Case study

How Falcon Contract Flooring Doubled Turnover to £15.5m Without Adding Overhead


Falcon Contract Flooring replaced wall-length whiteboards and disconnected spreadsheets with a single Microsoft Dynamics 365 platform built by Circyl, and has since grown turnover from £7m to more than £15.5m while keeping overheads lean.

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Falcon Contract Flooring

West Midlands, UK

£15.5m+

Turnover, up from £7m

From 6 to 2

Full-time admin positions

Minutes

Reporting time, down from days

At a glance

Circyl built a single Microsoft Dynamics 365 platform for Falcon Contract Flooring, a West Midlands commercial flooring specialist, replacing whiteboards and spreadsheets across the business and supporting turnover growth from £7m to more than £15.5m while six full-time admin roles were reduced to two

Before

The challenge

Falcon Contract Flooring coordinated its operations with wall-length whiteboards and disconnected spreadsheets, and had lost £150,000 on a system that never worked. COVID then wiped £11 million off Falcon's order book overnight, putting cash flow at risk.
After

What we did

We built Falcon Contract Flooring a single platform on Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Dataverse, extended with custom Power Apps, Power Automate and Power BI and integrated with Sage Intacct. We delivered it in phases, starting with enquiries and scheduling before adding warehousing, stock and purchasing.

Sector

Trade Contractors

Partnership

5 years, ongoing

Technologies

Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Dataverse, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power Apps, Microsoft Power Automate

Our approach

We started by working closely with Falcon’s leadership team to understand how the business operated day to day, then delivered in phases so that the most urgent risks were addressed first. Phase one replaced wall-length whiteboards and spreadsheets with a single Microsoft Dynamics 365 platform for managing enquiries, jobs and schedules, giving everyone at Falcon the same real-time view of the work.

Once those foundations were in place, we brought warehousing, stock control, purchasing and supplier management into the same environment. Falcon’s leadership still works directly with our consultants to design new features and automate more tasks, and the platform is adapted whenever the business changes.

The impact

Errors and duplication have been eliminated across Falcon Contract Flooring, and every stage of a job, from initial enquiry to final payment, is now visible and controlled. Falcon’s purchase orders synchronise directly into Sage Intacct, which removes dual entry and reconciliation between systems.

Within months, the whiteboards came off Falcon’s office walls because they were no longer needed. With scheduling and administration fully digitised, Falcon’s team now spends its time delivering complex, high-value projects, and the business bases decisions on facts. Five years on, Falcon’s partnership with Circyl remains central to how the business grows and stays ahead of the market.

Technologies used

Microsoft 365

Microsoft's cloud-based productivity platform, giving teams access to the latest versions of Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneDrive.

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft's cloud computing platform, providing the infrastructure and services to build, run and manage applications and data securely at scale.

Microsoft Azure Data Factory

Microsoft's cloud-based integration service for moving data into Azure from a wide range of sources, with configurable pipelines that keep data up to date automatically.

Microsoft Dataverse

Microsoft Dataverse is the secure, scalable data platform underneath Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform, holding the data and business rules for every connected application.

Microsoft Dynamics 365

Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a family of business applications for sales, customer service, field service, finance and operations, built on the Dataverse platform so every application shares the same data.

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft's spreadsheet application for storing, organising, analysing and visualising data with formulas and functions.

Microsoft Power Apps

Microsoft's low-code platform for building custom business apps that connect to your data and work across web and mobile, without the time and cost of traditional development.

Microsoft Power Automate

Microsoft's workflow automation service for connecting apps and services, automating repetitive tasks such as syncing files, sending notifications and collecting data.

In their words

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"We reduced six full-time admin positions down to two while doubling turnover. That saving alone paid for everything many times over."

Charles Hassall, Managing Director, Falcon Contract Flooring

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"Falcon had a clear view on both the direction the business was going and their operational process. This made it easier for us to build a solution that aligned to their business."
Jason Betteridge, Managing Director, Circyl

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