Automatic Alerts when BC Job Queue fails (Low-Code)
In today’s fast-paced business environment, it is crucial to have efficient and reliable systems in place to manage and monitor critical processes. One such essential component in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is the Job Queue. In this blog post, we will discuss what the Business Central Job Queue and Telemetry are and how to implement a low-code solution for automatic alerts when a… Continue Reading...
CTP (Capable to Promise) in D365 BC: Optimizing Inventory for Enhanced Customer Service
In today’s fast-paced business environment, meeting customer demands and ensuring efficient inventory management are critical for organizations to thrive. The Capable to Promise (CTP) feature in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central offers a powerful solution to help businesses optimize their inventory planning and meet customer expectations. In this article, we will explore the concept of… Continue Reading...
Contacts management in BC – Is it still an existing functionality?
Whatever is the version that you are using (NAV, BC on-Prem or hopefully BC SaaS), the Contacts functionality is still there. I agree that a lot of companies don’t use it and Microsoft’s focus on this area is obviously Contacts in Dynamics 365 CE. And that’s completely fine. But suddenly, you might be involved in a business case with the right fit for Contacts management inside Business… Continue Reading...
BC Shot: Retail KPIs Business Case
There are countless posts about all new features included in latest Business Central 2023 Wave 1 release. Most of these posts are based in official MSFT release notes and unfortunately some of them don’t have a real match with typical business cases. This post will be a first experience releasing a brand new section in this blog called BC Shots. BC Shot will detail a function, feature,… Continue Reading maique00’s...
VAT Date – New field to report VAT Statements
Since I started to work with NAV 3.70, the logic behind reporting VAT was based on Posting Date. For every Posted transaction to G/L (Journal or document), VAT Entries tables get populated with all VAT details and with Posting Date. VAT Statement calculation and VAT submission to Tax Authorities (Almost each country has specific situations
D365BC SaaS Read-Only environment
One of the greatest hidden features using Dynamics 365 Business Central on a SaaS environment is the availability of a read-only replica of the database. Until latest versions it was not possible to manage the use of this database without Development/Technical skills. There is a great post from Demilliani about it ->
Manage Customer Credit Limits in Business Central
Most of companies have in place a policy to manage the Customer Credit Limits to mitigate risk of payment failure. When using D365BC as your ERP, there are several options to setup this functionality. Option 1: No Credit Warnings Search Sales & Receivables Setup and under General FastTab, populate field “Credit Warning” with “No Warning” option selected. This configuration won’t… Continue Reading maique00’s Article on...
Co-Products – how to handle in BC
Starting with the definition A co-product or coproduct is produced along with with the main product and carries equal importance as the main product during the manufacturing process and can be sold or reused profitably. Co-products are materials of value that are produced in parallel with the main desirable produced item as a result of the production process. Some examples: Sugar beet pulp… Continue Reading maique00’s...
Business Central API Fundamentals with No-Code (Part 1)
Connect apps establish a point-to-point connection between Dynamics 365 Business Central and a 3rd party solution or service and is typically created using standard REST API to interchange data. For most of IT professionals (including Consultants) without Developer/Technical skills, this “dense” language is the first blocker to stop to learn more about using APIs in Business Central. This… Continue Reading...
MCT demystified
Following the previous post about a practical Learning for Microsoft Business Applications Functional and Technical Consultants, this one will demystified MCT (Microsoft Certified Trainer). Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCTs) are the premier technical and instructional experts in Microsoft technologies. The official requirements to become a MCT are described here:
Microsoft Business Applications: a practical Learning path
This post is targeted for Functional and Technical Consultants working in Microsoft Business Applications. In recent years, Microsoft Business Applications footprint is getting bigger. At least, there is five main areas: ERP, CRM, Power Platform, Data and Azure. It’s impossible to be expert in all areas at the same time but it’s critical to know the fundamentals of each part is becoming more… Continue Reading...
By-Products – how to handle in BC
Starting with the definition A by-product or byproduct is a secondary product derived from a production process, manufacturing process or chemical reaction; it is not the primary product or service being produced. By-products are materials of value that are produced as a residual of, or incidental to, the production process. A lot of times, it’s called reused waste. By-products can be… Continue Reading maique00’s...
Available to Promise (ATP) in D365BC
Supply Managers and their teams work hard everyday to guarantee all the customer orders can be delivered ‘ontime’. But there are several constrains, limitations and new variables to turn this a difficult task to accomplish! One of the available tools to support these roles is Planning routines inside an ERP. This post will describe how the routine Available to Promise (ATP) inside Dynamics 365… Continue Reading...
