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D365 Business Central Essentials vs Premium:
The below features are common to both Dynamic 365 Business Central Essentials and Dynamic 365 Business Central Premium.
Finance Management:
- General ledger.
- Dimensions.
- Multiple currencies.
- Budgets.
- Accounts schedules.
- Consolidation.
- Intercompany postings.
- Cash flow forecast.
- Fixed assets.
- Cost accounting.
- Deferrals.
- Bank account management.
- Electronic payments and direct debits.
- Customer payment process.
- Reconciliation of bank transactions.
- Bank account reconciliation.
- Check writing.
- XBLR.
Sales and Marketing:
- Contact management.
- Campaign management.
- Interaction and document management.
- Email logging.
- Opportunity management.
- Dynamics 365 Sales integration.
Sales and Delivery:
- Sales invoicing.
- Sales order management.
- Sales line pricing and discounting.
- Campaign pricing.
- Sales invoice discounts.
- Alternative shipping addresses.
- Sales return order management.
- Bulk invoicing from Microsoft bookings.
Purchasing and Payables:
- Purchase invoicing.
- Purchase order management.
- Purchase return order management.
- Alternative order addresses.
- Purchase invoice discounts.
- Purchase invoice discounts.
- Alternative vendors.
- Vendor catalog items.
Inventory:
- Basic inventory.
- Item categories.
- Item attributes.
- Item tracking.
- Multiple locations.
- Location transfers.
- Shipping agents.
- Item charges.
- Item cross-references.
- Item substitutions.
- Item budgets.
- Analysis reports.
- Cycle counting.
Supply planning and availability:
- Supply planning.
- Demand forecasting.
- Sales and inventory forecasting.
- Order promising.
- Calendars.
- Drop shipments.
- Order planning.
Project management:
- Basic resources.
- Capacity management.
- Multiple costs.
- Jobs.
- Time sheets.
Warehouse management:
- Bin.
- Bin setup.
- Inventory picks and put-aways.
- Warehouse receipt.
- Warehouse shipment.
- Internal picks and put-aways.
- Warehouse management systems.
In addition to the above features, Dynamic 365 Business Central Premium provide two more additional features-
Service management:
- Planning and dispatching.
- Service contract management.
- Service item management.
- Service order management.
- Service price management.
Manufacturing:
- Assembly management.
- Standard cost worksheet.
- Production bill of materials.
- Basic capacity planning.
- Machine centers.
- Version management.
- Production orders.
- Finite loading.