AI Apps in Dynamics 365 Business Central for Manufacturing
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the way that we do many things, including manufacturing. As this technology evolves, so will the ways we can use it to be more productive. In this article we will learn about some of the amazing AI Apps in Dynamics 365 Business Central for manufacturing.
The four main applications that we will talk about are:
- Microsoft Copilot
- Financial Intelligence
- Item Intelligence
- Customer Intelligence
These apps speed up many processes such as creating profit and loss (P&L) mappings. However, they also give you many advanced insights that can help with customer retention, inventory management, and much more.
AI is advancing faster than ever. Here, we have some insights as to how AI in Dynamics 365 Business Central could look in the very near future.
Microsoft Copilot for Dynamics 365 Business Central
Microsoft Copilot for Dynamics 365 Business Central is an assistant that is designed to help you with tedious daily tasks. It standardizes interactions and takes over tasks that can easily be done by AI, enhancing productivity and allowing you to focus on the things that matter most to your business.
Suitable for various roles from executives to frontline staff, Copilot improves task management, workflow automation, and collaboration. In turn, this can boost creativity and productivity for your manufacturing business.
For example, it can analyze images of your products, identify them, and create relevant copy. For a manufacturer selling racing bikes, inserting an image of a bike into Copilot could prompt it to generate a detailed marketing blurb. This might emphasize the bike’s gear system and unique design, helping speed up and improve marketing tasks.
Copilot enables teams to automate common tasks, quickly pull insights using conversational queries, and craft messages that truly connect with audiences. This shift allows companies to concentrate more on their strategic goals.
Features of Microsoft Copilot for Manufacturing
For manufacturing companies, Microsoft Copilot for Dynamics 365 Business Central offers specific features designed to enhance operational efficiency, streamline production processes, and improve product management. Here’s a consolidated list of features particularly relevant to the manufacturing sector:
- Enhanced Bank Reconciliation: Streamlines the reconciliation of bank statements with financial records, making it easier to match transactions and manage finances efficiently
- Marketing Text Suggestions: Offers AI-generated marketing content for products, enabling manufacturers to create compelling descriptions and promote their products more effectively.
- Inventory Forecasting: Uses past sales data to forecast future demand, assisting in maintaining optimal inventory levels and preventing stockouts.
- Late Payment Prediction: Helps predict the timeliness of invoice payments, enabling better management of receivables and cash flow for manufacturing operations.
- Cash Flow Analysis: Provides AI-powered insights into cash flow trends, helping manufacturers make informed financial decisions to sustain and grow their operations.
- Product Listing Creation for eCommerce: Generates detailed product descriptions for online storefronts, which can be customized and published to e-commerce platforms, facilitating faster product launches and broader market reach.
- Supply Chain Disruption Alerts: Identifies potential disruptions in the supply chain due to external factors such as weather or geopolitical events, allowing manufacturers to mitigate risks and maintain smooth operations.
Data Courage in Business Central for Manufacturing
Data Courage has quite a few AI apps for Business Central. These apps can help with profit and loss mapping, inventory management, customer retention, and improve your data and analytics for items and customers. Also, they are quick and easy to set up and use.
AI Financial Intelligence App for Business Central
Data Courage’s Financial Intelligence app is like having a remote CFO or Controller at your fingertips. This app helps to eliminate manual errors, time-consuming tasks, allows you to have version control, and eliminates complexities with mapping.
With that in mind, Financial Intelligence provides real time insights and takes away the time-consuming tasks around profit and loss (P&L) mapping.
Key features:
- P&L generation based on the chart of accounts.
- Evaluation of the generated P&L, with the ability to ask questions through AI.
- Automatic creation of P&L mappings.
- Ability to edit P&L mappings.
Another thing to note is that Data Courage’s Financial Intelligence app allows you to customize templates to fit your unique manufacturing needs.
AI Item Intelligence App for Business Central
The Item Intelligence app is a fantastic tool for doing health checks on your items. It helps you maximize your inventory management and provides sales insights that can help grow your business such as identifying high-demand products and potential stockouts. You can see which products are your top performers are based on sales data and trends. Also, the app can help you keep the right amount of inventory for each of your products.
Key features:
- Improved Inventory Management.
- Customizable data and analytics presentation.
- Every day or on-demand data refresh.
This app requires no technical skills or external software. All you need is Business Central and the Item Intelligence add-on.
AI Customer Intelligence App for Business Central
Customer Intelligence by Data Courage helps you get ahead of your customer churn by using AI. It allows you to do a customer health check in Business Central within 30 seconds, allowing you to predict customer churn.
The app allows you to analyze and visualize your customer data and allows you to group your customers by behavior and their monetary value to your business. The Customer Intelligence app can help you increase your customer retention and your bottom line.
Key features:
- Churn probability chart.
- Deeper customer analysis.
- Insights into your customer’s behavior.
Closing Thoughts
In conclusion, AI apps in Business Central will help you save time and money. You can now leave the tedious tasks to AI and focus on your core business goals.
That said, at Sabre Limited, we are manufacturing experts. We stand among the best Microsoft Dynamics manufacturing partners across North America. What sets us apart from our competitors is that we use fixed fees instead of time and material billing and we always put the customer first.
If you’re still learning more about Business Central but don’t know how to pick the right partner for your business, read this article on how to pick the best Dynamics 365 partner.
Our areas of expertise include:
- Production Manufacturing
- Job Shop Manufacturing
- Engineer-To-Order / Custom Manufacturing
- Project Manufacturing
- Architectural Manufacturing
- Industrial Equipment Manufacturing
If you’re interested in learning more about AI in Business Central and what Sabre Limited can offer, we’ve been dedicated to helping small to medium-sized manufacturers learn and adopt Business Central. Reach out, and let’s explore how we can contribute to the success of your manufacturing journey. Contact us at info@sabrelimited.com or call (519) 585-7524. We look forward to hearing from you.
