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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Implementation

From Business Requirement to a Production System People Can Actually Run

A successful implementation is not measured by how many modules were configured. It is measured by whether the solution can reliably run your business — processes working end to end, master data controlled, integrations reconciling, reports that can be trusted and a business that can operate confidently the week after go-live.

End-to-end delivery across Finance, Supply Chain, Business Central, Sales, Field Service, Project Operations and Commerce — with the integrations and data behind them.

We design the business process before we configure Dynamics 365

Many implementations begin with “show us how this module works.” We prefer to begin with “show us how your business works.”

If finance, supply chain, sales, service, projects, commerce, data and integrations are designed independently, the business receives several configured applications. Designed together, it receives one operating solution.

  • Business processes work end to end
  • Master data is controlled
  • Integrations reconcile
  • Users understand their responsibilities
  • Reports can be trusted
  • Security reflects real roles
  • Opening data is accurate
  • Exceptions have been tested
Scope

What Urewa Implements

The Urewa Implementation Journey

From Discovery to Stable Operations

Nine stages. Select any one to see what happens there and what you receive from it.

01

Discover

Understand

Understand how the business actually operates — where controls fail, where spreadsheets fill gaps, which processes differ by entity, and which legacy habits should not be carried forward.

  • Process catalogue
  • Requirements register
  • Fit-gap assessment
  • Integration catalogue
  • Data migration scope
  • Solution risks

What you receive

Deliverables from this stage are listed above and carried into the next.

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Microsoft structures implementation as Discover, Initiate, Implement, Prepare and Operate. Our methodology follows the same principles, adapted to the size, complexity and risk of each engagement — see Microsoft’s implementation guidance.

Our Philosophy

Standard Where It Fits. Extend Where It Matters.

Every requirement is pushed down this ladder before anyone writes code. Development is the last option, not the first.

  1. 01Standard functionalityCan Dynamics 365 already support it as delivered?Try this first
  2. 02ConfigurationCan setup, parameters, workflow or security address it?Try this first
  3. 03Process redesignIs the legacy process itself unnecessary?Try this first
  4. 04Power PlatformCan Power Apps or Power Automate solve it more cleanly?Try this first
  5. 05IntegrationShould another specialist system own this process?Try this first
  6. 06ExtensionDoes a controlled extension deliver genuine business value?Only if justified

Before approving any extension

Is it legally required? Does it create measurable business value? Can standard functionality achieve most of it? Could Power Platform solve it more cleanly? Does another system already own this process? And — the question most often skipped — how will this extension be maintained after every Microsoft release?

Discovery

Understand the Business Before Designing the Solution

Discovery is not collecting a list of requirements. It is understanding how the business operates today, where controls fail, and which legacy processes should not be carried forward at all.

Organisation

  • Legal entities
  • Business units
  • Sites
  • Warehouses
  • Stores
  • Projects
  • Service locations

Processes

  • Lead-to-order
  • Procure-to-pay
  • Plan-to-produce
  • Order-to-cash
  • Record-to-report
  • Project-to-profit
  • Service-to-cash

Systems

  • Current ERP
  • CRM
  • Payroll
  • Banking
  • Tax
  • E-commerce
  • WMS
  • MES
  • Portals
  • Reporting tools

Data

  • Customers
  • Vendors
  • Products
  • Assets
  • Employees
  • Projects
  • Opening balances
  • Open transactions

Reporting

  • Operational reports
  • Financial statements
  • Dashboards
  • Regulatory reports
  • Management KPIs
Fit-to-Standard

Every Requirement Gets Classified

Without this, a requirement quietly becomes a customisation — then more code, more testing, more maintenance and more upgrade risk.

The discipline is distinguishing genuine business value from legacy habit — and recording which of the two every decision was.

The Detail That Decides Outcomes

Integration, Data, Security, Testing and Cutover

These five areas cause most implementation failures. Open any one to see how we approach it.

Dynamics 365 rarely operates alone. A real implementation connects it to banks, payroll, HR, payment gateways, e-commerce, tax platforms, logistics providers, WMS, MES, vendor and customer portals, legacy ERP and data warehouses.

How we approach it

  • Source & target — Where does the information originate, and where must it go?
  • Frequency & direction — Real time, scheduled or batch — inbound, outbound or both?
  • Identifier — How is each transaction uniquely identified?
  • Validation — What makes a transaction valid before it is accepted?
  • Duplicate prevention — How do we avoid reprocessing the same data?
  • Error handling — What happens when it fails, and who finds out?
  • Reprocessing — Can a user safely retry without creating duplicates?
  • Reconciliation — How do both systems prove their totals agree?

An integration is complete when the business transaction is created, failure can be identified and corrected, and both systems can be reconciled — not when the endpoint returns 200.

Migration is one of the highest-risk parts of any Dynamics implementation. Configuration data and migration data are planned separately, and both are mapped, tested, validated and rehearsed before cutover.

