Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
A cloud based (ERP) enterprise resource planning solution designed to help SMEs streamline their business operations.
What is Microsoft Dynamics Business Central?
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is an all-in-one cloud based Business Management solution designed for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). A single, flexible, end-to-end solution that can be customised to manage all your business processes.
Business Central is a trusted and proven Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution, with its functionality enhanced by Microsoft every year. It’s rich with functional breadth and use cases, including finance, sales, customer service, supply chain management and project management, delivered through leading cloud deployment. This enables organisations to centralise their data and operations, improving visibility, collaboration, and decision-making across different departments, which helps businesses manage their finances, manufacturing, operations, and customer relationships in one integrated system.
Sharp simplify Microsoft cloud technology, delivering bespoke Dynamics 365 Business Central solutions to streamline your business operations.
What does Business Central do?
Order Processing
With Microsoft Business Central, you can effectively oversee and manage your sales orders and procurement procedures using automated workflows and real-time inventory updates. Business Central empowers you to operate a robust procurement strategy by implementing approval processes.
Reporting & Analytics
Dynamics 365 Business Central offers diverse reporting and analytics capabilities that enable you to gain a deep understanding of your business performance, generate customised reports, and make informed data-driven decisions. By consolidating your financial management data from accounting, sales, purchasing, inventory, and customer interactions, you can achieve a comprehensive and real-time view of your entire business.
Financial Management
Microsoft Dynamics Business Central provides you with the capability to efficiently handle your financials, monitor cash flows, manage budgets, reconcile bank accounts, and generate comprehensive financial reports. The features of Business Central facilitate the simplification of your financial close process and offer real-time visibility into your business' performance.
Manufacturing
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is designed to streamline and oversee the production process, catering to your specific requirements. Regardless of what your business offers, Business Central provides a bespoke level of support. We offer flexible solutions that can be tailored to deliver precisely what you need, ensuring an optimised production workflow.
Sales & Marketing
With Microsoft Business Central, you can effectively oversee your sales processes, track leads, and manage customer interactions.
The sales and marketing features of Business Central allow you to advance the process from quote to cash by seamlessly connecting your sales and accounting functions. By bridging the gap between your sales and marketing teams, you can rapidly respond to sales enquiries directly from Outlook. Furthermore, Business Central simplifies the management of multiple ship-to and bill-to addresses per customer, including direct shipment and invoicing addresses.
Warehouse & Supply Chain Management
With the Warehouse Management features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, you can consolidate essential organisational data, automate tedious manual tasks, integrate processes and workflows, and facilitate data-driven inventory management.
You can grant managers a transparent view of business performance, margins, profitability, and areas for enhancement. This solution aids in the efficient management of your supply chain, helping you oversee inventory, monitor orders, automate procurement, and optimise various supply chain operations.
Resource & Project Management
With project management capabilities provided by Business Central, you can effectively strategise, monitor, and oversee projects, allocate resources, and evaluate project performance.
The utilisation of Microsoft for business enables you to effortlessly handle typical resource and project management activities, while obtaining comprehensive data for budget management and progress tracking. By leveraging timesheets, you can easily monitor project hours for both machines and employees, and access up-to-date information on available resources, including personnel and machinery.
Dynamic 365 Business Central Implementation and Support
A straight forward approach
The traditional process of implementing an ERP system is time-consuming, complex, and expensive. However, our approach is different.
During our initial conversation, we create a model of your business directly within the Dynamics 365 platform, allowing you to see precisely how the solution will work in your specific business context and use case.
We understand that partnering with a technology partner can feel daunting. After all, it’s your business, but our dedicated team of dedicated Technical Consultants get to know you and your challenges, making everything as easy and seamless as possible.
Your Digital Transformation Journey
Embarking on a digital transformation journey with a new ERP solution can be overwhelming. It requires careful implementation to ensure it encompasses all the necessary aspects needed to optimise your operations.
Selecting the right partner to assist with the effective implementation of Business Central is crucial to its success as a business solution. This partner should possess not only expertise in Dynamics 365 but also a deep understanding of your industry and business processes. This ensures that the final solution aligns seamlessly with your specific operational requirements.
Choosing Sharp as your technology partner when implementing Microsoft Dynamics as your ERP solution will transform your business. Not only does Microsoft Dynamics offer powerful tools to streamline your business operations, but it is also designed to align with future-proof technology models. Being a fully supported Microsoft product ensures the longevity of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Its ability to scale and incorporate additional capabilities through apps means our team can adapt the solutions to grow alongside your business, accommodating changes as they arise.
There has never been a better time to transition to Microsoft Dynamics Business Central. With the assistance of a knowledgeable Dynamics 365 partner such as Sharp, you can experience the benefits of improved data accuracy, enhanced team collaboration, and increased overall organisational efficiency.
With our extensive experience in helping businesses leverage Dynamics 365, we prioritise efficiency, visibility, and creating bespoke solutions to meet your unique business needs. Our team of experts will learn about your business and industry and work closely with you to develop a tailored solution that supports and enhances your operations.
Bespoke support
As your business expands, Business Central can easily scale with you. Whether you need to increase the number of users, improve performance with new apps, or extend the solution to new operations and functions, scalability is achievable.
It is vital to work with a partner whose implementation and support teams comprehend the intricacies of financial reporting, manufacturing, supply chain management, warehousing, and shipping whilst being able to provide support in a friendly, non-technical manner. Our ongoing support service ensures access to dedicated experts who specialise in key functional areas and possess a deep understanding of your organisation. This allows us to provide highly responsive and knowledgeable support for Business Central, ensuring that it continues to evolve and work for your organisation.
