Bartek Ingredients Inc.
Bartek Ingredients Inc. customer story: the company moved from paper-based production management to Business Central. It uses production orders for end-to-end visibility, Power Apps for shop-floor data entry that syncs back to Business Central, and workflows that shortened order cycle time. It names AI-assisted demand planning as a future direction.
- About Bartek Ingredients
- Migration from paper-based systems
- Production order management and visibility
- Integration with Power Apps for data entry
- Reporting and global operations
- Workflow automation and time efficiency
- Future plans with AI-assisted demand planning
Overview
Bartek Ingredients describes its move from paper-based systems to Dynamics 365 Business Central. Before the move, the company did not know how long it took to produce a pallet of product. Production orders now let it follow a product from production to shipment.
Manufacturing staff enter data through Power Apps, which syncs back to Business Central. Reporting teams can now see data that was not captured before. The company says workflow automation has shortened the time from released to finished orders. It plans to add AI-assisted demand planning as it moves to more automated planning.
Key points
- Before Business Central, production management was paper-based, and the company did not know how long it took to produce a pallet of product.
- The company migrated into Business Central to connect disparate systems.
- Production orders let the company see everything from the moment it was produced to the time it was shipped.
- Manufacturing staff do not need to do data entry because data syncs back to Business Central through Power Apps.
- Power Apps transformed reporting: people get data that was not captured before and can trace anything through the entire ecosystem.
- Workflow processes shortened the time to take an order from released to finished.
- The customer names AI-assisted demand planning as a future direction it is moving toward, not something already in use.
Features
Every feature below: status not stated.
| Feature | At |
|---|---|
| Production order management | 0:41 |
| Power Apps integration for data entry | 1:21 |
| Production reporting and analytics | 1:21 |
| Workflow automation for order processing | 1:42 |
| AI-assisted demand planning | 2:02 |
Quotes
- 0:20 “when I arrive our production management system was paper based when you have paper that’s moving around the plant”
- 0:41 “prior to Dynamics 365 we really did not know how long it would be to produce a palet of product”
- 1:01 “now everything is put into production order we can see everything made from the moment it was produced to the time it was shipped”
- 1:21 “the people on the manufacturing side they don’t need to worry about data entry because everything sinks back to business Central through power apps”
- 1:21 “people are getting data that they didn’t even know really existed before and they had no way of capturing”
- 1:42 “we’ve been able to condense the amount of time it takes us to get an order from released to finished”
- 2:02 “business Central in the Power Platform really lets us leverage a small team and create very big outcomes”
Disclaimers in the video
- 2:02 coming-later: as we move into more automated planning and bringing in AI assisted demand planning
Presenters (as heard): Unknown speaker.