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.
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.
Industry Capabilities
Business Central is designed to provide customized solutions to wide-ranging industry needs including financials, manufacturing, job costing and supply chain optimization.
Manufacturing & Distribution
inventory planning, MRP, landed cost
Manage inventory planning, MRP, and landed costs to gain full visibility into production schedules, material requirements, and true product profitability.
Project-Based Services
job costing, budgets, progress billing
Nonprofit & Public Sector
fund tracking, grant reporting, approvals
Finance
Manufacturing
Job Costing
Supply Chain
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
A Microsoft cloud ERP that brings finance, sales, service, and operations together for small and midsize organizations.
Premium includes everything in Essentials plus manufacturing and service management capabilities.
Yes. GL, vendors, customers, open items, and selected history are migrated after mapping and test runs.
You can start a Microsoft trial and purchase through a partner; we guide setup and ongoing support.
Licensing is per user with Essentials $108.50 user/month, and Premium tiers $149.20 user/month (CAD, paid yearly); final pricing depends on plan and add-ons.
Typical midsize rollouts run 16-20 weeks, depending on modules, data complexity, and integrations.
Yes. Common patterns include Dynamics 365 CRM, banking feeds, expense tools, e-commerce, and WMS.