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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Business Central is the new identity for Microsoft Dynamics NAV (and Navision before that) and can be deployed in the cloud, or on-premises.

TL;DR

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is an Enterprise Resource Planning system which connects your finance, manufacturing, and logistics together in a single, all-in-one environment. 

Financial Management 

Business Central provides a complete financial management system, ideal for small and medium businesses. Manage your sales, purchasing, inventory, logistics in multiple currencies and across multiple countries. It includes a robust set of audit trails, along with automated bank feeds, reconciliation, asset management and workflows.

Beyond the essential and expected features of any financial management software, Business Central provides additional insight and forecasting tools, such as reporting the impact of changes to exchange rates or supply chain costs. These insights can be quickly reviewed, discussed and actions can be taken to minimise impacts.

Integrations with e-commerce, retail POS and EDI platforms can ensure accurate and real-time information is passed directly into your financial reports, avoiding the need for delays or user errors due to manually importing data.

Discrete Manufacturing

Business Central is a powerful ERP for Discrete Manufacturing, including MPS (Master Production Scheduling), BOM (Bills of Materials), demand forecasting, capacity planning and agile manufacturing.

Reliability, efficiency and control are core tenants of Discrete Manufacturing within Business Central. Real-time visibility of manufacturing lines can help managers make critical in-time decisions, Lot and serial number tracking and audit trails can help ensure an accurate account of all products for certifications, standards and (hopefully infrequent) recalls.

The CRM and Sales aspects of Dynamics 365 can be used to forecast the impact of new and prospective orders on the current manufacturing plans. Whether the orders are placed online, in store or over the phone or email, you can gain insights into the potential and immediate strain on your manufacturing lines.

Warehouse Management

Dynamics 365 Business Central provides complete control and insights into your warehouse and logistics, from stock to sales and purchases across multiple sites and in-transit.

Using handheld warehousing tools and integrations, you can go completely paperless across all your warehouses. These systems integrate with Business Central to provide a powerful handheld tool to staff, which can be used to track, locate and audit stock with complete audit trails and accountability.

Seamless Microsoft 365 Integrations

As Microsoft continues its move towards a single unified platform, the various tools used by everyone within your business will become more and more integrated with Business Central.

Outlook features an Add-in that enables users to attach emails to quotes, invoices, purchases and memos. List pages can be shared quickly to Teams, allowing easy collaboration and discussions. Excel can be used to export data directly into Business Central. Power BI dashboards can be embedded within Business Central, providing real-time graphs and data from multiple sources including Business Central. Power Automate can be used to create automated workflows, such as requesting approval for raised POs and invoices.

These are just a handful of the many integrations and features of Business Central, for more information or a free initial audit, contact our team.

More Features

Power BI houses a range of benefits to optimise your organisations data. Such as the following:

Stock Control

Manage your company’s stock levels in one or multiple locations. Tracking items to ensure you always have the optimal number or parts or products. 

SLA & Agreements

Set up service contracts and host everything in one place. 

Work Orders

You can create, manage and track service orders in Dynamics 365 Business Central, including assigning service items and handling your order statuses. 

Purchase Orders

Record your cost of purchases and track this to accounts payable. You can also dynamicly update inventory levels to minimise your inventory costs. 

Scheduling

Task scheduling allows you to control when specific operations or processes occur. 

Glossary

System Health Check

Where we evaluate your system configuration, usability, user issues, quality and efficiency of data and produce a report of our findings.

Front End

The area of a system that users interact with. It sits in front of the back end as a transitional layer, providing the graphical and structural interface for the user.

Azure

Microsoft’s cloud computing platform.  Can be used in place of traditional ‘on-premise’ platforms for hosting of servers, functions, databases, processes, and much more.

Anthony Nolan

For 12 years we have has an ongoing relationship with Anthony Nolan since we first embarked on a digital transformation journey together. With a range of implementations and solutions over the years, this transformation is constantly evolving.

Anthony Nolan wanted to move their Dynamics 2016 On-Premise solution into Dynamics 365 Online. This would mean less reliance on internal servers to maintain and run the platform. They would also benefit from the Microsoft Update process, continuously making new features available.

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