Microsoft Solutions PartnerBusiness Applications Designation29 Years · Since 1997Enterprise ERP 2026 Hub
Dynamics 365 Business Central, Finance & Supply Chain
The EPC Group canonical hub for Dynamics 365 Business Central, D365 Finance, and D365 Supply Chain Management — SMB to enterprise multi-entity ERP, with QuickBooks, NetSuite, SAP Business One, and SAP S/4HANA replacement patterns, delivered under one senior-architect-led Microsoft Solutions Partner practice.
Dynamics 365 Business Central, D365 Finance, and D365 Supply Chain Management are the Microsoft enterprise ERP family. Business Central is the SMB and mid-market successor to Dynamics NAV (Navision) and Dynamics GP, sized for organizations roughly $5 million to $100 million in revenue. D365 Finance and D365 Supply Chain Management — together commonly called Finance + Operations or F+SCM — are the enterprise-grade successors to Dynamics AX 2009 / 2012, sized for mid-market through multi-billion-dollar multi-entity enterprises. EPC Group, a 29-year Microsoft Solutions Partner founded by four-time Microsoft Press author Errin O’Connor, delivers all three ERP tiers under one senior-architect-led practice, integrated with Microsoft 365 Copilot, Power BI on Microsoft Fabric, and Microsoft Purview governance.
Dynamics 365 Business Central is the Microsoft SMB-to-mid-market ERP. D365 Finance and D365 Supply Chain Management (F+SCM) are the enterprise-grade ERP for multi-entity organizations $100M to $1B+ in revenue. EPC Group sequences all three under one senior-architect-led Microsoft Solutions Partner practice with Copilot, Power BI, Fabric, and Purview governance, executing QuickBooks, NetSuite, SAP Business One, and SAP S/4HANA replacement patterns.
Key Facts
Business Central is the Microsoft SMB ERP — sized for organizations roughly $5M–$100M revenue, replacing QuickBooks, Sage, Xero, and SAP Business One
D365 Finance + SCM (F+SCM) is the Microsoft enterprise ERP — successor to Dynamics AX 2009/2012, sized for $100M–multi-billion multi-entity programs
Business Central licenses at approximately $70/user/mo Essentials and $100/user/mo Premium; F+SCM bundle approximately $300/user/mo
EPC Group has delivered 216-plus M&A Microsoft 365 tenant migrations covering 1.83 million users between 2023 and 2025
EPC Group runs every D365 ERP program under Microsoft Success by Design with FastTrack engagement where eligible
Copilot in Finance and Business Central, Power BI on Microsoft Fabric, and Microsoft Purview ship as part of every EPC Group ERP program
Three Dynamics 365 ERP tiers — chosen by scale, complexity, and regulatory reach
EPC Group runs an honest decision framework during Discover so the chosen tier is durable for at least five years and the upgrade path from Business Central into Finance + Supply Chain Management is preserved when an SMB grows into the mid-market band.
Dynamics 365 Business Central
Microsoft Business Central is the modern SMB and mid-market ERP successor to Dynamics NAV (Navision) and Dynamics GP. Business Central runs general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable, fixed assets, light manufacturing, distribution, and project accounting on a single Dataverse-adjacent stack, integrated natively with Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, Power BI, Power Automate, and Copilot. Business Central is the right starting tier for organizations under approximately $100 million in revenue or for divisional roll-outs inside a larger enterprise that needs to retire QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Enterprise, Sage 50, Sage Intacct, Xero, or SAP Business One.
Best fit
Organizations roughly $5 million to $100 million in revenue, single-entity or low-entity counts (1–10 legal entities), under approximately 300 named ERP users, modest manufacturing complexity, and a strong preference for Microsoft 365 and Teams as the user experience plane.
