The latest on innovation and industry trends.
Articles for group finance and operations teams: multi-country templates, IFRS, tax configuration and role-based training.
Migration · 13 min
Dynamics NAV Bridge to Business Central Cloud: the dates, the BTC3 offer and how to plan
Microsoft's end-of-sale date for Dynamics NAV, the partner margin and CSP changes, what Bridge to Cloud 3 offers, who qualifies, and how to plan backwards from the end of 2027.
Solution Architecture team · 9 Nov 2026
Migration · 18 min
SAP to Dynamics 365: What Every SAP User Must Know Before the 2027 Deadline
What the end of SAP ECC mainstream maintenance means, five reasons organisations move to Dynamics 365, when to stay on SAP, how modules and data map, and how to plan backwards from the deadline.
Solution Architecture team · 29 Oct 2026
Financial Services · 17 min
Dynamics 365 integration use cases for banking and insurance: 28 patterns from the ledger to the customer.
A holistic map of Microsoft Dynamics 365 integration use cases for banks, lenders, insurers and brokers: finance, customers, operations, data, AI and control.
Finance practice · 29 Oct 2026
Migration · 16 min
Migrating from Odoo to Microsoft Dynamics 365: when it is time, and how to do it well.
Seven signs it is time, four reasons that are not, how Odoo apps map to Dynamics 365, how the data moves, the order of work and the mistakes to avoid. Written for finance and IT leaders running or weighing Odoo.
Solution Architecture team · 29 Oct 2026
Compliance · 9 min
IFRS 18 in Dynamics 365 Finance: how the Financial Services Accounting Hub (FinancialServicesFlow 365) speeds up compliant reporting.
IFRS 18 from 2027: how to design it in Dynamics 365 Finance, and how the Financial Services Accounting Hub helps African lenders and insurers.
Finance practice · 17 Oct 2026
Briefing · 8 min
September 2026: what changed on the programmes, and what we refused.
The first half-year briefing. Tax in configuration, e-invoicing inside posting, and a new country as a bank-file mapping. No market statistics.
Solution Architecture team · 23 Sep 2026
Payments · 7 min
A new country is a bank-file mapping, not a new X++ project.
Vendor and employee payments through one gateway, to any bank. A new country's format is a mapping in Azure. IBAN rules for 89 countries.
Solution Architecture team · 23 Sep 2026
Financial services · 7 min
The core system stays. The books become Dynamics 365.
An accounting hub for lenders and insurers: sub-ledgers post under rules, leases are data, and payments leave through one gateway.
Finance practice · 23 Sep 2026
Public sector · 8 min
Public-sector law belongs inside the ledger, not in a register beside it.
GovFlow 365 on Finance & Operations. South Africa ships first: bid committees, PPPFA and the Public Procurement Act on one toggle, supplier checks, and GRAP or Modified Cash Standard.
Solution Architecture team · 23 Sep 2026
Compliance · 5 min
Tax changes are inevitable. Your ERP configuration shouldn't be.
Separating tax logic from customisation so a rate or rule change is a configuration update, not a project.
Finance practice · 22 Sep 2026
Compliance · 7 min
IFRS reporting inside Dynamics 365: what a compliant chart of accounts actually needs.
Mapping local statutory books to IFRS without a shadow spreadsheet, and where Finance & Operations makes it easier than Business Central.
Finance practice · 15 Sep 2026
Strategy · 6 min
Multi-country deployments: one template, many statutory books.
How to design a single Dynamics 365 template that rolls out across borders without a re-implementation in every country.
Solution Architecture team · 3 Sep 2026
Compliance · 6 min
eTIMS inside the ledger: what changes when signing moves into posting.
Why bolt-on eTIMS tools create a reconciliation problem, and how in-process signing removes it.
Solution Architecture team · 2 Sep 2026
Data & AI · 7 min
Agentic ERP without the hype: three processes where an agent earns its keep.
Collections, reconciliation and order intake, with the guardrails a CFO should insist on.
Data & AI practice · 19 Aug 2026
Strategy · 6 min
Business Central or Finance & Operations? A decision framework for groups that will not stay in one country.
Entity count, integration load and regulatory reporting decide the platform. Headcount does not.
Solution Architecture team · 5 Aug 2026
Supply Chain · 6 min
Marketplace settlements are an accounting problem, not a logistics one.
What an order and fulfilment hub has to do so finance stops rebuilding settlements by hand.
Supply Chain practice · 22 Jul 2026
Non-Profit · 5 min
Funder reporting in one click: the data model that makes it possible.
