Dynamics 365 Business Central capabilities
Dynamics 365 Business Central is a comprehensive cloud business management solution for small and mid-sized organizations that automates and streamlines business processes. Discover how Business Central can transform the way you do business by bringing your sales, finance, and operations teams together.
Highly adaptable and rich with features, Business Central enables companies to connect people, processes, and insights
- Secure Cloud Solution
- Modern User Interface
- Financial Management
- Sales and Service Management
- Project Management
- Supply Chain Management
- Manufacturing
Take your business anywhere with secure access across devices
Increase productivity by accessing information from anywhere, at any time, from any device, even while on-the-go using a mobile device. Remote employees can share real time information for easier collaboration across the organization.
Stay current on the latest Microsoft cloud powered technology
Always stay current on the latest technology with a published release schedule from Microsoft. Get security updates and compliance roll-outs on a timely manner with your solution deployed in the cloud. Microsoft releases two waves of updates each year for Business Central that do not disrupt customizations.
Reduce total cost of ownership and improve cash flow
Reduce the complexity and cost associated with managing hardware and IT infrastructure with a cloud deployment. Eliminate the need to perform software maintenance tasks such as backups, upgrades, and critical patches and allow IT staff to focus on strategic planning and high priority work items.
Personalize pages tailored to each user
Business Central is highly customizable with users able to personalize pages that make up their workspace to suit their own preferences with little to no code development. Administrators can customize pages for a profile, according to the related business role or department where all users that are assigned the profile will see the customized page layout.
Improve productivity with role-based workspaces
Role-based workspaces provide a high-level view of key business metrics and makes it possible to drill down into transactions. Optimize workforce productivity and enable faster user actions and decisions with easy access to the screens that you use the most.
Integration with Microsoft 365
Business Central seamlessly integrates with other Microsoft solutions to empower teams to be more productive. Process quotes, orders and submit invoices all within Outlook. Interact with Microsoft Excel workbooks using the Excel Data Connector. View Business Central data directly within Microsoft Teams for greater collaboration.
Customizable configuration of financial processes
Business Central includes a standard configuration of financial processes including budgeting, cash management, general ledger, fixed assets, and more. Start with a default configuration, then customize based on your preferences and processes.
Accelerate closing and financial reporting
Enjoy reduced month and year end closing times with a single, unified system displaying connected data across general ledger, receivables, payables and fixed assets. Design reports with tracing functions and tools that help auditors or controllers. Reporting allows the use of dimensions, or values that categorize entries, in order for account segments to be immediately available without other tools or configuration steps.
Supporting multi-currency and intercompany processes
Business Central supports organizations with multiple entities that use different chart of accounts, fiscal years, and currencies. Map to shared charts of accounts and dimensions and use documents with more than one currency to reconcile intercompany balances.
Prioritize leads based on revenue potential
Keep track of customer interactions and get guidance on the best upsell, cross-sell, and renewal opportunities throughout your sales cycle. Log all inbound and outbound email messages and automatically log other interactions such as sales orders and quotes.
Offer flexible pricing and discounting
Create flexible pricing and discount structures for specific customers and products or groups of customers and products that you define. Automatically offer the lowest price available to the customer when the sales order meets the conditions you specify.
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Choose to enable the integration between Business Central and Dynamics 365 Sales to allow for a more efficient lead-to-cash process. Users can make more informed decisions when interacting with customers by having all the key information in one place without switching systems.
Monitor job progress and performance
Create budgets at the work breakdown structure level and quickly compare to current progress. Use time sheets to track machine and employee hours and usage on jobs and data for invoicing the customer. View the allocation of employees, machinery, and other resources being used on all projects to keep projects on track.
Seamless integration with general ledger, sales, and purchasing
Project management integrates with the general ledger, sales, and purchasing modules for maximum efficiency. Users can purchase items directly to a project, create sales invoices from a project when it is time to bill based on a number of different billing options, and post to the general ledger for always accurate financials.
