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Dynamics 365 Business Central

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Overview

Comprehensive business management

Work smarter, adapt faster, and perform better with agentic resource planning in Business Central.
  • Use powerful AI with Copilot and automated workflows to streamline processes, speed up tasks, and make better decisions.
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  • Work with the Microsoft 365 applications you already use, such as Outlook, Excel, and Teams, reducing data entry and switching between applications.
  • Protect your data while maintaining regulatory compliance with world-class identity protection, role-based access, and encryption.
  • Remove data silos and access business intelligence with real-time dashboards, flexible reports, AI-driven insights, sustainability tracking, and key performance indicators (KPIs) for each role.
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Industries

Industry solutions designed for the way you work

Build a responsive, profitable distribution business

Success depends on balancing inventory, supplier relationships, fulfillment operations, and customer expectations. Dynamics 365 Business Central helps distributors connect purchasing, inventory, warehousing, fulfillment, and financial management in one unified solution. Gain visibility across your supply chain, improve inventory planning with AI-powered insights, and respond quickly to changing demand. By streamlining daily operations and empowering teams with real-time business data, you can reduce inefficiencies, strengthen customer relationships, and position your business for scalable growth. Leverage the expertise of Microsoft partners and industry-specific solutions tailored to the unique needs of wholesale distributors.
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Agents

AI agents in Business Central that run everyday finance and operations workflows

From order processing to payables, AI agents take action across workflows end to end—reducing manual work, improving accuracy, and helping teams move faster.
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Expense Agent

Simplify expense reporting and approvals

Capture receipts, apply policy checks, and streamline submission and approval.
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Sales Order Agent

Turn emails into orders instantly

Respond faster, reduce errors, and convert email orders into quotes and sales automatically.
Payables Agent

Automate invoice processing and approvals

Capture, match, and route invoices to speed approvals and improve accuracy.
Custom AI agents

Build and manage agents using Copilot Studio

Create agents that understand and act on your business processes and data model.
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FEATURES

Experience the Business Central difference

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Be ready for growth

Support your business now and as it grows with the industry-leading reliability, scalability, and performance of the Microsoft Cloud.

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Take your business on the go

Work anywhere with full capabilities on desktop, tablet, or mobile across Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS devices.

Learning App

Rapidly deploy and onboard

Help users become productive faster with intuitive role-based experiences, guided onboarding, contextual help, and extensive learning resources.

Globe Location

Available worldwide

Use Business Central in 50+ languages and in 157 countries to expand your business globally.

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Meet your sustainability goals

Track and report greenhouse gas emissions with ease and accuracy to manage your environmental impact.

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Customize with prebuilt apps

Extend Business Central with industry-specific apps and extensions to meet your unique vertical or business requirements.

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Collaborate in Microsoft Teams

Improve collaboration with read-only access to Business Central data with a Microsoft 365 license—no additional charge.

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Streamline with custom workflows

Enhance productivity with built-in workflow templates—or build your own—using the embedded Microsoft Power Automate experience and Copilot.

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Connect with existing systems

Take advantage of open architecture to combine Business Central with systems you already use, such as payroll.

See the Total Economic Impact™ of Business Central

Explore a Microsoft-commissioned Business Central study by Forrester Consulting. Results are for a composite organization1

More than 200%

ROI with Business Central over 3 years

6

months potential payback

More than $460k

net present value over 3 years
PRICING

Simple, straightforward pricing

APPS AND ADD-ONS

Enhance Business Central with industry-leading partners

Add apps that help you tailor Business Central to better meet your specific business needs.
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Frequently asked questions

  • An ERP system connects and automates core processes such as finance, procurement, manufacturing, and supply chain. Modern ERP platforms now use AI-powered agents to reconcile data, surface insights, and trigger automated workflows—helping organizations centralize operations, streamline decisions, and respond faster to change.
  • Moving to the cloud delivers built-in security, scalability, and resilience—plus additional benefits beyond infrastructure. With Business Central, always-on AI agents automate payables, monitor sales orders, and flag issues in real time to help teams spend less time on manual work and more on growth. Business Central also offers full Microsoft stack integration and thousands of AppSource add-ons.
  • Business Central is part of the Microsoft ecosystem of solutions that work together and scale as your business grows. Get cloud access to real-time data connected to Microsoft 365 (Outlook, Excel, and Teams) and Microsoft Copilot. Tackle your unique business challenges with low-code apps from Microsoft Power Platform and prebuilt industry solutions available on Microsoft Marketplace.
  • Business Central works with Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and Excel, enabling employees to collaborate and access information without switching applications. You can even share Business Central data, such as product details, with coworkers who have a Teams license, at no additional cost. Explore how Business Central and Microsoft 365 connect data to the tools where work is done.
  • Get started today with a free 30-day trial of Business Central or take a quick self-service guided tour. See why over 55,000 small and medium-sized businesses have chosen Business Central to adapt faster, work smarter, and perform better.
  • See the high-level capabilities included in Business Central Essentials and Business Central Premium licenses and compare options. For a more detailed overview, explore the Business Central capability guide.
  • Business Central is sold and supported exclusively by Microsoft’s global partner network. Partners provide industry and country-specific expertise as well as implementation and training support. Have Microsoft match you with a Business Central expert or find a partner on Microsoft Marketplace.
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    The Total Economic Impact™ of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Forrester Consulting, March 2026. The study was commissioned by Microsoft and is based on a composite organization modeled from customer interviews.

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