How to manage GRNI (Goods received not invoiced) or GSNI (Goods shipped not invoiced) in BC
This post summarizes the different options to manage GRNI or GSNI in Business Central (D365 BC). A lot of businesses have as requirement the ability to Receive the Goods from Vendors and later receive the linked Invoice. Same for Sales side shipping before invoicing. Business Central allows to Post a Purchase Order with the option “Receive”. This function will trigger the Purchase Receipt… Continue Reading...
How to manage Time Zones in D365BC
This post will summarize all the findings about managing Time Zone within Business Central (D365 BC). As a Solution Admin, it is possible to manage all BC Environments accessing https://businesscentral.dynamics.com/[Tenant_ID]/admin. Under the same tenant, it is possible to have several Environments (Databases). A license includes 1 Production environment and 3 Sandboxes environments. If… Continue Reading maique00’s...
The most unknown features to migrate master data to D365BC (Part 3)
The data migration for a new ERP is always a challenging task. It starts with the collection of the data from the legacy system, the cleansing of the data, the data modelling to the desired new format, and the upload to the new ERP. There are several studies that states “The data migration phase of a project can consume up to 30% of the total project resources”. This post will describe the… Continue Reading...
The most unknown features to migrate master data to D365BC (Part 2)
The data migration for a new ERP is always a challenging task. It starts with the collection of the data from the legacy system, the cleansing of the data, the data modelling to the desired new format, and the upload to the new ERP. There are several studies that states “The data migration phase of a project can consume up to 30% of the total project resources”. This post will describe the… Continue Reading...
The most unknown features to migrate master data to D365BC (Part 1)
The data migration for a new ERP is always a challenging task. It starts with the collection of the data from the legacy system, the cleansing of the data, the data modelling to the desired new format, and the upload to the new ERP. There are several studies that states “The data migration phase of a project can consume up to 30% of the total project resources”. This post will describe the… Continue Reading...
Field Monitoring in Business Central
It is frequent to require to monitor some tables/fields when data changed! And sometimes, tracking changes is not enough (Change Log functionality) and you expect to be notified of changes in fields that contain high-risk and business-critical data, such as bank account numbers, company name, and addresses. On Business Central 2020 Wave 2, there are some excellent news!
A different way to support Item Exchanges/Replacements
The number of Item exchanges/replacements will raise during this Xmas period! This year, this number can beat a new all-time record with a lot of retail brands allowing an extended period for Returns and Exchanges. If your business is supported in Dynamics NAV / Business Central, open your mind to challenge the way item exchanges/replacements business process is implemented. Typical Flow for… Continue Reading maique00’s...
How to setup a new D365BC SaaS environment in less than 20 minutes (10 Steps)
It’s common the need to have a new D365 Business Central environment! For testing, for demo or just for fun! The message behind the word “Cloud” tells us: the provision of a new environment is easy and fast! Well, it is not the case for all the ERP’s! But it is definitely the case of Dynamics 365 Business Central (SaaS). Pre-Requirement: You must have an user registered in MSFT Partner Centre… Continue...
How to setup a new D365BC SaaS environment in less than 30 minutes (10 Steps)
It’s common the need to have a new D365 Business Central environment! For testing purposes, for demo purposes or just for fun! The message behind the word “Cloud” tells us that a provision of a new environment is easy and fast! Well, it is not the case for all the ERP’s! But it is definitely the case of Dynamics 365 Business Central (SaaS). Pre-Requirement: You must have an user registered in… Continue...
4 new fields to All Tables
All Dynamics Business Central community (Business Owners, Project Managers, Solution Architects, Functional Consultants, Business Analysts, CAL/AL Developers, BI Developers and End Users) get used to it! If for some reason, some of these persons needs to go deep to analyse some data in BC database, they expect to see some System fields table to help to audit them. Amazing news from MSFT to be… Continue Reading maique00’s...
Dynamics 365 Business Central Functional Consultant Exam (MB-800) will be available in October 2020
The Dynamics Business Central community was becoming impatient not having exams to certified the best BC professionals. The announcement for the return of Business Central certifications was made last year during Direction EMEA and the confirmation was made last week during remote Microsoft Inspire. Yes, for now there will be only a new exam MB-800 (Dynamics 365 Business Central Functional… Continue Reading maique00’s...
Immediate Partial/Full Payment when receiving a new Sales Order (as a Deposit)
,The ratio between online/in-person sales for most of the businesses were changing in recent years. In some Retail businesses based mostly in-person stores, COVID-19 brings to our mind the expression “From Zero to Hero to online business” as a large part of the physical stores were closed several months. ,A lot of companies focus their energy to have the online channel open in record time: a… Continue Reading...
