When you implement Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central it quickly becomes the information hub at the centre of your business - the clue's in the name I guess. All your data about customers, vendors, items, orders, inventory, jobs, payments etc. lives securely in a single place.

We can all admit to it; ordering samples for free online, we all do it! We know that for the flooring and tiling industry it’s a necessary evil to manage the whole sample process and often we never really know if that sample will lead to an order to create revenue for the business, or is it just a cost?

It’s hard to ignore, customers increasingly want to buy whatever they want and have it as soon as they possibly can. Customers hold all the cards and your competition are equally feeling the pressure to deliver quicker than ever before. 

Quite simply, e-Commerce is booming and 72% of the respondents in Sana’s Digital Transformation and B2B e-Commerce Report 2017-18 believe that B2B companies will sell 100% of their products online in the future.

Defra have recently announced there will be new guidance on food labelling in the event of a no-deal Brexit and there is a huge potential impact on meat, fish and dairy suppliers across the Food industry.

While e-Commerce is supplanting bricks-and-mortar stores in the consumer market, B2B companies still get nervous about opening a web store. A lot of them believe their business is not suitable for e-Commerce, while in many cases the opposite is true.