Work multi-site with Central Layer
As your organization grows, the number of locations and departments increases. Data spreads across multiple locations, and accessing the right information becomes a greater challenge. But what if you could have direct access to all data, no matter where you are? Maintaining a central view of your entire organization? Breaking down information silos and empowering your teams with more autonomy? And seamlessly providing information to your customers? This is where the Central Layer module offers the solution—adding a layer to manage all your (master) data efficiently.
Boltrics’ Central Layer module
Central Layer creates a central company from where you can manage the master data for all your sites and companies. For example, customers, customer articles, or price agreements and contracts. You can make changes in this central company and forward it to other companies. All your sites will be working with the same data without any errors.
Delegate the data accordingly
In practice, this entails having a single company within your software system overseeing the master data. Imagine you’ve onboarded a new customer or an existing one who intends to store new articles in your warehouse. You make these adjustments within that company. Subsequently, the updated information is swiftly disseminated to other connected companies or environments through data integration messages. This ensures seamless implementation of changes, without any need for manual intervention by your employees.
Select the data you wish to manage centrally
Central Layer gives you all the freedom to configure the data you handle and share with other companies and sites according to your needs. For instance, in 3PL Dynamics, you have the autonomy to select which tables you want to centrally manage. This allows you to decide which companies and sites should receive the centrally controlled master data and which should not.
Scenarios to use Central Layer
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Multiple databases, one central administration
Do you have separate logistics operations? For example, at different locations in Europe (or elsewhere)? In that case, you can apply Central Layer as a central overarching layer to centrally manage and synchronize certain processes with underlying databases. Think of Finance or Customs, as well as customer articles and contracts.
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Separated entities
You can also use Central Layer as an underlying data warehouse. When processes between databases are barely connected, you can still combine information in this way, for example, to a general finance package.
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One logistics database, financially separated
Does your operation involve various logistics activities, but your customer perceives your transportation and warehousing branches as a single entity? With Central Layer, you can separate these financial administrations without your customer being aware of it.
With Central Layer, we can easily store and ship customer goods from multiple sites. Inventory numbers fluctuate enormously as a result of bottlenecks in the supply chain – often caused by global events such as COVID-19, the blockage of the Suez Canal, or the recent situation on the Red Sea. With Central Layer, we are able to respond to these functions adequately, by diverging to other storage locations. And directly continue the shipping process from these locations.
– Martijn Put, Supply Chain Improvement Manager at Nedcargo
