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Aourix vs Dynamics 365 Business Central for process plants.

Business Central is a complete accounting and operations system sold through Microsoft partners. This page looks at how it handles the things a soap, food or chemical plant needs every week, and where a specialist lead-to-cash system fits instead.

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Facts about Dynamics 365 Business Central come from its public documentation and pricing pages, checked on 16 September 2026. Tell us if something has changed.

Business Central is a serious ledger. If you are replacing accounting across several legal entities and you already live in Microsoft 365, it deserves a look. For a process plant the bill grows fast: a Premium seat for everyone who touches manufacturing, a partner implementation measured in months, then AppSource apps for formulas, quality and a scheduling board. Aourix ships those as standard in one quote per plant, gets you live in weeks, and hands the journals to Business Central or whichever ledger you keep.

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Bottom line

Respect where it is dueA complete Microsoft-maintained ledger with Australian GST and BAS, real group consolidation, and a partner in every city.
Where it costs youA$164.60 per Premium user per month before the partner months and the add-ons a process plant needs. Nothing for scheduling, yield or QC in Copilot.
Where Aourix winsFormulas, lots, QC with CoA, a scheduling board and Genie in one quote per plant, live in four to eight weeks, with local support in Indonesia and Australia.
Cost

The number nobody puts on the first page.

Business Central is licensed per user per month. Manufacturing needs the Premium seat, the implementation is a partner project, and the process-manufacturing pieces are separate AppSource apps with their own pricing. Here is what a 20-user plant is looking at.

Dynamics 365 Business Central · 20 users, three yearsA$118,500 in seats alone, before implementation and add-ons
  • Premium seats, 20 users × A$164.60 × 12 monthsA$39,504 a year
  • Seats over three yearsA$118,512
  • Partner implementation (published range starts at)from US$25,000
  • Process-manufacturing app (BatchMaster, YAVEON)partner quoted
  • Scheduling board (Netronic, Premium only)partner quoted
  • Three-year total before add-onsA$118,512 + implementation
Excludes GST, Copilot credits and any Indonesian partner localisation. Figures use Dynamics 365 Business Central's published prices in the currency shown, checked 16 September 2026; partner-quoted items are marked as such.
Aourix · the same plantOne quote per plant. Everything in the table included.
  • No per-user seats. The whole plant uses it, from the sales desk to the gate.
  • Lots and expiry, QC with CoA, the scheduling board and Genie are included. Nothing is an add-on.
  • Implementation by the Aourix team is in the quote. Live in four to eight weeks.
  • Local support in Australia and Indonesia, in local hours, included.
  • One figure agreed before we start. No partner day rates, no module list.

Against Business Central, the argument is simple: every dollar you would spend on Premium seats and AppSource apps to make it behave like a process system buys, in Aourix, a system that already is one.

Who each one is for

Different plants, different answers.

Choose Aourix if

You run a process plant and want the order flow, batches, lots and dispatch paperwork working in weeks, with Genie doing the typing. You already have an accounting system you like, or an accountant who does.

Choose Dynamics 365 Business Central if

You are replacing your accounting system too, you have group consolidation needs across several legal entities, and you have a Microsoft partner to run a multi-month implementation and add process-manufacturing apps.

Side by side

Thirteen things a process plant actually needs.

Numbered references point to Dynamics 365 Business Central's own documentation, listed at the bottom of the page. The Aourix column describes what is live today.