Full general ledger, AR, AP, bank reconciliation, fixed assets, and intercompany journals
Light to moderate manufacturing — assembly, production BOMs, simple capacity planning, and routings
Inventory management with item tracking, lot/serial, bin management, and warehouse activities
Sales order management, purchase order management, drop ship, and three-way matching
Project accounting with jobs, resources, time sheets, WIP, and milestone billing
Copilot in Business Central — bank reconciliation assistance, sales line automation, marketing text drafting
Native Microsoft Teams integration — quote-to-cash workflows surfaced inside Teams chat and channels
Power BI on Microsoft Fabric for financial reporting and operational analytics, with Direct Lake performance
Practical ceiling
Business Central is intentionally bounded — it is not designed for very high transaction volumes, complex global tax engines, multi-thousand entity consolidation, deep regulatory pharma or aerospace MRP, or organizations larger than approximately $250 million in revenue with multi-country tax complexity. At that ceiling EPC Group sequences the move to Finance + Supply Chain Management.
D365 Finance + Supply Chain (mid-market)
Dynamics 365 Finance and Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management — together commonly called Finance + Operations or F+SCM — are the enterprise-grade Microsoft ERP that replaced the Dynamics AX 2009 / 2012 platform. The mid-market configuration of F+SCM is the right tier for organizations in the roughly $100 million to $1 billion revenue band that need true enterprise financial controls, multi-country tax, advanced warehouse and manufacturing, master planning, and Fabric-native finance analytics. F+SCM Finance handles GL, AR, AP, fixed assets, cash and bank management, budgeting, and a global tax engine; F+SCM Supply Chain Management handles WMS, production control, master planning, procurement and sourcing, and demand forecasting with Copilot.
Best fit
Mid-market enterprises roughly $100 million to $1 billion in revenue, 5–25 legal entities, up to roughly 1,000 named ERP users, real multi-country tax exposure, manufacturing or distribution complexity that exceeds Business Central, and an existing or planned standardization on Microsoft 365, Microsoft Fabric, and Microsoft Entra.
Enterprise general ledger with multi-currency, multi-fiscal-calendar, and multi-book accounting
Global tax engine covering VAT, GST, sales-and-use, withholding, and country-specific compliance
Advanced warehouse management — wave, label, mobile scanner, slotting, and replenishment workflows
Production control — discrete, process, lean, and project-based manufacturing in one engine
Master Planning with Planning Optimization — in-memory, second-by-second responsiveness
Demand forecasting with Copilot and Azure Machine Learning — retires legacy R / Excel models
Project Operations integration for PSA, project accounting, and ASC 606 revenue recognition
Power BI on Microsoft Fabric link with Direct Lake — finance close, operational KPIs, supply analytics
Practical ceiling
Mid-market F+SCM is bounded by complexity, not technology — it scales beyond $1 billion, but multi-entity consolidation, intercompany pricing, transfer pricing, segment reporting, and the depth of regulated-industry controls usually push the program into the enterprise band described below.
F+SCM Enterprise — multi-entity $1B+
The enterprise-band configuration of D365 Finance + Supply Chain Management is the Microsoft answer for organizations above approximately $1 billion in revenue, with twenty or more legal entities, deep intercompany flows, complex multi-country tax, and operational scale that demands the same governance, identity, sensitivity labeling, conditional access, and Fabric analytics plane as the rest of the Microsoft estate. EPC Group runs F+SCM enterprise programs that include Group Consolidations, multi-book accounting, deep procurement with vendor collaboration, advanced warehouse and transportation, Asset Management, intercompany trade, and supplier-portal flows tied into Microsoft 365 and Teams.
Best fit
Enterprises above approximately $1 billion in revenue, 20+ legal entities, 1,000+ named ERP users, multi-country and multi-currency consolidation requirements, regulated-industry controls (SOX, HIPAA, FedRAMP-aligned, FINRA, GxP, NERC CIP), M&A acquisition cadence, and a strategic commitment to Microsoft 365, Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Purview, and Microsoft Entra as the platform anchor.
Group consolidations with elimination, currency translation, and segment reporting
Multi-book accounting — statutory, management, IFRS, and US GAAP under one ledger
Advanced intercompany trade with transfer pricing and intercompany agreements
Vendor collaboration portal, procurement contracts, sourcing events, and supplier scorecards
Warehouse + Transportation Management Systems (WMS + TMS) with route planning and load building
Asset Management for plant-floor equipment with the same Dataverse spine as Field Service
Subscription billing with revenue recognition under ASC 606 and IFRS 15
Power BI on Microsoft Fabric — financial close, supply analytics, and AI-grounded forecasting
Practical ceiling
At enterprise scale the limit is governance discipline, not the platform. EPC Group anchors the program on the Microsoft Cloud Orchestrator pattern so Finance + Supply Chain is operated as one estate with Microsoft 365 Copilot, Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, and Microsoft Security — not as a siloed business-application project.
