Microsoft's latest update for Dynamics 365 Business Central — version 28 — is due to land from April 2026. This is a significant release, with meaningful additions across supply chain, quality management, and AI-powered insight. Here's what you need to know.
The full Microsoft release notes are available here: What's New in Business Central v28.0
Supply Chain Management: Better Control Over Approvals and Item Data
One of the headline additions in v28 is formal approval workflows for key supply chain journals and worksheets — functionality that many operations teams have been waiting for.
Approval workflows now cover:
- Item Journal
- Physical Inventory Journal
- Output Journal
- Consumption Journal
Full batch-level approval workflows are also available for requisition and planning worksheets. Once an approval request is raised, no insert, modification, or deletion of planning lines is permitted until it's resolved. Approvers can approve, reject, or delegate as standard.
On the item data side, v28 introduces item variant attributes. You can now access and modify attributes directly from the Item Variants list, and a new synchronisation function lets you push attributes from a parent item down to all its variants — keeping your data consistent without manual duplication.
Quality Management: End-to-End Quality Checks Now Built In
This is a significant addition for any business that manufactures, assembles, or receives goods. Quality checks are now available natively in Business Central across:
- Purchase receipts
- Production output
- Assembly output
- Ad-hoc or scheduled checks
The level of control on offer is practical and detailed. You can check by individual items, lots, serial numbers, and package numbers. Assessment parameters include weight and dimensions, and you can set a fixed quantity or percentage of total quantity for analysis. Quality check plans can be defined alongside quarantine processes, preventing the use of items that fail checks before they reach the next stage of your operation.
Reporting includes quality certificates and certificates of analysis — useful for regulated industries and customer-facing quality assurance.
AI-Powered Item Insights: Inventory and Margin Data at a Glance
From the item statistics page, Business Central v28 introduces AI-assisted item insights that surface key performance indicators without the need for manual number-crunching. These include:
- Current inventory value
- Identification of obsolete stock
- Sales growth percentage, comparing current and prior periods to identify trends
- Net sales calculation after returns and discounts
- Gross margin percentage
- Return rate percentage
For finance and operations teams who want faster visibility into product performance, this removes a layer of manual reporting and brings the data into the flow of daily work.
What Else Is Changing in v28
Beyond the headline features, v28 includes enhancements across a broad range of areas: financial management, reporting, sustainability management, ecommerce, administration, and development. The details on all of these are in the Microsoft release notes.
Mandatory Features in v28: What You Need to Plan For
A number of features that were previously optional will become mandatory in Business Central v28. These are:
- New sales pricing
- G/L currency revaluation
- Advanced Tell Me
If your business is using older configurations in any of these areas, now is the time to review and prepare. Your implementation partner should be able to advise on the impact for your specific setup.
Join Our Business Central v28 Webinar on 27th March
We're running a webinar on 27th March where we'll walk through the new features and demonstrate the quality management functionality in Business Central.
Register here for What's New in Business Central — Wave Release 2026
If you have questions before then, get in touch with the team.
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