{"id":2940,"date":"2026-09-10T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nevastech.com\/blog\/?p=2940"},"modified":"2026-09-10T17:54:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:24:28","slug":"6-practical-ways-to-work-smarter-with-business-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nevastech.com\/blog\/6-practical-ways-to-work-smarter-with-business-central\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Practical Ways to Work Smarter with Business Central"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most businesses don&#8217;t need more software to be more productive. They need to actually use the software they already have. That&#8217;s especially true for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nevastech.com\/solutions\/microsoft-dynamics-365\/microsoft-dynamics-365-business-central\/\">Dynamics 365 Business Central<\/a>, a platform that comes with more built-in productivity tools than most teams ever touch. A lot of organizations implement Business Central, get it running well enough to cover the basics, and then never circle back to the features that would actually save them meaningful time.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t a list of new tools to buy. It&#8217;s a practical look at six ways to get more out of the Business Central you already have, from AI-assisted automation to smarter use of the Microsoft apps your team is already logging into every day.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1_Let_Copilot_Handle_the_Repetitive_Work_First\"><\/span>1. Let Copilot Handle the Repetitive Work First<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2><div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_79 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title ez-toc-toggle\" style=\"cursor:pointer\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 eztoc-toggle-hide-by-default' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nevastech.com\/blog\/6-practical-ways-to-work-smarter-with-business-central\/#1_Let_Copilot_Handle_the_Repetitive_Work_First\" >1. Let Copilot Handle the Repetitive Work First<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nevastech.com\/blog\/6-practical-ways-to-work-smarter-with-business-central\/#2_Stop_Bouncing_Between_Systems\" >2. Stop Bouncing Between Systems<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nevastech.com\/blog\/6-practical-ways-to-work-smarter-with-business-central\/#3_Extend_Access_Without_Extra_Licenses\" >3. Extend Access Without Extra Licenses<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nevastech.com\/blog\/6-practical-ways-to-work-smarter-with-business-central\/#4_Automate_the_Workflows_That_Eat_the_Most_Time\" >4. Automate the Workflows That Eat the Most Time<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nevastech.com\/blog\/6-practical-ways-to-work-smarter-with-business-central\/#5_Fit_the_System_to_Your_Industry_Not_the_Other_Way_Around\" >5. Fit the System to Your Industry, Not the Other Way Around<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nevastech.com\/blog\/6-practical-ways-to-work-smarter-with-business-central\/#6_Customize_Workflows_Instead_of_Working_Around_Them\" >6. Customize Workflows Instead of Working Around Them<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nevastech.com\/blog\/6-practical-ways-to-work-smarter-with-business-central\/#A_Simple_Way_to_Prioritize_Where_to_Start\" >A Simple Way to Prioritize Where to Start<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nevastech.com\/blog\/6-practical-ways-to-work-smarter-with-business-central\/#Frequently_Asked_Questions\" >Frequently Asked Questions<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nevastech.com\/blog\/6-practical-ways-to-work-smarter-with-business-central\/#Final_Thoughts\" >Final Thoughts<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n<p>Copilot is one of the most underused features inside Business Central, not because it&#8217;s hard to use, but because a lot of teams simply haven&#8217;t built the habit yet. It&#8217;s a native AI assistant that can take on routine, repetitive tasks directly inside the platform: matching invoices to purchase orders, flagging discrepancies before they become a bigger reconciliation problem, and drafting content like product descriptions or basic marketing copy that would otherwise eat someone&#8217;s afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The real value isn&#8217;t any single task Copilot handles. It&#8217;s what happens to everyone else&#8217;s time when those small, repetitive tasks stop landing on a person&#8217;s desk. A staff accountant who isn&#8217;t spending an hour a day matching invoices manually has an hour a day for work that actually requires judgment. That&#8217;s the shift worth aiming for: using Copilot to absorb the mechanical work so your team&#8217;s time goes toward the parts of the job that genuinely need a human.<\/p>\n<p>Getting real value out of Copilot generally means starting with one or two specific, well-defined tasks rather than trying to automate everything at once. Teams that treat it as a broad experiment tend to lose momentum. Teams that pick a clear starting point, like invoice matching or basic data entry, tend to build confidence quickly and expand from there.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2_Stop_Bouncing_Between_Systems\"><\/span>2. Stop Bouncing Between Systems<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Business Central is built on top of the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, and that integration is one of its most practical advantages, if teams actually use it. Native connections to Outlook, Teams, and Excel mean your team shouldn&#8217;t need to constantly export, re-enter, or manually reconcile data between separate tools.