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

Enhance Control
SAP Business One provides the key capabilities companies need to grow profitability and achieve a new level of control over business operations, and provide a true and unified picture of the business. With SAP Business One, you can:

• Control company operations from one comprehensive solution that automates and streamlines all critical business processes – including financial management, warehouse management, purchasing, inventory, manufacturing, banking, and CRM. (more)
• Use the embedded CRM functionality to seamlessly integrate all sales, support, and customer-facing processes with all relevant functions across the company.
• Automate and streamline the material planning and bill-of material processes of your manufacturing operations. In five easy steps, you can define planning scenarios and manage material planning, efficiently matching customer demand with production.

Management by Exception
By using SAP business One’s Alerts and Work Flow Management you do not have to filter through your entire operation looking for the problem areas. Your lack of visibility into daily operations as well as dependence on periodic paper reports is a thing of the past with Business One. By setting up Alerts you can truly manage the exceptions as they happen in real time.

Cost-Effectively Grow with the Needs of the Business
SAP Business One can be easily adapted to changing business conditions and new requirements, without creating a heavy, ongoing IT burden. With SAP Business One, you can:

• Quickly modify and adjust the solution to support different business requirements or comply with changing customer mandates.
• Easily integrate with other applications, thereby leveraging investments in existing systems or taking advantage of new technologies.

User Empowerment
SAP Business Ones easy to use interface allows users to navigate simply and quickly through out the system.

• Integration with personal productivity tools like Excel and Outlook means you can leverage the tools you are use to using for even more increase productivity.
• The ability to tailor screens, reports, and quires, as well as alerts means you can optimize the environment on an individually basis for maximum productivity.
• SAP Business Ones drill to detail feature allows for instantaneous access in as timely and relevant a fashion as possible to source transactions and documents. This drill down and drill around functionality means end to end visibility of the entire business operation from any user login.
  

Global Product
Supports 20 languages and unlimited foreign currencies in one code set. This means you get the same version of the software no matter what country you are in. This greatly shortens the development cycle for new features as there is no require to port changes to country specific versions.

• Backing of the largest ERP software company in the world (SAP). This means future of the product viability is assured and research and development will be in the billions with a ‘b’.
• Upward mobility with SAP as you continues to grow. There is both an interface to and an upgrade to option for Business One. If you are a happen to work with large global companies in the supply chain you very well may need to communicate with these companies in the future.

Tailoring On Multiple Levels
User defined fields are available in Business One for additional of business specific needs not covered in any system. These user defined fields are separated from the business logic, and are designed to be created by the user, while not interfering with or causing extra costs when upgrading the system.

• Data Migration Tool Kit allows for easy importation and exportation of information from/to Business One. This tool reduces the cost of implementations and also greatly simplifies the process. (Data Migration Brief)
• SKD, Software Development Kit. Sooner or later, almost every company needs some level of customization. The powerful SDK in Business One takes full advantage of the API and DPI layers and provides a rapid development environment that allows work to be completed in a fraction of the time normally required. (SDK Details )
• Interfaces with third party products even proprietary ones can also be accomplished seamlessly with the SDK mentioned above. Here is a document on Data Level Integration with SAP Business One SDK (Data Migration Brief)

Powerful Reporting Options
SAP Business One gives users a multitude of reporting options to allow customers dynamic access to data.

You get a series of standard reports that can be printed or displayed on screen. If displayed on screen reports have the ability to ‘Drill Down’ using the orange drill down arrows. In the case of an item report you would see all the detail information available about the item including open orders, historical orders, warehouse data, pricing information, etc.

The Reporting Wizard in Business One allows users to create customer reports without the need to learn a reporting tool such as Crystal Reports. It allows for the create of fairly complex reports which can be saved for repeated use.

Drag & Related is an extremely powerful reporting feature you will not find in any other application. This reporting tool allows users to grab a field of data with a mouse click and drag that data to almost any menu item for an instant report. An example would be if I work in purchasing and I want to see all purchases from a vendor I can click on vendor number and drag it to the menu item Purchase Orders and I will instantly get a report of all purchase orders for this vendor.

In addition to all of the powerful reporting features above SAP Business One also comes with an extremely powerful report generation tool called XL Reporter. XL Report uses the power of Excel to create and execute reports in an easy to use graphical environment while hiring the technical tables and field structures. Even novices can create reports with drill down capabilities in seconds. From simple transaction reports to financial reports to informational dashboards you can create them all. Once created you can also automate the schedule and delivery of reports either via e-mail or as hard copy. (XL Reporter, one of the powerful reporting options )

Accelerated Time to Benefit
SAP Business One enables businesses to reduce implementation time and quickly realize the benefits of a modern solution. With SAP Business One, you receive:

• An intuitive user interface and standard Microsoft Windows environment that helps users become productive quickly by significantly reducing the learning curve. SAP Business One requires only a single-server environment, further simplifying implementation and reducing costs. (more)
• Simplified administration capabilities that streamline the daily operations and maintenance of the solution, significantly lowering ongoing costs.
• A low total cost of ownership (TCO), because the solution makes it easy for non-technical people to add new functions without programming. In addition, you can easily upgrade the solution with new capabilities. Finally, SAP Business One eliminates the integration or maintenance costs associated with multiple systems.

Key Benefits Highlights:

• Implementation in weeks or months rather than months and years!
• Quick modifications made at a fraction of the cost of other systems!
• Assurance of virtually unlimited upgrade path with SAP!
• Management by exception in real time!
• Easily and cost effectively integrate into or with other systems that you may have including proprietary systems!
• Can easily adapt to almost any environment as your business changes!
• Complex powerful reporting made simple!
• User empowerment via tailoring and personal productivity links!
• Priced by named user with all functionality available!
• Certified integrated modules for enhanced functionality as needed!

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