How we approach it

  • Master data — Customers, vendors, products, chart of accounts, dimensions, assets, resources, employees, projects.
  • Open transactions — Sales and purchase orders, customer and vendor balances, inventory, projects, production and service orders.
  • Opening financials — General ledger, receivables, payables, inventory valuation, fixed assets and bank balances.
  • Historical data — Only where a defined operational, legal or reporting requirement exists.
  • Cycle 1 — Validate structure and mapping.
  • Cycle 2 — Validate cleansed business data.
  • Cycle 3 — Test transaction dependencies and volume.
  • Mock cutover — Execute migration under expected go-live conditions.

The partner can migrate data. Only the customer can confirm the business data is correct — so ownership stays joint, and sign-off is explicit.

Dynamics security should follow business responsibility: job roles, duties, privileges, company access, segregation of duties, sensitive information, approval authority, administrator access, integration users and service accounts.

How we approach it

  • Purchasing user — Can create purchase orders.
  • Purchasing manager — Can approve within a defined authority limit.
  • Accounts payable — Can process supplier invoices.
  • Payment user — Can prepare the payment proposal.
  • Payment approver — Can approve the payment.
  • Administrator — Deliberately separated from transactional authority.

The same user should not perform every step simply because it is technically possible. Segregation of duties is a design decision, not an audit finding.

Testing belongs in the project from early on rather than as a final activity. Each layer answers a different question, and the exceptions matter more than the happy path.

How we approach it

  • Unit — Does the individual configuration or development work?
  • Functional — Does the business scenario work?
  • Integration — Do connected applications behave correctly?
  • System integration — Does the complete process work across the whole solution?
  • Performance — Can expected business volume be handled?
  • Security — Do users have appropriate — and only appropriate — access?
  • Migration — Is migrated data complete and accurate?
  • User acceptance — Can real users run the real business end to end?

In procure-to-pay we do not only test PO → receipt → invoice → payment. We test partial receipt, over and under delivery, price and quantity mismatch, invoice without receipt, returns, credit notes, prepayments, rejected workflow, payment reversal, cancelled orders and integration failure.

A detailed cutover strategy is written, rehearsed, validated and signed off before execution, with responsibilities assigned and production readiness confirmed.

How we approach it

  • Legacy freeze — Stop transactions in the outgoing system.
  • Configuration — Promote approved configuration to production.
  • Data — Run the production migration.
  • Validation — Reconcile balances and master data.
  • Integrations — Activate production interfaces.
  • Security — Enable production users and roles.
  • Business — Execute smoke-test scenarios.
  • Approval — Obtain formal go-live confirmation.

Readiness means SIT and UAT complete, critical defects resolved or formally accepted, migration rehearsed, cutover approved, users trained, security ready, integrations validated and the support model already active.

What You Receive

Deliverables, Not Just Activities

Most partners describe what they will do. These are the artefacts you end up owning.

01

Solution blueprint

The approved architecture — applications, organisation model, data, integration, security and environments.

02

Fit-gap register

Every requirement classified: standard, configuration, process change, extension, integration or out of scope.

03

Configuration workbook

Controlled system setup, traceable back to an approved business requirement.

04

Integration catalogue

Every interface with source, target, frequency, identifiers, error handling and reconciliation.

05

Data migration plan

Objects, ownership, mapping, cleansing, migration cycles and business sign-off.

06

Test strategy

SIT, UAT, migration, performance, security and regression scope with acceptance criteria.

07

Cutover plan

The production transition sequence, rehearsed before it is executed.

08

Support handover

The post-go-live operating model, issue classification and escalation path.

Engagement Types

Not Every Implementation Starts from Zero

Greenfield implementation

Implementing Dynamics 365 for the first time, with no legacy Dynamics environment to carry forward.

Legacy ERP replacement

Replacing older ERP, CRM, accounting, warehouse, service or retail systems with Dynamics 365.

Dynamics AX migration

Modernising AX 2009 or AX 2012 environments into current Dynamics 365 architecture.

Dynamics NAV migration

Moving NAV environments to Business Central where that is the right fit.

CRM modernisation

Moving older Dynamics CRM or another CRM platform to Sales, Customer Service or Field Service.

Reimplementation

Redesigning a Dynamics environment made unworkable by excess customisation, weak process design, bad data or poor adoption.

In Practice

Representative Implementation Scenarios

Manufacturing company

CurrentFinance software, a separate inventory system, production planning in Excel and manual approvals.

ScopeFinance, procurement, inventory, planning, manufacturing, warehouse, quality and Power BI on Finance + Supply Chain Management.

Urewa focusEvery physical transaction has a correctly designed financial outcome.

Mid-sized business

CurrentAccounting software plus a wall of spreadsheets.

ScopeBusiness Central across finance, sales, purchasing, inventory, manufacturing and reporting.

Urewa focusLegacy complexity is left behind rather than imported into a simpler cloud solution.

Professional services

CurrentSales commitments and delivery economics live in different places.

ScopeSales + Project Operations + Finance: lead, opportunity, quote, project, resource, time and expense, billing, revenue, margin.