Industries & Verticals we’ve worked with
Manufacturers striving for success must have agile shop floors, efficient multi-channel trading capabilities, real-time inventory control & planning, and seamless on-time and in-full delivery, supported by impeccable customer service.
Relying on contrasting departmental systems, error-prone spreadsheets, and or paper-based processes is no longer sufficient. Manufacturers must transition to an integrated solution that encompasses order management, finance, production, distribution, and service through Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
With our extensive industry experience, there's no need to explain complex manufacturing processes and terminology to our team; they already understand them. As a result, we instead spend our efforts understanding your project objectives and unique operational challenges, ensuring a successful implementation.
Microsoft Business Central offers robust accounting capabilities with budgeting and forecasting tools, cash flow management features, financial analysis, and reporting functionalities. It also provides a comprehensive solution to streamline financial processes, ensure regulatory compliance, and facilitate informed efficient decision-making.
Business Central assists distributors and wholesalers in maintaining optimal inventory levels, ensuring efficient product movement, whilst delivering exceptional customer service, and providing unmatched technical/product expertise.
However, with evolving customer demands, distributors must also offer additional value-add services. Online ordering and self-service capabilities expedited next-day or same-day delivery, technical training, product kitting, final assembly, on-time and in-full reporting, and seamless integration with third-party logistics have become essential. These capabilities are necessary to establish a deeper connection with customers and minimise the risk of losing business to competitors.
Microsoft Dynamics Business Central is applicable to the engineering industry in several ways. It offers project management capabilities for efficient project planning, resource allocation, and budget management.
Business Central’s inventory and supply chain management features streamline procurement processes and enhance material handling. Resource planning and allocation tools optimise resource utilisation, while financial management capabilities ensure accurate financial reporting. The document management feature organises project-related documents, enhancing collaboration and accessibility. Business Central also supports integration and customisation, enabling seamless data exchange and workflow streamlining across engineering systems.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is also ideal for not-for-profit (NFP) organisations, offering comprehensive and robust reporting and analytics capabilities, integration and collaboration with other Microsoft and Third-Party applications, and features for compliance and accountability. By leveraging these capabilities, NFP organisations can streamline operations and enhance financial management.
Seamless Integration
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central integrates with many other solutions. Explore Sharps range of trusted partners below.
Cegedim
Cegedim e-business is one of the leading UK providers of EDI integration. Their goal is to support businesses in establishing connections to start trading digitally.
Their all-encompassing EDI solution, Netix Flow, offers a modular approach to integration. By harnessing both EDI and API technology, Netix Flow creates a direct connection with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Implementing a flexible integrated platform like Netix Flow allows your business to achieve end-to-end visibility, by automating data flows and enabling you to make quicker and more accurate decisions based on real-time analytics.
No matter your integration needs, Netix Flow has the ability to establish an 'off-the-shelf' or bespoke connection to your system, giving you the freedom of choice. Their off-the-shelf integration comes with standardised message types to get you up and running quickly, while their bespoke integration allows you to create a connection that suits your business processes.
Shiptheory
Shiptheory is a cloud-based shipping management platform that connects online retailers to carriers, automatically booking shipments, printing labels, and returning tracking numbers within seconds, enabling merchants to ship 5-10 times faster and save up to 7 hours daily.
Features include:
Recommended and Accredited Carrier Integrations - Direct integrations to over 70 global carriers and 90 eCommerce, marketplace, ERP, and OMS platforms.
Improved Customer Satisfaction- Dedicated shipping experts are on hand to support you throughout your shipping journey.
Product-driven- Shiptheory logs all technical and integration requests with a driving force to grow the platform around their clients.
Adaptable Functionality - A fully customisable dashboard and shipping rules engine to automatically process shipments, generate shipping labels, and return tracking numbers.
Tasklet Factory
Tasklet Mobile WMS is a barcode scanning solution designed to optimise warehouse processes. It integrates with the ERP system's standard warehouse functions and provides an excellent user interface for online and offline order processing by warehouse employees.
Tasklet Mobile WMS gives a complete overview of your warehouse and, at the same time, streamlines the main warehouse processes. This solution completely defines functionality to cover fundamental needs, such as receiving, picking, counting, moving items, and many others.
Features include:
Seamless Integration - The Mobile WMS is a user-friendly, real-time data collection tool that runs on handheld computers and connects directly to Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP for a fast and efficient warehouse management experience.
Empower Your Team - Get the most out of your warehouse with Tasklet Mobile WMS. Accurate inventory data, optimised processes, and increased productivity – all in one solution.
Providing a powerful, versatile, and intuitive barcode scanning solution for warehouse management, Tasklet Mobile WMS seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. With a user-friendly interface, Mobile WMS helps your team get more done in less time by providing real-time data and digital guidance in the palm of their hand.
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Health & Independent Living Support
"HILS had been using Sage 50 Finance and felt it was outdated. We wanted a cloud-based solution rather than a hosted one.
Sharp were great from the very start of the process, from understanding our requirements and then mapping out how to implement the new system – Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Tristan Broom (Head of ERP) ran the project really well, but a massive thanks go especially to Tom Race (ERP Implementation Consultant) and Nick Rose (Functional ERP Consultant). Their efforts in setting us up, training us, and still being there for us when we got stuck, has been exceptional.
We have had excellent service from Sharp and would not hesitate to recommend them to other companies."
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