Join Third Wave in Schaumburg, IL, on September 15-17 for the only conference specifically for SAP Business One customers! The ASUG SAP Business One Summit features customer-driven education, insight into product and service direction, and opportunities to connect with other SAP Business One users.

We will be presenting two informative sessions during the event:

Learn How Third Wave Saves the Day with BOARD Cube and Add-ons for Everyone: BI, Credit Card, RMA, EFT and More  

 

Monday, September 15^th 1:00PM – 4:00PM Room 1

Time	Topic
1:00PM – 2:30PM	Why you’ll never look at Budgeting, Finance, Sales & Purchasing, and Inventory the same way with BOARD Cube
2:30PM – 2:45PM	Break
2:45PM – 3:30PM	Utilize Return Materials Authorization (RMA) to seamlessly authorize and track returns back to inventory within SAP Business One to ensure high customer satisfaction
3:30PM – 4:00PM	Make electronic payments with Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) to reduce costs, maximize cash flow, and streamline your accounts payable and receivable processes
4:00PM – 4:45PM	Protect your business with the only PCI compliant credit card processing solution for SAP Business One
4:45PM – 5:00PM	Q&A

 

Find Out Why APP Portal Is the Key to Making Your Employees, Customers, and Vendors Happy

Tuesday, September 16^th 1:00PM – 2:00PM Room 2

 

Learn How Third Wave Saves the Day with BOARD Cube and Add-ons for Everyone: BI, Credit Card, RMA, EFT and More

Wednesday, September 17^th 9:00AM – 1:00PM Room 1

Time	Topic
9:00AM – 10:30AM	Why you’ll never look at Budgeting, Finance, Sales & Purchasing, and Inventory the same way with BOARD Cube
10:30AM – 10:45AM	Break
10:45AM – 11:30AM	Utilize Return Materials Authorization (RMA) to seamlessly authorize and track returns back to inventory within SAP Business One to ensure high customer satisfaction
11:30AM – 12:00PM	Make electronic payments with Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) to reduce costs, maximize cash flow, and streamline your accounts payable and receivable processes
12:00PM – 12:45PM	Protect your business with the only PCI compliant credit card processing solution for SAP Business One
12:45PM – 1:00PM	Q&A

What can data do for you? Many small companies feel like they don’t have the resources to analyze their data to gain much needed business intelligence. The general consensus is that data analysis is for the bigger companies, but nothing could be further from the truth.

Analyzing data should be a priority for companies of all sizes. It’s the most effective way to find sales trends, build more accurate forecasts, and better target your prospects.

Here’s an example of what you can do with data that’s appropriate since the NFL season just getting started. Facebook analyzed its user data to come up with an interesting map of team fan loyalty throughout each county in the United States. As discussed in the Yahoo article, the Cowboys have the biggest fan base, reaching 21 states, while Denver comes in second with 10. The only team that’s not represented in a single county is the Jets.

Now imagine if you performed this same analysis on your database. Ok, Facebook is a huge company, but any company can easily uncover areas where their products sell the most so they can concentrate their marketing efforts there. Then break that down further to determine if there are different periods in the year in which the products sell better.

Business intelligence is critical for any business. In order to help you find the golden nuggets of information hidden in your data, Third Wave offers the APP Portal, an affordable solution that pulls the information from your SQL database and securely presents the reports on the Web. You can use it to provide real-time inventory information, reports on product sales, confidential financial reports for key executives, and much more. Find out more about this solution by signing up for an upcoming demo.

 

If you’re considering upgrading to the latest version of SAP Business One, now is the best time with all the new features and functionality added to 9.1. In this blog series, we’ll highlight all of the exciting new changes. This post explores the changes to make the solution more extensible.

SAP Business One is armed with a programming API based on COM technology. You can use the functional scope of SAP Business One as supplied, or adjust it to your specific requirements. The API is delivered as a Software Development Kit (SDK), including development documentation and code samples. The SAP Business One SDK enables you to lengthen and alter the functionality of SAP Business One to generate industry and organizational functionality and interfaces with third-party tools.

Enhancements in Software Development Kit (SDK)

• New UI API browser control
• The Web Browser object has been added to UI API.
• New DI API services for inventory counting
• New DI API services related to inventory counting performed by multiple counters and inventory opening balance are available.

Enhancements in User-Defined Fields (UDF)

User-defined fields have the following enhancements:

• You can place the UDF into the SAP Business One system form or the user-defined forms using drag and drop.
• Additional validation rules are added to UDF. The rules include: None, Link to Entities, User-Defined Values, and Advanced.

To find out more about SAP Business One 9.1, watch for the next blog post or contact Third Wave.

If you’re considering upgrading to the latest version of SAP Business One, now is the best time with all the new features and functionality added to 9.1. In this blog series, we’ll highlight all of the exciting new changes. This post explores the changes to make the solution easier to use.

Configurable UI

A new functionality enables you to customize the user interface of the windows which are most commonly used. Using customizable templates, you can hide fields and tabs of a given window, change the location of fields by dragging and dropping, and change the window’s layout to best fit business needs. This way, the users get to work with user interfaces tailor made for their role and needs.

With this new capability, you can customize the following windows:

 

• Business Partner Master Data
• Item Master Data
• Sales and Purchasing Documents
• Journal Entries, Journal Vouchers, and Chart of Accounts
• Goods Receipt, Goods Issue, Inventory Transfer, and Inventory Transfer Request
• Incoming and Outgoing Payments

You can set a default template for each user, or assign multiple templates to a user.

