Business Central
What Business Central actually does — and doesn't do — for production scheduling, explained mechanism by mechanism, for evaluators and BC users.
How Business Central Schedules a Production Order
Routings, BOMs, the four time elements, and backward vs forward scheduling: exactly what happens when Business Central dates a production order.
Work Centers, Machine Centers, and Shop Calendars in BC
The object hierarchy Business Central uses to describe your shop's capacity — and the unit-of-measure trap that silently multiplies schedules by 60.
Business Central Is Infinite-Loading: What That Means
The exact mechanism behind BC's biggest scheduling gap — why it warns about overloaded work centers instead of preventing them, and the one narrow exception.
Setup, Run, Wait, Move, Queue: BC Routing Time Elements
A worked example of the five time elements that build a Business Central routing's schedule — and the unit-of-measure mistake that multiplies one of them by 60.
The Planning Worksheet Plans. It Doesn't Schedule.
What Business Central's MRP engine actually produces — dates and quantities, not a sequence — and where planning hands off to scheduling.
Production Order Statuses in BC: What Each One Means
Simulated, Planned, Firm Planned, Released, Finished — what actually changes at each stage, and which statuses a scheduler should touch.
Choosing an APS for Business Central: A Checklist
Seven honest questions to ask before adding a finite-scheduling extension to Business Central — framed as evaluation criteria, not a feature war.