Purchase Budget Management

A complete solution for Purchase Budget Management with Dynamics 365 Business Central.

A Purchases Budget is a financial plan that outlines the amount of goods that a company needs to purchase in a given period to meet its sales goals and inventory targets. This budget is an essential part of a company’s overall operational plan.

The Purchase Budget Management add-on developed by Dhyey Consulting Service Pvt. Ltd. for Microsoft Business Central enables you to setup, create, view, and analyse budgets. It includes budget period, budget control rules, and defines budget cycles for budget amounts and purchase quantities for various source types.

Features:

* Statistics to monitor budget funds that are available for planned and actual purchases and expenditures.

* There are multiple statistical analyses that can aid in the planning of a next purchase budget cycle.

* Analyze and evaluate performance, determine future needs, establish a break-even point, cash flow, and project earnings by using Statistics by Period and Statistics by Months.

* The availability of statistical data includes actual utilization, variance, variance in percent, utilization in percent, and monthly cumulative utilization for budget amount and quantity for each source type and budget cycle.

* Notification regarding budget overrun, budget quantity overrun, and budget amount overrun.

* Notification regarding the budget amount threshold limit being reached.

* Define Purchase Budget period (for example, Fiscal year, Fiscal period, or quarterly).

* Create a set of rules that include global dimensions, location, source type (item, item category, general product posting group, resource, and G/L) to control transaction documents, such as Purchase Orders, which have been enabled for budget control.

* Establish purchase budgeting using the combination of period, budget type, control rule, location, and global dimensions to manage purchase amount (LCY) and/or quantity (base UOM).

* Define budget amount and budget quantity with tolerance in percentage.

* Set up a percentage threshold limit for early alerts on budget usage.

* Feature to archive historical data of purchase budget.

* Purchase budget entries allow you to view details about transaction documents and sources that utilize budget.

* Calculate Purchase budget on document to preview the status of source line items that are eligible for budget check and flag for alerts if the budget is overrun. The document date of the purchase order is considered for budget period calculation.

* Review the comments on the document line if the budget is not active, pending approval, or does not have a defined budget.

* View open purchase orders that use budget.

* Approval workflow for purchase budget cycle.

* Approval workflow for purchase orders that exceed budget.

* Enhanced Role center/ Dashboard with cues and fact box.

* To Speed up the preparation process, copy the existing budget into the new budget planning.

Supported Editions

This app supports the Essential and Premium edition of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Supported Countries

Canada, India, United Kingdom, Malawi, and United States. Supported Languages English only.