Urewa focusWhat was sold and what gets delivered finally agree.

Service equipment company

CurrentCustomer, asset and service history scattered across systems.

ScopeSales + Field Service + ERP: customer, asset, service request, work order, technician, parts, completion, invoice.

Urewa focusA complete service-to-cash architecture rather than a dispatch tool.

Omnichannel retailer

CurrentStore and online operate as separate businesses with separate inventory.

ScopeCommerce + Supply Chain + Finance: product, pricing, channels, inventory, order, fulfillment, payment, posting.

Urewa focusThe customer promise matches inventory and accounting reality.

Governance & Risk

Clear Ownership Prevents Slow Decisions

Steering committee

Business direction and major decisions.

Project manager

Plan, scope, risks and dependencies.

Solution architect

End-to-end solution integrity.

Functional leads

Business-process design.

Technical lead

Extensions, interfaces and technical architecture.

Data lead

Migration ownership.

Customer process owners

Business decisions and acceptance.

Key users

Validation and adoption.

01

Process before configuration

We understand end-to-end transactions before anyone opens a setup form.

02

Architecture before development

Major design decisions are made and owned before code starts.

03

Standard before custom

Customisation requires justification, not just a requirement number.

04

Data early

Migration is not postponed to the final month of the project.

05

Integration with reconciliation

Interfaces ship with monitoring, retry and reconciliation built in.

06

Test real exceptions

Partial receipts, mismatches, reversals and failures — not only the happy path.

07

Cutover rehearsal

Production migration is practised before it is performed.

08

Business sign-off

Key decisions have accountable owners, recorded outside meeting notes.

What we expect from you

Participation in process decisions, master-data ownership, requirement validation, UAT, cutover, training, change management and sign-off. Implementation cannot be fully outsourced, because your organisation has to own the future operating model — we can build it, but we cannot decide how you want to run.

Readiness Assessment

Are You Ready for Dynamics 365?

1

Target business processes are documented

2

Process owners have been identified

3

We know which legacy systems will remain

4

Master data is reasonably clean

5

We know which historical data must be migrated

6

Critical integrations have been identified

7

Reporting requirements are documented

8

Roles and approval responsibilities are agreed

9

Business users can participate in testing

10

Key customisations in the current system are identified

11

Senior management can make timely design decisions

12

There is a realistic cutover window

13

Internal resources are allocated to the project

14

Training is included in the project plan

15

There is a post-go-live support strategy

Answer all fifteen to see where your implementation risk sits (0/15 answered).

Common Questions

Implementation FAQs

How long does a Dynamics 365 implementation take?

It depends on applications in scope, legal entities and countries, process complexity, data migration volume, integrations, customisation and how quickly the business can make decisions. A credible timeline comes out of discovery — a partner quoting a duration before understanding your processes is guessing.

Do you follow Microsoft's implementation guidance?

Yes. Microsoft's guidance structures implementation as Discover, Initiate, Implement, Prepare and Operate, with end-to-end business processes as the framework for defining, designing, building and testing. Our methodology follows those principles while adapting delivery to the size, complexity and risk of each engagement.

How much customisation will we need?

As little as genuinely justifies itself. Every requirement is assessed against standard functionality, configuration, process redesign, Power Platform, integration and only then extension. Microsoft's own cloud guidance warns against carrying traditional over-customisation habits into cloud implementations.

Who owns data migration?

It is shared. We profile, map, transform, load and reconcile — but only your business can confirm the migrated data is correct. That sign-off is explicit, and it happens across several migration cycles rather than once during cutover week.

What happens if we already have a failing Dynamics implementation?

We run a reimplementation assessment. Environments become unworkable through excess customisation, weak process design, bad data, poor adoption, failed integrations or weak reporting. Sometimes redesign is more effective than continuing to add fixes.

Can you implement in phases?

Yes, and it often reduces risk where organisational readiness is limited — for example finance first, then procurement and inventory, then manufacturing, then sales, service and analytics. The phasing has to respect process dependencies rather than just splitting modules.

What do you need from us?

Participation in process decisions, master-data ownership, requirement validation, UAT, cutover, training, change management and sign-off. Implementation cannot be fully outsourced, because your organisation has to own the future operating model.

What happens after go-live?

Hypercare first — daily issue review, incident management, data corrections, integration monitoring and reconciliation support, with issues classified as defect, configuration, data, training or change request. Once stable, responsibilities transition into a sustainable managed support model.

Do you handle multi-country rollouts?

Yes. The critical discipline is distinguishing the global template — what should remain common — from genuine local requirements such as statutory, tax and language needs. Without that separation, a rollout becomes several unrelated implementations.

Your Implementation Should Improve the Business

Implementing Dynamics 365 for the first time, replacing a legacy ERP, migrating from AX or NAV, replacing another CRM, reimplementing an unsuccessful Dynamics solution, consolidating systems or preparing a global rollout — we design and deliver it from discovery through production stabilisation.