Dimensions, grants and budgets, and where most NGO implementations get them wrong.
Non-Profit practice · 8 Jul 2026
Training · 4 min
Why role-based training beats module training every time.
A finance approver and a warehouse picker should never sit in the same session.
Training team · 24 Jun 2026Payroll on Dynamics 365.
Does Dynamics 365 include payroll? The honest answer for multinational groups: what Business Central and Finance & Operations include, the options, and how PayrollFlow 365 adds payroll.
Read the guide → Payroll guide · multinational groups Payroll for Dynamics 365Payroll for Dynamics 365 in multinational groups: PayrollFlow 365 runs payroll inside Business Central and Finance & Operations and posts every pay run to the ledger by dimension.
Read the guide → Payroll guide · the United Arab Emirates Dynamics 365 payroll for the United Arab EmiratesDynamics 365 payroll for the United Arab Emirates: Wages Protection System (WPS) payment files, End-of-service gratuity accruals, Free-zone and mainland entities as separate employers and more, calculated in PayrollFlow 365 and posted to the ledger by dimension.
Read the guide →Process manufacturing on Business Central.
Three words that sound alike carry three different cost treatments. Here is how to classify each output of a batch and what that does to product cost in Business Central.
Read the article → Costing · 6 min Joint-cost allocation, four ways: the same batch costed by value, NRV, weight and fixed shareOne batch, four allocation methods, four different product costs. A worked example with round numbers shows what each method does and which plants it suits.
Read the article → Traceability · 6 min A mock recall: tracing a lot through blends, rework and co-products (aim for 15 minutes)How to run a timed mock recall in Business Central: trace a lot forwards and backwards, list affected lots and customers, and set a target you measure yourself.
Read the article → Process manufacturing · 6 min Why one item per production order breaks dairy, milling and crushingStandard Business Central makes one item per production order line. Dairy, milling and crushing plants make several outputs per batch. Here are the options for closing the gap.
Read the article → Shop floor · 6 min What to ask an MES vendor to show you: 17 scenes for a Business Central plantA demo checklist you can take to any vendor: 17 things to ask to see live, and what a good answer looks like on a Business Central plant.
Read the article → Shop floor · 6 min When the plant network drops: how an offline-first shop-floor app protects your dataWhat is stored, what is sent, in what order, and what the ledger shows when the network comes back.
Read the article → Shop floor · 6 min From PLC to production order: connecting machines to Business Central without custom codeWhich protocols, what a gateway does, and how a stopped machine becomes a downtime reason on the production order.
Read the article → Weighbridge · 6 min The weighbridge is your first quality gateStop weight disputes at the gate: two weighings, one ticket, one purchase line, and a net weight that Business Central applies for you.
Read the article → Shop floor · 6 min Downtime reasons people will actually useHow to design a short downtime reason list, split planned from unplanned, and read the downtime report.
Read the article → Costing · 6 min Yield, mix, usage, price: where a batch loses its marginSplitting one material variance into price, mix, usage and yield gives each part an owner, with a worked batch where the four add up to the total.
Read the article → Formulas · 6 min Dosing by assay: potency-adjusted formulas for nutraceuticals and chemicalsWhen strength varies by lot, a kilo is not a fixed amount of active. A potency-adjusted formula works out how much of today's lot you need.
Read the article → Inventory · 6 min Selling ham by the kilo when you stock it by the case: catch weight in Business CentralCases are bought and picked as units, but sold by the kilo, and no two weigh the same. Here is what catch weight means and what to check before you rely on it.
Read the article → Costing · 6 min Disassembly: costing a carcass, a crude oil, a tank of scrapA reverse BOM splits one input into graded outputs. How cost follows yield, and why waste belongs on the order as an output with its own cost.
Read the article → Planning · 6 min Allergen changeovers: clean only when you mustSequencing a line with an allergen matrix and clean-down rules, and why the same four products can need three cleans or one.
Read the article →The papers behind the work.
One template. Many statutory books.
Request the PDF → Business Central or Finance & OperationsThe platform decision for a group that will not stay in one country.
Request the PDF → Financial services accounting hubThe core system stays. The books become Dynamics 365.
Request the PDF → Funder reportingOne template. Many funder books.
Request the PDF → Government 365Public-sector law, inside the ledger.
Request the PDF → Marketplace settlementsThe order was fine. The accounting was not.
Request the PDF → IFRS 18 reportingThe statement changes. The ledger does not.
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