Insight Works for Manufacturing & Distribution

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Manufacturers

For manufacturers looking to add functionality to Dynamics 365 Business Central, look no further than apps from Insight Works. We’ll supercharge your Business Central platform from counter sales to Material Resource Planning (MRP) to a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) to scheduling and everything in between.

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Distributors

For distributors who need more from their Dynamics 365 Business Central platform, you’ll want to check out the apps from Insight Works. Add mobile device integration, a robust Warehouse Management System (WMS), item planning, shipping, and other functionality designed to help streamline your warehouse.

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Warehouse Insight

Inventory and warehouse managers often find themselves battling inefficient operations due to inaccurate warehouse transactions and time-consuming manual tracking. With Warehouse Insight, this is now a thing of the past. With support for all Business Central Location configurations and item tracking configurations.

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Dynamics Shipping

The Dynamic Ship Analysis app is designed to analyze shipping data from the industry-leading shipping add-on for Dynamics 365 Business Central – Dynamic Ship. With the Dynamic Ship Analysis app you will have access to a host of real-time shipping metrics. Customizable pages enable you to own the customer experience.

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Insight Works for Manufacturing

End-to-end apps from Insight Works to configure Business Central for a tailored manufacturing solution. For small and mid-size make-to-stock (MTS), make-to-order (MTO), or assemble-to-order (ATO) manufacturers who struggle to find an affordable solution to manage their operations from end-to-end, look no further than Business Central with apps from Insight Works. Insight Works provides the modular building blocks needed to create a tailored solution that includes Material Resource Planning (MRP) and Manufacturing Execution System (MES) capabilities that work the way you need them to.

Shop Floor Insight

Entry-level accounting software packages are not designed to manage production on the shop floor. Spreadsheets can quickly get messy and complicated. With apps from Insight Works, you have all the tools you need, from order entry to planning and scheduling to shipping and everything in between.

Shop Floor Insight is a Manufacturing Execution System add-on for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central that significantly reduces the labor costs and entry errors associated with manual data entry. Shop Floor Insight allows employees to use barcode scanners or touch screens to speed up shop data input for time, material, quality, and more.

Shop Floor Insight Demo
Shop Floor Insight Demo

Production management

Shop Floor Insight utilizes barcodes or touch screens to simplify data capture on the shop floor and reduce the errors associated with manual time entry. Real-time reporting enables users to analyze job progression and costing; providing immediate feedback to supervisors and planners while maintaining a detailed production history.

Significantly reduce rework

Rework is a major issue for many manufacturers. Identifying and capturing rework time can often be extremely tedious and difficult with manual systems. Shop Floor Insight makes it simple to capture rework on the shop floor and to analyze the root causes to help reduce costs and improve productivity.

Shop floor data capture

Enhance data capture and management using Shop Floor Insight’s intuitive user interface. Employees can quickly record time against production orders, non-productive activities, and maintenance using shared or individual shop terminals or devices.

Insight Works Product Configurator

Simplify creating BOMs and routing to make quote and order generation more efficient. Define product categories and options to allow sales personnel to easily select options to build new products or reuse existing configurations.

CPQ Product Configurator

Say goodbye to manually managing product options and variations and say hello to Product Configurator from Insight Works – a light-weight add-on for Dynamics 365 Business Central that significantly simplifies the creation of production Bill of Materials (BOMs) and Routings, or Assembly BOMs, to make Quote and Order generation more efficient.

Automatically generate Assembly or Production BOMs/Routings on Sales Orders and Quotes. Integrate with standard Business Central MPS and MRP to properly plan your new products

CPQ Configurator Demo
CPQ CONFIGURATOR DEMO

Reduce time & increase accuracy

With Product Configurator, it is easy to set-up and select specific options for products that you sell. Whether you assemble or produce simple items with only a few configurable options or more complex items with thousands of options, Product Configurator reduces data entry time while increasing order accuracy.

Easily build Sales Orders

Users can choose a base item to configure or select an item that has already been customized and make modifications to it. As users alter the item, the retail price is automatically calculated for easy quoting. With Product Configurator you no longer need to individually account for every item and part that goes into your products.

Easily Configure Rules

Product Configurator enables users to set combination rules for specific products. For example, when building a bicycle, if a specific style of handlebars is selected then a specific lamp will be included while the bell will be excluded. These rules can be done without a developer license, allowing end-users to create “scripts” for rules.

Insight Works Scheduling

MxAPS from Insight Works is an advanced finite scheduling app for Business Central. MxAPS transforms production planning and scheduling from an inaccurate and time-consuming task into a responsive, repeatable, and highly accurate decision support activity.

Insight MxAPS Visual Scheduler

MxAPS works with your existing ERP system to generate realistic plans for manufacturing your product in the most efficient manner possible. However, the benefits don’t end at the shop floor: efficient production combined with enhanced visibility into the manufacturing process affects almost every other area of your business.

MxAPS Advanced finite capacity scheduling in Dynamics 365 Business Central.

INSIGHT VISUAL SCHEDULING DEMO
Insight Works Scheduling

Real-world production planning

Traditional methods of planning and scheduling are error-prone, time-consuming, and non-responsive, resulting in schedules that do not accurately reflect the actual capabilities of the shop floor. Your ability to schedule production responsively is further impaired when you factor in production realities, late delivery of critical raw material and components, equipment breakdowns, changes to sales forecasts, and customer demands.

Better customer service

MxAPS system transforms the planning and scheduling task into an efficient, repeatable, responsive and highly accurate decision support activity. MxAPS provides the solution for: Quickly generating accurate and efficient production schedules. Synchronizing customer demand against materials, people, machines and tooling. Responding to unplanned events and production realities while maintaining due dates. Realizing cost containment initiatives while increasing plant throughput.

