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For manufacturers and distributors, warehouse operations are often the heartbeat of the business. When order volumes increase, manually creating shipments, assigning warehouse picks, and coordinating inventory movement can quickly become time-consuming, error-prone, and difficult to scale. Recently, the Siberus team worked with a manufacturer and distributor of industrial abrasives that faced exactly this challenge. Their warehouse operation involved a large fulfillment team, complex inventory management, and strict customer shipping requirements. While maintaining control over the shipping process was essential, their existing manual workflows were consuming valuable time every day. The objective was clear: automate repetitive warehouse tasks while ensuring every shipment followed the company's established shipping rules.

For many businesses, e-commerce is no longer a single storefront selling products online. Modern organizations often manage multiple customer types, fulfillment workflows, pricing structures, and operational requirements - all while needing clean synchronization with their ERP system. Recently, Siberus partnered with a growing franchise to design and implement a fully customized integration between Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and Cart.com. The goal was simple on paper: create a seamless e-commerce experience. The reality required a highly flexible architecture capable of supporting two very different business models within a single ecosystem.

In fast-paced sales environments, small inefficiencies can have a big impact - especially when it comes to pricing decisions. One common challenge we see across organizations is the lack of immediate visibility into profit margins at the point of sale. At Siberus, we’ve worked with multiple clients using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central who want their sales teams to make informed decisions in real time, without relying on manual calculations or external tools.

For manufacturers and field service teams, real-time communication and scheduling visibility are critical - but achieving that without adding complexity can be a challenge. At Siberus, we recently worked with a porcelain countertop manufacturer and installer facing exactly this issue. Their goal was simple: improve coordination between operations and installation teams while keeping everything centralized within their existing ERP system, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Managing freight costs and logistics efficiently is a constant challenge for organizations that rely on both internal fleets and third-party carriers. For many businesses, this process often involves juggling multiple systems, manual data entry, or disconnected tools that slow down decision-making and introduce unnecessary complexity.

For manufacturers producing highly customized products, capturing precise production specifications at the point of sale is critical. Without the right tools, teams often rely on manual workarounds—spreadsheets, handwritten notes, or disconnected systems—that introduce inefficiencies and increase the risk of errors on the shop floor. That was exactly the challenge facing one of our clients, a metal roofing and siding manufacturer specializing in custom-length panels and trim.

For many growing organizations, standard ERP functionality is only the starting point. As sales structures become more sophisticated, businesses often find themselves relying on manual processes and spreadsheets to fill critical gaps—especially when it comes to commission tracking and profitability analysis. That was exactly the challenge one of our clients faced before partnering with Siberus.

The Challenge: Realtime Coordination Across Two Warehouse Facilities Our client, a rapidly expanding business, faced a critical operational challenge after adding a second facility—a large warehouse. Effective communication between the front desk team in Building 1 and the warehouse/loading team in Building 2 was essential for efficiency and safety. They required a web application to streamline this process, enabling the front desk to log customer arrivals and assign loading lanes while the warehouse team managed bay assignments and loading status. The app needed to support 10-15 simultaneous users with realtime updates, integrate with their Business Central ERP system to update sales orders, and maintain a historical log of customer activity.

Files exchange in between systems is not the best way to integrate. However, when API is unavailable or cannot be used, SFTP (SSH/Secure File Transfer Protocol) can be one of the options to consider For Business Central on-premises you can use WinSCP dotnet libraries and successfully read/write/delete files directly on SFTP server. However, you can't use this approach for SaaS Business Central. What can be done in that case? The answers are provided in the article below.

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Dedicated to Basic authorization deprecation. Do you like developing integrations like we do in Siberus? For the last few months we did quite a few of them: bank sFTP connectors, webhook subscriptions etc. They all were totally different but with one thing in common: OAuth 2.0. Below you can find detailed instruction on how to set it up. We'll use service-to-service connection to avoid using user account for this, so you don't need to have an extra license for your integration - the connector itself will be your "user". OAuth 2.0 requires intermediate App Registration in the Azure portal to obtain authentication bearer token. It is valid for about 1 hour, but refreshes automatically.

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