Gain access to insights on current and past projects
With Business Central insights, project managers will have a strong overview of not only individual jobs, but also the allocation of employees, machinery, and other resources used in a project. Monitor resource usage trends and get a complete overview of resource capacity including availability and planned usage.
Improve supplier engagement
Build better relationships with your suppliers and convert the best offers into orders. Manage multiple discounts that you have negotiated with vendors, including item specific, order level, and quantity discounts to ensure you always get the best price.
Get a holistic view of inventory
Use the same costing method or different ones for inventory items and always have an accurate valuation of your inventory. Quickly move items between locations or within warehouses, and count, adjust, and reclassify inventory for accurate and reliable inventory tracking.
Predict stock replenishment and forecast demand
Replenish inventory based on supply and demand using a materials requirements planning engine that uses artificial intelligence to pull data from multiple sources to automatically create production, transfer, or purchase orders. Provide customizable analytics to decision makers for faster results.
Manufacturing your way
Business Central offers a wide range of manufacturing capabilities from simple assemble-to-order functionality that allows a bill-of-materials to be created directly from a quote or sales order, to full blown production orders including machine and work center routing, subcontracting, and posting of scrap.
Comprehensive bills of materials
Create bill of materials that include a combination of items and resources, including subassemblies. Choose to explode the bill of materials into it’s subcomponents or substitute an item if necessary. Accurately calculate the cost of each item based on its components.
Produce within supply and capacity constraints
Business Central provides dedicated features to supply for anticipated and actual demand from sales, assembly, and production plus features for distribution planning using stock keeping units and location transfers.
Discover how Dynamics 365 for Business Central can meet your business needs
Explore the transformative power of Dynamics 365 with a 3-day roadmap workshop or a 3-week personalized pilot to help you visualize your future state solution. Work with our team of finance specialists, integration engineers, and analytics consultants to identify high value initiatives to deliver financial success.
3-day workshop to build your Business Central roadmap
In this one-on-one workshop, Rand Group will guide you through prioritizing high-value transformation scenarios to help you achieve ongoing financial innovation. At the end of the engagement, we deliver a roadmap to success and execution plan for next steps.
3-week pilot to visualize and evaluate Business Central
Visualize how Dynamics 365 for Business Central can optimize your financial operations with a 3-week personalized pilot. Rand Group will run a live simulation using your data and business processes to demonstrate to key stakeholders how Finance can help transform your business.
How much does Business Central cost?
Dynamics 365 Business Central fits the needs of midsize businesses looking to connect core business functions like financials, supply chain, inventory, service, project and manufacturing. The all-in-one software solution is priced per user to make it affordable for every size organization.
How much does Business Central cost?
Dynamics 365 Business Central fits the needs of midsize businesses looking to connect core business functions like financials, supply chain, inventory, service, project and manufacturing. The all-in-one software solution is priced per user to make it affordable for every size organization.
Choose your next step with Business Central
Ready to take the next step with Business Central? Rand Group is a certified Microsoft gold partner offering a variety of services to support your organization through the journey to digital transformation. Learn about our Business Central implementation methodology, get support for an existing Business Central implementation, or unlock a free Business Central trial to see if this is the right solution for your business.
Free Trial
Unlock a 30-day Business Central free trial to see how the all-in-one, cloud-based solution could work for your business, users, and processes. Use your own data or a set of sample data in the trial environment, with Rand Group’s solution experts guiding you every step of the way.
Implementation
Rand Group has perfected the Business Central implementation methodology from the initial Envisioning and Design phase to Deployment and User Adoption. Our best practices, documentation, and tools are designed to help you implement effective technology strategies.
Support
Already using Business Central? A Rand Group support plan provides access to a dedicated team of experts committed to helping unlock the full potential of your Business Central investment. Support includes customization, user training, integrations, and reporting solutions.
Extend Business Central to do more for your business
Dynamics 365 contains a range of purpose-built applications that all seamlessly connect together. Connect your data across the entire Microsoft stack to build on the power of Business Central to transform your operations.
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Power Platform
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