What Is SAP Business One?
SAP Business One is an integrated business management application designed from the ground up for small and midsize businesses like yours. This book provides a complete overview of how you can work with SAP Business One and how it can help your company grow by automating its operations, such as management, business intelligence, sales, purchasing, production, logistics, and financial processes.
Unlike most other software applications that focus on a specific area of business, such as accounting or customer relationship management (CRM), SAP Business One is an integrated business management application. It offers a complete set of core functions, including financials, customer relationship management, inventory management, sales, purchasing, operations, and logistics, which address the business management needs of your entire company.
More Than a Point Solution
SAP Business One is more than the typical financials software that was born out of accounting and bookkeeping, or a standalone customer relationship management solution. It helps businesses like yours manage the entire process of selling and servicing clients, and once orders are taken, they flow directly into automated fulfillment. As a comprehensive and integrated system, SAP Business One gives you full visibility into your business, through on- demand analytics in a personalized cockpit, live alerts and approval procedures, and end-to-end business processes.
With SAP Business One’s flexible delivery model, you can choose where and when to receive information. If you are in the office, use your personal computer to access the company data directly, if you are on the go, use your mobile device access the full stack of features through a browser, or use one of the free mobile applications available for all SAP Business One customers for sales and service personnel.
An Application for Everyone
The easiest way to understand SAP Business One is to think of all of the people who are involved in a business:
- There are people in sales that gather leads, go on sales calls, and make sales.
- There are people who account for what has been bought and sold and who make sure the money flows properly in and out of the company to and from suppliers, customers, and employees.
- There are people who take customers’ orders and fulfill them, either by sending goods or by providing services.
- There are people who manage operations such as inventory control or service delivery.
- There are managers who monitor and manage the entire business.
Now imagine that one application can help all of these people do their jobs, and that all of them work with the same set of information using the same application that can do the following:
- Integrate all parts of your business so everyone operates on the same core business information
- Supply users with personalized interfaces specially designed to support the way they work
- Process data in real time so you never have to wait for nightly or weekly postings, which means that the financial data of your business is always up to date and available
- Issue warnings and trigger corrective actions to take place automatically when certain limits set by managers and other users are exceeded
- Simplify reporting and analysis with “easy to create and run” reports delivered to you on demand.
The Challenges Facing Small and Midsize Businesses
Small and midsize businesses focus first on increasing sales and profitability. Getting orders from customers and fulfilling them at a profit is always job one, and software can be a tool to increase efficiency and productivity. But at some point, especially if growth has been rapid, most businesses find that the process of increasing sales is being slowed down because information is not flowing smoothly from one part of the business to the other. This can happen for many different reasons.
See the attached user guide for all details you need to know about SAP business One 9.3