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Implementation Calendar: limited client spots available each quarter

iTMS to Business Central Migration

iTMS Got Your Factory This Far. Business Central Takes It the Rest of the Way — On a Platform That Isn't Going Anywhere.

⚡ ZERO DATA LOSS • PROVEN PROCESS • MANUFACTURING FOCUS

iTMS understands manufacturing — that's why you chose it. But betting your operations on a niche system carries risks that grow every year: a small ecosystem, limited integrations, and a platform outside the Microsoft world your business runs on.

- Complete Data Migration • 12-Week Process • Manufacturing Expertise

ONE SUPPORT CONTACT AWAY FROM TROUBLE?

If your ERP knowledge lives with a handful of people — inside your company or the vendor's — that's a business risk, not just an IT one.

Limited client spots available each quarter

Why Manufacturers Are Moving from iTMS to Business Central

It's rarely about features — it's about what surrounds the system:

⚠️ Niche-Vendor Risk

A small vendor means a small team, a small roadmap, and support that depends on a few key people. If priorities shift or people leave, your ERP's future shifts with them.

Business Central: Backed by Microsoft with a published roadmap and two major releases a year

🔗 Limited Integration Ecosystem

Connecting iTMS to eCommerce, EDI, BI tools, or your Microsoft 365 environment usually means custom work — if it's possible at all. Every new business requirement becomes an integration project.

Business Central: Open APIs, thousands of AppSource extensions, native Microsoft 365 integration

👥 Nobody New Knows the System

Every hire has to be trained from scratch on software they'll never see anywhere else, and your most experienced users become single points of failure. Institutional knowledge walks out the door with them.

Business Central: A mainstream product with a large talent pool and familiar Microsoft interface

📊 Reporting Locked in the System

Getting answers out of iTMS beyond its built-in reports means exports, spreadsheets, and manual consolidation. Management ends up making decisions on week-old data.

Business Central: Live Power BI dashboards and direct Excel access to your real-time data

The Reality Check:

The question isn't whether iTMS works today — it's whether you want your manufacturing operation dependent on a niche platform for the next ten years, while your competitors build on an ecosystem.

Talk Through Your iTMS Exit Options

Our Proven iTMS to Business Central Migration Process

iTMS sites are manufacturing-heavy, so the critical work is faithfully rebuilding your BOMs, routings, and job structures in Business Central — not just moving the ledger. Our 12-week process:

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Week 1-2

iTMS System Audit

  • • Full usage & configuration review
  • • BOM, routing & job data assessment
  • • Custom reports & workarounds inventory
  • • Integration & data export mapping
  • • Process gap analysis
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Week 3-4

BC Environment Setup

  • • Business Central configuration
  • • Manufacturing module activation
  • • Australian localization setup
  • • User accounts & security
  • • AppSource extension selection
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Week 5-6

Data Transformation

  • • iTMS data extraction
  • • Chart of accounts mapping
  • • Customer/supplier conversion
  • • Item master transformation
  • • Open transaction reconciliation
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Week 7

Manufacturing Rebuild

  • • BOM & routing recreation in BC
  • • Work centre & capacity setup
  • • Job & production order structures
  • • Inventory location mapping
  • • Shop floor process design
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Week 8-9

Testing & Training

  • • Multiple migration test runs
  • • Data validation & reconciliation
  • • Comprehensive user training
  • • Process documentation
  • • User acceptance testing
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Week 10

Final Migration & Go-Live

  • • Final iTMS data export
  • • Production migration
  • • System cutover weekend
  • • Go-live support
  • • Post-migration validation

Manufacturing-First Migration

Most ERP consultants migrate the financials and treat manufacturing as an afterthought. We do it the other way around — your BOMs, routings, and production workflows are validated on the shop floor before cutover, not discovered broken after it.

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What You Gain Moving from iTMS to Business Central

Keep the manufacturing depth. Add the platform.

🏭 Manufacturing, Fully Covered

  • • Production orders, BOMs & routings
  • • Material requirements planning (MRP)
  • • Capacity & work centre planning
  • • Job costing & project accounting
  • • Quality & lot/serial tracking
  • • Subcontracting workflows

☁️ Plus Everything iTMS Can't Offer

  • • True cloud SaaS — no servers to maintain
  • • Native Excel, Outlook & Teams integration
  • • Power BI dashboards on live data
  • • Open APIs & AppSource extensions
  • • Microsoft-backed roadmap & security
  • • A talent pool you can actually hire from

From Niche System to Platform

You chose iTMS because it fit manufacturing. Business Central fits manufacturing too — and it also fits your accountant, your IT provider, your integrations, and your next ten hires.

See Your Operation in Business Central

Who Should Migrate from iTMS to Business Central

This migration makes sense if any of these sound familiar:

⚠️ Risk Concerns

  • • Worried about vendor longevity
  • • Key-person risk on system knowledge
  • • Aging on-premise infrastructure
  • • Uncertain product roadmap
  • • Board or buyers asking about systems risk

📈 Growth & Change

  • • Adding sites, entities or channels
  • • eCommerce or EDI requirements
  • • Standardising on Microsoft 365
  • • Preparing the business for sale
  • • New leadership wanting modern tools

🔧 Operational Friction

  • • Reporting means exports & spreadsheets
  • • Integrations are custom or missing
  • • New staff take months to train
  • • Remote & mobile access is limited
  • • Workarounds outnumber workflows

iTMS to Business Central Migration FAQs

Common questions about migrating from iTMS to Business Central:

Ready to Migrate from iTMS to Business Central?

Move your manufacturing operation from a niche system to the Microsoft platform. Fixed timeline, zero data loss, comprehensive training included.