BC4Manufacturing: Business Central for manufacturers.
BC4Manufacturing brings together OnTarget’s Business Central manufacturing configuration, integration and extension services. We work with discrete and process manufacturers on production planning, bills of materials, routings, inventory and costing. The solution design distinguishes standard Microsoft functionality from OnTarget development and third-party add-ons.
Plan your manufacturing implementation
What is included in the solution?
The design starts with Business Central’s manufacturing and inventory capabilities. OnTarget configuration, custom extensions and third-party add-ons are identified separately in the scope, including licenses, maintenance and upgrade responsibilities. Requirements are validated against your production process.
When is custom development needed?
Review standard configuration and process changes first. A shop-floor interface, specialized costing rule or operational-system connection may justify an extension. Batch, roll, traceability and scheduling needs require specific validation; a product label alone does not confirm coverage.
What should the factory prepare?
Provide representative item records, bills of materials, routings, units of measure, stock positions and production orders. Planners, operators, quality staff and finance should test a complete scenario from material demand to finished output and ledger posting.
How do you plan cost, cutover and support?
Key drivers are data quality, production complexity, companies, integrations and required extensions. Agree the pilot, inventory reconciliation, operating window, user readiness and support ownership before cutover. Define stabilization priorities and the escalation route for production issues.
The limits of entry-level systems for manufacturing companies.
As production becomes more complex, purchasing, inventory, planning and finance need reliable shared data. Separate systems and spreadsheets make it harder to reconcile material availability, production costs and financial results.
Excel-Driven Production Schedules
When master schedulers keep capacity plans in isolated spreadsheets, material shortages are discovered only when the operator reaches the machine, halting line production.
Distorted Job & Standard Costing
Management has no true visibility into whether a custom product line is actually profitable after factoring in machine setup time, scrap rates, and overtime labor.
The OnTarget DeliveryUnified Business Central Manufacturing
MRP calculates precise buy and make schedules based on live sales orders and lead times. Material and labor costs post automatically to the ledger.
Deep operational functionality for complex plant environments.
We configure Business Central to match your specific production style: make-to-stock (MTS), make-to-order (MTO), or engineer-to-order (ETO) — across both discrete and process manufacturing.
Production Planning & Scheduling
Master Production Scheduling (MPS) and Material Requirements Planning (MRP) that balances customer order deadlines against machine work center capacity and vendor purchase lead times.
Multi-Level BOMs & Revision Control
Support complex engineering assemblies, phantom BOMs, component substitutions, and engineering change notices (ECN) with strict effectivity date enforcement.
Machine Routings & Work Centers
Define precise setup time, run time, queue time, and move times per operation. Schedule against finite machine capacities to prevent shop floor bottlenecks.
Precise Costing & Variance Analysis
Stop guessing your true margins. Business Central provides accurate standard costing, actual costing, and FIFO cost rollups with detailed material, labor, and overhead breakdown.
Warehouse & Lot/Serial Traceability
End-to-end forward and backward genealogy. Trace raw material heat lots or electronic serial numbers from receiving dock through production order to customer shipment.
Shop Floor Data Collection
Give operators intuitive mobile or tablet interfaces to log completed output, report scrap reasons, and record downtime without messy paper traveler sheets.
Business Central capabilities engineered for operational mid-market companies:
Whether you are starting fresh, recovering from a stalled project, or extending what you already run, OnTarget brings senior experts who deliver working systems.
Rescue failed ERP implementations
Stalled Business Central projects, unfinished migrations, or a partner relationship that broke down before go-live. We audit data integrity, re-align posting groups, stabilize customizations, and bring the system safely into production.
Build custom Business Central modules
When standard functionality does not cover a manufacturing process, we build clean, upgrade-safe extensions — custom production journals, specialized costing logic, shop-floor capture apps, and integrations that stay compatible with Microsoft's monthly updates.
Migrate from legacy systems to Business Central
Move off QuickBooks, Sage, Acomba, Infor, Epicor, or homegrown AS/400 systems without halting the shipping dock. We cleanse master data, map open orders and balances, and run realistic pilot runs before cutover.
Senior experts who become part of your operation.
Mid-market manufacturers do not need a vendor that disappears after configuration. They need experienced people who understand the problem, build the right system, and stay accountable through go-live and beyond.
Turnkey solutions
We deliver complete, working systems — not partial builds that leave your team to finish the job. Configuration, data, integrations, training, and go-live support arrive ready to run.
We understand your problem quickly
Senior experts who have run real implementations diagnose the actual operational issue fast — often in the first conversation — instead of weeks of discovery billing.
Requirements into workable software
We translate what your schedulers, buyers, and plant leads actually do into configured Business Central behavior — not a wishlist document that never ships.
Part of your team, throughout
We stay involved through implementation, training and stabilization, with an agreed plan for month-end validation and ongoing support.
How OnTarget ensures plant cutovers happen without shutting down production.
The biggest fear of any plant manager or CFO is a go-live that halts the shipping dock. Our implementation approach isolates physical inventory cutovers, validates bill of material structures ahead of time, and conducts multi-day simulated production runs before flipping the switch.
We have helped mid-market manufacturers transition successfully from a wide range of legacy environments:
Preparing your operation for the AI era.
AI is becoming part of every Microsoft environment. We help you prepare by integrating it where it actually does work — inside your Business Central processes — not as a disconnected experiment. Clean, governed data is the foundation; without it, AI answers from the wrong records.
Governed master data and permissions so Copilot surfaces accurate production, inventory, and margin answers — not exposed confidential records.
AI-assisted reporting on production variances, WIP, scrap, and inventory turns, tied to live ERP data instead of exported spreadsheets.
Power Automate and Copilot Studio agents that handle repetitive shop-floor and finance tasks — approval routing, exception alerts, document capture.
AI connected to real Business Central records and processes, with clear boundaries on what it can read, suggest, and change.
Extend Business Central with proven ISV solutions.
We assess and integrate specialized Business Central add-ons against your requirements, including licensing, support ownership and testing for future platform updates.
Pack-and-ship, document capture, and workflow automation that streamline daily Business Central tasks.
Drag-and-drop shop-floor scheduling against real machine and work-center capacity constraints.
Mobile warehouse management and real-time shop-floor data collection directly inside Business Central.
Packing, license-plate labeling, and multi-carrier shipping integrated with Business Central.
Capture, approve, and post vendor invoices automatically — eliminating manual AP entry and matching.
Manufacturing detail. International reach.
A multinational manufacturer needs a partner who can work through both. For Morbern, OnTarget addressed process manufacturing, materials, warehouse workflows, and legacy-data requirements within a phased Business Central rollout.
Planning across entities and locations
An international ERP rollout needs a shared design and room for local requirements. We work through entity setup, data migration, user readiness and support responsibilities as part of the rollout plan.
Read the Morbern case studyBusiness Central live across Europe, the United States, and Canada.
See the financial impact of production decisions.
Bring production, inventory and costing data into a management view of margin and operational exceptions. Define the measures around your manufacturing process.
From manufacturing requirements to delivery.
Explore the broader ERP foundation behind production, inventory and finance.
Understand our approach to implementation, recovery and stabilization.
Let’s evaluate your shop floor and ERP requirements.
Speak directly with our senior manufacturing solutions leads about BOM architecture, scheduling constraints, AI readiness, and Microsoft Business Central.