Reduce Costs Across Your Manufacturing Operations with a Microsoft ERP Solution

Business Central Manufacturing Services with Discovery Informatique

Enhance your production processes and achieve operational excellence with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

As a specialized partner in Business Central manufacturing, Discovery Informatique customizes Microsoft’s ERP application to fit the specific needs of manufacturing operations.

Whether you’re a small manufacturer seeking to optimize your shop floor or a large enterprise looking to streamline global operations, we provide and support advanced manufacturing ERP solutions (MRPs) that enhance operational efficiency and profitability.

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Manufacturing Functionality In Business Central

Business Central for Manufacturing offers comprehensive functionality to manage all aspects of your operations, including production, vendor management, inventory control, and sales cycles.

Production Bill of Materials

Create and manage bills of materials with the ability to calculate standard costs and maintain multiple versions or revisions.

Production Orders

Generate and oversee production orders, posting consumption and output. Once a production order is created, calculate net requirements and view both estimated and actual costs upon completion.

Basic Supply Planning

Plan material requirements based on demand, supporting master production scheduling and material requirements planning. Use the planning worksheet to suggest and create necessary production and purchase orders easily.

Demand Forecasting

Manage demand forecasts for products and components, allowing input of sales forecasts in various formats (daily, monthly, quarterly).

Sales & Inventory Forecasting

Utilize the Sales and Inventory Forecast extension for detailed insights into potential sales and expected stock shortages.

Capacity Planning

Integrate capacities (work centers or machine centers) into the manufacturing process. Set up routings for use in production orders and material requirements planning, and view capacity loads and task lists.

Finite Loading

Manage the finite loading of capacity-constrained resources, ensuring that work assigned to a work center does not exceed its capacity during a given period.

Item Structure

View all BOM (Bill of Materials) and routing levels from the item card in a clear tree view, with or without costs

Agile Manufacturing

Business Central’s systems enable manufacturers to maintain agility and quickly adapt to changing customer needs.

Benefits of Business Central for Manufacturing

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central streamlines and integrates every need of your manufacturing process from scheduling and planning, distribution, inventory management, financial management, and job costing. Business Central is priced for the Small and Medium manufacturer, and offers a huge selection of addon products to customize the solution for your unique business needs.

One Integrated System

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central unifies data from accounting, sales, purchasing, inventory, manufacturing, projects, and customer interactions, offering a comprehensive solution for your business. With built-in dashboards and Power BI, you can easily measure and visualize your business performance.

The integration of manufacturing and supply chain with accounts receivable and payable eliminates the need for double entry, significantly reducing data entry time. Dynamics Business Central also facilitates quick and accurate financial reporting and account reconciliation.

Dimensional accounting allows manufacturing companies to analyze data by various characteristics like territory, product line, and production methodology. You can customize reports using Excel integration and design forms with Word templates.

Automate & Secure Your Supply Chain

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central offers robust Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) and Master Production Scheduling (MPS) through the Planning Worksheet. These features predict the timing and quantity of replenishments needed, enabling real-time inventory management and a Just in Time, LEAN operation. Microsoft continues to enhance Business Central, incorporating tools like Cortana AI for sales forecasting and utilization calculations.

With Dynamics Business Central, you can manage stock levels, lead times, reorder points, lot accumulation periods, and other MRP planning factors right out of the box.

Additionally, a comprehensive workflow process helps control new item creation, set purchasing approval thresholds, and manage employee materials requisitions.

Optimize Your Operations

Maximize the potential of Microsoft Business Central to generate accurate sales forecasts and prevent stock shortages. Utilizing its planning features, the system automatically generates production plans and creates purchase orders, reducing order entry time and increasing efficiency.

Gain a comprehensive view of your inventory for effective order fulfillment. Track each item transaction and movement in detail, manage inventory by bin and location, and use pick orders based on warehouse layout and storage unit dimensions to speed up the fulfillment process.

Leverage over 1,000 add-on modules available in Dynamics Business Central, including barcode scanning, CAD integration, EDI, credit card processing, optimized production scheduling, data analysis, and more, all designed to enhance your operations.

Keep Project On Time & Under Budget

Utilize Dynamics 365 Business Central’s Jobs module along with Sabre’s Engineer to Order (Sabre ETO) addon to manage project manufacturing efficiently. Track engineer and technician time with timesheets and leverage advanced job costing and reporting features to monitor project status and progress. Visualize project work using Gantt charts and integrate MRP modules with Project Manufacturing capabilities to optimize purchasing.

Compare manufacturing costs with budget and forecast, and manage revenues and expenses using various revenue recognition methods, such as monthly percent completion.

Sabre ETO, a unique addition to the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Manufacturing suite, enhances Engineer-To-Order and Project Manufacturing with easy-to-use requisitioning and procurement directly within your project bills of material.

Choose Discovery Informatique as Your Business Central Manufacturing Partner

Let us show you how Microsoft Dynamics 365 can help you automate processes and boost productivity throughout your digital transformation.

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