SAP Business One allows managers and employees to access and use information more effectively -- so they can make smart business decisions. This comprehensive solution covers all the core operations necessary to run your business successfully, including:

Business Administration

Financial accounting -- Handles all financial transactions, including general ledger, account setup and maintenance, journal entries, foreign currency adjustments, and budgets

Bank transactions -- Takes care of all financial processing such as cash receipts, check writing, deposits, advance payments, credit card payments, and bank reconciliation

Sales and distribution -- Helps you create price quotes, enter customer orders, set up deliveries, update stock balances, and manage all invoices and accounts receivables

Purchasing -- Manages and maintains vendor contracts and transactions, including issuing purchase orders, updating in-stock numbers, calculating the value of imported items, handling returns and credits, and processing payments

Outlook integration -- Integrates with Microsoft Outlook so employees can synchronize calendars, contacts, and tasks

Customer Relationship Management

Sales opportunity management -- Records every sales opportunity, from the first phone call to the successful close of a transaction

Business partner management -- Controls all information about customers, resellers, and vendors, including profiles, contact summaries, account balances, and sales pipeline analysis

Service management -- Enables service operations, contract management, service planning, tracking of customer interaction, and customer support

Manufacturing

Material requirements planning (MRP) -- Manages MRP through a wizard-based process that enables users to define a planning scenario and predict demand based on forecasts

Warehouse management -- Handles inventory levels, item management, price lists, special price agreements, transfers between warehouses, and stock transactions

Reporting -- Creates reports for nearly every aspect of your enterprise, including customer and supplier debt, sales, cash flow, customer-contact summaries, bookkeeping, warehouse stock, financial statements, pricing, and customer activity

SAP Business One: Business Benefits

SAP Business One delivers functionality that empowers management, employees, and even customers and partners. Business benefits include:

An accurate, up-to-date view of the business -- SAP Business One gives you a single, comprehensive solution that automates and streamlines all critical business processes, including financial management, banking, purchasing, manufacturing, warehouse management, and customer relationship management.

Instant access to information across finance, manufacturing, and sales -- A consistent, intuitive environment gets employees up and running quickly -- and accessing the information they need. Integration with Microsoft Outlook enables users to synchronize calendars, contacts, and tasks. While the Drag&Relate tool allows them to associate disparate information with a single mouse click, with the ability to drill down for more detail.

Automatic alerts and response to key business events -- Business owners can manage by exception -- monitoring, notifying, and taking action when specified events occur. You can receive automatic alerts, easily access more detailed information, and establish approvals and workflow procedures.

User empowerment -- Your employees can easily tailor the solution to meet their specific needs. They can specify preferences for forms, policies, queries, and reports, all without technical training.

Accelerated time to benefit -- Robust capabilities and ease of use mean you start benefiting from SAP Business One right away. A familiar Microsoft Windows environment means a short learning curve. Simplified administration features streamline ongoing operations and maintenance.

The ability to grow with changing needs -- You can quickly and easily modify SAP Business One to meet your unique requirements. You can easily integrate those modifications into new versions, making upgrades simple and cost-effective. This easy but powerful integration with other applications means you get the most out of your existing IT investments.

SAP Business One Target Customer

  • Outgrowing accounting applications
  • Customers using multiple systems
  • Focused on growing their business
  • Limited or outsourced IT staff
  • Companies up to $50m in revenue (10 to 100 employees)
  • Stand-alone business or businesses with locations in multiple countries
  • Additionally, can include subsidiaries of larger firms

What Makes SAP One Different

  • Breadth of integration - Financials, CRM, Inventory, eCommerce, Logistics and Light Manufacturing integrated and included in the core product.
  • Ease of use
  • Easy to adapt or customize
  • Integrated CRM, includes web-based access
  • Proven e-commerce
  • Management by exception (workflow-based alerts)
  • Ability to build in industry requirements with SDK
  • Backed by the global leader in business applications

Key SAP Business One Statistics

  • Over 10,800 customers at Q2, 2006
  • Available in more than 40 countries
  • More than 1,200 partners worldwide

Key SAP Stats

  • 40% of installations are in companies with less than $200m in revenue
  • Over three decades of experience developing business applications
  • World's largest business software company

Anaylst Comments

  • "Customizable workflow enables industry-specific features to be easily implemented." - Gartner
  • " Use of a single vendor solution avoids pitfalls associated with duplication of support resources, multiple training regimens, multiple sources of problem resolution, and the challenges of software upgrades across many vendors found in the best-of-breed scenario." Gartner

In Conclusion
Is SAP Business One right for your business? Contact us today for a free technology consultation with our senior consultants. We can help you determine if SAP is right for you.




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