Business Central manufacturing is general-purpose enough to be appropriate for Make to Stock (MTS), Make to Order (MTO), and Assemble to Order (ATO), as well as various subsets and combinations of those. Although off-the-shelf Business Central is not particularly suitable for most process manufacturing and some of the very high-volume assembly line operations, there are third-party add-on and add-in enhancements available for those applications. As with most of the Business Central application functions, manufacturing can be implemented either in a basic mode or as a fully-featured system. Business Central manufacturing includes the following functions:
- Product design (BOMs and routings), for structure management of product components and the flow management of manufacturing processes
- Capacity and supply requirement planning, for tracking the intangible and tangible manufacturing resources
- Production scheduling (infinite and finite), execution, and tracking quantities and costs, plus tracking manufacturing resources' planned use, both on a constrained and unconstrained basis