Microsoft Partner
since 2018
Microsoft Business Central.
The ERP for ancillary building trades.
Finance · Purchasing · Warehouse · Sales · Projects · Assembly · Service
We put Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central into the ancillary trades. Fit-out, HVAC, electrical, building services. Project, materials, hours and service in one ERP.
- Projects
- > 250
- Customers
- > 180
- System
- Microsoft Business Central
- Focus
- Ancillary trades
- Microsoft Partner
- since 2018
- Office
- Werne
Short film
pBC and BC: the right mix for construction.
Our construction know-how and Microsoft Business Central in one system. The mix that fits the building trades.
Strengths
What the ERP carries in the company.
01
Microsoft Business Central
Microsoft's ERP for mid-sized companies. One set of data, in the cloud, tied to Microsoft 365. The modules here sit in that system.
At Microsoft02
Finance
Accounts, customers, vendors, VAT. One ledger, not a second system.
At Microsoft03
Purchasing
Quote, order, receipt. What the site needs, purchasing orders.
At Microsoft04
Warehouse
Stock in the warehouse, on the van, on the site. The issue goes to the job.
At Microsoft05
Sales
Quote, order, invoice. The document flow stays in the system when the quantity changes.
At Microsoft06
Projects
Hours, materials and billing on the job. Plan against actual, while the job is still running.
At Microsoft07
Assembly
What gets installed hangs on the job. Materials and hours go with it, not on a second list.
At Microsoft08
Service
Maintenance and breakdowns as a job, on the same installation. Without a Microsoft Business Central Premium licence too.
Anvaigo EDI
Anvaigo EDI inside Microsoft Business Central.
Anvaigo EDI Connect is not an add-on for us. Orders, delivery notes and invoices run in the ERP, not through an external provider and not through a mailbox. For the ancillary trades, wholesale and companies that share the same job.
See EDI- EDIFACT, XML, XRechnung, CSV and the formats wholesale and industry actually send
- Mapping in the system: order, confirmation, delivery note, invoice
- Receive e-invoices. The duty has applied in Germany since 2025
- Online and on-premises, without a separate EDI converter
Continia
Document Capture, Banking, Expense Management, Document Output and Finance. The second practice, complete as well.
All Continia solutions
01 — Why pB Consult
The team knows construction. That is why we understand the customer's pain.
Hours that never land on the job. Material on the van, not in the warehouse. Billing when the month is already over. We have seen that ourselves. That is where we put Microsoft Business Central. And we keep it ready for the next update.
- 01
From the site
We come from construction, not from a slide. Project, daywork, materials and hours come first, because we know where the company gets stuck.
- 02
Standard that keeps up
What Microsoft Business Central already does stays standard. Trade logic comes through vetted apps. Not a custom build that fears every update.
- 03
One chain, from quote to final costing
Quote, award, site, billing. What the site decides, finance can see.
02 — Industries
At home in the ancillary trades.
Microsoft Business Central for the project, materials, hours and service. Fit-out, HVAC, electrical, building services.
- Ancillary building tradesFocus · electrical, sprinklers, heating, drywall
- Logistics, materials and builders' merchantsWarehouse, site, builders' merchants
- ManufacturingProduction for construction
03 — In the ERP
What Microsoft Business Central carries every day in the ancillary trades.
One system for the commercial chain: from the quote through materials and hours to final costing. Not a second tool beside the daily work.
- 01
Quote and estimate
Figures that become the order — not a guess in a spreadsheet beside the system.
- 02
Materials and purchasing
Orders and stock tied to the job, while the site is already installing.
- 03
Hours and daywork
Daywork and contract work in one logic, not assembled at month-end.
- 04
Project and site
What is decided on site, project leads can see in the ERP.
- 05
Billing
Work, materials and hours become the document, without retyping.
- 06
Final costing
What the job actually cost — in Microsoft Business Central, not afterwards.
All of it in Microsoft Business Central. No second system beside the day-to-day work in the ancillary trades.
04 — Back to Standard
Microsoft Business Central as the ERP, without bending the standard.
Some companies want out of customisations that turn every update into a project. Others are starting fresh and should never get there. We treat both the same way: Microsoft Business Central as standard, plus the apps that actually close your gap.
Microsoft Business Central
Finance, purchasing, projects, inventory. One logic for processes that belong together.
AppSource
Partner apps when standard has a gap. Chosen, not collected.
Power Platform
Power BI, Power Apps and Power Automate — where reporting, capture and approval should not swell the core.
05 — From the work
Go-live in the ancillary trades. About 1,200 people.
Together with our partner pBC Europe in Cyprus we took Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central live at a German company in the ancillary trades. Not a slide project — a system in operation.
Published by pB Consult. The client name stays unnamed, as in the original note.
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The next step is a conversation. Not a specification.
Tell us where it snags. An old ERP, spreadsheets next to Microsoft Business Central, materials that never meet the job. We will say clearly whether it fits.