How does Business Central meet the needs of your industry?

Business Central is a robust cloud-based ERP that tackles everything from finance, payables, supply planning, and more–all in one unified app to keep business data all in one spot. Plus, the application is highly customizable, scalable, and allows for multi-environment and multi-company use (and unlimited users). Most features are included in the Business Central Essentials license, but a few extras like Service Management and Manufacturing are available with the Premium license. It’s a great solution for businesses of all sizes because of its ability to add features and capabilities and its flexible licensing to scale as needed by easily adding or decreasing users.

Business Central’s base functionality is well-equipped to handle core requirements of any business and offers a reliable solution to unify financial processes–regardless of industry–like general ledger, account reconciliations, profit and loss statements, and standard bookkeeping. The application is fully functional out-of-the-box, but system administrators can opt for even more capabilities right off the bat with a la carte apps for added functionality like ACH processing, additional supply chain management tools, import utilities, and more.

Plus, there are countless add-ins, integrations, and extensions that can be tacked on to your application to drive it even further. A sleek interface and powerful built-in tools grant users the ability to promote collaboration and efficiency across your entire business, prepare for and respond to changes, and stay on top of business goals more readily.

Here are some of the industries that can benefit from built-in and add-on features of Business Central, demonstrating that it’s a cost-effective, reliable choice for just about anyone out there.

Finance

As to be expected, Business Central is an established ERP application that meets a wide range of needs for financial organizations and operations. Long gone are the days of needing to switch between tabs and import to and export from multiple bookkeeping software—Business Central lets you optimize business processes with a unified dashboard that can include an abundance of reports, insights, records, data, and operations management for a holistic view whenever you need it.  

Users can expect an all-in-one finance system that allows you to effectively manage accounting tasks, implement automated routines, and deliver key insights for better informed decisions pulling from real-time data. The user dashboard provides an accurate and usable financial health overview that lets you monitor profit and cashflow and access up-to-date financial insights. AI and machine learning also allow you to automate tasks to increase operational efficiency, accuracy, and cut down potential human error in tedious, repetitive tasks.

Distribution, supply chain, and logistics

The Distribution and Supply Chain industry routinely faces challenges unique to any other industry and requires distinct solutions to keep business moving—even through a plethora of holdups. Features to aid warehouse management, movement between locations, logistics, and multi-company visibility are a must, and Business Central delivers on all these features and more for a modern, streamlined, efficient operation.  

Advanced features and organizational functions like dimensions, multi-currency, available-to-promise and capable-to-promise shipment visibility, picking and packing, and more are available for an all-around management deep-dive. Crucial documents like sales orders, receipts, BOMs, picking, and packing materials are all organized and filed right alongside account and contact records so even the smallest details are always in the right place.

Manufacturing and production

Building an airplane is quite different than producing consumer packaged goods; therefore, manufacturing and production operations require reliable systems that can account for a wide range of manufacturing variations—discrete, process, agile, and everything in between. Easily generate, manage, and utilize key materials like production orders, bills of materials, and production schedules for visibility into the manufacturing process to ultimately eliminate waste, cut down on costs, and optimize time and labor. Moving through the manufacturing process quickly, efficiently, and correctly is a major advantage that anyone can appreciate.

Project management and jobs

Business Central for Jobs and Project Management can help you finish projects on time and under budget with state-of-the-art planning and management tools, all built into the same workspace as reporting, resource tracking, billing, accounting, and business intelligence capabilities. Easily track resource usage, project budgets, capacity, and real-time intelligence insights for successful project execution and profitability.

Advanced reporting and integrations with Power BI and Excel mean that real-time financial information is available at your fingertips in easy-to-use, interactive data visualizations.

Commerce and retail

Similar to many other industries, commerce and retail requires robust visibility and planning tools to keep track of supply chain, inventory, and orders. Back-end management is made easier with intelligent demand forecasting, shipping insights, customer loyalty features, and even tools to build sustainable practices at every point of the consumer product lifecycle. A wealth of available add-ons makes it easy to find a Point-of-Sale solution, too. Having a reliable business management solution means that you can focus on delivering high quality customer experiences with the peace of mind of a great system working behind the scenes.

Nonprofit organizations

A robust business software might seem out of reach for many nonprofit organizations, but flexible licensing and special nonprofit pricing helps ensure you don’t have to compromise quality to stay within budget. Plus, Business Central is highly customizable for unique nonprofit financial management needs for air-tight oversight and compliance of grants, donations, and daily cashflows.

Another plus? Keeping contacts, accounts, and records managed in one comprehensive system—and you can use tiered security roles to organize information accordingly. Team members can save time and effort with tried-and-true ERP features like task automation, cloud-based backups, HR capabilities, and much more.

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Business Central can help any business, of any size, in any industry. If you’re curious about the ways your organization can benefit from a full-featured ERP, click the button below. One of our consultants will be in touch to walk you through your options and find a solution that works for you.