Business Central includes manufacturing functionality for planning, scheduling, executing, and analyzing production. Microsoft documentation describes capabilities involving production bills of materials, routings, work and machine centers, production orders, material consumption, output, and production costs.
Manufacturing ERP Requirements
Depending on the manufacturing environment, an organization may require:
- Production planning
- Material requirements planning
- Bills of materials
- Routings
- Production orders
- Work centers
- Machine centers
- Capacity planning
- Inventory management
- Purchasing
- Costing
- Quality-related processes
- Warehouse management
- Production reporting
Business Central supply planning can balance demand and supply for purchased, assembled, manufactured, or transferred items.
Manufacturing ERP Customization
Not every manufacturing process will operate in exactly the same way. A business may require adjustments to:
- Production workflows
- Approval processes
- Reports
- Documents
- Data fields
- Manufacturing-related integrations
- Operational dashboards
Digital Links can assess whether a requirement can be handled through standard configuration, customization, integration, or another approach.