Six enterprise D365 ERP patterns EPC Group runs in 2026
Each pattern below is a real shape of work — drawn from production engagements — that EPC Group sequences under the Microsoft Success by Design framework with senior-architect-only delivery.
QuickBooks → Business Central migration
The most common SMB-to-mid-market ERP move EPC Group runs — QuickBooks Online or QuickBooks Enterprise outgrown by a business that has scaled past 50 employees, opened a second entity, hit a multi-state sales-tax problem, or needs real inventory and project accounting. Business Central retires the QuickBooks file, the parallel spreadsheets, and the third-party inventory bolt-on, replacing them with one Microsoft-governed ERP integrated with Microsoft 365, Teams, Power BI, and Copilot.
Signals it’s time
•QuickBooks file size or list limits are now a real operational constraint, not a future worry
•Two or more legal entities exist and intercompany journals are currently a monthly Excel exercise
•Inventory or project accounting is happening in a separate tool that finance never reconciles cleanly
NetSuite → D365 Finance + SCM
The most common mid-market ERP replatform EPC Group runs in 2026 — Oracle NetSuite implementations that have grown into renewal cost shock, customization debt, or governance friction once the parent group standardized on Microsoft 365, Microsoft Fabric, and Microsoft Entra. D365 Finance + Supply Chain Management retires NetSuite for finance, procurement, warehouse, and manufacturing while inheriting the existing Microsoft governance plane, Copilot grounding, and Fabric analytics.
Signals it’s time
•NetSuite renewal economics no longer align with the value delivered after years of customization
•Microsoft 365 is the strategic productivity, AI, and security platform — NetSuite is the outlier
•Power BI is the standard analytics tool but NetSuite data lives behind ODBC extracts and SuiteAnalytics licenses
SAP Business One → Business Central
SAP Business One organizations that are tired of the partner-channel licensing economics, the version-skew across country localizations, and the disconnected experience from Microsoft 365. Business Central replaces SAP B1 with a Microsoft-native ERP that is governed by the same identity, sensitivity, conditional-access, and Copilot grounding plane as the rest of the estate.
Signals it’s time
•SAP Business One support and add-on economics are no longer competitive against Microsoft cloud bundling
•Country-specific SAP B1 localizations are a maintenance burden the partner cannot economically sustain
•Microsoft 365 + Teams + Power BI is already the daily user experience — SAP B1 is the friction surface
M&A multi-entity consolidation
Acquisitive enterprises that inherit a fleet of mismatched ERPs after each transaction — QuickBooks, Sage, NetSuite, SAP B1, and legacy Great Plains all sitting under one CFO. D365 Finance with Group Consolidations becomes the parent ledger; Business Central becomes the divisional ERP for acquired SMBs; Microsoft Fabric becomes the analytics spine; Microsoft Purview becomes the sensitivity-label and audit-trace plane. EPC Group has executed 216-plus M&A Microsoft 365 tenant migrations covering 1.83 million users across acquisitive enterprises between 2023 and 2025 and brings the same playbook discipline to the ERP layer.
Signals it’s time
•Acquired entities are running three or more different ERPs and the close cycle has stretched past 12 days
•Consolidation is currently a manual Excel exercise the controller refreshes every period close
•M&A cadence is one to four acquisitions per year and the existing ERP cannot ingest them at that rate
Regulated-industry ERP audit trail
Healthcare delivery networks, life sciences companies, financial services firms, energy utilities, and federal contractors that need an ERP whose audit trail can satisfy SOX, HIPAA, FedRAMP-aligned controls, FINRA, GxP, NERC CIP, or CMMC. D365 Finance and Supply Chain Management run under Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels, Microsoft Entra ID Governance for joiner-mover-leaver, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps for SaaS posture, and an immutable Dataverse-based audit history that regulators can inspect.