Hide Functions

A new functionality enables businesses to further customize SAP Business One and tailor it to the business’ needs by hiding completely certain functionalities, in case these are not used at all by the business. Using this new option lets businesses enjoy the benefit of a thinner application that provides and displays only the functionality and features that the business really needs and uses. You can now hide and disable the following functionalities:

• Budget
• Payment Wizard
• Dunning Wizard
• Cost Accounting
• Serial Numbers and Batches
• Production
• MRP
• Unit of Measures

Hiding one or more of the functionalities above can be done either from the Hide Functions tab added to the General Settings window under: AdministrationSystem Initialization; or through the Express Configuration Wizard, Step #2.

Copy and Paste Document Rows from Microsoft Excel

The Copy and Paste form Microsoft Excel functionality allows to copy transaction rows such as journal entries and document rows of sales and purchasing documents. You can copy the required data from Microsoft Excel and paste it into the respective journal entry or document in SAP Business One.

To find out more about SAP Business One 9.1, watch for the next blog post or contact Third Wave.

 

 

If you’re considering upgrading to the latest version of SAP Business One, now is the best time with all the new features and functionality added to 9.1. In this blog series, we’ll highlight all of the exciting new changes. This post explores the changes in Implementation Tools.

Enhancements in Import Data from Microsoft Excel

The import of business partners and item master data from Microsoft Excel functionality has been extended to support importing more fields, such as UDFs and properties. In addition, it is possible to only update existing records through the import.

Solution Packager

The Solution Packager has been enhanced to support the cross localizations option. With this option you can package various data such as: UDOs, UDTs, UDFs, and reports. You can package the data in a database of a specific localization and deploy the package in another database, of a different localization.

To find out more about SAP Business One 9.1, watch for the next blog post or contact Third Wave.

Closter, N.J. (August 12, 2014) – Ericom Software, a global leader in application access and desktop virtualization solutions, and Third Wave Business Systems, a leading SAP Business One implementation and development partner, today announced the partnership for delivering secure, browser-based remote access to SAP Business One environments utilizing Ericom’s AccessNow and PowerTerm WebConnect solutions.

Organizations running SAP Business One in the cloud or on premises can securely extend their enterprise software to a range of endpoint devices via AccessNow without requiring installation on the end-point devices. Leveraging any HTML5-compatible browser, AccessNow facilitates access to SAP Business One from anywhere, across the widest variety of devices, including iPads, Android devices, PCs, Macs, Linux devices, Chromebooks and locked-down workstations.

“We are excited about the opportunity to offer North American SAP Business One customers an easier, clientless way of accessing their enterprise software,” said Joshua Behar, President of Ericom Software.  “Ericom Software is a pioneer in remote access solutions and through our HTML5-based offering, Third Wave and others have the capability to help organizations to extend the capabilities of and maximize their SAP Business One investment.”

Click here to read the full press release

If you’re considering upgrading to the latest version of SAP Business One, now is the best time with all the new features and functionality added to 9.1. In this blog series, we’ll highlight all of the exciting new changes. This post explores the changes in Production.

The Resources module serves as an extension to the Production module; together they provide a base platform for managing light manufacturing processes in SAP Business One. As opposed to items, resources have capacity available throughout a period of time which can be assigned to production orders. Consumption of resources in a production process contributes to overall production costs and can be split into underlying cost elements for further accounting purposes.

Production

The following enhancements have been implemented in the Production module:

• Bill of Materials and Production Order:
  • In addition to item lines, you can now include in all BoM types lines of type Resource, which enable you to record capacity, and lines of type Text. The new line types are also supported in production orders.
  • A new column for WIP Account has been added, enabling you to assign a default WIP account to each item or resource component. The account defined here is then used by default in released production orders and issues for production.
  • A new column, Additional Quantity, enables you to record any consumption of resources and items beyond the consumption that is directly derived from the BoM.
  • You can now change the sequence of lines in the Bill of Materials window, using Up and Down arrows. The sequence you set is reflected in production orders as well.
  • You can now add user defined fields to Bill of Materials that are then reflected in production orders.

• Component Management for BoM – This new functionality enables you to update bills of materials in batches. You can choose whether to add, delete, or change lines in user defined ranges of bills of materials.
• A Production Data tab has been added to the Item Master Data window to support production related information.
• A By-Product Handling – Manual issue method is now supported for by-product components in production orders and reflected in receipt from production. This new capability enables you to manually update the cost of the by-product if required.

MRP

The MRP wizard has been enhanced as follows:

• You can include additional data sources and filter them as required.
• You can select multiple MRP forecasts for MRP recommendations; in addition, MRP forecasts support zero-quantity items.
• In order recommendations, you can change the order type.

To find out more about SAP Business One 9.1, watch for the next blog post or contact Third Wave.

If you’re considering advancing to the newest version of SAP Business One, now is the best time with all the new features and functionality added to 9.1. In this blog series, we’ll highlight all of the exciting new changes. This post explores the changes in Business Partners.

Display Goods Receipt POs and Purchase Orders Balance on Vendor’s Business Partner:  Two new fields of type Vendor have been added to Business Partner Master Data, displaying the value of open goods receipt POs and open purchase orders. Clicking the link displays the Goods Receipt PO Balance report and the Purchase Order Balance report, respectively.

Enhancements in Campaign Management:  When coming up with a new campaign based off of a previous campaign, all business partners included in the prevailing campaign will be copied to the new campaign, regardless of the target group used in the base campaign. In addition, if the target group used in the base campaign has been updated since the base campaign was created, these updates will be reflected in the new campaign.

To find out more about SAP Business One 9.1, watch for the next blog post or contact Third Wave.