Using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
What is Business Central?
Microsoft Business Central, part of the Dynamics 365 suite, is a Cloud-based business management solution for small and mid-sized organizations that enables you to automate and streamline your business processes.
Integrate your business. End-to-end.
Business Central is fast to implement and easy to use. It enables you to connect Sales & Customer Service, Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing and Warehousing together – to boost profitability and productivity by:
- Moving your entire business operation to the Cloud fast and cost effectively
- Unlocking key business insights in real-time that enable you to improve forecasting and accelerate financial close
- Fully optimising supply chain management, warehousing operations and manufacturing processes
- Taking better care of customers by managing the entire process from sales, through manufacture, to delivery and support via Microsoft Outlook integration
“Since we have started using Microsoft Dynamics 365 our business processes have become much simpler saving time and ultimately money.”
Ian Paltiel Director,
What Business Central can do for your SME
Understand the health of your business
Business Central makes it easy to keep track of sales, inventory levels and valuations, project overruns, and margins.
Intelligent insights at your fingertips
Intelligent Cloud Insights displays four key points of interest for most businesses cash availability, sales profitability, net income, and inventory value. All in one place.
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Make more profitable financial decisions
Connect reports, charts, and Power BI data from across accounting, sales, purchasing, and inventory teams to get accurate insights and make financial decisions with confidence.
Take control of financial data
Better manage your cash flow, bank reconciliations, fixed assets, budgeting, and project costing while shortening cycle times with the late payment–prediction extension.
Easily expand into global markets
Easily support multiple currencies, exchange rates, consolidations, intercompany transactions, and localized tax regulations.
Accelerate financial closing and reporting
Reduce month and year-end closing times with connected general ledger, accounts receivable, payables, and fixed assets data. Streamline approval workflows using Power Automate.
Easily monitor financial performance
Use built-in reports, Excel, or Microsoft Power BI and unlimited data dimensions to get real-time cash flow, identify financial patterns, analyze trends, and improve business planning.
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Improve supplier engagement
Build better relationships with suppliers and convert the best offers to orders. Ensure compliance with internal and external policies with process governance and approvals.
Get a holistic view of your inventory
Use the same costing method or different ones for inventory items, and easily move items between locations to control the quantity on hand using cycling counting.
Predict stock replenishment
Replenish inventory based on actuals, demand, and availability using built-in intelligence, sales forecasts, and expected stock-outs to automatically create purchase orders.
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Improve organization within storage facilities
Set up bins and zones in Business Central to reflect the layout of your warehouse, including its racks and shelves.
Streamline receiving and capacity
Use a template to determine the best placement of items based on type, size, and bin capacity.
Expedite docking and shipping
Optimize your space and the picking process. Speed up shipments and reduce friction by enabling cross-docking.
Connect customers and operations
Use real-time data on every item’s zone, bin, and quantity to better fulfil your customers’ orders.
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Produce within supply and capacity constraints
Implement manufacturing processes according to plan, even in agile and complex environments.
Create detailed bills of materials
Define raw materials, subassemblies or resources as a bill of materials that comprises a finished product or a kit.
Support assembly-to-order
Capture special requirements within a bill of materials and pull directly from the quote and sales order during assembly-to-order processes.
Use production orders or more complex processes
Register consumption and output across multiple bills of materials and routes. Reconcile scrap or deviations in consumption and output.
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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.
Offer flexible pricing and discounting
Create flexible pricing and discount structures for individual customers and groups of customers.
Ensure a smooth transition from sales to service
Automatically register shipped goods as service items and keep the required details in one place so both sales and service teams can respond quickly to inquiries.
Track customer returns and repairs
Offer full replacements or simple repairs, with parts and labor charges in one service order. Boost loyalty by providing spare equipment to customers awaiting service.
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“Dynamics 365 is great and replaced our outdated contact database and marketing spreadsheets. Looking forward to further integration into our project management system.”
Alan Shaw, Director,
“We have engaged Managed IT Experts for support and further development with our CRM system (Microsoft Dynamics) and they have a very good knowledge of this product and its capabilities.”
Scott Sinclair, MD,
Automate and Extend Your ERP
Business Central is a complete and powerful solution for running your entire business. But its real power comes from its ability to adapt to your unique processes.
You might need to automate a specific approval workflow or build a custom app for your inventory team. This is precisely what the Microsoft Power Platform is for. It seamlessly connects to Business Central, allowing you to build custom applications, automate processes, and visualise your data in new ways.
A highly flexible solution. An innovative approach to implementation.
Get up and running quickly – the Cloud-based nature of Business Central means you can be experiencing the benefits much quicker than traditional IT projects.
Build as you go – start with what you need and then evolve, grow and transform your business at a pace to suit your needs and that minimizes disruption.
Flexible approach to implementation – we see your Business Central implementation as a journey, not a project.
Cost-effective and transparent – because Business Central is delivered in the Cloud you can avoid heavy up-front investment and pricing is based on a straight-forward per user per month fee. (Business Central is flexible enough to scale from a few users to hundreds very quickly).
Complete flexibility – Business Central also provides the flexibility to scale up and scale down as your business needs change.
Seeing really is believing with Business Central
The best way to experience Business Central is to see it in action for yourself.
Feel free to get in touch for an initial, no-obligation online demo where we can:
- Give you a feel for how Business Central helps our clients
- Explore how it could benefit your business quickly
Why we are ideally placed to help you
NEED TO LEARN MORE?
If you need to learn more about Business Central then get in touch and we can schedule a quick initial demo where we can also explore your needs
ALREADY USING BUSINESS CENTRAL?
But not getting what you need out of it? We can quickly get Business Central delivering real value for your business.
- We are a Microsoft Silver partner with over 15 years’ experience of working with SME customers across Scotland and the wider UK to help them implement, develop and support Cloud-based project implementation including Business Central.
- We are focused on your business. Not your technology.
- We can provide clear, simple and cost-effective pricing for a Business Central Managed Service that includes access to our expertise, development, support and the peace of mind that comes from working with a trusted partner.
Protect Your ERP Investment
Implementing a powerful ERP is just the first step. To get the maximum return on your investment, you need to ensure the platform is running smoothly, adapting to your processes, and being used effectively by your team.
This is why we provide dedicated managed support for Microsoft Dynamics 365. This service covers your Business Central platform, giving you ongoing expert help and peace of mind.