Signals it’s time
•External auditors flagged segregation of duties or audit-trail completeness in the last two audits
•A regulated workload is currently running on an unsupported ERP version with security debt
•Compliance team has asked for one identity, one audit log, and one sensitivity-label plane across systems
Manufacturing JIT and MRP modernization
Discrete and process manufacturers running just-in-time and Kanban operations on aging MRP — Dynamics AX 2009 / 2012, JD Edwards, Infor, or a homegrown MES. D365 Supply Chain Management Planning Optimization, Asset Management, and shop-floor execution under Power Apps replace the legacy MRP and MES with a Microsoft-governed manufacturing platform that shares Dataverse with Field Service, Customer Service, and Project Operations.
Signals it’s time
•Master planning runs nightly, takes hours, and is no longer hitting customer service-level targets
•Plant-floor maintenance work orders sit in a separate CMMS disconnected from inventory and ERP
•Demand forecasting is owned by one planner with one spreadsheet and one set of tribal assumptions
Copilot in Finance, Business Central, and Supply Chain Management
Copilot is not a bolt-on for these platforms — it is a first-class capability surface inside the ERP, governed under the EPC Group Governed AI on Microsoft Framework with Microsoft Purview AI Hub, Communication Compliance, and Defender for Cloud Apps.
Copilot in Business Central
Bank reconciliation assistance, sales line automation from email or chat, AI-drafted marketing text, and conversational financial reporting in Teams.
Copilot in D365 Finance
Collections agent assistance, customer payment prediction, intelligent invoice capture, and conversational period-close inquiries grounded in the ledger.
Copilot in D365 Supply Chain Management
Demand forecast assistance, supplier risk signals, purchase-order change communication drafting, and product-information enrichment for catalog management.
Copilot in Microsoft 365 + Teams
D365 records surfaced inside Outlook and Teams chat, Word document drafting grounded on Dataverse, and Excel financial analysis grounded on Fabric semantic models.
D365 Project Operations PSA
D365 Project Operations is the Microsoft Professional Services Automation and project accounting platform — opportunity-to-cash for project-based businesses, sitting on the same Dataverse spine as D365 Finance, D365 Sales, and Business Central. EPC Group sequences Project Operations alongside Finance or Business Central whenever the enterprise runs project-billed work — consulting, engineering, agency, professional services, and construction — and needs utilization, project P&L, milestone billing, and ASC 606 revenue recognition under one Microsoft governance plane.
Opportunity-to-cash for project-based businesses — consulting, engineering, agency, professional services, and construction
Resource scheduling and utilization across consultants, engineers, contractors, and subcontractors
Time and expense entry on web, Teams, and mobile — approvals routed via Power Automate
Project budgeting, forecasting, and burn-rate analytics in Power BI on Microsoft Fabric
Subcontractor management and project-based purchasing integrated with D365 Finance
Industry templates EPC Group brings to D365 ERP programs
EPC Group does not arrive empty-handed. Each industry below carries reference deliverables, governance patterns, and Power BI semantic models battle-tested across nearly three decades of Microsoft consulting.
Healthcare delivery networks
Hospital construction project accounting, biomedical equipment maintenance, medical-supply distribution, and physician-services revenue cycle. EPC Group brings HIPAA-bound reference deliverables, Joint Commission audit-trace patterns, and 1,500-plus production Power BI dashboards across the sector.
Manufacturing and industrial
Discrete, process, and project-based manufacturing — plant-floor execution, Asset Management for production equipment, intercompany trade across plants, and Field Service for distributor service technicians. EPC Group has delivered 216-plus M&A Microsoft 365 tenant migrations covering 1.83 million users across acquisitive manufacturers between 2023 and 2025.
Construction and engineering
Project Operations for construction project accounting, subcontractor management, change-order tracking, and milestone billing. D365 SCM for materials procurement and warehouse management on multi-site projects. D365 Finance for multi-entity consolidation across joint ventures.
Professional services and engineering firms
Project Operations PSA — opportunity-to-cash for consulting, engineering, and agency businesses. D365 Finance for multi-currency and multi-entity consolidations. Microsoft 365 Copilot, Teams, and Viva Insights layered on top for executive visibility into utilization, bench cost, and revenue recognition.
