Easy Manufacturing
Manufacturing in Business Central the way your plant actually works — by weight, by formula, by project — without leaving Business Central.
Production control without the workarounds
Standard Business Central assumes every component is a fixed quantity per piece and every order is a stand-alone job. Many manufacturers do not work like that: quantities follow weight, density or a formula on the item's attributes; a line is cleared between batches; one order yields several products; a treatment step has to be planned from the sales line; and the production order belongs to a project with its own budget. Easy Manufacturing adds exactly those steps inside Business Central, so planners, operators and project leads work from one order, one set of quantities and one set of numbers.
Key features
Everything runs inside Business Central online — no external system, no duplicate administration.
Flushing and line clearing
Buffered consumption posting, clearing worksheets with action types, and job-queue posting of flushed components — built for shop floor and warehouse execution.
Formula-driven BOMs and routings
Replace fixed quantities, scrap and run times with expressions evaluated against the item's attributes and the ordered quantity; include or skip a component or operation by condition.
Weight and measurement model
Density, cross-section and surface-area calculations, number of units, metric and imperial units with 200+ unit aliases, and a weight ledger for stock and KPI figures.
By-products and treatments
Co- and by-product output with actual-cost allocation, and treatment orders created straight from a sales or warehouse line.
Projects linked to production
Versioned project budgets with approval and sync to planning lines, Excel import and export, comments, metadata, timesheets and archive history connected to purchases, sales and the production order.
Planning visibility and tracked stock
See where every order is planned, keep planning status in sync across order, lines and routing, and reclassify lot, package or serial stock with its measurements intact.
Built for
Easy Manufacturing grew up in plants where the piece is not the unit of measure.
Metal, plastics and material processors
Bars, sheets, coils and profiles sold and consumed by weight or cross section, with chemistry, treatments and material versions on the lot.
Formula and recipe manufacturers
Quantities that depend on density, concentration or the attributes of the item being made, with by-products that carry real cost.
Engineer-to-order and project manufacturers
Production orders that belong to a project with a budget, versions, purchases, sales and timesheets that have to reconcile.
What is inside
The app is organised in modules; switch on what you need in Easy Manufacturing Setup.
Planning and execution
- Flush components and line clearingBuffered consumption, clearing worksheets, reservation and warehouse side effects handled.
- Split production order componentsSplit component demand into operational lines per lot or bin.
- Planned at and default locationsPlanning location and capacity resource on every order page; default production and replenishment bins.
Outputs, treatments and subcontracting
- Additional by-productsBy- and co-product lines at a quantity-per ratio; capacity and material cost allocated across outputs.
- Production treatmentTreatment orders from sales or warehouse lines via routing templates; convert items to multilevel structures.
- SubcontractingLegacy subcontracting kept working, with a guided path to Microsoft's subcontracting.
Measurement and units
- Item measurementsEnhanced units of measure, density, rounding precision, metric and imperial, unit alias dictionary.
- Weight calculationsCross-section formulas, surface area, tracking weights and an analytical item weight ledger.
- Number of units and production BOM UOMUnit-aware BOMs, planning and production order components.
Formulas and costing
- Manufacturing formulasInclude, quantity-per, scrap, setup, run, wait, move, lot size and send-ahead formulas on BOM and routing lines.
- Routing additional costSplit work- and machine-centre rates into setup and runtime components through to the production order routing line.
- Planning component dimensionsDimensions on planning components derived from the requisition line.
Projects
- Project budgetsBudget headers, versions, approval, sync to planning lines, checks, statistics, Excel import and export.
- Project metadata, comments and archiveElements, activities, stages, task comments and archived budget history.
- Project purchases, sales, resource groups and timesheetsProject context carried onto documents, resource groups with units of measure, time sheet integration.
Master data and tracked stock
- Work materials and classificationsMaterial shapes, classification hierarchies, treatments, versions and chemical composition.
- Attributes and templatesAttribute editors across items, machine and work centres; extended item templates.
- Item tracking wizard and inventory countingChange lot, package or serial details and count stock while preserving measurements, warehouse and journal consistency.
At a glance
- Flushing, line clearing, treatments, split components and subcontracting
- Formula-driven quantities, scrap and times on BOM and routing lines
- Weight, density, cross-section and number-of-units calculations
- Metric and imperial units with a data-driven alias dictionary
- By- and co-products with actual-cost allocation
- Setup and runtime cost split on work and machine centres
- Versioned project budgets synced to planning lines, Excel in and out
- Lot, package and serial reclassification with measurements intact
- Planning status synced across order, lines and routing
Always current on Business Central online
Our apps are built for Dynamics 365 Business Central online and follow Microsoft's release rhythm. There is no version to pick and nothing to upgrade by hand.
Two major releases a year
Every app is validated against the next Business Central release before Microsoft rolls it out, so the update wave never catches you off guard.
Monthly updates included
Fixes and improvements ship through AppSource and your Business Central admin center, with the same monthly cadence as the platform.
Current and previous release supported
You can stay on the release schedule your organisation prefers; we support the current major version and the one before it.
Works well with
Easy Manufacturing is one of a family of apps that share the same Business Central foundation.
Easy Quality Management
Give every lot a status, and let the warehouse enforce it.
- Quarantine, pending approval and released as a real lot status
- Blocked, expired or aged lots cannot be picked, consumed or shipped
- FEFO and LIFO lot selection, automatic or guided
- The supplier’s own batch number kept end to end
- Automatic expiry, aging and quarantine timeouts
Easy Shopfloor
Give operators one simple screen at the line and planners a live view of the floor.
- Web portal on any tablet or terminal at the workstation
- Report quantity, time and progress at the machine
- Kanban board and live analytics for planning
- Role-based access per workstation
Easy Barcode Scanning
Receive, put away, pick, move and count by scanning instead of typing.
- Item, lot and location validated at every scan
- Picking, put-away, movements and package reclassification
- Physical inventory counting on the device
- Runs on a Zebra scanner or a standard Android phone
See Easy Manufacturing in action
Book a short demo and discover how your production team can plan and execute with more control.