Essentials or Premium?

Dynamics 365 Business Central is a web-based, platform-independent, new generation comprehensive ERP solution from Microsoft for SME-scale businesses. Business Central, which allows businesses to manage their operations through a central system, is offered in two different packages.

Essentials Package

Essentials offers the functionality businesses need to manage their core business processes. This suite includes the following core modules:

• Financial Management : Allows you to effectively manage your financial processes such as general accounting, budgeting, cash flow management, and banking integration.
• Sales and Purchasing : Optimizes sales and purchasing processes such as offer preparation, order management, invoice creation and supplier management.
• Inventory Management : Facilitates processes such as inventory control, warehouse management, order processing and demand planning.
• Project Management : You can monitor all aspects of your projects with costing, resource management, workforce planning and project-based reporting.
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM) : Provides powerful tools for managing customer data, tracking opportunities, and improving customer service.

Premium Package

The Premium package offers all the features of Essentials, plus more advanced functionality and covers more complex operations such as production and service management:

• Production Management : Allows you to manage production processes such as production planning, material requirements planning (MRP), capacity planning, production orders and route management. This is critical for manufacturing businesses.
• Service Management : Meets the needs of service-based businesses such as service contracts, service orders, service planning and service items management. This module optimizes service processes to increase customer satisfaction.

The Essentials package is an ideal solution for managing basic business processes and is especially designed for businesses with needs in areas such as finance, sales, purchasing, inventory and project management. The Premium package offers additional functionality for businesses that manage more complex processes such as production and service management. You can benefit from the powerful ERP solutions offered by Dynamics 365 Business Central by choosing one of these two packages according to your business needs.

Premium vs Essentials Comparison Chart