Streamline key processes, gain greater insight into your business, and make decisions based on real-time information – so you can drive profitable growth.

SAP Business One

Drawing on SAP’s 38 years of business management software experience, SAP Business One was built from the ground up with small businesses in mind: It has an intuitive user interface and vast configurability that minimizes training needs and IT complexities for ongoing maintenance. The application is one of the only complete and integrated world-class enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions that truly fit the budgets of small businesses. In a single application, it offers support to manage the entire business across financials, sales, customer relationships, purchasing, inventory, and operations, with integrated reporting and analytics.

Accounting and Finance

SAP Business One provides a complete set of tools to help manage and streamline your financial operation. It automates everyday accounting tasks such as maintaining ledger and journal entries, supporting tax calculations, and enabling multicurrency transactions.

Sales and customer management

Acquiring new customers is important for success, but maximizing customer relationships is just as crucial. SAP Business One provides the tools to help you efficiently manage the entire sales process and customer lifecycle – from initial contact to final sale to after-sales service and support. Its integrated functionality provides a complete view of prospects and customers so you can better understand and meet their needs. As a result, you can turn prospects into customers, increase sales and profitability, and improve customer satisfaction.

Purchasing and operations

Every small business needs a systematic approach to managing the procurement process, from requesting vendor quotes to creating purchase requests to paying vendors. SAP Business One helps manage the complete order-to-pay cycle, including receipts, invoices, returns, and payments. Integrated reporting tools let you easily compare suppliers and prices to negotiate better deals and identify opportunities for cost savings.

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Inventory and distribution

SAP Business One provides accurate information about inbound and outbound shipments, inventory, and item location. You can value inventory using standard costing, moving average, FIFO, and other methods; monitor stock levels; and track transfers in real-time. You can run real-time inventory updates and availability checks and manage standard and special pricing. You can also apply volume, cash, and customer discounts and run reports that reveal their impact.

Reporting and administration

SAP Business One provides powerful analytic and reporting tools. It includes a complimentary and fully integrated version of SAP Crystal Reports® software, so you can gather data from multiple sources and generate timely and accurate reports based on company-wide data. Integrated with Microsoft Office, SAP Crystal Reports lets you choose from a variety of report formats and control access to information displayed. With optional analytics powered by SAP HANA, SAP Business One takes advantage of in-memory computing for analysis and reporting. You gain real-time access to predefined dashboards and reports, as well as productivity tools to support decision making.

How much does SAP Business One Cost?

The cost of implementing SAP Business One is unique to the business requirements. Elements that contribute to the overall cost include:

• The type and number of SAP B1 licenses required
• The process of implementing the system via a reputable supplier
• The hardware requirements of the business, e.g number of users, data processing needs, and potential future growth
• The geographic location of software deployment is due to country-specific complexities and language customisation needs.
• Any add-on product e.g payroll, barcoding
• Ongoing support and maintenance
• Training needs, often determined by the number of users

Considering all these elements, the starting price for the fully integrated SAP Business One solution is around £30,000 in the first year.

Mobile business management

Run your business while you’re on the go with the SAP Business One mobile app for iPhone and iPad devices. It lets you access your SAP Business One application in real-time – so you can stay in touch with your business while away from the office.