Network Help for Mid-size Companies

Microsoft Dynamics Business Central, formerly called Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Navision, provides small and medium size companies a one-stop, unified platform for typical business processes including financials, inventory control, operations control, project management, purchasing, sales and marketing, supply chain management, and business reporting. Designed for the Microsoft cloud and driven by SQL Server, Dynamics 365 Business Central features seamless integration with popular Microsoft applications including Office 365 Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Platform, Teams, Microsoft AI technologies, and Azure Active Directory. A selection of Power BI-connected add-ons like Business Central Sales are available from the Microsoft AppSource, and customizations can be created with Microsoft's Visual Studio Code environment. Support for various currencies, exchange rates, and localized tax laws enables Dynamics Business Central to do the job for multi-national businesses.

The onsite edition of Microsoft Dynamics Business Central can be run locally and the SaaS release can be run from the Microsoft Azure cloud or implemented in a hybrid cloud/on-premises model. Certain features, such as linking to Microsoft Teams, are available only for the online edition. The original Navision application that evolved into Dynamics Business Central was initially published during the eighties as an international ERP system. Progent's consultants have worked with the Navision/NAV product family for years and can assist you to manage legacy deployments or migrate efficiently to modern on-premises, cloud, or hybrid version. End users get the full functionality of Dynamics Business Central from desktop, tablet, or mobile devices powered by Microsoft Windows, Apple iOS, or Google Android.

Features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Dynamics 365 Business Central delivers within one platform the essential accounting capabilities needed by small and medium-size businesses and is particularly adapted for wholesale businesses and professional services organizations. Examples of functions include:

Manage Finance Processes

• Receivables/payables
• Payment terms and methods
• Fixed asset depreciation
• Payment tolerances
• Month-end/year-end closing
• Financial reporting
• Cash flow forecast
• Company consolidations
• Month-end/year-end closing

• Forecasting
• Post inventory transactions to G/L
• Categorize items for easy searching
• Adjust Item Costs
• Inventory reconciliation
• Work with catalog items
• Stock-Keeping Units (SKUs)
• Item substitutions
• Item- or SKU-level cycle counting
• Item tracking
• Returns and cancellations

• Create jobs
• Create job tasks and planning lines
• Job budgeting
• Job and process costing
• Create time sheets
• Allocate resources to a job
• Monitor Job performance
• Record job costs from materials

• Dynamic item or service inventory update
• Custom approval processes
• Test reports
• consolidated receipts
• Posted purchase invoice corrections
• Electronic document conversion for invoices and credit memos
• Purchase invoice discounts
• Date calculation for purchases
• Merge duplicate records

• Quote generation
• Contact management
• Campaign management
• Managing prepayments
• Manage credit limits
• Seamless integration with Dynamics 365 Sales
• Create special orders
• Payment processing
• Calculate earliest ship dates
• Recurring sales

• Planning Worksheet
• Production forecasting
• Reorder point
• Rescheduling period
• Assembly policy
• Subcontract manufacturing
• New demand planning
• Action messages for supply/demand balance
• Manufacturing and Service Management

• Establish coding for regular services and fault codes
• Establish settings for Service Management Processes
• Service order creation and tracking
• resource allocation and geographic zones
• Repair status manageemnt
• Service contract templates
• Send and receive loaners

Progent's Office and Microsoft 365 experts can assist you to integrate the Microsoft Dynamics Office Add-in so you can utilize Excel to see Business Central information and initiate transactions, use Microsoft Word to build templates that Business Central can populate with current data, and use Microsoft Outlook for receiving quote requests and for creating and delivering product quotes. Progent can also teach you how to utilize Outlook to detect new people and submit them immediately to the D365 database. In addition, Progent's app developers can help your development team to use Visual Studio Code to create custom apps for Dynamics Business Central.

Progent's application developers can provide SQL Server expertise and Power Platform analytics mentoring to help your company to use Dynamics Business Central/Dynamics NAV to create applications and dashboards that make it easier for your works to view and understand business data in a protected environment to guide decision making.

How Progent Can Assist You with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
In addition to providing consulting for combining Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central with other Microsoft products, Progent can help your company to support legacy editions of Dynamics NAV or Navision or design and implement a migration to a modern ERP solution. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network integration consultants can help your business to deploy and maintain a resilient and responsive network environment that accommodates on-site, on-the-road, home-based, and cloud IT resources. Progent's certified cybersecurity consultants can help you to create a security strategy that deploys machine learning to protect against ransomware and other attacks and offers protection against unwitting or malicious data leaks. Progent's business continuity experts can assist you to document and validate a business continuity strategy that reduces recovery time and information loss in the event of a natural or human-caused catastrophe.

Contact Progent for Help with Microsoft Dynamics Business Central
If you are in need of a consulting specialist for Dynamics Business Central ERP software, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.