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Inter Company is a standalone modular ERP on model-driven app technology — the same platform as Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement Apps, but as a trading ERP with multi-warehouse cooperation logic. Trading companies with their own warehouses cooperate, share inventory visibility, and ship directly from the hub partner's warehouse.
What Inter Company is
Inter Company is built on model-driven app technology — the same platform that Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement Apps run on. But Inter Company isn't a Customer Engagement add-on. It's a standalone trading ERP that can be operated standalone or integrated into existing Microsoft environments.
The platform choice gives us technical advantages we deliberately leveraged in the design. The data model lives in Dataverse — the same structural world as a D365 Customer Engagement environment, so security roles, field-level security, and audit trails come out of the box. Reporting runs through Power BI with direct connection. Workflow logic can be built as a Power Automate flow or extended by plugin. Anyone wanting to add modules of their own — additional industry logic, custom master-data structures — has the Power Platform as a mature extension platform that thousands of customers worldwide already use.
Inter Company is typically used like this: a mid-sized trading company replaces its old ERP or adds real ERP functionality for master data, orders, warehouse, and shipping to an existing Microsoft environment. The system's real strength, however, emerges where multiple trading companies cooperate — and that's the hub architecture part.
Hub architecture — the real differentiator
The basic idea of the hub architecture: multiple trading companies with their own warehouses form a network. Each company sees not only its own inventory but also that of its hub partners — with configurable visibility rules, of course. When an order arrives, the system can decide which warehouse should ship: its own, the nearest hub partner's, or the one with the highest stock.
This has two direct effects. Reduced shipping costs: if the end customer is 200 km from your own warehouse but 30 km from the hub partner's warehouse, the partner warehouse ships — the order stays with the original seller for accounting purposes, the partner handles shipping with internal settlement. Better availability: if your own stock is exhausted but the hub partner has stock, the item remains available to the end customer — no out-of-stock message, no lost sale.
Example use case: three mid-sized specialist retailers in different German regions form a hub. Each keeps its own product range and brand. But through inventory visibility, every retailer immediately sees on inquiry whether a hub partner has the item in stock — and can trigger direct shipping. The result: three retailers together offer a significantly broader range than any of them individually, without expanding their own warehouses. Shipping costs drop through shorter distances. Availability rates rise noticeably. That's exactly what Inter Company is built for.
Modules & capabilities
Customers, items, suppliers, price lists, terms. Hub-capable master data with visibility rules between network partners. Master logic configurable per data object.
B2B and B2C orders in one logic. Terms check, credit limit, block indicators. Multi-stage approval workflows. Document flow from quote through order, delivery note, invoice, to dunning.
Multi-warehouse capable — your own warehouses, hub-partner warehouses, consignment warehouses. Inventory movements with audit trail, stock-take logic, minimum stocks, safety stocks, automatic dispatching.
Carrier integration with GLS and other shipping providers. Label generation, tracking numbers, status updates. Direct shipping from hub-partner warehouses with settlement logic in the background.
Inventory visibility across all network partners with configurable visibility rules. Direct-shipping routing by distance, stock, or availability. Settlement logic between hub partners.
Power BI-ready out of the box, because the data model lives in Dataverse. Standard dashboards for sales, warehouse, shipping, hub performance. Custom reports via Power BI Desktop without tool breaks.
Proven interfaces
Live reference for years at a mid-sized industrial manufacturer. Master-data sync for customers and items, order handoff, invoice status back, exception queue with escalation logic.
Inventory sync (availability from Inter Company to Amazon), order pull (Amazon orders into Inter Company), status push (shipping confirmation back to Amazon). Multi-marketplace capable for DE, EU, and other regions.
Multi-shop integration — multiple Shopify shops in parallel against one Inter Company instance. Inventory sync from the warehouse module, order pull from the shops, shipping push back with tracking numbers.
Label generation from the shipping module, tracking numbers automatically returned, status webhook handling. GLS is the standard integration — DHL, DPD, and others can be connected with the same logic.
Who typically uses Inter Company
Typically 20 to 500 staff, own warehouse with physical picking, a mix of B2B and B2C sales. They either replace an old ERP or add real ERP functionality to an existing Microsoft environment.
Multiple legally independent locations or subsidiaries that want to share inventory — typically within a corporate group or between long-cooperating market players. This is where the hub logic plays to full strength.
Buying or selling cooperatives in which multiple wholesalers share product range, inventory, or shipping logistics. Inter Company models the shared master data and inventory visibility without individual members giving up their independence.
Retailers with their own shop, Amazon marketplace, multiple Shopify shops, and potentially additional B2B direct sales. They need a central ERP that serves all channels — manage inventory centrally, accept orders from all sources, handle shipping uniformly.
Related
What's under the hood — the CRM platform whose technology Inter Company is also based on.
Read more →The platform that carries Inter Company as a modular trading ERP — Dataverse, Power Automate, Power BI.
Read more →Application Care for ongoing maintenance after go-live — release-wave adjustments, interface care, hub configuration.
Read more →FAQ
Both are possible. Inter Company is a standalone modular ERP on model-driven app technology — the same platform that Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement Apps run on. It can be used as a standalone ERP or integrated into an existing Microsoft environment as an add-on.
Multiple trading companies with their own warehouses cooperate. They share inventory visibility, can have orders shipped directly from a hub partner's warehouse, and thereby reduce shipping costs with better availability for end customers. Inventory visibility and direct shipping are the two core mechanisms of the hub logic.
Live reference with Oxaion ERP. Also Amazon Reseller API, Shopify (multi-shop integration), and GLS, plus additional shipping providers. For other platforms, we review the API situation in the initial conversation — the prerequisite is a REST, OData, or SOAP endpoint with read and write permission.
Inter Company runs on model-driven app technology of the Microsoft Power Platform — the same platform as Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement. That gives you Power BI reporting, Power Automate flows, Dataverse data model, and all the Power Platform security concepts out of the box.
Mid-sized trading companies with their own warehouse — typically 20 to 500 staff. The hub logic provides the most benefit where multiple cooperating locations or association structures share inventory.
For a standalone setup with 1–2 warehouses and 2–3 interfaces, typically 12 to 20 weeks. For hub architecture with multiple cooperating locations, longer, because master-data logic between hub partners has to be agreed upon.
Inter Company is licensed as an annual flat fee, depending on the number of users, warehouses, and connected interfaces. Added to this are Microsoft Power Platform licenses per user and, where applicable, Microsoft Azure consumption costs for external interfaces — typically in the low three-digit range per month.
60 min · live demo
60-min demo of the modular trading ERP — order processing, warehouse management, hub logic, integrations with Oxaion, Amazon, Shopify, and GLS. Bring ERP leads, sales, and warehouse leads.
Strategy background · arades topic page
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