Implementation methodology — Success by Design, FastTrack, ALM, Governed AI
EPC Group runs D365 ERP programs the way Microsoft intended them to be run — under named methodology frameworks with named owners, recorded evidence, and a senior architect on the hyper-care war-room call.
Microsoft Success by Design
EPC Group programs are anchored on the Microsoft Success by Design framework — solution blueprint review, integration design review, performance review, security review, and go-live readiness review run with named owners and recorded evidence.
Microsoft FastTrack for Dynamics 365
Eligible engagements leverage Microsoft FastTrack for Dynamics 365 — architectural guidance, deployment assistance, and named Microsoft engineers who collaborate with EPC Group senior architects through go-live.
Power Platform ALM and CoE
EPC Group ships every D365 ERP program with a Power Platform Center of Excellence — solution layering, environment strategy, managed solutions, pipelines, ALM accelerator patterns, and CoE Starter Kit telemetry.
Governed AI on Microsoft Framework
Copilot in Finance, Business Central, and Supply Chain Management ship under the EPC Group Governed AI on Microsoft Framework — Purview AI Hub, Communication Compliance, Defender for Cloud Apps, sensitivity labels, and named-regulator alignment.
The EPC Group D365 ERP Accelerator — five productized phases
Productized phases with fixed-fee Discover and Design, parallel-validated Build, hyper-care Cutover, and a co-managed Operate stage. Bands run roughly $300,000 for a single-entity Business Central rollout through $2.5 million-plus for an enterprise F+SCM multi-entity multi-country program.
1
Discover & decide
2–4 weeks
A senior-architect-led discovery that produces a costed roadmap, target architecture across Business Central or Finance + Supply Chain Management, and the integration map to Microsoft 365, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and existing CRM. Output is a board-ready decision package with named Microsoft voucher subsidies, FastTrack eligibility, and partner-funded incentive analysis.
Current-state inventory of finance, manufacturing, distribution, project, and CRM systems
Target architecture across the chosen D365 ERP tier with integration map
Compliance mapping to SOX, HIPAA, FedRAMP-aligned controls, FINRA, GxP, NERC CIP, or CMMC as applicable
Costed roadmap by quarter with Microsoft voucher, FastTrack, and partner-funded incentive analysis
2
Solution blueprint
3–6 weeks
A blueprint phase that fixes the chart of accounts, the entity and consolidation model, the integration contracts, the governance posture, and the change-management plan. Senior architects own every artifact — no offshore handoff, no templates from a global delivery center.
Chart of accounts, entity structure, intercompany model, and reporting dimensions
Dataverse data model, security roles, business units, and environment strategy
Integration contracts to D365 Sales, D365 Field Service, Microsoft Fabric, and 3rd-party systems
Change-management plan with role-based learning paths and Viva Learning integration
3
Build & validate
14–28 weeks
Production-grade build with parallel validation against legacy ERP — never a big-bang cutover. GL, AR, AP, fixed assets, multi-currency, WMS workflows, master planning runs, and project accounting are validated against legacy ledgers and operating systems before cutover.
Configured D365 ERP environment with custom code held to Power Platform ALM patterns
Integration build out — Dual-write, Synapse Link, Fabric link, and custom connectors
Parallel validation suite — financial ledgers, inventory balances, and operational KPIs
User acceptance testing harness with role-based scenarios and recorded evidence
4
Cutover & adopt
6–12 weeks
Cutover sequencing with hyper-care, Copilot rollout under the Governed AI on Microsoft Framework, and adoption telemetry instrumented from day one. EPC Group senior architects stay on the account through hyper-care — the same humans who designed the system run the cutover.
Cutover runbook with named owners, rollback plan, and hyper-care schedule
Copilot rollout sequenced under Purview AI Hub and Communication Compliance guardrails
Adoption telemetry on Business Central, Finance, SCM, and Project Operations user surfaces
Hyper-care war-room model with EPC Group senior architects on call
5
Operate & optimize
Monthly retainer
Co-Managed D365 ERP — the EPC Group Operate stage. Quarterly optimization cycles, FinOps for D365 licensing, master-planning re-baselining, financial close compression, and Copilot guardrail revalidation. The platform survives the consulting engagement.