What a process plant needsAourixDynamics 365 Business Central
Built for process manufacturingFormulas, batches, by-products; not discrete assemblyOnly serves process plants: soap and oleochemicals, food and FMCG, chemicals, oil and gas. Industry templates set up products, families and pack sizes on day one.Production BOM and routing only; no formula or recipe object. Microsoft: there is no dedicated by-product feature, record them as negative consumption. Process layers come from ISVs such as BatchMaster or YAVEON. [1]
Lots, expiry and first-expiry-firstLot tracking, shelf life, FEFO pickingEvery receipt carries a lot, expiry and retest date. Picking is first-expiry-first by default; semi-finished goods tracked between lines.Lot, serial and package tracking with expiry and warranty dates. Pick according to FEFO once warehouse tracking and the location setting are on; strict expiration posting keeps expired lots out. [3] [4]
QC release with certificate of analysisTest results per batch, release gate, CoA documentQC release per batch with a Certificate of Analysis generated from the results, attached to the dispatch.First-party Quality Management extension, generally available 1 April 2026: receipt and output checks, test plans, quarantine and a Certificate of Analysis. Before that, QC needed an AppSource app. [5]
Live batch scheduling boardDrag a batch onto a line and a day; capacity per lineDrag-and-drop board by line and day, capacity counted in tonnes and batches. Genie places or re-plans a batch on request.Infinite capacity by default; Microsoft says it provides a rough-cut schedule and does not support detailed shop-floor control. Drag-and-drop Gantt boards come from AppSource (for example Netronic, Premium only). [2] [15]
Branded quotes to signed contractQuote PDF, client accept online, contract locks the bill of quantitiesQuotation designer produces the branded PDF; the client accepts or rejects online; the signed quote locks the bill of quantities and becomes the contract.Sales quotes as PDF with a validity date, converted by a salesperson clicking Make Order. No e-signature or online customer acceptance found in Microsoft's documentation. [6]
Purchasing with three-way matchRFQ, PO, goods receipt, invoice matched; approved supplier listMaterial request to RFQ to purchase order to goods receipt, matched three ways against the supplier invoice. Approved supplier list enforced.Purchase quote from one vendor converts to a PO; invoices built from receipt lines give a three-way link, and the Payables Agent matches invoices. Multi-vendor RFQ comparison and an approved supplier list were not found natively. [7] [3] [9]
Dispatch paperwork from the orderPacking list, gate pass, VGM, certificate of originDispatch wizard records weights and VGM and prints the packing list, gate pass and CoA from the order.Warehouse shipments and posted shipment documents are native. Packing list, gate pass and verified gross mass documents were not found in Microsoft's documentation. [4]
Multi-company and multi-currencyOne login across group companies; quotes and POs in any currencyOne login across group companies with the right role in each; quotes, POs and invoices natively multi-currency.Consolidation across business units with different charts of accounts, fiscal years and currencies, and intercompany transactions. Eliminations are posted manually. [8]
AI that does work, with approvalAsk by voice, plan batches, raise requests; a person approvesGenie answers by text or voice with a chart, creates leads and plans, resolves schedule clashes and runs Meeting Mode. Every action waits for approval.Copilot proposes sales lines, matches bank statements and item substitutes; the Payables Agent handles supplier invoices. Nothing for production scheduling, yield or QC, and Indonesian is not a supported Copilot language. [9] [10]
Works with your accounting systemOwn ledger vs hand-off to Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks, SAPNo general ledger by design, so you keep the accounting system you have. Journal export with your chart of accounts mapped once is standard; a direct integration with Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks or SAP is available as an integration project on request.It is the general ledger. Australia is Microsoft-localised with GST, BAS, ABN and ABA banking. Indonesia runs the international app with a partner localisation for PPN, PPh and e-Faktur. [12] [11]
Time to go liveFrom signed order to first real order in the systemMost plants are live in 4 to 8 weeks, implemented by the Aourix team: industry template, products and stock loaded, one real order walked through before switch-over.Implemented by partners. Published partner estimates run three to six months, with smaller firms at two to four months. [16]
Pricing modelPublished or quoted; per user, per module, per siteOne quote per plant that covers every row in this table: no per-user seats, no add-ons for lots, QC or scheduling, implementation and Genie included. Quick Start, Multi-Plant or Bespoke.Published per user per month, paid yearly: Essentials US$80 or A$119.70, Premium (needed for manufacturing) US$110 or A$164.60, Team Members US$8 or A$12, excluding GST. No Indonesian rupiah list price. [13] [14]
Presence in Australia and IndonesiaLocal support hours, currency, tax localisationHead office in Melbourne and a local support team in Indonesia. Customers in both countries, supported in their own business hours, in English and Bahasa Indonesia.Australia: Microsoft localisation and an Australian Azure region. Indonesia: partner-localised only, hosted in the Asia Pacific region, with partner-quoted pricing. [11]
Built inPartialAdd-on or partnerNot available
Where Dynamics 365 Business Central is stronger
  • A complete statutory general ledger with Australian GST, BAS, ABN and ABA banking maintained by Microsoft, so there is no separate accounting system to hand off to.
  • Group consolidation across legal entities with different charts of accounts, fiscal years and currencies, plus native intercompany transactions.
  • Full MRP with pegging, reorder policies, order modifiers and available-to-promise across every BOM level.
  • Warehouse depth: bins, directed put-away and pick, movement worksheets and barcode scanning from the mobile app.
  • Production costing with WIP accounting, standard, FIFO or average costing and work-centre overhead rates.
  • An AppSource ecosystem and a large partner channel that can fill the process-manufacturing, scheduling and RFQ gaps and support them locally.
Where Aourix is stronger
  • Built for process plants from the start: formulas, batches, semi-finished goods, expiry and retest dates without an add-on.
  • A drag-and-drop scheduling board with capacity per line in tonnes and batches, and Genie to place or re-plan a batch on request.
  • Quote to signed contract in one flow: branded PDF, online acceptance, and a locked bill of quantities that the invoice must match.
  • Approved supplier list, RFQs to several suppliers and three-way match as standard purchasing, not a configuration project.
  • Dispatch paperwork from the order: packing list, gate pass, verified gross mass and the CoA together.
  • Genie works in your plant's language of stock and batches, by voice, and every action waits for a person to approve it. Live in four to eight weeks rather than months.

Running both

Keep Business Central as the ledger if it already is. Aourix runs the order, batch and dispatch flow in the plant and hands the journals across: export with your chart of accounts mapped once is standard, and a direct integration is available as a project. Aourix never writes into Business Central.

Questions

What plants ask when comparing Aourix and Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Its manufacturing is built on production BOMs and routings. Microsoft documents that there is no dedicated by-product feature and no formula object; process manufacturers typically add an AppSource app such as BatchMaster or YAVEON ProBatch. Lot tracking, expiry dates and FEFO picking are native.

Sources for Dynamics 365 Business Central (checked 16 September 2026)
  1. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/production-about-production-orders
  2. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/production-how-to-set-up-work-and-machine-centers
  3. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/inventory-how-work-item-tracking
  4. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/warehouse-picking-by-fefo
  5. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/release-plan/2025wave2/smb/dynamics365-business-central/evaluate-quality-incoming-goods-materials
  6. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/sales-how-make-offers
  7. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/purchasing-how-request-quotes
  8. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/finance-consolidated-company-reporting
  9. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/ai-in-bc
  10. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/copilot-agents-region-language-availability
  11. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/compliance/apptest-countries-and-translations
  12. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/localfunctionality/australia/australia-local-functionality
  13. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics-365/products/business-central/pricing
  14. https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/dynamics-365/products/business-central/pricing
  15. https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/dynamics-365-business-central/PUBID.netronic%7CAID.visual-production-scheduler%7CPAPPID.5716c909-a743-461e-ac12-d99759152986
  16. https://www.randgroup.com/insights/microsoft/dynamics-365/business-central/your-business-central-implementation-guide/

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