Days of Cover
For Business Central companies

Business Central runs the plan. Nobody maintains the settings.

The planning engine does exactly what your item setup tells it to. If that setup was entered when you went live and never revisited, the suggestions stop making sense, and cash ends up in the wrong stock.

The problem

Why the planning worksheet gets ignored.

01

Settings frozen since you went live

Reordering policies, safety stock and reorder points were entered for the business you were then. Demand has moved. The settings haven't.

02

Hundreds of suggestions, most of them noise

Orders suggested for items with plenty on hand, and some items not showing up in planning at all. So buying goes back to a spreadsheet and gut feel.

03

Cash in stock nobody can name

Slow and superseded lines build up quietly. Nobody can say which items are dead or what they're still worth, until stocktake turns it into a write-down.

04

A missing function, not a missing person

Your inventory controller is absorbed by stocktakes, cycle counts and receiving. Planning is nobody's actual job, so it doesn't get done.

Even the world's largest retailers, with full planning teams, get this wrong at scale. IHL Group's 2026 study, which has tracked the problem for nearly 20 years, puts the cost of out-of-stocks and overstocks at 6.2% of global retail sales. What does it cost a distributor where nobody has the job?

The right environment

  • Distributor or wholesaler on Business Central, holding stock
  • Nobody maintaining reorder points or safety stock
  • Buying from the planning worksheet, a spreadsheet or gut feel
  • Imported lines or long supplier lead times
  • Enough stock that it shows up in your cash position, typically A$750k or more
  • Usually 1,000 or more active items

Not a fit

  • A dedicated planner already doing this work
  • Manufacturing with component and production planning
  • Wanting someone to place orders or sell your stock
  • Wanting software rather than a service
I run the planning. You make the calls. The Weekly Planning Desk is A$2,750 a month. You start with a free 20-minute review, then the Cash Release Sprint (A$5,500, 14 days) to clear what's already built up and fix the settings that caused it. If it finds less than A$100,000 of excess stock, you pay nothing. Full pricing →
Questions

Before you book.

Why is the planning worksheet suggesting orders when we have stock on hand?
Usually because of the item's planning settings: a safety stock or reorder point set for old volumes, a reordering policy that doesn't suit how the item sells, or a lead time calculation that was never filled in properly. The Sprint checks every item's settings and delivers corrections as an import worksheet.
Do you need access to Business Central?
No. Four standard exports are enough: your item list with planning fields, item ledger entries, open purchase lines and open sales lines. Read-only access works too if you'd rather I pull them.
Who loads the corrected settings?
Your team, or your Business Central partner. You decide what gets loaded. I never write to your system.
We're on NAV, or migrating to Business Central.
That's a good moment to do this. The same exports usually work from NAV, and clearing dead stock before migration means you don't carry it, or its old settings, into the new system.
We already pay for Netstock or another planning tool.
Keep it. A tool doesn't remove the planning job. Someone still has to maintain the settings and act on the output, and that's the service.
So what do you do, and what do we do?
I analyse and recommend. You approve, and your team places the orders.
Will this replace our inventory controller or buyer?
No. It's the analysis they never get time to do. They stay in charge of stock accuracy, suppliers and every order.
Are you a Business Central partner?
No. I don't sell licences, development or support, so I work alongside your partner rather than instead of them. For BC partners →

Get the cash out of the warehouse.

Start with the free 20-minute stock review. No data access, nothing to prepare.

Book the free stock review →See pricing →