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Getting started with Food Manufacturing & Distribution

  • Published on Jun 25, 2026
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To get started with Food Manufacturing & Distribution, the following table provides links to and descriptions of the topics in this section.

To

See

Install and update Food Manufacturing & Distribution

STAEDEAN Common

Learn what's new in Food Manufacturing & Distribution

Release notes for Food Manufacturing & Distribution

Create a Food Manufacturing & Distribution demo database

Checklist to create a demo database

Food Manufacturing & Distribution for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2 requires the granules indicated in the table below. This table also shows the relation to the application areas (Basic, Extended, Advanced) in the Food Manufacturing & Distribution application on AppSource.

In the Food Manufacturing & Distribution application, user experience and application area are linked:

  • User Experience, "empty" = Application Area: Basic

  • User Experience, Essentials = Application Area: Extended

  • User Experience, Premium = Application Area: Advanced

The following table lists the experiences that are currently available.

Experience

Impact on user interface

Essential

Shows all actions and fields for all common business functionality.

Premium

Shows all actions and fields for all business functionality, including Manufacturing and Service Management.

When you make a change to user plans in Office 365 Admin Center (such as assigning more users to the Premium plan) you must reflect the change in D365 BC.

Steps - User plan

  1. Sign in as an administrator.

  2. Type Alt-Q, enter Users, and then choose the related link.

  3. On the Users page, choose the Refresh all User Groups action.

All new information about the users' plans and their assigned user groups is now updated according to the plan changes.

To select the premium experience:

You can now proceed to select the new experience.

Steps - Premium experience

  1. Type Alt-Q, enter Company Information, and then choose the related link.

  2. On the Company Information page, on the User Experience FastTab, select Premium in the Experience field.

You must also install the Food Manufacturing & Distribution Premium application to enable the Advanced application area:

Steps - Food Manufacturing & Distribution premium

  1. Type Alt-Q, enter Extension Management, and then choose the related link.

  2. On the Extension Management page, select the Food Manufacturing & Distribution Premium Application.

  3. Select Show More Option on the line and click Install.