Supply chain & working capital
25% fewer stock-outs and excess inventory, straight from D365
A UAE engineering group turned D365 supply chain data into an operational command centre.
About the client
- Industry
- Diversified engineering
- Geography
- UAE
- Size
- $100M revenue
- Timeline
- [X weeks]
The challenge
This diversified engineering organization ran Dynamics 365 but needed supply chain analytics beyond standard ERP reports. Visibility across POs, GRNs, inventory, logistics and fulfilment was fragmented, with no single way to track lead times, OTIF or aging inventory.
What it meant for the team
CFO
Working capital tied up in aging and excess stock.
Controller
No unified view from PO to GRN to fulfilment.
Procurement
Supplier negotiations lacked performance data.
How we delivered it
- Step 1[X weeks]
Advise and design
- Defined KPI logic for OTIF, supplier scorecards, lead times, inventory coverage and aging
- Designed the supply chain semantic model
- Step 2[X weeks]
Build and automate
- Fabric pipelines and Dataflows Gen2 ingesting D365 SCM and finance tables plus 3PL data
- Semantic model with purchase, inventory and shipment facts
- Workflow approval for intermediate calculations and reconciliations
- Control tower dashboard with alerts in Teams
- Step 3[X weeks]
Launch and embed
- [Add go-live, training and adoption details]
Total timeline: [X weeks]
Solution stack
Advisory services
- SCM KPI design
- Supplier scorecards
- Semantic model design
Data sources
- D365 SCM and Finance
- 3PL and logistics APIs
Storage and transformation
- Fabric pipelines
- Dataflows Gen2
Logic and workflow
- Semantic model
- Power Automate approvals
Insights delivery
- Power BI control tower
- Teams alerts
Impact
25%+
fewer stock-out and excess inventory cases
OTIF
and lead times tracked by supplier
Live
risk alerts delivered in Teams
Outcomes
- Bottlenecks and risks visible across the whole chain
- Better supplier negotiations, backed by data
- Proactive decisions across the supply chain
