Inside Insights - The Insight Works Podcast

Insight Works brings you the latest in manufacturing and distribution tech, all through the lens of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Our podcast dives into essential tools, strategies, and insights to help businesses thrive. From optimizing warehouse operations to streamlining production, we cover practical solutions that make a real difference for small and mid-sized companies navigating today’s supply chain challenges. Join us as we explore the tech and trends that keep business moving forward.

Inside Insights - The Insight Works Podcast is a technology podcast hosted by insightworks, with 100 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

insightworks hosts Inside Insights - The Insight Works Podcast, a technology show with 100 episodes published.

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  Episode #47

  Handle Warehouse Wi-Fi Dead Zones in Business Central

  Sep 24, 202619 minS3

  What happens to your warehouse when the Wi-Fi drops, or when your fastest scanner is simply outpacing the network? Ryan and Emma explain why a spotty connection can do more damage than a full outage, and why the old sync-later approach mostly delays the discovery of mistakes. They cover how Warehouse Insight for Business Central handles three situations: normal real-time validation, brief dead zones with store-and-forward queuing, and extended offline work with conflict flagging when the connection returns. They finish on a good question for IT teams: if the software hides dead zones this well, does anyone ever fix them? Catch the full conversation to hear how a scan error caught right away costs a second instead of a shift.

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  Episode #46

  Voice Picking vs Voice Guidance in Business Central

  Sep 24, 202622 minS3

  If a worker says "done" into a headset, does the system actually know they picked the right item? Ryan and Emma look at why traditional voice picking gave up the proof that barcode scanning provides, and how screen-based warehouse work has kept many capable people with visual impairments out of these jobs. They go through voice guidance in Warehouse Insight for Business Central: the device speaks each instruction, the worker scans to confirm, and Business Central checks the item, bin, and quantity before moving on. They also cover the wrist-worn computer and ring scanner setup, and why the device only speaks and never listens. Listen in to hear how one small change to the workflow improves accuracy and opens the job to more people.

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  Episode #45

  Business Central Warehouse Mobile Views for Every Role

  Sep 24, 202621 minS3

  Why does a forklift operator have to use the same scanner screen as a receiving clerk and a 15-year veteran picker? Ryan and Emma look at the one-size-fits-all mobile screen problem on the warehouse floor. They walk through the three Warehouse Insight views for Business Central: a picture-driven tile view, a step-by-step card view, and a sortable grid for experienced pickers. They also explain why the views are tied to devices rather than users, and what that means for admins who would rather not open an IT ticket every time someone changes shifts. Tune in to hear how matching the screen to the job cuts errors and frustration.

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  Episode #44

  Warehouse Insight for Business Central One WMS, Any Device

  Sep 21, 202621 minS3

  Most warehouses do not run on matching hardware, they run on whatever got bought over the last decade, and that usually means a mix of Android scanners, aging Windows PCs, and the occasional Chromebook bolted to a forklift. In this episode, Emma and Ryan dig into how Warehouse Insight, a warehouse management system built into Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, handles that chaos with a single configuration that runs across every platform. They walk through how the software automatically adapts its interface for different warehouse roles, from pickers who need a fast visual view to supervisors who need dense, sortable data, without anyone touching a line of platform specific code. Along the way they get into what this approach means for IT teams tired of maintaining three versions of the same workflow, and for implementation partners trying to close deals without a forced hardware upgrade. Tune in to hear why the answer to warehouse hardware chaos might be smarter software rather than a bigger budget.

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  Episode #43

  RFID vs Barcodes in Business Central: Where Each One Wins

  Sep 16, 202621 minS3

  A $100,000 RFID system defeated by a pallet of eggs sounds like a joke, but it is ordinary warehouse physics. In this episode of Inside Insights, we work through the Insight Works guide RFID Scanning for Warehouse Operations to sort out where RFID earns its place in a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central warehouse and where the printed barcode still wins. We cover how passive tags draw power from the reader, what EPC data changes, the three hidden projects behind a fixed reader portal, why stray reads make RFID a poor fit for piece picking, and how license plating and camera-based batch scanning close the speed gap. The takeaway: find your bottleneck first, then choose the technology, and use both where it makes sense, as Warehouse Insight supports RFID and barcodes side by side.

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