Core business functionality
Business Central is a business management solution for small and mid-sized organizations that automates and streamlines business processes and helps you manage your business. Highly adaptable and rich with features, Business Central enables companies to manage their business, including finance, manufacturing, sales, shipping, project management, services, and more. Companies can easily add functionality that is relevant to the region of operation, and that is customized to support even highly specialized industries. Business Central is fast to implement, easy to configure, and simplicity guides innovations in product design, development, implementation, and usability.
Core business functionality
Business Central provides features for typical business processes, mainly within wholesale and professional services. However, it also supports more complex processes, such as assembly, manufacturing, service, and directed warehouse management. Standard configurations for most business processes are built in, but you can customize them to suit your business needs.
Maybe start with a short tour of some of the key capabilities for managing finances.
| Make and collect payments, manage your cash flow, defer income and revenue, prepare year-end closing, and manage fixed assets. |
Finance |
| Manage sales processes and information, such as quotes, orders, returns, and customer accounts, and make drop shipments. |
Sales |
| Manage purchasing processes and information, such as invoices, orders, returns, and vendor accounts, and purchase items from sales documents. |
Purchasing |
| Register new inventory or service-type items, categorize items so they're easy to search for, adjust inventory levels, and track inventory costs. |
Inventory |
| Create projects and schedule resources for them, manage project budgets, monitor progress, and track machine and employee hours. |
Project Management |
| Organize your fixed assets, ensure correct periodic depreciation, and track maintenance costs. |
Fixed Assets |
| Plan the production operations required to turn components into finished goods. |
Planning |
| Assemble components into finished items, or combine them in kits. |
Assembly Management |
| Define shop floor resources and their capacity, schedule operations, pull production components, and manage production operations. |
Manufacturing |
| Ensure that you receive, store, transfer, and ship goods effectively. |
Warehouse Management Overview |
| Schedule service calls, manage service orders, and track repair parts and supplies. |
Service Management |
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Alaa Saad
01 Jan 2025