Maps BC production BOMs, routings, work/machine centres, production orders and assembly orders to D365 BOMs, routes, resources, production orders and Planning Optimization — including the assembly-management gap that every programme must resolve.
Business Central's manufacturing capability covers a spectrum from simple assembly (Assembly BOMs and Assembly Orders) through full discrete manufacturing (Production BOMs, Routings, Work Centres, Machine Centres, and Production Orders with five lifecycle statuses).
A BC Production BOM Header carries a description, unit of measure and status (New, Under Development, Certified, Closed). Production BOM Lines carry the component item, quantity per parent, scrap percentage, routing link code, and unit of measure. A BOM becomes usable only when its status is Certified.
A BC Routing Header carries a routing number, description and status. Routing Lines carry the operation number, work-centre or machine-centre code, setup time, run time, wait time, move time, concurrent capacities, and a routing link code that ties the operation to BOM components for flushing.
The mismatch at the Released/Started boundary is the most operationally dangerous. In BC, a released order immediately permits posting consumption and output. In D365, you must explicitly advance the order from Released to Started before the first material-issue journal or route-card journal can be posted.
The Pick + Forward and Pick + Backward variants do not have a single-field equivalent in D365. They are re-expressed as a combination of warehouse-work release (which handles the physical pick) and a standard flushing principle (which handles the accounting consumption).
Assemble-to-stock (ATS): An Assembly Order consumes components from inventory and produces the assembled item into stock. It carries an Assembly BOM (component list), a single posting that debits component cost and credits finished-goods cost, and minimal scheduling.
Material cost: Driven by the item's unit cost (Standard, Average, FIFO, LIFO, or Specific) multiplied by the BOM-line quantity. Capacity cost: Direct unit cost and indirect cost percentage on the work/machine centre, multiplied by operation time. Capacity ledger entries record time consumed and cost applied.
Requisition Worksheet: Generates purchase and transfer suggestions based on reorder policies (Fixed Reorder Qty, Maximum Qty, Order, Lot-for-Lot) and safety stock. Planning Worksheet: Runs regenerative or net-change MRP, exploding demand through BOMs and routings, respecting lead times, dampeners, and capacity constraints (if enabled).
BC manufacturing ranges from simple assembly through discrete production. D365 provides a more formalised, more granular framework: richer version effectivity on BOMs and routes, cost-category-based costing, seven production-order statuses, and a cloud-based planning engine.