How Baker’s Electrical Supply Uses Electrical Supply Inventory Replenishment Software
Baker’s Electrical Supply, an electrical supply house operating in Monticello and Crossett, Arkansas, uses Electrical Supply Inventory Replenishment Software with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and System Solutions LLC to connect sales history, location demand, safety stock, purchasing, and transfers. A Microsoft Dynamics customer for nine years, Baker’s also relies on Business Central with embedded POS, customer pricing, paperless documents, reporting, mobile access, and stable accounting.
Customer Profile
Baker’s serves electrical-supply customers through counter sales, customer accounts, inventory, purchasing, transfers, accounting, and reporting. Both locations share one company database while retaining location-specific inventory, sales, taxes, replenishment settings, POS profiles, reports, and responsibility controls.
Challenges Before Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Baker’s wanted to replace an outdated Trackland 2000 system with a more robust platform. Management needed dependable accounting, better purchasing and inventory controls, digital signature capture, invoice delivery at the time of purchase, mobile access, cloud data protection, and a structure that could support two locations.
Inventory and Purchasing Decisions
Baker’s needed to determine what each location should purchase, what could be transferred, and how sales history, safety stock, reorder settings, vendor requirements, and current quantities should influence an order.
Location-Level Control
Monticello and Crossett needed separate inventory, sales, taxes, statements, transfers, POS profiles, security filters, and reporting while sharing one company database.
Transaction Accuracy
Baker’s needed accurate customer-specific prices, discounts, item quantities, customer balances, payment application, statements, invoices, tax treatment, and external customer and vendor references.
Paperless and Mobile Operations
The company wanted digital signatures, emailed invoices, mobile access, and cloud backup so staff could reduce paper handling and management could reach business information beyond a local workstation.
Why Baker’s Electrical Supply Chose System Solutions LLC
Baker’s chose System Solutions LLC to connect Business Central with practical electrical-supply workflows. The relationship has included implementation, data conversion, sandbox testing, training, POS configuration, purchasing and transfer processes, reporting, document layouts, pricing, statements, issue resolution, and ongoing support.
“Not having to worry about backing the system data up daily and knowing I have your support team on my side offers peace of mind!”Marty Baker, Baker’s Electrical Supply
Implementation Experience
Business Central supported Baker’s Crossett operation before Monticello went live on June 2, 2025. Baker’s brought the locations together in one company with separate locations, dimensions, stockkeeping units, safety-stock values, tax settings, POS profiles, reports, transfer routes, security filters, and responsibility-center controls.
Electrical Supply Inventory Replenishment Software Features
Baker’s uses replenishment workflows built around the Requisition Worksheet, sales-history calculations, location quantities, stockkeeping-unit settings, safety stock, reorder points, minimum order quantities, maximum quantities, order multiples, replenishment methods, vendor requirements, and 365-day, 30-day, and 7-day sales information. Buyers can review demand and available stock, distinguish purchases from branch transfers, and use item-ledger and sales-history details when deciding what to order.
Implementation and training also covered item and customer imports, item references, barcodes, costs, purchase orders, quote layouts, invoices, customer statements, closeouts, aged receivables, sales tax, profit reporting, rebate analysis, and location reporting. Baker’s uses these capabilities as connected operating processes rather than separate technical components.
Electrical Supply Inventory Replenishment Software Results
Baker’s can use documented sales periods alongside replenishment settings when planning orders.
Inventory, sales, transfers, taxes, statements, and responsibilities remain identifiable by location.
Digital signatures and invoice emailing reduce paper handling and postage.
Management reports a more stable accounting system.
Management values access from phones and handheld PC devices.
The shared operating model supports Baker’s interest in converting another store.
“We needed to be able to digitally capture signatures and the ability to email invoices at time of purchase to eliminate costly postage. Business Central is a more paperless system which also helps cut cost.”Marty Baker, Baker’s Electrical Supply
How Baker’s Electrical Supply Uses Business Central Today
Purchasing and Replenishment
Baker’s uses sales history, safety stock, reorder points, minimum order quantities, maximum quantities, order multiples, vendor details, purchase quantities, and location demand to inform orders. Staff review suggested lines before creating purchasing activity.
Business Central with Embedded POS
Counter staff use item lookup, quantity prompts, keyboard shortcuts, customer accounts, customer-specific pricing, discount handling, staff assignment, auto-logoff, closeouts, receipt printing, house accounts, offline sales, and digital signature capture.
Inventory and Branch Transfers
Location records, stockkeeping units, store-code dimensions, item-ledger information, quantity-on-hand visibility, transfer routes, and transfer orders help Baker’s document movement between Monticello and Crossett.
Purchasing Documents
Baker’s uses purchase-order layouts with vendor references, shipment methods, account numbers, freight terms, cost information, and line formatting that support electrical-supply purchasing.
Customer Service and Pricing
Customer sales history helps staff review prior purchases. Customer-specific prices, discount groups, item references, statements, invoices, credit memos, and payment application support customer-account service.
Reporting and Financial Control
Baker’s uses location reporting, aged receivables, statements, sales-tax information, closeout summaries, profit-by-invoice reporting, invoices, customer and vendor balances, and rebate-related sales history.
Data Management and Output
Excel-based data imports support item, customer, vendor, and reference data. PrintNode and configured printer routing support document and receipt output where required.
Cloud and Mobile Access
Browser and mobile access give management another way to reach business information, while cloud backup removes the former daily local-backup responsibility.
How Electrical Supply Inventory Replenishment Software Supports Daily Operations
Baker’s can evaluate what sold, where demand occurred, what remains on hand, what should be transferred, and what should be purchased. That operating view connects purchasing decisions with counter service, customer commitments, vendor ordering, inventory control, and profitability.
Customer Story
Baker’s began with a clear need for a more robust replacement for an outdated system. The project became a broader operating change that connected two locations, improved visibility into inventory and purchasing, supported customer-account workflows, and reduced dependence on paper and local infrastructure.
“The LS Express add-on integrates seamless with Business Central and we really like the mobile access feature.”Marty Baker, Baker’s Electrical Supply
Daily value appears across Baker’s operations. Purchasing can draw on sales history and replenishment settings. Transfers can be documented between locations. Counter staff can use customer-specific pricing and account information. Invoices can be emailed at purchase, signatures can be captured digitally, and management can access the system away from a fixed workstation.
“I’m looking forward to converting our next store!”Marty Baker, Baker’s Electrical Supply
Conclusion
Baker’s Electrical Supply has built a two-location operating environment around Electrical Supply Inventory Replenishment Software. Business Central connects replenishment, purchasing, transfers, embedded POS, customer pricing, statements, reporting, accounting, paperless documents, and mobile access while System Solutions LLC supports the workflows Baker’s uses to serve electrical-supply customers.
Business owners can review Microsoft’s official Dynamics 365 Business Central overview for current product information.
Discuss Your Electrical Supply Workflows
Electrical supply houses evaluating inventory replenishment, embedded POS, multi-location control, paperless documents, or mobile access can contact System Solutions LLC to discuss current workflows.