Microsoft NCE Dynamics 365 Business Central
by Connected business management solution
Connect operations across your small or medium-sized business
$8.00 /month
Microsoft NCE Dynamics 365 Business Central for Education is a comprehensive ERP and financial management solution tailored for the nonprofit sector, offering discounted pricing and flexible subscription options to help organizations streamline operations, improve compliance, and make data-driven decisions. It is highly adaptable and rich with features, it enables companies to manage their business, including finance, manufacturing, sales, shipping, project management, services, and more. Companies can easily add functionality relevant to the operation region and customize it to support even highly specialized industries.
Top Features
Move to cloud faster, with confidence
Adopt new business models faster with flexible deployment, reliability, security, and an adaptable solution that grows with you.
Optimize inventory and supply chain management
Deliver products on time and adapt to changing business models with visibility across purchasing, manufacturing, inventory, and warehouses.
Boost sales and improve customer service
Accelerate financial close, improve forecasting, and get real-time performance metrics and reporting while fostering compliance across subsidiaries.
Increase financial and business performance
Accelerate financial close, improve forecasting, and get real-time performance metrics and reporting while fostering compliance across subsidiaries.
Boost sales and improve customer service
Take better care of customers by managing the entire sales process from within Microsoft Outlook, and deliver better outcomes with connected service operations.
Finish projects on time and under budget
Ensure successful project execution and profitability with planning, resourcing, tracking, costing, billing, accounting, and real-time intelligence.
Unlock productivity and business insights
Connect people, processes, and insights to make better decisions faster with embedded guidance, dashboards, and interoperability with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams.
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Provide Optimal Manufacturing Outputs
Implement manufacturing processes according to plan, even in agile and complex environments.
Create detailed bills of materials
Define raw materials, subassemblies, or resources as a bill of materials that comprises a finished product or a kit.
Support assembly-to-order
Capture special requirements within a bill of materials and pull directly from the quote and sales order during assembly-to-order processes.
Use production orders or more complex processes
Register consumption and output across multiple bills of materials and routes. Reconcile scrap or deviations in consumption and output.
Optimize Warehouse Management
Set up bins and zones in Business Central to reflect the layout of your warehouse, including its racks and shelves.
Streamline receiving and capacity
Use a template to determine the best placement of items based on type, size, and bin capacity.
Expedite docking and shipping
Optimize your space and the picking process. Speed up shipments and reduce friction by enabling cross-docking.
Connect customers and operations
Use real-time data on every item’s zone, bin, and quantity to better fulfill your customers' orders.
Drive Supply Chain Optimization
Build better relationships with suppliers and convert the best offers to orders. Ensure compliance with internal and external policies with process governance and approvals.
Predict stock replenishment
Replenish inventory based on actuals, demand, and availability using built-in intelligence, sales forecasts, and expected stock-outs to automatically create purchase orders.
Get a holistic view of your inventory
Use the same costing method or different ones for inventory items, and easily move items between locations to control the quantity on hand using cycling counting.
Facilitate Project Success
Better manage projects using timesheets and advanced job costing and reporting. Develop and modify detailed budgets to help ensure project profitability.
Optimize resource levels
Manage resource utilization by planning capacity and sales. Track customer invoicing against planned or actual costs on orders and quotes.
Drive profitability with project insights
Get real-time business intelligence on project status, profitability, and resource utilization metrics.
Deliver Exceptional Customer Service
Automatically register shipped goods as service items and keep the required details in one place so both sales and service teams can respond quickly to inquiries.
Track customer returns and repairs
Offer full replacements or simple repairs, with parts and labor charges in one service order. Boost loyalty by providing spare equipment to customers awaiting service.
Live up to your service promises
Effectively assign personnel to work orders and get an overview of service tasks and workloads. Keep track of service agreements to deliver reliable service to your customers.
Accelerate Sales Processes
Keep track of customer interactions and get guidance on the best upsell, cross-sell, and renewal opportunities throughout your sales cycle.
Offer flexible pricing and discounting
Create flexible pricing and discount structures for individual customers and groups of customers.
Deliver on promised customer outcomes
Track customer agreements to quickly access details about prices, discounts, delivery dates, product availability, and fulfillment status.
Improve cash management
Increase your cash flow by rightsizing inventory and maximizing the lifespan and governance of asset capitalization.
Streamline Financial Management
Better manage your cash flow, bank reconciliations, fixed assets, budgeting, and project costing while shortening cycle times with the late payment–prediction extension.
Expand into global markets
Easily support multiple currencies, exchange rates, consolidations, intercompany transactions, and localized tax regulations.
Accelerate financial closing and reporting
Reduce month- and year-end closing times with connected general ledger, accounts receivable, payables, and fixed assets data. Streamline approval workflows using Power Automate.
Monitor financial performance
Use built-in reports, Excel, or Microsoft Power BI and unlimited data dimensions to get real-time cash flow, identify financial patterns, analyze trends, and improve business planning.
Make more profitable financial decisions
Connect reports, charts, and Power BI data from across accounting, sales, purchasing, and inventory teams to get accurate insights and make financial decisions with confidence.
Work Smarter and Faster
Access business intelligence when and where you need it, with real-time dashboards and KPIs for each user role.
Drive continuous process optimization
Improve outcomes and productivity with real-time system suggestions, based on historical data, to guide employees through workflows.
Automate workflows and processes
Optimize performance using easy-to-create workflows, audit trails, enterprise-level security, and AI.
Connect your data with Microsoft 365
Link your business data with productivity tools such as Microsoft Outlook and Excel to improve customer and employee experiences, like quote-to-cash workflow.
Respond to inquiries faster
Stay connected and simplify work by installing the Business Central app in Microsoft Teams to share business data within your Teams chats.
Adapt as your Business Grows
Work wherever your business takes you, with full capabilities on desktop, tablet, or mobile, on-premises or in the cloud, across Windows, Android, and iOS devices.
Choose cloud or on-premises
Remove organizational silos with one comprehensive solution that runs where you need it, offering the same user experience no matter how you deploy.
Be ready for growth
Scale and perform as you grow using modern technologies built on the Microsoft cloud, such as machine learning, IoT, and mixed reality, to help you adapt to market dynamics.
Store and transmit data across your systems
Take control of your mission-critical business data and help protect it from unauthorized access with automatic Microsoft datacenter encryption.
Extend the solution with industry-specific apps
Get purpose-driven extensions from the Microsoft AppSource business applications marketplace to meet your unique vertical or business-specific requirements.
Tailor the software to your needs
Get support for 25 languages, localization, and no-code user interface changes, and extend the solution using Microsoft Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents.
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Microsoft NCE Dynamics 365 Business Central - Introduction
You will see a collection of features designed for a particular role, and know how to get to other features in the application.