Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
If growth is on your business agenda, it’s vital to have the right systems to support your changing needs.
Growth often involves being much more intentional about improving operations and meeting customer needs and being able to make decisions based on up to date operational and financial data.
Are you one of the 53%* of SME’s who prioritise digital business applications to help you stay competitive?
*Microsoft November 2023
Learn more about how we implement Business Central
Today most SME’s want cloud solutions to form the foundations of their business. Finance, accounting, sales and purchasing are essential to every business, but systems can often cause challenges as a result of lack of integration, double keying of data, and inability to report effectively across various pieces of software.
Business Central is a fully integrated business system that helps companies streamline the way they work so that they are able to adapt to change and respond effectively to customers needs.
Are you OUTGROWING your current systems?
Problems tracking and managing financial data?
Solution:
Business Central provides robust financial management tools to streamline accounting processes and offer a comprehensive view of financial data in real time.
Struggling with stock control?
Solution:
Business Central's inventory and supply chain management capabilities help you optimize stock levels, reduce stockholding costs, and enhance overall inventory efficiency.
Systems not integrated?
Solution:
Business Central integrates business processes from Customer Relationship Management (CRM) through sales, to stock, MRP, purchasing, job and resource management to financials for a more streamlined and cohesive operation.
Problems managing sales opportunities, or providing good customer service?
Solution:
Business Central consolidates customer data, streamlines sales processes, and enhances customer service, leading to improved customer satisfaction and loyalty.
Problems managing projects?
Solution:
Business Central includes project management tools to help plan, monitor, and control projects, as well as manage budgets, margin and invoicing to ensure they stay on track and within budget.
Need better reporting in real time to make data based decisions?
Solution:
Business Central includes built-in business intelligence tools, that let you create custom reports and dashboards for actionable insights.
Struggling to integrate existing systems or applications?
Solution:
Business Central seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Office 365 and the Power Platform, to smooth data flows between applications.
Business Central is designed as an integrated and scalable solution for businesses looking to enhance their operational efficiency and drive growth.
Our unique approach to implementing Business Central will ensure your ERP solution provides the return on investment agreed up front.
Having seen many systems implementations fail, go way over budget or timescale, our aim is to avoid this because it damages your business and our reputation.
Whether you’re looking to move from on premise software like Sage 50 or Sage 200, or switch from SAP or Oracle, Business Central has the functionality to manage complex business processes, providing clear real time reporting.
Our team is comprised of senior business leaders who not only have many years’ experience implementing systems, but have also worked in industry and have the real world experience of using ERP applications. Our initial team stay with you throughout your project and beyond.
We’re not a volume business and work very much hand in hand with you to form a long term strategic partnership where we’re as invested in your business success as you are. Whilst it’s possible to implement a very basic form of Business Central in a short space of time, one of the biggest benefits is the ability to configure the way in which data is recorded and analysed, exactly around your business. This takes time. And thought. And planning, And getting it wrong in a controlled environment in order to refine how it’s set up.
We use a specific method that we’ve built inside Business Central to manage projects, as well as building a tool to help import data that will show you areas that need fixing in order to work correctly – and that’s across static data like customer, vendor and item data, as well as dynamic data like open purchase and sales orders.
If you would like to learn more, click here for a short guide to Business Central or to get in touch, fill in our contact form here.
Sage 50 Professional vs Business Central
| Business Central | Sage 50 Professional | |
|---|---|---|
| Price/license (per month) *indicative | £57.50 | First user £155 |
| Number of users | Up to 300 named users | Up to 20 users |
| Transactions | No limit | Up to 1.5 million per annum |
| Features | ||
| Finance | ||
| Supply chain | Partial; order processing, basic stock control | |
| Sales CRM – from lead to purchase | ||
| Project management/Job costing | Partial; service jobs not jobs involving product sales | |
| Warehouse management | Limited – manual | |
| Service management | ||
| Manufacturing | Limited to BoM, shortfall & suggested purchase orders | |
| Other Features | ||
| Customisation of views, pages and fields | Limited to specific columns on list views | |
| Server or Cloud | Cloud | Server |
| Reporting and Analysis | Within the application on list screens, via Excel, Power BI, Word | Reports and via Excel |
| Artificial Intelligence built in | ||
| Connectivity with other systems | Fully customisable connectivity via APIs, 3rd party apps | Limited app library |
| Microsoft Office 365 integration | Standard, out of the box | Available from £10 per month |