<\/p>\n<p>Excel integration in particular is worth using deliberately rather than as a last resort. Business Central lets users pull live data into familiar Excel layouts, work with it using the formulas and formatting people already know, and push updates back into the system without breaking the connection between the two. Combined with Business Central&#8217;s native <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nevastech.com\/blog\/business-central-reporting-options\">reporting tools<\/a>, this gives finance and operations teams a genuinely fast way to analyze data without waiting on a formal report to be built for them.<\/p>\n<p>Teams and Outlook integration matters just as much for day-to-day communication. Because Business Central is cloud-based and accessible from any connected device, employees aren&#8217;t tied to a desk to stay current: a field technician can join a Teams call from a job site, and a sales rep traveling between client visits isn&#8217;t cut off from urgent emails. The point isn&#8217;t that any one of these integrations is revolutionary on its own. It&#8217;s that together, they remove a lot of the small friction that quietly slows teams down every day.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"3_Extend_Access_Without_Extra_Licenses\"><\/span>3. Extend Access Without Extra Licenses<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>One of the more overlooked features in Business Central is the ability to grant read-only access to external users, like an outside accountant, auditor, or business partner, as long as they have a Microsoft 365 license, without purchasing an additional Business Central license for them.<\/p>\n<p>This matters more than it might sound at first. A lot of businesses default to emailing spreadsheets or exported reports back and forth with outside advisors simply because it feels simpler than figuring out formal system access. That habit creates version control problems and delays, exactly the kind of friction Business Central is supposed to eliminate. Read-only external access solves this cleanly: your accountant or auditor can see current, live data directly in the system, without your business absorbing the cost of a full additional license.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"4_Automate_the_Workflows_That_Eat_the_Most_Time\"><\/span>4. Automate the Workflows That Eat the Most Time<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Beyond Copilot&#8217;s task-level automation, Business Central supports broader workflow automation for the processes that repeat constantly across a business: purchase approvals, sales order releases, and document routing, among others. Combined with Power Automate, these workflows can trigger notifications, route approvals to the right person automatically, and cut down on the manual follow-up that usually falls on whoever&#8217;s managing the process.<\/p>\n<p>The businesses that get the most value here tend to start by identifying their most repetitive, multi-step approval processes, the ones that currently rely on someone remembering to follow up, forward an email, or chase down a signature, and automating those first. A purchase approval workflow that used to take three days because it depended on someone checking their inbox can often be reduced to hours once it&#8217;s set up to route and notify automatically. This is also one of the areas where a properly configured implementation makes the biggest long-term difference, since workflows built around how your business actually operates tend to get adopted, while generic, out-of-the-box workflows often get quietly worked around instead.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"5_Fit_the_System_to_Your_Industry_Not_the_Other_Way_Around\"><\/span>5. Fit the System to Your Industry, Not the Other Way Around<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Generic ERP functionality only goes so far for businesses with genuinely industry-specific needs. Business Central supports a wide range of industry-specific extensions and configurations, covering everything from manufacturing and distribution to healthcare, food service, and professional services, that address the specialized workflows a general-purpose system doesn&#8217;t handle well out of the box.<\/p>\n<p>For a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nevastech.com\/blog\/dynamics-365-business-central-for-manufacturing\">manufacturer<\/a>, that might mean production scheduling and capacity planning tools layered directly into the core system. For a distribution business, it might mean advanced warehouse and lot-tracking capabilities. The broader point is that businesses shouldn&#8217;t have to force their operations into a generic mold just because that&#8217;s what came in the box. The right extensions let Business Central bend toward how your business actually works, rather than the other way around.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"6_Customize_Workflows_Instead_of_Working_Around_Them\"><\/span>6. Customize Workflows Instead of Working Around Them<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Business Central ships with pre-built workflow templates designed to get teams moving quickly, but the platform&#8217;s real strength is how customizable those workflows are once you understand your own processes well enough to refine them. Teams can modify existing templates or build entirely new workflows as they discover gaps between the default setup and how their business actually operates.<\/p>\n<p>This matters because a lot of inefficiency in ERP systems doesn&#8217;t come from missing features. It comes from teams quietly working around a workflow that almost fits instead of adjusting it to actually fit. Over time, those workarounds compound into duplicate spreadsheets, manual double-checking, and processes that only one person fully understands. Revisiting your core workflows periodically, not just once during implementation, tends to be one of the highest-return, lowest-cost habits a business can build into how it uses Business Central.