Managing Multi-Store, Multi-Company Retail Across UAE and KSA
How Retail Co-Pilot consolidates LS Central data across entities, regions and currencies - without a single Excel export.
The Multi-Company Reality in Middle East Retail
A typical retail group in UAE or KSA runs three to ten separate legal entities - one per country, one per brand, one per franchise agreement, sometimes one per warehouse. Each entity operates its own LS Central instance, its own chart of accounts, its own fiscal calendar. Reporting across them means waiting for finance to consolidate manually - usually monthly, sometimes quarterly. Operational decisions made on a quarterly cadence are simply too slow.
EXCEL CONSOLIDATION Manual Group Roll-UpFinance teams export from each company, normalise FX, align fiscal periods, manually merge in Excel. By the time the group view exists, it is already obsolete. | CURRENCY MISMATCH AED, SAR, USD All At OnceSales in AED, costs in SAR, reporting in USD - someone always asks at which exchange rate, on which day, and the answer is never clean. |
REGIONAL FRAGMENTATION Different Reports per CountryUAE finance, KSA finance and India finance each produce their own reports, in their own formats, on their own schedules. No common operational language. | DELAYED CONSOLIDATION Group View Always LateBy month-end, the group view is days old. Mid-month operational shifts, cross-entity transfers, regional rebalancing - all decided too late to matter. |
One Question. Every Company. Live.
Retail Co-Pilot uses Business Central's native ChangeCompany capability to query every company in the group simultaneously - in their own currencies, their own fiscal calendars, their own LS Central configurations - and roll the results into a single consolidated answer.
"What is our group-wide MTD sales in AED?" returns a number that includes the UAE LLC, the KSA WLL, the franchise companies and the international entities - normalised, currency-converted, period-aligned, in seconds.
10+ Companies queried in a single prompt | 3 Currencies normalised automatically | 0 Excel exports needed for the group view |
What Group Visibility Actually Looks Like
A small sample of the cross-entity, cross-region, cross-currency questions Retail Co-Pilot answers live - against every LS Central company in the group, simultaneously:
Group-Wide Performance in One View
A consolidated view that previously took finance days to assemble - now generated live, on demand, with currency normalisation handled automatically.
Region-by-Region Comparison
Compare UAE versus KSA performance live, across any dimension - sales, margin, basket size, traffic, promotion uptake - without merging exports manually.
Cross-Entity Inventory and Transfer Insight
See SKU-level inventory across every company in the group - and identify rebalancing opportunities that previously required cross-team coordination calls.
Subsidiary-Level Drill-Down on Demand
Start at the group level, drill into a country, drill into a brand, drill into a store - all in one continuous conversation, without leaving Business Central.
From Manual Consolidation to Live Group View
Multi-Company Capabilities Inside LS Central
| ChangeCompany aggregation across all entities | Live currency normalisation (AED, SAR, USD) | Cross-entity sales, margin and stock view |
| Region-by-region performance comparison | Subsidiary-level drill-down | Group-wide dead stock visibility |
| Inter-entity transfer suggestions | Multi-fiscal-calendar period alignment | Brand and franchise-level segmentation |
| Country-level CEO dashboards | Cross-entity loyalty member analysis | Consolidated promotion analytics |
| Multi-warehouse stock balancing | Live group exception monitoring | Plain-English group-level questions |
Why Implement with Novasoft?
Novasoft is a Diamond LS Retail Partner 2025 and certified Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central partner across UAE, KSA, India and the USA. As the creators of Retail Co-Pilot, Novasoft brings deep multi-company LS Central expertise, retail-grade data architecture experience for groups of 5 to 50 entities, and a rollout approach that gets most retailers live within 2 to 5 business days.
Consolidated One view across every LS Central company in the group | Live Currency, period and entity normalisation in real time | Regional Built for UAE, KSA and Middle East multi-entity retail groups |
See Your Whole Group in One View
Book a free Retail AI Assessment and see Retail Co-Pilot consolidate your LS Central companies live - across UAE, KSA and beyond.
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