SAP Business one

 

SAP Business One is designed by SAP for small and medium-sized enterprises. As an ERP solution, it aims to automate key business functions in Financials, Sales & Opportunity, Purchasing & Supply Chain, Production Planning & Inventory Control, Project Management, and Analytics & Business Intelligence. 

 

Features of SAP B1

 

Financial Management

 

  • Accounting - Automate the handling of all key accounting processes such as journal entries, accounts receivable, and accounts payable.
  • Controlling - Manage cash flow, track fixed assets, control budgets, and monitor project costs with greater accuracy and efficiency.
  • Fixed asset management - Simplify the management of your fixed assets with a virtual function, eliminating the need for repetitive manual data entry.
  • Banking and reconciliation - Process reconciliations, bank statements, and payments faster through various methods including checks, cash, and bank transfers.
  • Financial reporting and analysis - Create standard or customized reports from real-time data to improve your business planning and audit review processes.

 

Sales and Customer Management

 

  • Sales and opportunity management - Track all sales opportunities and lead activities throughout the sales cycle, from the first contact to deal closing. 
  • Marketing campaign management - Create, manage, and analyze marketing activities to turn prospects into customers and grow sales and profitability.
  • Customer management - Store all critical customer data in one place by synchronizing and managing customer contacts stored in Microsoft Outlook.
  • Service management - Craft and manage warranty contracts and service agreements efficiently, and enter and respond to service calls quickly. 
  • Reporting and analysis - Design detailed reports on all aspects of the sales process – from forecasting to pipeline tracking – by using templates.
  • Mobile sales - Empower your entire sales organization to manage information on the move anytime, anywhere, and on any mobile device.

 

Purchasing and Inventory Control

 

  • Procurement -  Streamline procurement processes such as requisition requests, purchase order and good receipts creation, and returns management. Improve audits by matching documents, viewing information trails, and handling multiple currencies. 

  • Master data management -  Centralize purchasing processes by managing detailed data in a user-friendly interface. View account balance and purchase analyses while maintaining detailed item purchasing information with price lists and tax information. 

  • Warehouse and accounting integration - Benefit from real-time synchronization of goods receipts and inventory levels in the warehouse to perform purchase planning with ease and create an accounts payable invoice automatically from a purchase order or goods receipt.

  • Accounts payable - Lower costs and optimize your supply-chain relationships. Process accounts payable invoices, cancellations, and credit memos with a purchase order reference; plan material needs; and schedule purchases accordingly.

  • Reporting - Generate integrated reports with real-time data and display them in various report formats or dashboards to gain an overview of what matters most to your business, whether you’re using your desktop or your mobile device.

 

Business Intelligence

 

  • Report creation and customization - Access data from multiple sources, create new reports, and customize existing ones in a variety of layouts with minimal IT overhead. 

  • Interactive analysis - See your business from a variety of perspectives by using SAP Business One integrated with standard Microsoft Excel functionalities. 

  • Intuitive tools - Get insights faster with the ability to drag and relate and drill down data and use search assistance and workflow-based alerts.

  • Analytics with predefined metrics - Improve your cash balance visibility and sales performance dramatically with analytics and predefined key performance indicators.

  • Powerful data visualizations - Make better decisions by enhancing your reports with powerful visualizations.

 

Analytics and Reporting

 

  • Dashboards and reports - Design intuitive, interactive dashboards and reports that answer your most-pressing questions. Managers can also track revenues, costs, and cash flow accurately; assess performance; and take swift corrective action.
  • Real-time analytics - Access information faster and evaluate it with powerful analytics in real time. With SAP Business One you can simplify data searching and the on-demand creation of standard or ad hoc reports. 

 

Industry-Specific Capabilities

 

  • Consumer products - Align every aspect of your operations to the needs of modern consumers. Anticipate, plan, and manage demand to deliver the consumer goods and products shoppers crave.

  • Manufacturing - Meet customer demand and develop new revenue streams by shrinking supply chain costs, speeding time to profit, shortening cycle times, and minimizing scrap and rework.

  • Professional services - Deliver consistent, high-value services by establishing a repeatable process for service delivery while improving resource planning, project management, and billing.

  • Retail - Give consumers the products, information, and personalized experiences they want. Harness real-time customer and point-of-sale insights and optimize operations end to end.

  • Wholesale distribution - Respond to customer and supplier demand with flexible, tightly integrated processes. Improve the entire business from planning to inventory and supply-chain management.