Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Financial accounting

• Accounts payable and receivable
• Cash flow calculation / liquidity forecast
• IC: Intercompany billing
• Unlimited clients and currencies
• Management of branches / organizational units
• Overview with account schemes - as a powerful reporting tool
• Budgeting
• Consolidation
• Accrual templates
• Define units of responsibility

Cost accounting

• Transfer of costs from financial accounting
• Cost budgets
• Extended dimensions
• Determination of different distribution keys

Payroll accounting / HR

• Clear personnel management
• Efficient wage recording
• Detailed working time calendar
• Individual payroll accounting
• Withholding tax and ELM transmission
• Comprehensive reporting

Bank management

• Account management
• Electronic payments and direct debits
• Coordination of bank transactions
• Integrated check system

Fixed asset accounting

• Asset accounting / distributions
• Insurances
• Maintenance

General functionality

• Integrated workflow, including document approval procedure
• Internationality
• Change log
• Multilingualism in menu and document navigation
• Document management
• Office and Outlook integration
• Exporting with Excel and Word templates
• Task management

Order processing

• Efficient order processing, including fast telephone entry
• Campaign prizes
• Delivery date commitments
• Informational board about availabilities, delivery readiness, backorders
• Invoice discounts as well as planning of campaigns, including flexible price management
• Processing of domestic and export transactions, customs
• Deposit of delivery agents (UPC, DHL, etc.)
• Create sales budgets
• Complaints and returns

Accounts receivable and sales

• Alternative delivery addresses
• Customer delivery calendar
• Sales planning / framework agreements
• Article and customer groups

Order control

• Partial delivery
• Advance and partial payments
• Blanket orders

General functionality

• Integrated workflow, including document approval procedure
• Internationality
• Change log
• Multilingualism in menu and document navigation
• Document management
• Office and Outlook integration
• Exporting with Excel and Word templates
• Task management

Production

• Production master data
• Multi-level production bills of material
• Production orders
• External manufacturing
• Article availability on time axis
• Preliminary and final costing

Production planning

• Version management
• Stock planning
• Sales planning
• Planning proposals
• Graphical overview

Mounting

• Manage assembly orders
• Assembly parts lists over several stages
• Recording of billable resources and expenses

Capacity / resource planning

• Planning according to limited capacity utilization
• Machine location management
• Integrated barcode control

General functionality

• Integrated workflow, including document approval procedure
• Internationality
• Change log
• Multilingualism in menu and document navigation
• Document management
• Office and Outlook integration
• Exporting with Excel and Word templates
• Task management

Accounts payable and purchasing

• Ordering, including complaints and returns
• Alternative order addresses
• Various purchase prices, discounts
• Direct deliveries
• Automatic procurement process, including order proposal
• Deposit of article budgets

Warehouse

• Goods receipt and goods issue
• Article references / Replacement items
• Multiple storage locations - Stock transfer
• Stock data
• Order picking, assembly management
• Cyclical inventory

Warehouse management / logistics

• Mobile data acquisition system (MDE)
• Automatic storage place device
• Internal storage and picking requirements
• Warehouse management system

General functionality

• Integrated workflow, including document approval procedure
• Internationality
• Change log
• Multilingualism in menu and document navigation
• Document management
• Office and Outlook integration
• Exporting with Excel and Word templates
• Task management

Project management

• Project plans with tasks and task groups
• Project budgeting / forecasts
• Copying projects

Resource management

• Capacity control
• Several cost prices
• Activation of work in progress

Time recording

• Customer assignment
• Flexible recording of time and expenses
• Charges for services

General functions

• Integrated workflow, including document approval procedure
• Internationality - Multilingualism
• Change log
• Multilingualism in menu and document management
• Document management
• Office and Outlook integration
• Exporting with Excel and Word templates
• Task management

Sale

• Contact management: Customer and supplier cockpit with 360 degrees, including activities
• Offer management and notifications (opportunity control)
• Overview of inquiries and sales opportunities
• Entering notes - Depositing files
• Entering and monitoring tasks and telephone calls
• Storing visit reports
• Integration with Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM

Marketing

• Contact classification
• Campaign management
• Email logging for Microsoft Exchange

Service management

• Service order management
• Service article management, including prices
• Deployment planning
• Service contract management

General functions

• Integrated workflow, including document approval procedure
• Internationality - Multilingualism
• Change log
• Multilingualism in menu and document management
• Document management
• Office and Outlook integration
• Exporting with Excel and Word templates
• Task management

Standard reports

• Integrated report designer
• Create dashboards
• Intrastat declarations

Flexible reporting

• Account schemes
• Standard report export to Excel
• Excel transaction data export with update options (e.g. quotations)
• Business queries directly from Excel with data updating

Automated reporting / dashboards

• Connection to the MIS solution Microsoft PowerBI (Business Performance Dashboard)
• Report scheduling: Report execution on event with role assignment

General functions

• Integrated workflow, including document approval procedure
• Internationality - Multilingualism
• Change log
• Multilingualism in menu and document management
• Document management
• Office and Outlook integration
• Exporting with Excel and Word templates
• Task management

Portals

• Web shop integration
• Connection to sales portals (e.g. Galaxus)

Electronic data exchange

• Sending and receiving electronic invoices
• Monitoring tools / activity log
• Logistics connections

Standard interfaces

• API standard Interfaces
• XBRL format
• XML format

General functions

• Integrated workflow, including document approval procedure
• Internationality - Multilingualism
• Change log
• Multilingualism in menu and document management
• Document management
• Office and Outlook integration
• Exporting with Excel and Word templates
• Task management

Mobility

• Integrated connection of field service employees
• Barcode supported production
• Automated logistics & order picking

IoT

• Machine connections
• Big data analyses
• Predictive maintenance (predictive maintenance)

Available clients - matched to the hardware

• Windows client
• Web client
• Tablet client
• Mobile client

General functions

• Integrated workflow, including document approval procedure
• Internationality - Multilingualism
• Change log
• Multilingualism in menu and document management
• Document management
• Office and Outlook integration
• Exporting with Excel and Word templates
• Task management