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_Simple_Way_to_Prioritize_Where_to_Start\"><\/span>A Simple Way to Prioritize Where to Start<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Trying to implement all six of these at once usually backfires. A more effective approach is picking one or two based on where the friction is worst right now:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>If your team is drowning in repetitive manual tasks<\/strong>, start with Copilot on one well-defined process.<\/li>\n<li><strong>If people are constantly exporting data to reconcile it elsewhere<\/strong>, focus on using Excel and reporting integration more deliberately.<\/li>\n<li><strong>If you&#8217;re paying for extra access just to share data with outside advisors<\/strong>, set up read-only external access instead.<\/li>\n<li><strong>If approvals and sign-offs are a constant bottleneck<\/strong>, prioritize workflow automation with Power Automate.<\/li>\n<li><strong>If your industry has needs the core system doesn&#8217;t fully address<\/strong>, look into relevant industry-specific extensions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>If your team has quietly built workarounds instead of using the system as intended<\/strong>, it&#8217;s time to revisit and customize your core workflows.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"margin-bottom: 24px;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Frequently_Asked_Questions\"><\/span>Frequently Asked Questions<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Do I need technical skills to use Copilot in Business Central?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No. Copilot is designed to be used through plain-language prompts directly inside the platform, without requiring coding or technical configuration for most common tasks. More advanced, custom AI scenarios may require additional setup support.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Does external read-only access require any special licensing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The external user needs their own Microsoft 365 license, but your business doesn&#8217;t need to purchase an additional Business Central license for them to view data in read-only mode. This is a genuinely underused way to collaborate with outside accountants or advisors without added licensing cost.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How is Power Automate different from Copilot inside Business Central?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Copilot is generally focused on task-level assistance and natural-language automation within specific screens and processes. Power Automate handles broader, multi-step workflow automation, like routing approvals, sending notifications, and connecting Business Central to other systems and triggers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can workflows be customized after Business Central is already implemented?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, and in most cases, they should be revisited periodically rather than treated as fixed after go-live. As a business&#8217;s processes evolve, workflows built during initial implementation often need adjustment to keep matching how the team actually operates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are industry-specific extensions available for every industry?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Coverage varies by industry, but extensions exist for a wide range of sectors, including manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, and professional services. If a specific extension doesn&#8217;t exist for your niche, custom development is often still possible to address specialized needs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the best place to start if my team feels overwhelmed by Business Central&#8217;s features?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Start narrow. Pick the single biggest source of friction, usually a repetitive manual task, a communication bottleneck, or a workflow everyone complains about, and focus on one improvement at a time rather than trying to overhaul everything at once.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Final_Thoughts\"><\/span>Final Thoughts<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Business Central&#8217;s biggest productivity gains usually don&#8217;t come from new software or a bigger budget. They come from actually using the tools already sitting inside the platform: Copilot for repetitive tasks, tighter Microsoft 365 integration, smarter external collaboration, real workflow automation, the right industry-specific extensions, and workflows that get revisited as the business changes rather than left untouched since go-live.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not sure which of these would move the needle most for your team, that&#8217;s exactly the kind of assessment worth doing with a partner who&#8217;s configured Business Central across a wide range of businesses. Nevas Technologies has spent over 20 years helping organizations implement and optimize <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nevastech.com\/solutions\/microsoft-dynamics-365\/\">Microsoft Dynamics solutions<\/a>, with 200+ clients and a team of certified Microsoft Dynamics consultants who can help you find the specific productivity levers that fit how your business actually operates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nevastech.com\/schedule-a-demo\">Schedule a free consultation<\/a> with our Microsoft Dynamics team to identify where Business Central could be working harder for you, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nevastech.com\/request-a-quote\">get a custom quote<\/a> to get started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most businesses don&#8217;t need more software to be more productive. They need to actually use the software they already have. 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