholesalers.
Yes. It supports advanced warehousing and third-party WMS extensions such as MetaWMS and Warehouse Insight.
Yes. Warehouse Insight and similar apps provide mobile scanning and real-time updates.
Yes. Bin control, put-away rules and scanning improve accuracy.
Yes. Business Central supports multi-warehouse operations with shared visibility and reporting.
Yes. It supports flexible pricing rules, discounts and contract pricing.
Yes. Automation reduces manual tasks across replenishment, picking, invoicing and reporting.
Yes. Business Central is a secure Microsoft cloud ERP.
Yes. Shipping extensions such as Dynamic Ship support carrier integrations.
Many benefit immediately when inventory, warehouse and financial processes are centralised.
Looking at Business Central beyond wholesale? See the full Dynamics 365 Business Central overview for features, pricing considerations and how implementation works, or read our guide to choosing a Business Central partner.
