SAP Business One


"Sap Business One was able to integrate every single part of our business under one roof, so that sales and distribution and customer service and manufacturing all work in unison."

Acquiring new customer is important for business success, but maintaining customer’s relationships is just as crucial. The sap business one application provides the tools to turn prospects into customers, grow customer profitability and sales, and increase customer satisfaction. Discover how sap business one helps your business optimize and streamline the entire sales process – from tracking leads to managing sales orders and customer data to administering after – sales support .
To maintain a competitive edge, you need a clear view of all aspects of your business. You must streamline processes and find better ways to access the information that will result in the best business decisions. If you can effectively track and then access all customer related information, for example, you can service your customers more personally and intelligently at every point of contact – locking in their loyalty and ensuring repeat business. And if you can accurately monitor and manage revenue and expenses, you are positioned to optimize cash and liquidity, which increases your financial strength and gives you the flexibility to respond quickly when business opportunities arise. The SAP® Business One application can help your organization see clearly, think clearly, and act clearly so that you can close the gap between strategy and execution and become a best-run business.
Business Benefits

A best-in-class solution at the right price for your growing business, SAP Business One has the power to help you boost productivity, cut costs, seize opportunities and anticipate challenges as never before.
Increase Revenue: Fast and easy access to real-time information anywhere in the system helps you identify new sales opportunities, bring new products to market quickly and provide business-building levels of customer support and service.
Reduce Costs: Say goodbye to costly multiple upgrades and recurring customization efforts to maintain system compatibility when you add new functions.
Run your business with just one business management solution: SAP Business One includes the following integral components: accounting, customer relationship management (CRM), sales, manufacturing, purchasing, banking and stock.
Improve customer relationships: Integral customer relationship management arms your team with relevant company-wide data for stronger sales and support.
Maintain your IT solution as your company grows: Why put up with solutions you’ll outgrow? Say goodbye to slow software performance, outdated information, limits on data storage and confining limits on the number of simultaneous users and locations.
Get clearer, instantaneous insights: Create up to the minute dashboards to deliver revealing snapshots of key performance indicators for unprecedented day-to-day control.
Get proactive business critical alerts: SAP Business One features the most powerful proactive business alert system ever developed for small and midsize enterprises.
Improve efficiency: One centralized database repository dramatically boosts efficiency by providing the right information to the right people and eliminating redundant data entry.
Get up and running fast: Take advantage of pre-configured business processes enabling easy implementation – and get up and running in just weeks.
Support multi-currency transactions: Business transactions can be conducted and reported in multiple currencies
Get support for multi-lingual capability: Available in 27 languages and 40 countries.
Integration SAP Business One with Microsoft Office: SAP Business One is fully integrated with the Microsoft Office suite of products, including Microsoft Outlook, enabling seamless communication that can span your organization and business functions. Departments can share contacts, appointments and tasks.

Integrate SAP Business One with SAP Business Suite: SAP Business One is seamlessly integrated with SAP Business Suite solutions and because it has an open architecture, it can be easily integrated with solutions from Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). This open architecture allows you to realize all the extensive benefits of SAP software.
Functionality Overview

SAP Business One is a comprehensive and versatile business management solution equipped with an easy-to-use interface and serves as the primary ERP application. The solution provides all the administrative functions that let you customize and back-up data, define currency exchange rates, configure permissions and alerts and access information from non-SAP software. In addition it comprises 11 areas of functionality that help extend its capabilities far beyond its primary administrative function and enable it to streamline your entire business processes. These areas of functionality are:
Finance: Handles all your financial transactions including general ledger, account set up and maintenance, journal entries, foreign currency adjustments and budgets.
Bank Transactions: Takes care of all your financial processing such as cash receipts, cheque writing, deposits, advance payments, credit-card payments and bank reconciliation.
Controlling: Lets you define profit centre and distribution rules to distribute the costs to these profit centres. You can also generate profit-and-loss reports for each centre.
Sales: 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 supplier transactions such as issuing purchase orders, updating stock numbers, calculating the value of imported items, handling returns and credits, and processing payments.
Integral Customer Relationship Management: Controls all the information on your customers, resellers and suppliers including profiles, contact summaries, account balances and sales pipeline analysis.
Stock Control: Handles stock levels, item management, price lists, special price agreements, transfers between warehouses and stock transactions.
Materials Requirements Planning (MRP): SAP Business One offers a simple yet powerful planning system that helps production planners or buyers schedule and manage items for production or purchasing based on a variety of criteria.
Reporting: Creates powerful reports for nearly every aspect of your business including customer and supplier debt, sale, cash flow, customer contact summaries, book-keeping, warehouse stock, financial statements, pricing, customer activity and more (via pre-defined reports or define-it-yourself queries).
Service Cycle Management: Optimizes the potential of your service departments, providing support for service operations, service contract management, service planning, tracking of customer interaction activities, customer support and management of sales opportunities.
Employee Profiles: Provides staff management capabilities including employee details, contact information and absence reports.
SAP Business One contains 15 core modules :

  • Administration Module, where configuration is performed.
  • Financials Module, where various accounting and financial activities are conducted.
  • Sales Opportunities Module, where existing customers and potential accounts are maintained.
  • Sales Module, where orders are entered, shipped and invoiced.
  • Purchasing Module, where purchase orders are issued and goods received into inventory.
  • Business Partners Module, where Business Partners (customers, vendors, and leads) are maintained.
  • Banking Module, where cash is received and paid out.
  • Inventory Module, where Inventory is valued and managed.
  • Production Module, where bill of materials are defined and manufacturing is tracked.
  • MRP Module, where purchase and production planning takes place.
  • Service Module, where after-service products are managed.
  • Human Resources Module, where employee information is maintained.
  • Reports Module, where system-default and user-defined reports are generated
  • E-commerce, allowing customers to buy and sell online to consumers or other businesses.
  • Web CRM. Allows employees to manage customer support cases, salespeople to manage prospects, and customers to submit cases all via a web browser client.

"SAP defines business software as comprising enterprise resource planning and related applications such as supply chain management, customer relationship management, product life cycle management and supplier relationship management"