Business Central has well-rounded base functions that support analytics, finance, supply chain, and manufacturing. Many different types of businesses use its capabilities and features to achieve their business goals. But what about companies that need more business functions that Business Central does not include by default, such as more reporting or HR features? Businesses don’t have to have separate business systems for each of these needs. They can customize Business Central's base functionality with apps (aka add-ons or extensions) to further extend its capabilities, tailoring it to meet your business needs without the cost of custom development.

Item Charges in Business Central are a highly useful function that enables the allocation and organization of additional costs necessary for orders. This tool enables you to distribute a bulk cost from a vendor across multiple items. These allocations help ensure that each of your orders is accurately recorded in the Item Unit Cost and Cost of Goods, without omitting important details such as the amount of additional costs paid for service fees, shipping costs, or other non-recurring charges.

Business Central version 27 includes a new 1099 process that now includes e-file and emailing your 1099s. In this blog, we walk you through the full 1099 process, from the fields that must be filled out on the vendor form, setting up the IRS reporting period, propagating 1099s, making adjustments, and finally sending the forms to the IRS and vendors.

In Business Central, selecting the right type of Bill of Materials (BOM) is an important decision to support efficient manufacturing operations. Whether to use Assembly BOMs or Production BOMs depends on the complexity of your products, the level of process tracking required, and your business's operational needs. So, which should you use? It depends on your situation.

In manufacturing, production scheduling is a crucial step to ensuring success. Teams rely on accurate, date-driven schedules to ensure that work is completed on time and resources are properly allocated. In Business Central, the production order calendar is a tool that defines working days, shift times, and resource availability for each work center.

Dynamic 365 Release Wave 2 is coming, starting this October. This Release Wave includes announcing and rolling out new features across Dynamics 365 and Power Platform apps. Here, we will discuss what new features will be coming to your Business Central in this Release Wave.

Community Summit North America is right around the corner, and there’s still time to register for your all-access pass, Academy Courses, GP to BC Migration Preconference, and more!

Community Summit North America is the largest independent Microsoft business app conference, connecting users, Partners, ISVs, and business application experts across all industries and experience levels. There are so many things to do during the conference, so let's dive into how to prepare to get the most out of your experience at Community Summit 2025.

Did you know that there’s a way to make Business Central even more efficient? A simple, yet powerful tool is available to further streamline your experience as a Business Central user—the Excel add-in. This integration enables users to view, manipulate, and share data with ease, flexibility, and control. The structure of Business Central and the familiarity and versatility of Excel join forces in the Excel add-in, allowing users to experience the best of both worlds.

In the case of learning to use Microsoft’s Business Central application, you can utilize Microsoft Learn, Microsoft documentation, and the guided tours and tool tips provided in Business Central to expand your knowledge. To even further simplify and streamline the learning process, Copilot now has the ability to deliver specific information directly to you, guide you through processes step-by-step, and even provide data analyses to help you understand and utilize your data. Whether you’re brand new to Business Central or wanting to expand your existing skills, Copilot can bring you up to speed. 

When release waves are announced, Microsoft also publishes documentation to help users understand what’s coming; however, this documentation includes all features in the wave, and you may not always have time to dive headfirst into that particular pool. For your convenience, our consultants here at Syvantis have reviewed the release wave and plucked a few of the gems that we’re most excited about and believe will impact users the most.

The Microsoft business application ecosystem provides a comprehensive array of applications that integrate seamlessly to support businesses of any size. Microsoft boasts a unified business and productivity application platform that is scalable, reliable, and integrated, enabling organizations to work smarter, not harder. This ecosystem optimizes operations while remaining current with technology. So, let’s talk about a couple of the big benefits to joining (or further engaging with) the Microsoft ecosystem--from built-in AI capabilities to automation features to advanced security.

Whether you’re just beginning to familiarize yourself with Microsoft’s Business Central or you’re a long-time user in search of a refresher, we are here to provide you with some assistance to help you effectively navigate the system. Let’s explore some helpful tips and tricks that will assist you in streamlining your workflow and increasing productivity. 

Whether your previous Partner did not fully understand your business processes or things became too complicated too quickly, your project can veer off track and off budget before you know it. If your implementation hasn’t been meeting expectations, you can still work to keep things running smoothly and get your timeline and budget back in check.

Here is our advice to help you get your Business Central Manufacturing implementation back on track so you can get the most out of your new manufacturing solution, even long after your implementation go-live.

Business Central has included the occasional AI feature here and there for a while now, but recently, with Microsoft’s 2024 Release Wave 1, more and more are being added. Though all these features prove useful for various needs, there are five features we believe are most valuable to our clients and the broader Business Central user base.

When working with a Microsoft application like Outlook, you’ll notice the emphasis on productivity throughout the entire application interface, not to mention a seamless connection between all the business applications you might need from Microsoft.

In fact, the ability for all your systems to work in sync was likely a huge draw to Business Central in the first place. Business Central can be easily integrated to an Outlook account, but did you know that there’s a way to open up and work within Business Central, right from your Outlook window?

Release Wave 1 of 2024 is coming in April, and the plans have been out since January. We’re gearing up for the update by reviewing the plans and testing features in a sandbox environment as they move into preview. Let’s review some of our most highly anticipated features, specifically for the Jobs module.

It’s important to test your system to ensure the update will not interfere with your processes and, most importantly, system customizations and extensions. It is crucial to test the transactions that use any of your customizations or extensions early in a sandbox environment, lest they break in production and halt your business processes. So, we’ve put together a checklist of recommended tests to perform after Business Central is updated to the latest version, with those release wave changes.

Permissions errors can be triggered doing pretty much anything in Business Central, but where your employees may get error messages will vary based on the permissions assigned to them. Luckily, most permission errors actually show you where the error originated and, therefore, you have the means to resolve that error.

Several new features have released, which you can review and track via the Microsoft’s Release Planner, which allows you to effectively plan for new features that will be added to the stack of Dynamics 365 and Power Platform applications.

Note that these are features that were announced with 2023 Release Wave 2. Some features have already been made generally available since their release, but some other features will be made available for public preview in March 2024.

There are lots of reasons why you should start to think about modernizing your ERP, but here are five tried-and-true benefits once you migrate your Dynamics GP to Business Central, the most modern, full-featured, and competitively-priced ERP application on the market.

Stay tuned for part two of this blog series for more reasons you’ll love Business Central after migrating from Dynamics GP!