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Dynamics Business Central, previously called Dynamics NAV and Navision, provides small and medium size companies a comprehensive, unified platform for common business activities including financials, inventory, operations, capacity planning, procurement, sales and marketing, supply chain management, and advanced reporting. Designed for the Azure cloud and powered by SQL Server, Microsoft Dynamics Business Central features seamless integration with popular Microsoft products including Office 365 Word, Excel, Exchange, Outlook, Power BI, Teams, Microsoft AI technologies, and Azure AD. A range of Power Platform-based add-ons like Business Central Sales are available from the Microsoft AppSource, and custom enhancements can be developed with Microsoft's Visual Studio Code. The ability to handle multiple currencies, exchange rates, and localized tax regulations enables D365 Business Central to work for multi-country companies.

The onsite version of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central can be hosted at your data center and the Software-as-a-Service release can be run from the Microsoft Azure cloud or deployed in a hybrid model. Some capabilities, like connecting to Teams, are offered exclusively for the cloud version. The original Navision product that developed into Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central was initially published during the 80's as an international enterprise resource planning system. Progent's experts have worked with the Navision/NAV application family for years and can assist you to maintain legacy systems or upgrade efficiently to modern on-premises, cloud, or hybrid version. Your users get the full functionality of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central from desktop, tablet, or mobile endpoints powered by Microsoft Windows, iOS, or Android.

Capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Microsoft Dynamics Business Central includes in a single application the essential accounting capabilities needed by small and medium-size businesses and is particularly suited for wholesalers companies and professional service providers. Examples of functions include:

Financial Management

• Make and collect payments
• Payment terms and methods
• Fixed asset insurance
• Payment tolerances
• Month-end/year-end closing
• Account schedules
• Cash flow projections
• Company mergers
• Multiple currencies

• Planning for items to fulfil demand
• Inventory control
• Item categories and attributes
• Adjust inventory levels
• Transfers between locations
• Work with catalog items
• Find serial or lot number in supply chain
• Item substitutions
• Item- or SKU-level cycle counting
• Track Items with Serial, Lot, and Package Numbers
• Returns and cancellations

• Define jobs
• Create job tasks and planning lines
• Job quotes
• Job resource assignment
• Create time sheets
• Allocate resources to a job
• Manage job supplies
• Track job costs from materials

• Automatic item or service inventory update
• Defined purchase approval workflows
• Post batch and test reports
• Combined receipts
• Purchase credit memos
• Electronic document conversion for invoices
• Purchase line discounting
• Calculated order date
• Blanket purchase orders

• Prefilled email quote summary
• Order Promising
• Campaign management
• Invoicing sales prepayments
• Sales order/return order management
• Seamless integration with Dynamics Sales Add-in
• Process cancellations
• Payment reconciliation
• Track packages
• Recurring sales

• Planning and Requisition Worksheets
• Sales projection
• Reorder point
• Reorder quantity
• Assembly policy
• Managing subcontract work
• New demand planning
• Master Production Schedule
• Assembly and Manufacturing Management

• Set up coding for regular services and fault codes
• Establish settings for Service Management Processes
• Service order management
• resource allocation and regions
• Service status reporting
• Service contract templates
• Set up loaners

Progent's Office and Microsoft 365 experts can assist you to incorporate the Microsoft Dynamics Office Add-in so you can utilize Excel to see Business Central information and initiate transactions, use Word to build templates that D365 Business Central can populate with real-time data, and use Microsoft Outlook for getting quote queries and for generating and delivering product quotes. Progent can also teach you how to use Microsoft Outlook to detect new people and add them automatically to the Dynamics 365 database. Also, Progent's developers can assist your development team to utilize Visual Studio Code to build specialized apps for Dynamics Business Central.

Progent's app developers offer SQL Server consulting and Power Platform analytics support to assist you to utilize Dynamics Business Central to design apps and reports that make it easier for your employees to access and gain insights from business information in a protected environment to inform business decisions.

How Progent Can Assist Your Company with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Beyond offering expertise for integrating Dynamics Business Central with other Microsoft products, Progent can help your company to support outdated versions of Dynamics NAV/Navision or design and carry out an upgrade to a modern ERP solution. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network infrastructure experts can assist your business to configure and maintain a robust and responsive network infrastructure that accommodates local, mobile, at-home, and cloud users and IT resources. Progent's certified cybersecurity experts can help you to design a compliant cybersecurity strategy that incorporates AI technology to protect against ransomware and zero-day threats and provides a shield against inadvertent or malicious information leaks. Progent's business continuity experts can help you to create and test a business continuity strategy that reduces downtime and information loss in case of a natural or human-caused catastrophe.

Contact Progent for Expertise with Dynamics 365 Business Central
If your company is trying to find a consulting specialist for Dynamics 365 Business Central ERP, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.