NAVAX wholesale distribution software brings purchasing, warehouse, webshop and EDI onto one platform: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central with the add-ons that help distributors deliver faster, from goods receipt to shipping.
Wholesale is changing faster than many of the systems behind it. Here are four places where distributors most often lose time and margin, and what helps.
Phone, email, webshop, EDI: each channel has its own order entry. Orders are retyped, and errors only surface at the customer.
How NAVAX solves it: Webshop and EDI write orders directly into Business Central. Phone orders are entered in the same system, so there is one order book for all channels.
Shop stock is from yesterday, field sales calls the warehouse to ask, and promised dates do not hold.
How NAVAX solves it: Availability and delivery capability come from one source, for the shop, field sales and inside sales at the same time, including open purchase orders with suppliers.
Paper pick lists, bin locations in the heads of experienced colleagues. If someone is out, shipping stops.
How NAVAX solves it: Mobile data capture guides you to the bin by scanner, checks item and quantity while picking and posts immediately. FEFO or FIFO picking is included.
Invoices are entered by hand, reports are built in Excel at month-end. Whether a customer or item is profitable is only clear afterwards.
How NAVAX solves it: Document Capture reads incoming invoices automatically, Power BI shows contribution margin by customer, item and channel, updated daily from the ERP.
Ten add-ons for Business Central, developed in projects with distributors. Filter by the area you are working on right now.
Items, customer-specific prices and stock flow into the shop, orders flow back into the ERP. No retyping, for B2B and B2C shops.
Sales & channelsThe supplier ships directly to your customer. Sales order, purchase order and invoice stay linked, and so does your margin.
Sales & channelsExchange purchase orders, advance shipping notices and invoices electronically with trading partners, for example in EDIFACT format, directly from and into Business Central.
PurchasingWhich item is available when? Stock, reservations and open purchase orders add up to a promise that holds.
PurchasingGoods receipt, transfers, physical inventory and picking by scanner or smartphone, posted where the goods are.
Warehouse & shippingPick orders with an optimized route, by FEFO or FIFO if required. The system suggests what needs to go out first.
Warehouse & shippingFrom order to shipment: pack, print the shipping label, report the tracking number back. For your own channels and marketplaces.
Warehouse & shippingIncoming invoices and delivery notes are read, matched to the purchase order and routed for approval, paperless and archived in an audit-proof way.
ControllingDo you carry a broad range, supply retail, trades or industry, and sell more and more online? Then NAVAX knows your starting point and starts from your processes, not from a model company.
Tens of thousands of items, customers with their own terms.
Shelf life, batches and tight delivery windows.
Importers and distributors with a dealer network.
Heavy goods, pickup and delivery to the construction site.
Shop, marketplaces and traditional sales side by side.
NAVAX is a partner of the Handelsverband retail association and supports trading companies in their development. Plus two results from projects in retail and trade.
Whitepapers, webinar recordings and articles from our projects on warehousing, channels and digitalization in wholesale.
NAVAX starts where your goods arrive, are stored and go out, not in the meeting room. That way the solution fits your processes, not the other way around.
Together with purchasing, sales, warehouse and accounting, we walk through your processes: on site, with a real order.
What does standard Business Central cover, which add-ons and interfaces are added, what is deliberately left out? In writing, before anything is built.
Step by step instead of everything on one cut-over date: each stage goes live before the next one starts. Key users are trained along the way.
Support and further development from a single source, with a team that knows your product range, not just your ticket.
What distributors most often want to know before choosing an ERP or inventory management system.
For most midsize wholesalers, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is the right foundation: purchasing, sales, warehouse and finance in one system. Where the standard ends (for example with EDI, webshop integration or mobile picking), NAVAX add-ons take over.
Items, customer-specific prices and stock go from Business Central to the shop; orders and customer data come back. For B2B shops, NAVAX works with Sana Commerce; existing shop systems are connected via interfaces.
A list of your trading partners and the messages they require, for example purchase order, advance shipping notice and invoice in EDIFACT format. Transmission runs through an EDI service provider, processing directly in Business Central. For transmission, NAVAX works with EDI Service Partners – Avenum.
Often not. Business Central manages locations, bins and picking; with mobile data capture, every movement is posted by scanner. Whether your warehouse needs a dedicated warehouse management system on top (for example with automated conveyor technology) is something we clarify in the initial meeting.
The sales order automatically creates a purchase order with the supplier, using your customer's delivery address. Delivery, receipt and invoice stay linked to the order. The goods never touch your warehouse, and your margin stays visible.
No. Moving from Navision or Dynamics NAV to Business Central is an upgrade, not a fresh start: master data and processes are carried over, customizations are reviewed and, where possible, replaced by standard functionality or add-ons.
