Comprehensive Manufacturing Management

Business Central for Manufacturing

Business Central is the optimal solution for manufacturers looking for extensive manufacturing and supply chain management capabilities. Business Central gives you comprehensive visibility into your inventory—from the moment that a customer reaches out for an order, through production and fulfillment, and all the way to completion of the cash cycle.

Is it right for my business?

Business Central for Manufacturing comes with rich manufacturing functionality to manage your operations through the entire production, vendor management, inventory control, and sales cycles. Take advantage of basic manufacturing, agile manufacturing, supply planning, and capacity planning to drive automation throughout your production processes.

  • Manage your stock and respond to your customers quicker by leveraging built-in business intelligence on historical data

  • Save time by automatically creating replenishment requests for vendors

  • Streamline data across all departments for consistent and fluid communication based on real-time information

  • Use advanced customization capabilities to modify processes and add new ones that are specific to the things you need to do

Business Central automates manufacturing processes and provides valuable insights into inventory. Expedite complex manufacturing management processes with well-oiled planning systems. With your data connected across every part of the organization, you will always know your material requirements and capacities.

Business Central Manufacturing Features

Production Bill of Materials

Create bills of materials and calculate standard costs. Allows for multiple versions (revisions).

Production Orders

Create and manage production orders and post consumption and output to the production orders. After you have created a production order, you can calculate net requirements based on that production order.  See estimated and actual costs upon completion.

Basic Supply Planning

Plan material requirements based on demand with support for master production scheduling and material requirements planning.  Suggest production orders and purchase orders using the planning worksheet and easily create required orders.

Demand Forecasting

Manage demand forecasting based on items. Input demand (sales) forecasts for products and components in a more convenient way (daily, monthly, quarterly). 

Sales and Inventory Forecasting

Use the Sales and Inventory Forecast extension to get deep insights about potential sales and a clear overview of expected stock-outs. 

Capacity Planning

Add capacities (work centers or machine centers) to the manufacturing process. Set up routings and use these routings on production orders and in material requirements planning. View loads and the task list for the capacities. 

Finite Loading

Manage finite loading of capacity-constraint resources, taking capacity constraints into account so that no more work is assigned to a work center than the capacities can be expected to execute during a given time period. 

Item Structure

From the item card view all BOM (Bill of Materials) and routing levels in an easy-to-read tree view with or without costs.

Agile Manufacturing

Combined, Business Central’s systems allow for manufacturers to maintain agility and adapt to changing customer needs.