MxAPS Enterprise

Sales: MxAPS allows you to quote realistic delivery dates, and stick to them. Finance (A/R, A/P, etc.): Improve your cash flow and reduce inventory costs by reducing raw material, work in progress, and finished goods inventories. Purchasing: MxAPS can help MRP provide a detailed material requirements plan, allowing you to purchase exactly what is needed, at exactly the right time. Production: Run a leaner operation to reduce production costs, improve throughput, and better manage all resources and production assets.

Warehouse Insight

Improve warehouse accuracy and boost efficiency with mobile device and barcode integration

Improve warehouse accuracy

Inventory and warehouse managers often find themselves battling inefficient operations due to inaccurate warehouse transactions and time-consuming manual tracking. With Warehouse Insight, this is now a thing of the past. With support for all Business Central or NAV Location configurations and item tracking configurations.

For industries where lot tracking is required, Warehouse Insight provides robust functionality to help streamline the process. Lot and serial numbers can be recorded and tracked directly on the handheld device. In addition to tracking, Warehouse Insight provides reports to help you comply with regulatory requirements.

Warehouse Insight brings mobile device integration to a warehouse setting. Leverage a consistent user interface on the handheld regardless of Location configuration

warehouse insight DEMO
Warehouse Insight Demo

Fully integrated with Business Central

Built directly in Business Central and NAV, Warehouse Insight has been certified by Microsoft for Dynamics, which means it meets Microsoft’s highest standards for Business Central and NAV add-ons. You can trust Warehouse Insight to work seamlessly with your implementation of Business Central or NAV, regardless of your warehouse configuration.

Support for a wide range of hardware

Warehouse Insight supports a variety of industry standard scanners and other mobile terminals. This flexibility enables you to leverage existing infrastructure or to tailor the hardware selection to the specific needs of your environment. All major brands are supported including Datalogic, Zebra, and Honeywell.

Streamline Your Warehouse Operations

Warehouse Insight has full license plating capabilities. For businesses that need to track groups of items, such skids of materials, shipping containers, crates or boxes, etc., Warehouse Insight makes it easy. Warehouse Insight enables you to assign items to a License Plate Number (LPN) and then print a bar code right from your mobile terminal.

Dynamic Ship

Easily add carrier integration, real-time shipping rates, package management and shipment tracking to Business Central. Dynamic Ship uses the EasyPost.com API and supports over 100 carriers maintained and managed by the EasyPost.com API.

Over 100 worldwide carriers supported

Streamline tedious and error-prone shipping tasks by seamlessly integrating Dynamic Ship™ into your Dynamics 365 Business Central system. Shop floor employees will reduce manual entry errors by scanning packages directly into Dynamics. You will realize money and time savings by working directly with multiple carriers.

Accountability Place an accurate value on each package in a shipment, report what items are in each box, inform customers what is in each package, and where the package is throughout the entire process.

Shipping Dynamics 365 DEMO
Shipping Dynamics 365 DEMO

Shipping real-time rate shopping

Real-time rates ensure proper carrier service selection and accurate customer billing. Dynamic Ship™ offers integration with all major domestic and international carriers including UPS, DHL, FedEx, USPS, Canada Post, Purolator and over 100 more!

Accurate. Credible. Reliable.

Dynamic Ship™ provides carrier service information and rates based on package weight, dimensions, and destination through direct connectivity to the carrier via the internet so you know the most current information prior to shipments.

Capture package level details

Capture serial numbers, lot numbers, and assembly component details at packing time and increase shipping accuracy by scanning items and comparing them to the sales order and picking document. Using USB scanners, the easy-to-use interface scans barcodes to the package and includes automatic edit functions.





Shop Floor Insight

A comprehensive MES solution for barcoded time capture and employee time management

Shop Floor Insight is a Manufacturing Execution System add-on for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central that significantly reduces the labor costs and entry errors associated with manual data entry. Shop Floor Insight allows employees to use barcode scanners or touch screens to speed up shop data input for time, material, quality, and more.

Professional production management - Shop Floor Insight utilizes barcodes or touch screens to simplify data capture on the shop floor and reduce the errors associated with manual time entry.

Streamline shop floor data capture - Enhance data capture and management using Shop Floor Insight’s intuitive user interface. Employees can quickly record time against production orders, non-productive activities, and maintenance using shared or individual shop terminals or devices.

Significantly reduce rework - Rework is a major issue for many manufacturers. Identifying and capturing rework time can often be extremely tedious and difficult with manual systems. Shop Floor Insight makes it simple to capture rework on the shop floor and to analyze the root causes to help reduce costs and improve productivity.

Real-time reporting - Real-time reporting enables users to analyze job progression and costing; providing immediate feedback to supervisors and planners while maintaining a detailed production history. Shop Floor Insight data is easily accessible through Power BI and other tools for detailed reporting.

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Dynamics Apps

Product Configurator

Say goodbye to manually managing product options and variations and say hello to Product Configurator from Insight Works – a light-weight add-on for Dynamics 365 Business Central that significantly simplifies the creation of production Bill of Materials (BOMs) and Routings, or Assembly BOMs, to make Quote and Order generation more efficient.

Warehouse Insight

Inventory and warehouse managers often find themselves battling inefficient operations due to inaccurate warehouse transactions and time-consuming manual tracking. With Warehouse Insight, this is now a thing of the past. With support for all Business Central or NAV Location configurations and item tracking configurations, Warehouse Insight brings mobile device integration to a warehouse setting.

Dynamic Ship

Streamline tedious and error-prone shipping tasks by seamlessly integrating Dynamic Ship™ into your Dynamics 365 Business Central system. Shop floor employees will reduce manual entry errors by scanning packages directly into Dynamics. You will realize money and time savings by working directly with multiple carriers.

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