Finance teams managing more than one entity in BC will often have to make do with spreadsheets, email threads, and institutional memory rather than the system itself.
If you’re running a multi-entity business on Business Central, you’ve likely made peace with a few workarounds. Pulling figures from separate company files before a leadership meeting. Coordinating purchasing access on an ad-hoc basis. Manually maintaining pricing between entities (while hoping nothing falls through the cracks).
For too many people, these problems aren’t edge cases. Finance teams managing more than one entity in BC will often have to make do with spreadsheets, email threads, and institutional memory rather than the system itself.
That’s not a BC problem, exactly. The platform is built to be extended. But out of the box, it’s designed around a single entity. Multi-entity operations require something more, and most teams don’t realise how much of that gap can be closed natively, without adding new systems or leaving BC at all.
Here are three of the most common friction points, and how MEM addresses each one.
The scenario is familiar: someone senior needs a read on how the group is performing, and the books aren’t closed yet. Figures are split across separate company files. Pulling them together manually takes hours, assumes nothing has changed since the last export, and still doesn’t account for intercompany eliminations.
MEM Financial Reporting extends BC’s standard financial reports to work across multiple entities simultaneously. You get a consolidated, real-time view (eliminations included) without leaving BC or running a single export. It’s available on demand, not just at month-end, so when the question comes in on a Tuesday afternoon, the answer is already there. Faster reporting that your team can actually stand behind.
Cross-entity purchasing tends to go one of two ways: either access is too open and oversight breaks down, or controls are so tight that every purchase becomes a bottleneck. Neither is sustainable at scale.
MEM Vendor & User Security gives you a middle path. Cross-entity purchase orders flow through BC with exactly the access controls your organisation needs; configured to reflect how your entities actually relate to one another, instead of a generic template. The right people can act, and the right guardrails are in place. There’s no need to route approvals outside the system or rely on side agreements to keep things controlled.
For finance teams, this matters because it removes a whole category of exception-handling: the kind that consumes hours and introduces risk.
When entities transact with each other, someone has to manage the pricing: markups, transfer prices, and the logic behind what one entity charges another. In most BC setups, that means manual maintenance: updating price lists, chasing consistency, and coordinating drop shipments across entity boundaries every time something changes.
MEM Sales Price List changes the model. You define intercompany pricing once, and the logic carries forward automatically. Markups apply on their own, and drop shipments are handled within a single streamlined flow. When pricing needs to change, you change it in one place.
The practical effect is fewer pricing errors, less time spent on coordination, and a process that scales as your entity structure grows.
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These three capabilities (consolidated reporting, controlled purchasing, and automated intercompany pricing) aren’t separate integrations or external tools. They’re part of MEM, fully embedded in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
If any of the above sounds like something your team is currently solving the hard way, it’s worth seeing what a proper multi-entity setup looks like in your environment.