Second free "snippet" to migrate master data to D365BC (Open Documents)
The data migration for a new ERP is always a challenging task. It starts with the collection of the data from the legacy system, the cleansing of the data , the data modelling to the desired new format and the upload to the new ERP. There are several studies that states “The data migration phase of a project can consume up to 30% of the total project resources”. This post will describe a… Continue Reading...
Your supply chain is prepared for COVID-19 lockdown easing?
Nobody really knows what can happen on the next weeks/months about COVID-19 lockdown easing. Lot of questions like: the economy will rebound quickly? there will be a 2nd wave of infection? are we close to have a vaccine? the persons will return to previous COVID-19 shopping habits? the online purchase is here to stay as the new black? But there is one certain: your customer expectations will… Continue Reading maique00’s...
Over Receipt with control
Do you feel nervous when you are receiving Goods and the pop-up message “You cannot receive more than X units” appears? Well, old times and old versions! Dynamics 365 BC Wave 1 2020 has nice news for you! There is a new feature to allow Over Receipt with Control. The official release note is available here Besides this release note, some additional useful information: The pop-up message… Continue Reading...
Sync Master Data on Dynamics NAV / Dynamics 365 BC
As a Business Consultant, you might have received a business requirement to sync Master Data between different fiscal companies. It is common when we are implementing an ERP on a Group of companies. If the ERP to implement is Dynamics NAV / Dynamics 365 BC it is frequent as a first approach, to follow one of the three options: • Create a customization to enable this automation (Extension on D 365 BC) • Adopt an ISV solution that...
Extend data storage for Dynamics 365 Business Central
Last month, we received from Microsoft Dynamics Business Central Development team exciting news about the new plans to extend data storage for Dynamics 365 BC. If you do not read it, have a look In my perspective, all the ideas make sense! Thanks Microsoft for driving the product in the right direction. I just want to suggest an additional idea to be added in D365BC Roadmap: bring back the… Continue Reading maique00’s...
First free "snippet" to migrate master data to D365BC
The data migration for a new ERP is always a challenging task. It starts with the collection of the data from the legacy system, the data modelling to the desired new format, the cleansing of the data and the upload to the new ERP. There are several studies that states “The data migration phase of a project can consume up to 30% of the total project resources”. This post will describe a first… Continue Reading...
Dynamics 365 BC Localisations
,Your Prospect/Customer is a SMB but operates in different fiscal companies? Are you looking for an ERP to support it? ,If you respond Yes to both questions, please read this blog post. ,Dynamics 365 Business Central is an ERP delivered by Microsoft, available to be installed on your local data center or Microsoft Azure or using it as SaaS. Due to the recent technology landscape and global… Continue Reading maique00’s...
Integration between Dynamics 365 BC and CDS and more important: what this means for End Customers?
One of the great features announced in Dynamics 365 BC 2020 Wave 1 was the integration between D365BC and CDS. First things first! What is CDS? It is Common Data Service. It is a Cloud Service provided by Microsoft and is accessible ,through other Power Platform services and Microsoft Dynamics (initially D365 F&O and now in D365 BC). It is a ,a data storage service. Like a database. You can… Continue Reading maique00’s...
Useful Dynamics NAV/BC "How to Videos"
If you are the type of person that prefers to watch a video than to read a step-by-step in text, please visit Microsoft Dynamics 365 Youtube channel. Yes, you are right! This channel includes videos for Dynamics 365 F&O and also for Dynamics 365 BC. To help you to find the direct links, here it is a list: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •… Continue Reading maique00’s Article on their blog Useful Dynamics NAV/BC...
Useful Shortcuts to Dynamics NAV/BC "aka.ms"
Release Notes/Updates Business Central Release Notes: Business Central Major Updates: Business Central Minor Release Notes: Learning Business Central Courses on MS Learn: How to Use/Best Practices Business Central Productivity Tips: Business Central Keyboard Shortcuts: Technical Links Business Central Security Documentation: Business Central App Performance Documentation: … Continue Reading maique00’s Article on their blog...
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This blog is intended to share knowledge with Microsoft Community about Dynamics 365 BC, Dynamics NAV, Power Platform (Power Automate, Power Apps and Power BI) and Azure. All the content to be shared will privilege solutions based in No/Low Code approach. #D365BC, #Dynamics365BusinessCentral, #MSDyn365BC, #D365, #NAV, #PowerAutomate, #Flow, #PowerApps, #PowerBI, #maique00 Continue Reading maique00’s Article on their blog Welcome...