Business Central
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (formerly Microsoft Dynamics NAV/Navision) is a world-class integrated enterprise management solution created by Microsoft. It is an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system that enables comprehensive management of various areas of the company’s operations. Business Central integrates functions related to finance, sales, purchasing, project management, warehouse and many other business processes.
Business Central provides significant opportunities to scale and expand its functionality by adding new modules and applications. This makes it easy to adapt the system to specific industry requirements, without having to interfere with the source code. Thanks to a wide range of add-ons and applications available in Microsoft AppSource, the solution can be easily expanded and adapted to the individual needs of the company. It is also possible to integrate with third-party applications supporting HR and payroll activities, banking transactions, warehouse systems, handling CRM records and much more.
Modules in Business Central
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central offers a number of modules that can be customized to meet the specific needs of your business.
- Finance: This module covers the areas of accounting, budget management, cost control, payments and other financial functions.
- Sale: A module related to the sales process, offers, orders, price lists, customer service and contractor management.
- Shopping: It includes processes related to procurement from suppliers, receipt of goods, inventory control, and vendor management.
- Warehouse: Warehouse management module, including inventory tracking, location management, receipt and release of goods.
- Production: For manufacturing companies, it includes production planning, production process management, quality control and calculation of the cost of manufacturing products.
- Service: It includes providing customer service in accordance with the terms of the contract and warranty, time reporting for service specialists, and repair and order calendars.
- Projects: For companies providing design services, it offers functions related to project management, resource management, working time, invoicing for services, and comparing the plan with its actual execution.
- Reporting & Analytics: A module that allows you to create reports and analyze business data to always up-to-date information to make more informed decisions.
Operational benefits
- Automating and removing redundant processes or redesigning processes can lead to a reduction in excessive jobs in any business area.
- Reduce inventory costs in terms of management, handling, storage, and improvement of inventory turnover.
- Reduce administrative expenses on paper and printing supplies.
- Reduce average lead times by storing data in a single system.
- Applying good practices in the field of business processes based on the experience of other companies.
- Improved system availability, mobility, and usability.
- Reduce error rates, reduce duplicates, improve accuracy or reliability levels.
- Reducing the number of complaints.
Strategic benefits
- Facilitate collaboration and communication with other companies, suppliers, distributors and related business parties.
- Centralized operation in the world.
- Global Resource Management.
- Multi-currency capability.
- Global market penetration.
- Rapid and cost-effective deployment of solutions in all countries.
Benefits in the IT sector
- Respond quickly to internal and external changes at a lower cost and provide a range of options in response to change requirements.
- Integration and maintenance of legacy systems.
- Technology research and development.
- Update to the current version.
- Streamlined and unified platform.
- Streamlined and unified support processes.
- A global platform with a global source of knowledge.
Organizational benefits
- Supporting organizational changes, improving staff training, creating a coherent vision of the company.
- Newly defined processes and structures.
- Greater focus on the core work.
- Customer and market focus.
- Moving from the back office to the front office.
- Increased employee efficiency in field operations and services.
- Satisfied users with effective problem solving.
- Built morale with improved system performance.
- Satisfied employees thanks to the fact that they have the right to decide and suggest changes.