Dynamics 365 Business Central Manufacturing

Gain greater insight into your inventory and automate complex manufacturing processes, leading to improvements in production, supply chain management and sales.

For manufacturers that need enhanced manufacturing and supply chain management capabilities

Business Central Manufacturing automates your manufacturing processes and delivers insights that will optimize your inventory and resources.

You’ll have full oversight of your inventory – from when an order is placed, produced, fulfilled and paid for – giving you greater control over your manufacturing operations. You can automate replenishment processes with vendors and forecast future demand. By connecting data from other parts of your organization to your manufacturing, you will better understand demand for your products and your capacity to deliver.

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What Business Central Manufacturing can do for you

Assembly Management

Gain the power to specify the raw materials, sub-assemblies and resources in an assembly bill of materials, and capture requirements from sales quotes, blanket orders and order lines.

Production Bill of Materials

Create a bill of materials for your operation and calculate their standard costs. You can make revisions and track different versions, knowing which components are valid for specific times and batches.

Production Orders

Create production orders and the post consumption and output on the production orders, allowing you to calculate the net requirements for an order.

Capacity Planning

Add work centers or machine centers, setting up routings for production orders and for planning your material requirements. You can also view loads and task lists for each work or machine center.

Finite Loading

Manage the finite loading of your resources by taking into account capacity constraints, allowing you to assign work only to areas that have the capacity to deliver, ensuring you never overload a work center.

Machine Centers

Add machine centers and receive detailed intelligence for each center and collectively for all machine centers. Optimize operations by pulling in critical data such as setup, wait and move times.

Supply Planning

Plan your material requirements based on demand with master production scheduling. You can also view loads and task lists for each work center.

Demand Forecasting

Optimize your production by inputting sales forecasts to generate the expected demand for your products on a daily, monthly or quarterly basis.

Sales & Inventory Forecasting

The Sales and Inventory Forecast extension for Business Central Manufacturing will give you greater insight into potential sales and when demand for a product could exceed your current inventory.

 
Dynamics 365 Business Central Manufacturing
Get tighter control over materials, capacity, and production scheduling by connecting planning, shop-floor execution, and inventory into one system.

Bills of Materials and Routings

Define what you build and how you build it by setting up component lists and step-by-step routings that drive material planning and production scheduling.

Production Orders and Shop-Floor Posting

Run manufacturing with production orders, record material consumption and finished output, and keep inventory and work-in-progress aligned.

Work Centers and Machine Centers

Model your plant resources with work centers and machine centers, apply calendars and capacities, and plan work based on how your operation actually runs.

Capacity Planning and Load Visibility

Schedule production using available capacity, view loads and task lists by center, and spot bottlenecks before you reach delivery dates.

Finite Capacity Scheduling

Build realistic schedules by respecting capacity limits so work happens where time and resources exist instead of overloading a particular line or machine.

Material Requirements Planning

Generate purchase and production suggestions based on real demand and component needs so materials arrive when production needs them.

Master Production Scheduling

Plan finished goods using demand plus forecast inputs, then drive component planning from that schedule to reduce surprises and rush buys.

Demand Forecasting for Better Planning

Forecast inputs by day, month, or quarter to plan production earlier, reduce stockouts, and avoid building the wrong items at the wrong time.

Put Joesoftware and Business Central Manufacturing to work

Your manufacturing operation is complex. At Joesoftware, we take the time to understand your business before we customize and implement Business Central Manufacturing. We have experience working with manufacturers in a wide range of sectors. No matter what your industry, we’re ready to dive in and put Business Central to work for you.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Assembly is typically used for build processes that are more simple. Manufacturing is built for structured production with routings, work/machine centers, capacity planning, and production orders that track consumption and output.

Yes. Business Central supports MPS for finished goods planning and MRP for component-level requirements, using demand and forecast inputs to produce timed supply plans.