Network Outsourcing for Midsize Companies

Dynamics Business Central, formerly branded Dynamics NAV and Navision, provides small and midsize companies a single, unified solution for typical business processes including financial management, inventory control, operations control, capacity planning, procurement, sales and marketing, demand forecasting, and advanced analytics. Built on the Microsoft cloud and powered by SQL Server, Dynamics 365 Business Central features tight integration with popular Microsoft applications including Office 365 Word, Excel, Outlook, Power BI, Teams, AI technologies, and Azure Active Directory (AD). A selection of Power BI-based extensions such as Business Central Sales are offered on the Microsoft AppSource, and customizations can be developed using Microsoft's Visual Studio Code environment. Support for multiple currencies, exchange rates, and localized tax laws allows Dynamics Business Central to do the job for multi-country businesses.

The onsite version of Dynamics 365 Business Central can be hosted at your data center and the SaaS release can be run from the Microsoft Azure cloud or implemented in a hybrid cloud/on-premises model. Certain capabilities, such as linking to Microsoft Teams, are available only with the cloud version. The legacy Navision product that developed into Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central was first released during the 1980s as an international ERP program. Progent's consultants have worked with the Navision/NAV software family for years and can assist you to manage outdated systems or migrate efficiently to the latest on-premises, cloud, or hybrid solutions. Your users get the full capability of Dynamics 365 Business Central from desktop, tablet, or handheld devices running Windows, iOS, or Google Android.

Capabilities of Dynamics 365 Business Central
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central includes within one platform the common accounting capabilities needed by small and medium-size companies and is especially well suited for wholesale businesses and professional services organizations. Examples of functions include:

Manage Finance Processes

• Make and collect payments
• Payment terms and methods
• Fixed asset insurance
• Discount tolerances
• Month-end/year-end closing
• Cost accounting
• Cash flow projections
• Company consolidations
• Month-end/year-end closing

• Planning for items to fulfil demand
• Inventory control
• Work with item attributes
• Adjust Item Costs
• Multiple locations
• Physical inventory recording
• Assign serial numbers or lot numbers
• Item substitutions
• Item- or SKU-level cycle counting
• Track Items with Serial, Lot, and Package Numbers
• Reserve items

• Create jobs
• Assign job tasks
• Job registration
• Job and process costing
• Create time sheets
• Allocate resources to a job
• Manage job supplies
• Record job costs from resource usage

• Dynamic item or service inventory adjustments
• Custom approval workflows
• Preview posting
• Combined receipts
• Purchase credit memos
• PEPPOL document support for invoices
• Purchase invoice discounts
• Calculating with requested receipt date
• Supplier management

• Quote to sales order conversion
• Contact management
• Mining data for marketing
• Invoicing sales prepayments
• Sales order/return order management
• Integration with Microsoft Dynamics Sales
• Process cancellations
• Payment processing
• Track packages
• Recurring sales

• Planning and Requisition Worksheets
• Demand forecasting
• Reordering policy
• Lot accumulation period
• Assembly policy
• Subcontract manufacturing
• New demand planning
• Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
• Assembly and Manufacturing Management

• Establish coding for standard services
• Establish controls for Service Management
• Service request management
• resource allocation and geographic zones
• Repair status reporting
• Service contract groups
• Send and receive loaners

Progent's Office and Microsoft 365 consultants can help your company to incorporate the Microsoft Dynamics Office Add-in so you can utilize Excel to view Business Central data and create transactions, use Word to design templates that Dynamics Business Central can populate with current data, and use Microsoft Outlook for getting quoation requests and for generating and delivering quotes. Progent can also teach you how to utilize Outlook to detect new people and add them automatically to the Dynamics 365 database. In addition, Progent's developers can assist your development team to utilize Visual Studio Code to build custom applications for Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Progent's application developers can provide SQL Server expertise and Power BI analytics mentoring to assist you to utilize Dynamics 365 Business Central/Dynamics NAV to design applications and reports that make it easier for your employees to view and understand business information in a protected environment to inform business decisions.

How Progent Can Help You with Dynamics Business Central
In addition to providing expertise for combining Dynamics 365 Business Central with other Microsoft products, Progent can assist your company to support legacy versions of Dynamics NAV or Navision or design and implement an upgrade to a current ERP solution. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network integration experts can assist you to deploy and maintain a robust and responsive network environment that accommodates on-site, on-the-road, home-based, and cloud IT resources. Progent's certified IT security consultants can help your company to design a security strategy that incorporates AI technology to defend against ransomware and zero-day attacks and offers protection against inadvertent or malicious data leaks. Progent's disaster preparedness and business continuity consultants can assist you to create and test a disaster recovery plan that reduces recovery time and data loss in case of a natural or human-caused disruption.

Contact Progent for Assistance with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
If you are looking for an expert for Microsoft Dynamics Business Central ERP, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.