Is the data real-time?

Yes. The dashboard updates continuously as Business Central posts — receipts, invoices, suggestions and rule changes all reflected the moment they happen.

Can I act on something directly from the dashboard?

Yes. Click a tile, click a row, take the action — approve a suggestion, raise a transfer, pause an item, open the supplier card. The dashboard is the entrance to the work, not a separate read-only view. You rarely have to leave it to get something done.

Can I export the dashboard?

Yes — PDF or Excel. The drill-through rows export the same way, so a controller can take the underlying data into whatever they prefer to work in.

Inventory & Purchasing

uPurchase

Demand forecasting and purchasing, in one screen.

uPurchase is the demand-forecasting and inventory-intelligence layer Business Central never had. It classifies every SKU, forecasts demand by location, sizes safety stock against a chosen service level, applies supplier calendars and lead times, weighs carrying cost against stockout risk — and then turns the whole picture into concrete, explainable purchase suggestions. Every recommendation answers the question "why" before you have to ask it: the forecast, the safety stock, the lead time and the current position all live on the same row as the quantity. Edit any number and the projected stock curve updates before anything is committed to Business Central. Purchasers get to challenge the numbers instead of trusting them blind, and controllers see service level, stockouts and excess as daily KPIs rather than monthly autopsies.

uPurchase demand chart with historical, future and forecast curves

Functionalities · 10

Advanced tier

uPurchase · Dashboard

Your morning starts here.

A single screen that shows everything worth attending to today — and lets you jump straight to it. Service level, inventory value, late POs, suppliers slipping, items crossing into excess, forecast accuracy drifting. Every tile is a doorway: click a number and you land on the rows that produced it, ready to act.

Attention before metrics

The top of the dashboard is what needs you today — a stockout brewing, a supplier who just slipped, an item that crossed into excess overnight. Below that sit the KPIs you're judged on. The day starts with the action list, not the scoreboard.

A doorway, not a destination

Every tile is clickable. Late POs → the PO list filtered to overdue. Stockouts last week → the items that stocked out and why. The dashboard isn't where you read the news; it's where you decide what to work on next.

One screen for the whole team

Sales asks where their out-of-stocks are. Finance asks the inventory number. Operations asks supplier OTD. They all read the same screen, filtered to what they care about — so the conversation moves from "whose number is right?" to "what are we doing about it?"

What you see

The home base for purchasing.

Most Business Central users live in a tangle of lists, filters and reports they've bookmarked over the years. uPurchase replaces that with one starting point. You open the dashboard, you see what needs attention, and you click straight into the work — suggestions, supplier reviews, stock health, the lot. By the time you close uPurchase for the day, the dashboard tells you what changed.

"Needs attention" panel at the top — surfacing items, suppliers and POs that crossed a threshold
Open suggestions ranked by what's urgent today — count and projected value alongside
Inventory value over time with class breakdown
Days of supply, turn rate, and stockout count
PO pipeline: open, late, due this week — one click to the list
Drill-through from every tile to the underlying rows

uPurchase predicted inventory against safety stock and reorder point

When this matters

Signals you'd reach for this.

Reporting is a monthly exercise

KPIs computed once a month and emailed in PowerPoint are not management — they are archaeology.

Targets exist on paper only

Without a screen that shows target vs actual today, the target is aspirational.

No single starting point

Without a home base, purchasers open six list pages every morning to piece together "what needs me today." Half the time something gets missed.

Improvements are invisible

A 1.5-point service-level improvement is worth real money. If nobody can see the trendline, nobody gets credit.

FAQ

The questions everyone asks first.

Still wondering? Ask us directly →

Yes. Each user picks the tiles, the time windows and the class or supplier filter that matches their role. A buyer for the Rotterdam DC sees their warehouse; the supply-chain lead sees the rollup. Same data, different views.

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