Complete supply chain cost control in Business Central
Supply Chain Budgets gives you full control of your supply chain costs with a powerful budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis solution built for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. It brings comprehensive cost budgeting and real-time actuals tracking directly into Business Central -- from consignment-based templates to automated PO generation and budget-gated approvals. The app delivers a complete supply chain budgeting lifecycle within Business Central, giving you flexible cost modelling, real-time variance tracking, and automated purchasing.
Build once, duplicate per consignment instantly. Streamline your budgeting process with reusable templates. Define a master budget with all cost elements, consignment parameters, and formulas -- then duplicate it across multiple consignments with a single click. Master templates create reusable budget templates with predefined cost structures, rates, and formulas applicable to new consignments. One-click duplication auto-generates individual budgets for each consignment with sequential numbering and copied lines. Consignment parameters define consignment count, weight, units, and dwell time at header level with automatic line scaling. Bulk management updates or deletes all duplicated budgets from the master template simultaneously.
Reusable rate cards for every supply chain route. Different supply chain routes have different cost profiles. Define reusable rate cards per route or scenario, linking item charges and custom supply chain cost categories to specific rates -- then switch cost chains to instantly re-price an entire budget. Route-based pricing defines distinct rate cards for each supply chain route, corridor, or scenario with unique cost structures. Item charge rates link standard Business Central item charges to specific rates per cost chain for precise landed cost modelling. Custom lookup rates define your own supply chain cost categories with user-defined lookup codes and assign rates per cost chain. Instant re-pricing changes the cost chain on a budget to instantly pull updated rates across all applicable budget lines.
Flexible cost modelling with formulas and multipliers. Model complex cost structures with a powerful formula engine built right into your budget lines. Reference other rows by their codes, use mathematical operators with full precedence, and let automatic multipliers scale values by consignment metrics. Cell references build formulas that reference other budget line row numbers like a spreadsheet (e.g., A+B+C, (A+B)*C/D). Full operator support uses addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponents, and percentages with proper mathematical precedence and parentheses. Automatic multipliers scale any budget line value by consignment count, weight per consignment, units per consignment, or dwell time -- no manual recalculation needed. Multi-currency support lets budget lines pull the latest exchange rate from Business Central's currency tables, with actuals calculated from posted invoices.
Live budget-to-actual tracking from BC ledgers. Never wait for month-end to know where you stand. The app automatically pulls posted and unposted amounts from Business Central's ledger entries and compares them to budget -- giving you instant visibility into forecast, variance, and variance percentage. Multi-source actuals automatically source from Value Entries, Item Ledger Entries, Purchase Lines, Sales Lines, and G/L Entries -- all filtered by dimension. Unposted visibility shows outstanding amounts from open purchase orders and sales orders before posting. Forecast calculation computes a forecast per line combining actual posted amounts with outstanding unposted amounts for a complete cost picture. Variance at a glance instantly shows Variance (Forecast minus Budget) and Variance Percentage for every cost element. Lot tracking tracks the count of distinct purchase lot numbers per budget for full import/export traceability.
From budget to purchase order in one click. Turn your approved budgets into actionable procurement documents instantly. The app creates Purchase Orders directly from duplicated budgets, pre-populating vendor, currency, exchange rate, item, quantity, and unit cost -- with full two-way synchronisation. One-click PO creation generates Purchase Orders from budget duplicates with vendor, currency, items, quantities, and costs pre-filled automatically. Two-way dimension sync ensures dimension changes on a Purchase Order automatically update the linked budget, and vice versa -- keeping everything aligned. Direct navigation jumps between the budget and its linked Purchase Order or Purchase Invoice with a single click from either direction. Budget line references for product and supplier define which items and vendors flow into the generated Purchase Orders.
Tolerance-based controls for cost overruns. Integrate supply chain budgets directly into Business Central's standard approval workflows. Set variance tolerance thresholds for item purchase costs and item charge costs -- any Purchase Order that exceeds budget is automatically flagged for additional approval before release. Tolerance thresholds define separate variance percentage tolerances for item purchase costs and item charge costs per budget. Automatic flagging marks the Purchase Order as requiring budget approval when actual purchase costs exceed budget tolerances. Standard workflow integration hooks into Business Central's built-in approval workflow engine -- no custom workflow setup required. Overview and detail modes toggle between a clean financial summary view and a full editing view with all technical parameters for different audiences.
Supply Chain Budgets is licensed to end customers under the Southminds Extensions End User License Agreement. Current public pricing is shown above — for the full price list see Pricing.
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