Margins in grocery and convenience retail are notoriously thin and getting thinner. Rising labor costs, inflation, supply chain disruptions, and shifting consumer behavior are putting increasing pressure on the profit margins of grocery and convenience stores. And competition from big-box retailers, dollar stores, and delivery platforms is intensifying. Yet many operators find themselves in a… Continue reading Where Grocery and Convenience Store Margins Really Go (and How to Take Them Back)
Demand Planning for Retail: How to Use Your ERP to Forecast Sales and Optimize Inventory
Incredible growth can happen when inventory aligns with customer demand. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) in retail is a tool for turning raw data into proactive, profit-driving inventory strategies. Knowing how to use ERP can help you better identify product availability, free up working capital for expansion, and automate replenishment workflows. Additionally, upgrading to an integrated… Continue reading Demand Planning for Retail: How to Use Your ERP to Forecast Sales and Optimize Inventory
AI for the Over 40 – Week 36: Do We Still Need Developers?
We launched an internal initiative called AI Activation, a group focused on activating AI for ourselves and our clients through lived experience. Thirty people signed up. Not everyone made the first meeting, but the level of voluntary interest tells you something: people are excited about what is possible and want to figure out how to… Continue reading AI for the Over 40 – Week 36: Do We Still Need Developers?
Before You Deploy AI, Tighten Up Your Business Central Permissions
AI adoption is accelerating quickly across Microsoft environments, from Microsoft Copilot to AI capabilities embedded directly into Dynamics 365 Business Central. But before organizations focus on prompts, productivity gains, and new use cases, they should address who already has access to what. That question matters because AI generally works within the permissions already assigned to… Continue reading Before You Deploy AI, Tighten Up Your Business Central Permissions
5 Business Central Security Settings Every Company Should Review
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central includes multiple layers of security designed to control who can access the system, what they can see, and what they can do. But security settings are not something companies should configure once and forget. Employees change roles, partners come and go, new applications are added, permissions accumulate. It’s a moving… Continue reading 5 Business Central Security Settings Every Company Should Review
Cybersecurity Risk Isn’t Just an IT Issue—It’s a Business Risk
Cybersecurity is often treated as a technical problem; something for IT to manage with firewalls, endpoint protection, passwords, and security policies. That view is increasingly outdated. A cyber incident can affect far more than systems and data. It can interrupt operations, delay shipments, expose sensitive information, disrupt suppliers, create regulatory problems, damage customer confidence, and… Continue reading Cybersecurity Risk Isn’t Just an IT Issue—It’s a Business Risk
Managing Permissions and Security Groups in Dynamics 365 Business Central – Part IV: Permission Recording, Auditing, and Troubleshooting
In our previous blogs in this series, we discussed managing user permissions with permission sets, security groups, and effective permissions. We also looked at viewing permissions by user and by security group. You can catch up on these blogs here: The takeaway from these blogs is that, whenever possible, it’s better to control user access… Continue reading Managing Permissions and Security Groups in Dynamics 365 Business Central – Part IV: Permission Recording, Auditing, and Troubleshooting
AI for the Over 40: Week 35 – Where AI Literacy Meets AI Fluency
In the last series blog, I wrote about the humbling experience of auditing my own AI skills, discovering that the most important techniques I had developed over 33 weeks had never been named, and that the simplest practical habits were the ones I still skipped. I walked away with a four-skill framework: Set the Stage,… Continue reading AI for the Over 40: Week 35 – Where AI Literacy Meets AI Fluency
Loss Prevention in the Digital Age: How to Use Your ERP to Reduce Retail Shrinkage and Prevent Fraud
In today’s complex retail environment, protecting your margins requires more than just security cameras and physical tags. Modern loss prevention is about proactive data visibility. By leveraging your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, you can transform how you manage inventory, monitor transactions, and safeguard your profits across every sales channel. Overcoming disconnected retail operations Shrinkage… Continue reading Loss Prevention in the Digital Age: How to Use Your ERP to Reduce Retail Shrinkage and Prevent Fraud
Dynamics Business Central / NAV Developer Digest – Vol. 561
ArcherPoint by Cherry Bekaert’s Developer Digest focuses on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and Dynamics NAV development. This week’s volume includes controlling a race condition when using IsolatedStorage, caching issues using SetLoadFields for partial records, what really happens when moving from NAV to BC, and using multiple AI development tools for AL. The Dynamics 365 Business Central community, consisting of… Continue reading Dynamics Business Central / NAV Developer Digest – Vol. 561