Business Central's LBM ERP features provide advanced inventory management capabilities for handling lumber and building material products. It can manage stock levels, track inventory across multiple locations or yards, tally dimensional lumber, millwork and sheet products, and buy and sell in board feet, linear feet, or any other unit of measure a business wants to use. Any item can have unlimited units of measure: PCs, BF, MBF, LF, CF to buy, sell, and tally inventory over multi-locations, with multiple suppliers. Seasonally forecast, user reorder points, ABC Analysis, or perform sales and order demand-based re-ordering to stock what is needed.

The lumber and building material POS, contractor desk and field sales allows choice of any major credit card processor in North America. Don’t be held hostage to a single payment processor and pay excessive credit card processing fees.

Business Central is more than just customers, inventory and POS. It has deep LBM ERP software features that manage the order process, from quotation to delivery, including special orders and backorder management. This is particularly important for dealers dealing with large projects or custom orders. Special orders and deliveries can originate from the lumber and building material POS, contractor desk or special orders, and be recalled from any location. Additionally, with CRM capabilities dealers can manage customer accounts, track sales interactions, and understand customer needs better, facilitating improved customer service and targeted marketing efforts.

Business Central supports supply chain management, from procurement of materials to managing relationships with suppliers and vendors. This includes automated reorder processes, which are essential for maintaining optimal stock levels of high-demand materials. LBM ERP software features track, and price products, based on supplier costs, tariffs, landed costs, margins, promotions, sales history, purchase history, and forecasting to optimize return on inventory investment.

The system can manage specific challenges of warehouse and yard operations in the lumber and building materials sector, such as storing large and varied inventory and managing pick, pack, and shipping processes.

Manage multiple stores, locations, warehouses, or storage areas from a single login. No more synchronization, all data is real-time between all locations so you can manage inventory, customers, and staff for one location or all locations simultaneously.

For dealers involved in larger construction projects or providing value-added services such as custom cutting or assembly, Business Central's project management features can help track project costs, timelines, and resource allocation.

Purchase supplies for a job, either on purchase orders or invoices, and record item and time usage.

Business Central Lumber and building material POS can handle complex pricing strategies, including volume discounts, contract pricing, and promotional offers, which are common in the building materials industry.

Access all Business Central software functions from anywhere in-store, at home, or on the road.  Unlimited free installations mean you can perform any function, anywhere, with the same username and password. Lumber and building material POS, quoting, customer management, inventory management and accounting can be run from any device, any time, from anywhere.

Eliminate double entry and support for multiple software systems. Business Central handles lumber and building material pos, back-end, and accounting effortlessly.

Modern Interface: Add or remove fields and columns from any screen in the system to adapt to the way you work. Add or remove columns in any lists, to quickly see, sort, and filter any data needed. 

While viewing a list of records in Business Central, single click to open them in Excel, edit, add equations, and send results instantly back into Business Central.