What Is Dynamics 365 Business Central?

Running an eCommerce business is complicated. It does, however, become a good deal easier when you use an ERP such as Dynamics 365 Business Central. Read on and get the full overview of what Dynamics 365 Business Central is, and what you can use the system for.

What is Dynamics 365 Business Central?

Put very briefly, Dynamics 365 Business Central is an ERP system (Enterprise Resource Planning). A financial system that can manage and monitor an entire company’s resources — both incoming and outgoing — and create a welcome surplus in a fast-paced working day.

What can Dynamics 365 Business Central do?

In very broad terms, Dynamics 365 Business Central can help you keep track of your resources. But we are not just talking about currency here. We are also talking about items, materials, stock, sales and much more.

Dynamics 365 Business Central helps you get an overview by presenting data from your entire company. The system connects you with the different departments of your company, so teams work better across the organisation, and so you can optimise the processes better.

• Business Central keeps track of all financial processes, from posting, payment, invoicing and budgeting.
• Level up your sales work with easier quoting, customer contact and invoicing. Your sales processes get a new and easier life.
• Your work with purchasing and vendors becomes much easier with Business Central. Requests for quotes, order processing and payment are all included in the system.
• Logistics, stock and warehouse management become a simple matter with Business Central’s features.
• Planning and monitoring production as well as budgeting are reduced to child’s play in Business Central.
• Scheduling, resource management and project accounting create breathing room in your projects.

And as if being able to manage all your work were not enough, Business Central can also help you with payroll, HR and wellbeing tasks.

All of it under one virtual roof.

Who is Dynamics 365 Business Central for?

It may sound as though Dynamics 365 Business Central is exclusively for huge companies with a good handful of different teams across 19 departments. And that is clearly also the case. With the right procedures, Business Central can be adapted to any need that might arise, even in the largest companies. But it is not only large empires that can benefit from Business Central. There are a great many companies in Denmark that are not that size, yet still have the same needs on a smaller scale.

Companies that can benefit greatly from Business Central include.

• Manufacturing companies
• The financial sector
• Public institutions
• Healthcare
• Retail
• Wholesalers
• Distributors
• The energy sector
• Ecommerce
• NGOs

Benefits of using Dynamics 365 Business Central

The benefits are many and substantial when you go from not having an ERP system to having a system as the foundation of your company. You will find that things which used to create big headaches have now been digitalised, or perhaps even automated. That means you will save large amounts of time in your company, and as we all know, time equals money.

That is not the only thing, though — it actually gets even better.

In addition to automated processes, you will be able to access valuable data and gain great insights into your own company and its processes. That is important in order to understand how your company can be optimised in the future. Sometimes it does not take much to make a big positive change. Just the right data. Together, these benefits enable growth for any company as well as scaling of the company’s performance. Less human input — more output.

The most striking benefits are the following:

• There is a wealth of features covering most processes in a company.
• You can spin up a solution yourself, at a cost of approx. DKK 500-1,000 per month – depending on the number of users and permissions per user.
• Scalability – the solution is cloud-based, which means it can grow as the company grows.
• Integrations with other systems are not an issue – 365 Business Central has a good API V2 that can be integrated with anything in order to optimise and automate.

Is there a cooler feeling as a company than putting a new engine in the machine and watching it maximise performance?

No, there is not.

Find the right 365 BC partner

So can you just go out and use Dynamics 365 Business Central, as with any other SaaS solution? Yes, in principle you can, and you can actually get quite far if you can stay within the standard features. On top of that, there are many PowerApps that can help extend certain features and processes. There will come a time when you need to extend features without a PowerApp, extend the API or have consultants who know your industry and challenges from other similar cases. Development cannot happen sensibly and quickly enough, and this is where it is smart to find a partner who can help.

Here are some of the benefits of finding an experienced 365 BC partner.

The right experience and expertise

With the right experience, an experienced 365 BC partner can get you started using your new ERP system in no time. They are completely clear on best practices, and on how any company can get the most out of their system, and the most for their money.

Cost-effective

An experienced partner is cost-effective. The partner makes sure that your system works from the start, and avoids the most common problems that can be associated with getting an ERP system up and running. Fewer errors create breathing room in the budget.

A scalable and flexible solution

The great thing about external help is that you can scale the help up in busy periods, and down again when there is no need. Having a 365 BC partner on the team therefore means flexibility and scalability for both costs and availability. Your team can be the same size all the way through. The only difference is how much you hand over.

Efficiency and productivity

A 365 BC partner can help you scale and automate more vital work tasks. You get more breathing room in your working day, and spend less time on annoying small tasks. Let’s be honest. There can be quite a few of those. Let a partner take care of it. Here is a list of the country’s most capable ERP partners

Integrate Dynamics 365 Business Central with your other systems

Business Central is a fantastic system in itself, but if you want the keys to a real racer and want to put your growth journey into high gear, then you need to add integrations between your ERP system and your eCommerce solution, e.g. a Shopify integration, and your PIM system, e.g. a Plytix integration

Just imagine it.

You have so much data lying around in your different systems, just waiting to mingle with each other. The stories that could be told across them can create incredible synergies that can automate your workflows, put your order fulfilment rate into high gear, create more sales, scale your teams and give you room for more in your working day.

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Isn’t that what we are ultimately here for?

That is certainly why we do what we do at Connectify.