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MICROSOFT DYNAMICS 365

Connect Finance, Operations, Sales and Service

Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a suite of cloud business applications for ERP, CRM and commerce. Choose the applications your organisation needs today, connect data and processes across departments and extend the solution as your requirements change.

Business Applications for Different Parts of Your Organisation

Dynamics 365 is a collection of applications covering financial management, supply chain, manufacturing, sales, customer service, field service and commerce. Applications can be implemented separately or connected as part of a broader business platform.

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Business Central

Cloud ERP for growing organisations

Bring finance, sales, purchasing, inventory, projects and operations into one business management system. Business Central is suited to organisations that need broader capability than accounting software without the complexity of an enterprise ERP implementation.

Core capabilities

✓ Financial management and reporting

✓ Sales, purchasing and inventory

✓ Projects, manufacturing and service

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Finance & Supply Chain Management

Enterprise ERP for complex, multi-entity operations

Manage financial operations, procurement, manufacturing, inventory, warehousing and supply chains across business units, legal entities and countries. This combination is designed for organisations with greater operational scale, transaction volume or regulatory complexity.

Core capabilities

✓ Multi-entity and multi-currency management

✓ Planning, procurement and manufacturing

✓ Warehouse and asset management

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CRM & Customer Engagement

Manage the customer lifecycle from first contact to ongoing service

Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement applications help sales, marketing, service and field teams work with a shared view of customers and interactions. Organisations can begin with one application and add others when needed.

Applications include

Dynamics 365 Sales: Leads, opportunities, accounts, pipelines and forecasting

Dynamics 365 Customer Insights: Customer data, audience segments and personalised journeys

Dynamics 365 Customer Service: Cases, knowledge, omnichannel support and service operations

Dynamics 365 Field Service: Work orders, scheduling, technicians and service assets

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Commerce

Connect retail operations across stores and digital channels

Dynamics 365 Commerce brings point of sale, e-commerce, customer engagement, merchandising, inventory and order fulfilment together. It supports B2C and B2B commerce across physical and digital channels.

Core capabilities

✓ Point of sale and store operations

✓ E-commerce and content management

✓ Product, pricing and promotion management

✓ Customer profiles and loyalty

✓ Omnichannel inventory visibility

✓ Distributed order and fulfilment management

ERP Comparison: Business Central or Finance and Supply Chain Management

Both solutions provide cloud ERP capabilities, but they are designed for different levels of operational complexity. The correct choice depends on business structure, process complexity, reporting requirements, expected growth and the extent of localisation or integration required. Employee numbers alone should not determine the decision.

Consideration
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Business Central

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Finance & Supply Chain Management

Best suited to

Growing small and mid-sized organisations

Larger or operationally complex organisations

Business structure

Single entities or less complex groups

Multi-entity and multi-country operations

Finance

Core accounting, budgeting and reporting

Advanced finance, consolidation, tax and performance management

Operations

Purchasing, inventory, projects and standard manufacturing

Advanced planning, manufacturing, warehousing and asset management

Implementation

More defined and streamlined

Broader transformation programme

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Business Central

Best suited to

Growing small and mid-sized organisations

Business structure

Single entities or less complex groups

Finance

Core accounting, budgeting and reporting

Operations

Purchasing, inventory, projects and standard manufacturing

Implementation

More defined and streamlined

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management logo

Finance & Supply Chain Management

Best suited to

Larger or operationally complex organisations

Business structure

Multi-entity and multi-country operations

Finance

Advanced finance, consolidation, tax and performance management

Operations

Advanced planning, manufacturing, warehousing and asset management

Implementation

Broader transformation programme

Extend Dynamics 365 Across Your Business

Dynamics 365 connects with Microsoft 365, Power Platform and Azure, allowing organisations to bring business data into familiar applications, automate workflows, build specialised solutions and extend reporting and integration.

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Microsoft 365

Work with Dynamics 365 information through applications such as Outlook, Excel and Teams, reducing data entry and switching between systems

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Power Platform

Build applications, automate workflows and analyse business data through Power Apps, Power Automate and Power BI

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Microsoft Azure

Support data integration, cloud services and enterprise AI requirements

Your Trusted Microsoft Dynamics 365 Partner in Asia-Pacific

Implementing Dynamics 365 across Asia-Pacific involves more than configuring software. Each market brings different tax, e-invoicing, reporting, language and regulatory requirements. With consultants across 11 Asia-Pacific locations, we support single-country implementations and regional programmes through local teams working within one delivery structure.

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