24/7 co-managed D365 ERP operations with published response standards
Quarterly FinOps and license rationalization across Business Central, Finance, and SCM
Master-planning tuning and financial-close compression cycles with measurable KPI movement
Copilot governance revalidation against the named regulatory regime
Business Central — single entity
$300,000 – $600,000
Single-entity Business Central rollout — GL, AR, AP, light manufacturing or distribution, Power BI financial reporting, Copilot enablement, integrated with Microsoft 365 and Teams.
Business Central — multi-entity SMB roll-up
$500,000 – $1,000,000
Multi-entity Business Central rollout for an SMB roll-up or M&A acquirer — intercompany journals, consolidation reporting in Power BI, divisional governance.
Nearly three decades of Microsoft consulting leadership, four Microsoft Press books, original beta-team membership, and senior-architect-only delivery on every engagement.
Microsoft Solutions Partner — Business Applications designation
Active Microsoft Solutions Partner with the Business Applications designation covering Dynamics 365 and Power Platform implementations.
Errin O’Connor — four-time Microsoft Press bestselling author
EPC Group founder Errin O’Connor has authored four Microsoft Press books covering Power BI, SharePoint, Azure, and large-scale Microsoft migrations.
Original SharePoint and Power BI Beta Team member
Original SharePoint Beta Team member (Project Tahoe) and original Power BI Beta Team member (Project Crescent). Microsoft MVP since 2002–03.
Nearly three decades of Microsoft consulting leadership
Nearly three decades delivering Microsoft enterprise programs — including 1,500-plus Power BI deployments and 500-plus Microsoft Fabric implementations.
Senior-architect-only delivery
Every EPC Group engagement is staffed senior-architect-only. The architect who scopes the engagement owns it through Operate — no inverted-pyramid offshore delivery.
The most common Dynamics 365 Business Central, D365 Finance, and D365 Supply Chain Management questions EPC Group senior architects answer in the assessment phase.
How do I decide between Dynamics 365 Business Central and D365 Finance + Supply Chain Management?
The decision is anchored on four practical thresholds. First, revenue scale — Business Central is built for organizations roughly $5 million to $100 million in revenue, with a soft ceiling around $250 million; D365 Finance + Supply Chain Management is built for organizations from approximately $100 million through multi-billion. Second, entity complexity — Business Central handles a handful of legal entities cleanly; F+SCM is built for multi-country, multi-currency, multi-book group consolidation. Third, manufacturing or warehouse complexity — Business Central handles light to moderate manufacturing and basic warehousing; F+SCM handles advanced WMS, production control with planning optimization, and discrete, process, lean, and project-based manufacturing under one engine. Fourth, regulatory regime — Business Central is rarely deployed for SOX-, HIPAA-, or FedRAMP-bound primary ledgers, whereas F+SCM is the default tier when those regimes apply. EPC Group runs an honest decision framework during Discover so the chosen tier is durable for at least five years and the upgrade path from Business Central to F+SCM is preserved when an SMB is growing into the mid-market band.
How does Dynamics 365 compare to Oracle NetSuite for mid-market ERP?
D365 and NetSuite are both serious mid-market ERPs with proven enterprise references. The selection criteria are practical. NetSuite remains a credible answer for organizations whose strategic platform plane is Oracle — including Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle Database, and Oracle HCM — and which have no plan to standardize on Microsoft 365 or Microsoft Fabric. D365 Finance + Supply Chain Management is the right answer when the enterprise has committed to Microsoft 365 as the productivity plane, Power BI on Microsoft Fabric as the analytics plane, Microsoft Entra as identity, and Microsoft Purview as governance — because F+SCM inherits all of that natively. EPC Group has executed both directions of migration and is direct in the assessment phase about renewal economics, customization debt, and the realistic five-year cost of ownership for each.
How does Dynamics 365 Finance + SCM compare to SAP S/4HANA Cloud?
D365 F+SCM and SAP S/4HANA Cloud are both enterprise-grade. SAP S/4HANA Cloud remains the right answer for very large global multi-currency consolidation programs where SAP is already the system of record across finance, HR, and supply chain — particularly where SAP HANA, SAP SuccessFactors, and SAP Ariba are strategic anchors. D365 F+SCM is the right answer for AX 2009 / 2012 modernization, for enterprises standardizing on Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Fabric, and for any program that wants Power BI–native analytics, Copilot demand forecasting, and Power Platform extensibility without a separate integration platform. EPC Group has executed both migration directions and uses a structured decision framework anchored on roadmap depth, license economics, and realistic five-year cost of ownership.
