Training · ERP on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
An ERP system is the operational backbone of a mid-sized company. Training quality decides whether accounting, purchasing, inventory, and production use the system efficiently or work around it. MCT-certified trainers, with your chart of accounts, your items, your real business cases.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is today the ERP system for the European mid-market — the cloud successor to classic Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision). The product is powerful but not trivial for users. Anyone who learns financial accounting, warehouse logistics, production, or service management without structured training builds up workarounds and incorrect booking patterns over months that are hard to correct later. ERP training quality decides whether the system is an efficiency driver or an efficiency brake after 12 months.
We have been training Microsoft ERP systems since 2003 — back then classic Navision, today Business Central in the cloud. Our trainers are Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCT), each with 8+ years of BC/NAV implementation practice. That makes the difference: you not only learn where which booking goes, but also why the standard configuration typically needs to be adjusted in certain industries — and which adjustments later prove a costly boomerang.
A third advantage of our ERP trainings: we combine BC standard with industry experience. For years, we have trained producing mid-sized companies, wholesalers, services firms, educational institutions, and project-oriented companies. From this, we have developed industry-specific training modules — e.g., production for variant-rich made-to-order manufacturers, service management for technical service providers, Project Operations for consultancies. This prevents users from learning generic BC and afterwards discovering that their industry needs its own booking logic.
What this training covers
The full BC functionality, modularly trainable.
Chart of accounts (SKR03, SKR04, IKR, or customer-specific), G/L posting groups, VAT posting setups, bank accounts and payment processing, periodic activities, GoBD compliance, DATEV export. For accountants and financial accounting leads.
Cost-center hierarchy, cost objects, allocation keys, cost-accounting reports. With the BC Cost Accounting modules and alternative Power BI-based cost-accounting reports. For controllers and cost accounting owners.
Sales quotes, orders, shipments, invoices, credit memos. Customer master data, sales prices and discount structures, field-sales integration. Integration with Dynamics 365 Sales via Dataverse.
Purchase requisitions, orders, goods receipt, incoming invoices, purchase approval workflows, vendor master data, purchase prices and discounts. Including electronic vendor invoice processing.
Item master data, locations and bins, inventory adjustments, physical inventory, shipping dispatch, multi-tier inventory valuation methods (FIFO, LIFO, standard cost, average). For warehouse staff, planners, and logistics leads.
BOMs, routings, production orders, capacities and machines, pre- and post-calculation. Service management with service contracts, service orders, and repair processes. Plus project management for project-oriented companies.
Three formats
Format matched to ERP phase, team size, and module complexity.
At your site or remote — with your chart of accounts, your items, your real business cases.
Fixed annual day quota — ideal after initial rollout for new modules, new staff, new BC releases (twice annually).
Classic one-day training from the catalog — online or classroom.
Training topics in detail
Standard G/L trainings use Microsoft's Cronus tenant with a generic chart of accounts. The problem: your chart is different — SKR03, SKR04, IKR, or a custom hybrid version with various tax codes. We train with a sandbox copy of your real tenant in which participants book against the real chart of accounts. That makes the difference between "training knowledge that evaporates on site" and "productive ERP user from day 1".
BC has three inventory complexity levels: simple inventory without locations, inventory with locations (one stock info per warehouse), inventory with locations and bins (granular stock per bin). Which level is the right one? We train the decision against real warehouse scenarios — and walk through the trap "we start simple, complicated comes later" (it is usually not as simple as expected).
Production is the technically most complex BC module. Training focus: multi-level BOMs with phantom components and variant BOMs, routings with operations and setup times, production dispatch between order and capacity, feedback with material and time consumption, post-calculation and plan-vs-actual variance analysis. With a real production scenario from your company.
Purchase approval workflows are possible with BC standard functions but are rarely optimally configured. We train the setup of multi-tier approvals with limits, deputies, and escalations. Plus: electronic incoming invoice processing with ZUGFeRD/XRechnung, PEPPOL connectivity, OCR pre-capture. With practical reference to the German e-invoicing obligation from 2025/2027.
A Business Central admin maintains permission sets (manual or prebuilt), tenant setup wizards, extension management (AppSource, customer-specific per-tenant extensions), sandbox strategy, and update preparation. Microsoft publishes two major BC releases per year (Wave 1, Wave 2) — we train how a mid-sized company systematically reacts to new releases without every new wave triggering an emergency action.
Typical questions from participants
Answer: BC distinguishes between cancellation in the document (before posting — simply edit) and correcting posting (after posting — separate booking). Real cancellations of existing postings are typically not allowed in production tenants. We train the correcting-posting logic with reverse posting codes and posting period locks.
Answer: permission sets plus tenant filters plus location filters. The most common confusion: a user sees everything in the item list but only specific items in the sales screen — because sales master data are location-specific or dimension-filtered. We walk through the filter logic systematically.
Answer: with the prepayment concept in sales and purchasing. BC automatically creates prepayment invoices with correct postings to prepayment accounts; later at delivery, settlement happens. We train the configuration and the common configuration errors (missing prepayment accounts, incorrect VAT treatment).
Answer: BC provides DATEV exports via the pre-configured account schedules or via third-party apps from AppSource. We walk through both paths — direct DATEV export format vs. connectors like Continia or Trivadis — and which option is sensible for which accounting size.
Answer: Microsoft publishes major wave releases twice a year (April and October). Preparation: sandbox update two months before production update, test the complete workflow there, check extension compatibility, training update for users on new features. We train release-cycle management and which tools (update postponer, hotfix strategy) help.
FAQ
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central across all modules: G/L, cost accounting, sales, purchasing, inventory, production, service, project management, admin/customizing. Plus legacy systems NAV/Navision in migration preparation.
In-house as daily rate for the entire group, standard trainings per format indication, training subscription as annual quota. Pricing on request.
User per module 2–3 days. G/L + cost accounting 3 days. Inventory 2–3 days. Production 3–4 days. Admin 3–4 days. Rollout program typically 12–20 days over one quarter.
Yes — typically in the migration context. We only recommend pure NAV legacy trainings in special cases.
Yes — for in-house trainings we work in a sandbox copy of your tenant with real master data.
Related
Architecture, modules, license models, roadmap of the platform our ERP trainings build on.
Overview of all Dynamics 365 trainings — including CRM modules such as Sales and Customer Service.
Our solution on Business Central for mid-market industries with modular extensions.
After the ERP training, maintain Business Central as a flat rate — including release-update support.
Request ERP training
30-min initial conversation with an MCT trainer — we clarify module scope, role mix, format, and price. Concrete offer promptly.
