Advanced Manufacturing Capabilities in Dynamics 365 Business Central
To enhance productivity across your manufacturing operations, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central includes a range of advanced capabilities designed to streamline production, improve accuracy, and optimise resource utilisation. These features strengthen the core manufacturing functionality, ensuring you can manage even the most complex shop-floor processes with confidence. Plus – anything that doesn’t quite meet your needs can be solved by using an ISV add on.
Assembly Management
- Support light manufacturing and assemble-to-order scenarios with flexible assembly capabilities.
- Create assembly bills of materials (BOMs) containing raw materials, subassemblies, and resources, and use assembly orders to replenish items efficiently.
Business Central also allows customer-specific requirements to be captured directly from sales quotes and orders, enabling a smoother and more accurate assembly-to-order process.
Advanced Product BOM Functionality
Business Central provides enhanced control over product structures by allowing you to build detailed BOMs with formulas linked to dimensions and expected scrap percentages.
You can also utilise phantom BOMs to simplify grouping and planning, making it easier to manage multi-level component relationships without overcomplicating your production processes.
Capacity Planning With Work & Machine Centres
- Optimise resource allocation by managing capacity at multiple levels.
- Configure work centres and machine centres, set up routings, and define essential process data such as setup, wait, and move times.
Business Central supports finite loading, helping you avoid bottlenecks and resource overloading while giving clear visibility of workloads and task lists.
You can plan capacity both at a consolidated level and in detail for individual machines or production resources.
Version Management for BOMs and Routings
Manufacturers working with variants or changing production requirements benefit from Business Central’s version control for BOMs and routings.
Different versions can be created and automatically selected based on effective dates, ensuring the correct components and processes are applied for each product type or production location.
Enhanced Production Order Management
Production orders can be created manually or automatically through Business Central’s planning tools and support multiple order states, including simulated, planned, firm planned, released, and finished.
This gives manufacturers complete control over production workflows, from initial costing to final posting. Business Central also supports make-to-order subassemblies, grouped production (families), and the ability to adjust components, routings, and timings as needed throughout the production cycle.
Automatic Component and Capacity Consumption
Reduce manual data entry and improve accuracy with automatic posting of material and capacity consumption. By linking components directly to operations through routing codes, Business Central supports just-in-time manufacturing and ensures that stock and WIP data remain continuously up to date.
Subcontracting Management
Streamline outsourced production by assigning parts of your routing to external work centres. Business Central manages subcontracting with dedicated locations, transfer orders for material tracking, and purchase orders to capture completed work. This ensures full visibility and traceability of externally processed operations.
Comprehensive Scrap Management
Accurate scrap tracking is vital for cost control and material planning. Business Central allows you to record both expected scrap - used in planning and cost calculations - and actual scrap for each production operation. This ensures that waste is accounted for properly and production costs remain transparent.
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