Business Central for Your Industry
Every sector has its own operational rhythms, regulatory demands and competitive pressures. Tres Tria delivers Dynamics 365 configured to the specific challenges of your industry. Select your sector to see how we can help.
Manufacturing
Production, BOMs, capacity
Distribution
Warehouse, logistics, supply chain
Facilities Management
Contracts, PPM, compliance
Professional Services
Projects, WIP, utilisation
Ecommerce
Shopify, multi-channel, fulfilment
Telecoms
Billing, contracts, revenue assurance
MSP Partners
IUR licencing, recurring billing
Other Industries
30+ years across dozens of sectors
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If You Are in This Sector, Here Is What Matters
Every industry has pain points that generic solutions overlook. We configure to address the specific operational realities of your sector.
Production visibility across the shop floor and the finance department
Manufacturing organisations operate under constant pressure to reduce costs, improve quality and shorten lead times. When your systems are fragmented, production schedules are built on incomplete information and cost calculations become approximations. Business Central Premium connects raw material procurement through to finished goods despatch within a single platform.
- Production orders with automatic material and capacity calculation
- Multi-level Bills of Materials (BOMs) with versioning
- Capacity planning across machine and work centres
- Standard, average, FIFO, LIFO and specific costing methods
Common Challenge
"Our production planners spend a full day building schedules from spreadsheets, yet we still get material shortages." Business Central automates material requirement calculations from BOMs, ensuring procurement is driven by actual demand rather than guesswork.
Common Challenge
"We cannot accurately cost our products." Business Central captures material, labour and overhead costs as they are incurred during production, delivering precise cost build-ups with variance analysis against standard costs.
Warehouse precision and supply chain visibility for tight-margin operations
Distribution businesses face the constant balancing act of maintaining sufficient stock without tying up excessive working capital. Business Central provides end-to-end supply chain management from procurement through warehouse operations to customer despatch, all within a single integrated platform.
- Directed put-away and pick with barcode scanning
- Complex pricing with customer-specific and volume discount structures
- Demand forecasting from historical sales data
- Real-time inventory valuation and landed cost calculation
Common Challenge
"Our warehouse accuracy is below 95% and we oversell regularly." Business Central's directed warehouse management with barcode scanning has delivered accuracy improvements to 99.7% for our distribution clients.
Common Challenge
"We cannot see true profitability by product or customer." Business Central integrates operational and financial data so that every warehouse movement has an immediate financial consequence, giving you real-time margin visibility.
Contract profitability, compliance tracking and subcontractor control
Facilities management companies juggle planned preventive maintenance, reactive callouts, compliance obligations and subcontractor networks across dozens of client sites. Business Central connects every operational thread to your financial ledger, so delayed invoicing, inaccurate job costing and compliance gaps become problems of the past.
- Planned Preventive Maintenance (PPM) scheduling at scale
- Reactive work order to invoice in a single workflow
- Statutory compliance tracking with automated reminders
- Subcontractor accreditation and rate card management
Common Challenge
"We spend three days at month end reconciling reactive job costs." Business Central links every reactive callout to the relevant contract from the moment the job is raised, so costs flow straight through to invoicing.
Common Challenge
"We cannot prove compliance quickly enough for audits." Business Central creates timestamped, immutable records for every completed compliance task, with certificates attached directly to asset and location records.
Project accounting, WIP management and utilisation tracking
Professional services firms sell expertise, not products. Your revenue is generated through the time and knowledge of your people. Business Central provides the project accounting, resource management and financial controls that consultancies, agencies and advisory firms need to protect margins and scale profitably.
- Job and task hierarchy with budget vs. actual tracking
- Automated Work in Progress (WIP) calculations
- Fixed-fee, time and materials and retainer billing models
- Resource utilisation analysis and capacity planning
Common Challenge
"Our WIP calculation takes days and the auditors always challenge it." Business Central automates WIP using recognised methods, applying the same calculation consistently across every project every period.
Common Challenge
"We do not know our real utilisation rate." Business Central captures time against jobs and tasks, enabling utilisation analysis at individual, team and firm level when combined with Power BI.
Shopify integration, multi-channel inventory and fulfilment automation
Ecommerce businesses operate at speed. Orders arrive around the clock, inventory moves across multiple channels and customers expect rapid fulfilment. Business Central's native Shopify connector and comprehensive warehouse management provide the backbone for efficient, scalable online retail operations.
- Native Shopify connector with bi-directional product sync
- Real-time inventory level synchronisation across channels
- Automated order import and fulfilment workflow
- Returns processing with inventory and revenue adjustment
Common Challenge
"We oversell on Amazon every week because stock levels are always out of date." Business Central synchronises inventory in real time across all channels, so a sale on one platform immediately reduces availability everywhere.
Common Challenge
"We cannot tell which channel is actually profitable." Business Central categorises revenue by channel and captures all associated costs, enabling true profitability analysis after returns, fees and shipping.
Complex billing, usage rating and revenue assurance
Telecommunications is one of the most commercially complex industries in the United Kingdom. Billing models are intricate, contracts span multiple years and margins are under constant pressure. Business Central, configured by Tres Tria, manages this complexity without the cost of legacy billing platforms.
