Phase 3 · Conversion
Non-Profit & Development Sector · Business Central
Business Central, and a door in front of it.
Education, water and enterprise programmes run from Nairobi on Business Central, with a requisition portal in front of it so requesters never have to live in the ERP.
Snapshot
Pharo Foundation
Education, water and enterprise programmes, run from Nairobi, with people in Ethiopia, Somaliland, Rwanda and London. Business Central holds the companies. Not every requester should have to live in the ERP.
Where they work- KenyaHeadquarters
- EthiopiaProgrammes
- SomalilandProgrammes
- RwandaProgrammes
- United KingdomLondon
The challenge
Programme staff in several countries needed to raise requisitions, but the ERP is built for finance users. Giving every requester an ERP seat was the wrong answer, and a separate system would have created a second set of books.
What we implemented
1
The ledger
Dynamics 365 Business Central, across the foundation's companies.
2
The portal
Requisitions, a company switcher, and identity in Microsoft Entra.
3
The boundary
Approvals stay in Business Central. The browser never holds the token.
The result
One tenant. The portal is a door, not a second set of books.
What similar organisations can take from it
- Put a portal in front of the ERP for the people who only need to request, and keep approvals and posting inside the ERP.
- Use one identity provider across the foundation's companies, so access is managed in one place.
- Keep the secret on the server: the browser should never hold the token that calls the ERP.
Platforms and products
Dynamics 365 Business Central
Microsoft Entra ID
Requisition portal