HT-NewsSAP Business One: implementing the future - version 2007A Alba Spectrum
SAP B1 is really innovative ERP, dedicated to small business with great ambitions: MRP, discrete manufacturing or production, CRM, advanced warehouse management and inventory (pack and ship), service contracts (including functionality for creative warranty contracts and even rentals)
/Software News Articles/ - NAPERVILLE, IL, June 10, 2008 - SAP B1 is really innovative ERP, dedicated to small business with great ambitions: MRP, discrete manufacturing or production, CRM, advanced warehouse management and inventory (pack and ship), service contracts (including functionality for creative warranty contracts and even rentals), HR with its ability to track employee hiring and certification history, accrual to cash switch in financial reporting, great support for multicurrency and worldwide localizations. SAP staying behind with its accounting software reputation is worth to mention. These and other features make this ERP application to be included into ERP selection and evaluation worksheet. Let"s come through some SB1 features on the executive level:
1. Sales Automation or Client Relation Management functionality. The modern competition dictates you the rule of non-solicitation, however if customer calls or contacts you - then you can register this call in your SAP BO CRM as the lead or opportunity to be your sales process indulgence. Of course indulging is not the only purpose of CRM module - the main idea is to organize your sales department and facilitate group work in presentation and sales cycle
2. Customer Vendor Consolidation. If you had previous experience working with mid-size ERP, then you probably remember that you would in the past have to pay extra bucks for such "large company" features as having business with partner, where it is in fact behaving both as customer and vendor. Good example is freight forwarding industry with monthly settlement report. SB1 has it out of the box, plus you can advance the reporting features to give you exactly what you or your transportation partners need
3. Light manufacturing. One of the popular demands is so called disassembly production order, when you get return from your customer and you would like to take pieces apart and place them back to your inventory warehouse bins
4. Self Implementation Pilots. Yes, SB1 is good fit for such risk free scenarios. If you have internal IT people with accounting background who are familiar with AR, AP, GL peculiarities or rather to say uniqueness of your business, then you can purchase one professional user license (around three thousand US dollars) and do it yourself with limited hourly rates based support from your SB1 partner or ISV