- Recurring line rentals automated with Astral Recurring Invoices
- Call Detail Record () import and usage-based charging
- Minimum term tracking with early termination calculation
- Revenue assurance to identify billing leakage
Common Challenge
"We are losing revenue through services we provide but do not bill for." Revenue leakage goes undetected when your billing system and accounting system are separate. Business Central unifies both, closing the gap where margin disappears.
Common Challenge
"Our billing system costs a fortune and does not integrate with our accounting." Business Central unifies billing and accounting in a single platform at a fraction of the cost of dedicated telecoms billing systems.
Internal Use Rights licencing, recurring billing and partner programme
Managed Service Providers (MSPs) occupy a unique position in the Microsoft ecosystem. Business Central serves dual purposes for MSPs: it provides the ERP platform your business needs and the product knowledge that strengthens your client advisory capability. Internal Use Rights (IUR) licencing makes this commercially compelling.
- IUR licencing for BC at substantially reduced or zero cost
- Automated recurring billing with Astral Recurring Invoices
- Direct Debit collection with Astral GoCardless
- Partner programme for client ERP referrals
Common Challenge
"We recommend Business Central to clients but do not use it ourselves." IUR licencing means you can run your own business on BC at minimal cost, gaining practical experience that makes your recommendations far more credible.
Common Challenge
"We worry about referring clients to a BC partner who might poach the IT relationship." Our Customer Protection Promise guarantees your client relationships are safe. We are ERP specialists, not managed IT providers.
Six Reasons We Deliver What Others Cannot
These are not marketing slogans. They are operational realities that directly affect the outcome of your implementation.
Zero Failed Implementations
Every project we have undertaken since 2004 has gone live successfully. We achieve this by scoping accurately, saying no to projects outside our expertise and never compromising on consultant quality.
22+ years, 100% successIndustry Consultants, Not Generalists
Our consultants already know your industry before the first meeting. They understand the terminology, the operational pressures and the regulatory landscape. This means faster discovery, better configuration and fewer change requests.
7 industry verticalsPublished Starting Prices
We publish our starting prices because you deserve to budget before the first conversation. Quick Start fixed-price implementations start from £8,000. Standard implementations are scoped and priced individually based on your requirements. No hidden fees, no surprise invoices.
From £8k Quick StartPublished AppSource Extensions
Tres Tria builds and publishes multiple AppSource extensions. Astral GoCardless, Astral Recurring Invoices, Astral Pay, Astral Sign, Astral Reports, Astral Apply and more, demonstrating genuine development expertise.
Published on AppSourceSupport Minutes, Not Contracts
Our post-go-live Support Minutes model removes the commercial friction from technical support. When something needs fixing, your consultant acts immediately — no sales process, no purchase order, no waiting for approval. Small changes can go live within an hour.
Changes live in <1 hourInternational Deployment Capability
For organisations with international operations, Business Central supports multi-currency, multi-language and multi-entity configurations. We have delivered implementations with entities across Europe, North America and beyond.
Multi-country rolloutsTypical Partner vs Tres Tria
We are not suggesting every other partner operates this way. But these are the differences our clients consistently highlight when they describe their experience working with us compared to previous partners.
| Area | Typical Partner | Tres Tria |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing Transparency | "Contact us for a quote" | Published starting prices from £8k |
| Industry Knowledge | Generalist consultants learn your sector during the project | Specialist consultants who already know your industry |
| Pricing Model | Time and materials, open-ended | Quick Start (fixed-price) and Time & Materials options |
| Implementation Record | Mixed results, some failed projects | Zero failed implementations since 2004 |
| Own Extensions | Often rely on third-party extensions | Multiple Astral 365 extensions published on AppSource |
| Post-Go-Live Support | Annual contract, break-fix only, training and changes charged separately | Support Minutes — training, changes and support all covered, no sales process for ad-hoc work |
| Consultant Experience | Junior consultants on delivery | Senior consultants throughout the project |
Our consultants already understand your sector
Business Central is a powerful and flexible platform, but its value is realised only when it is configured to reflect the specific operational realities of your industry. A manufacturing business has fundamentally different requirements from a professional services firm, and a telecoms operator faces challenges that a distributor never encounters.
Our consultants do not learn your industry during the project. They already understand it. This means fewer discovery workshops, faster configuration, more accurate scope estimates and a shorter path to go-live. It also means that the system you receive is genuinely fit for purpose, not a generic configuration that requires extensive post-implementation rework.
We have invested over twenty-two years building this knowledge base. It is one of the most significant advantages we offer, and it is reflected in our record of zero failed implementations.
"They understood our manufacturing processes from the first conversation. The implementation was faster and smoother than we expected, and the system was configured to match how we actually operate."
"Moving billing and accounting into one platform eliminated the reconciliation nightmare. We now have complete visibility of what we deliver versus what we bill, and month-end close is three days faster."
Built-In Intelligence and Insight
Business Central includes AI-powered features and integrated reporting tools as standard, not as costly add-ons.
Copilot and AI Agents
Microsoft Copilot is embedded across Business Central, assisting with bank reconciliation, invoice matching, natural language analysis and more. AI agents can automate routine tasks such as processing sales orders from emails and updating records, reducing manual effort and accelerating your team's throughput.
Explore Business CentralReporting and Data Insights
Power BI integration delivers interactive dashboards and visual reporting directly from your Business Central data. Analysis Mode provides ad-hoc data exploration without leaving BC, and built-in financial reports give your finance team the insight they need without relying on spreadsheets.
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