How does D365 Finance compare to Workday Financial Management?
D365 Finance and Workday Financial Management are both modern cloud finance platforms. Workday Financial Management is most often selected when Workday HCM is already strategic — the unified HCM + Financials combination is a real selection driver inside services-heavy and people-centric enterprises. D365 Finance is the right answer when the enterprise has committed to Microsoft 365 as the productivity plane, Power BI on Fabric as the analytics plane, and Microsoft Entra as identity — because D365 Finance inherits Copilot grounding, Purview labeling, conditional access, and Fabric-native financial close out of the box. EPC Group will recommend Workday when HCM is the strategic anchor and recommend D365 Finance when Microsoft is the strategic anchor, and is direct in the assessment phase about both.
What is a realistic implementation timeline for D365 Business Central or F+SCM?
A single-entity Business Central rollout typically reaches go-live in 16 to 24 weeks from kickoff. A multi-entity Business Central rollout reaches go-live in 20 to 32 weeks. A mid-market D365 Finance + Supply Chain Management rollout reaches go-live in 32 to 52 weeks. An enterprise F+SCM rollout with Group Consolidations and multi-entity multi-country complexity is sequenced in waves over 12 to 24 months. EPC Group commits to fixed-fee Discover and Design phases so the program economics are bounded before Build begins, and runs the program under the Microsoft Success by Design framework with FastTrack engagement where eligible.
How is application lifecycle management handled across D365 ERP environments?
EPC Group ships every D365 ERP program with a disciplined ALM posture. Power Platform Center of Excellence patterns govern environment strategy — development, test, UAT, performance, and production are separated, sourced from managed solutions, and promoted through Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions pipelines. For Business Central, AppSource ALM patterns govern per-tenant extensions and per-tenant application code. For F+SCM, Lifecycle Services (LCS), Azure DevOps integration, and the deployable-package model govern code promotion. Every environment is monitored under the CoE Starter Kit telemetry and audited under Microsoft Purview. The result is an ERP estate that survives the consulting engagement — the architect who designed it does not need to be on call to keep it healthy.
What does Dynamics 365 Business Central, Finance, and Supply Chain Management cost?
License pricing is published by Microsoft and changes regularly — current published list for Business Central Essentials is approximately $70 per user per month, Business Central Premium is approximately $100 per user per month, D365 Finance is approximately $210 per user per month, D365 Supply Chain Management is approximately $210 per user per month, with the F+SCM bundle at approximately $300 per user per month, and Team Member entitlements at approximately $8 per user per month for light users. EPC Group sizes the named-user mix, evaluates Team Member entitlements, and identifies Microsoft voucher subsidies, FastTrack eligibility, and partner-funded incentives during the Discover phase. Implementation cost varies by scope — see the productized ranges above for representative bands.
Why engage EPC Group for a Dynamics 365 Business Central, Finance, or Supply Chain Management program?
EPC Group is a 29-year Microsoft Solutions Partner with senior-architect-only delivery, founded by four-time Microsoft Press author Errin O’Connor. Business Central, Finance, and Supply Chain Management are not standalone ERP deployments — they only work when they share governance with Microsoft 365, Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Entra, and Microsoft Security. EPC Group is one of a small group of Microsoft partners that delivers all six Solutions Partner Designations under one accountable senior architect, which is the practical prerequisite to running D365 ERP as part of an orchestrated Microsoft estate rather than as a siloed business-application project. The architect who scopes the engagement owns it through Operate — no inverted-pyramid offshore delivery, no template-and-walk, no global delivery center reshuffles.
Ready to scope your Dynamics 365 ERP program?
Talk to a senior EPC Group D365 ERP architect about Business Central, D365 Finance, or D365 Supply Chain Management — sequenced under Microsoft Success by Design, FastTrack engagement where eligible, and a co-managed Operate stage that keeps the platform healthy after go-live.