By Eddie Bearnot, CEO, Third Wave Business Systems
Your SAP Business One instance is solid. Your data is real. Your team still spends hours every week on the work between systems. Re-keying POs from email into SAP. Chasing pricing exceptions on contracted accounts. Syncing customers to the CRM by hand. Updating exchange rates every morning. Pulling reports nobody scheduled. Building one-off dashboards because the BI queue is three months deep. That work doesn’t need to exist.
That’s the problem we built Third Wave Forge to solve.
Forge is an AI Agent for SAP Business One, powered by Structify, designed for mid-market manufacturers, distributors, consumer goods companies, and wholesalers who run SAP B1. It reads from your systems, reasons across all of them, and takes action. Drafting transactions. Building dashboards. Fixing data. All from a plain-language conversation.
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The status quo: the work falls into the gaps between your systems
The teams we built Forge for are good operators. Their SAP B1 instance is solid. Their data isn’t perfect, but it’s real. And yet the work between systems keeps growing. Some of it is reporting. Most of it isn’t. POs that need to land in SAP. Pricing that needs to be checked. Records that need to flow between SAP and the CRM. Exchange rates that need to update on a schedule. Tracking events that need to write back to delivery records. Each one is a ticket, a re-key, a queue item, or a hand-off.
Four problems drive this pattern:
- The work between systems eats your week. POs come in via email and get re-keyed. Pricing exceptions get chased by hand. Records get copied between SAP and the CRM. Reports get pulled from spreadsheets nobody owns. The systems don’t talk, so people do the talking.
- The truth lives in ten places at once. SAP B1 has the transactional record. The CRM has the pipeline. SharePoint has the contracts. Email has the latest revision of the purchase order. Nobody designed it that way. It just grew.
- BI projects expire faster than they finish. Six weeks to a dashboard. The quarter has already shipped, the supplier has changed, or the pricing window has closed by the time the answer lands.
- Generic AI doesn’t know your business and can’t actually do anything. Off-the-shelf chatbots can’t read your Service Layer, don’t understand your price list schema, and don’t write back to the systems where the work needs to land.
A different category: an agent that reads, reasons, and acts
Forge is a new category of SAP B1 automation, and the distinction matters. Most AI tools you’ll see for ERP are designed to answer questions about a single screen or a single dataset. Forge is designed to do the work — across every system your team uses.
When you ask Forge a question, it doesn’t retrieve data and reason over it inside a context window. Instead, it writes code. It generates a program, on the fly, that queries your SAP B1 Service Layer, your CRM, your SharePoint, your PDFs, your email, your web APIs, whatever systems are relevant. It runs that code, collects the results, and reasons across the outputs. Then it takes action: drafting a transaction, building a dashboard, cleaning a dataset, scheduling a recurring report.
The LLM is generating and executing logic, not digesting your entire ERP dataset. That’s why Forge runs under $50 a month in token costs for most customers. The code it generates is auditable. The results come from your actual data. And it doesn’t break when your data is messy, because the code can be trained to handle the mess. Every real ERP dataset is messy. This architecture is built for that reality.
The other differentiator: Forge reads and writes across all your software, not just SAP B1. It answers your question, and then it does the work — drafts the transaction, syncs the record, updates the dashboard, schedules the next run.
What Forge actually does
Forge isn’t theoretical. We’ve been running it on real workflows for months.
Inbound PO with built-in price validation
A customer emails a PDF purchase order. Forge reads the email, extracts the PDF, and parses customer name, PO number, line items, quantities, and prices without rigid templates. Then it connects to the SAP B1 Service Layer, identifies the customer, retrieves their assigned price list, and validates every line against contracted pricing. In one real test, Forge caught $17,850 in pricing discrepancies on a single $50,000 order, a 35% revenue leak that would have slipped through manual review. The manual process ran 15 to 30 minutes per PO and frequently missed errors. With Forge, it runs in under one minute and every line gets checked.
SAP B1 to HubSpot lead sync
Sales lives in HubSpot. The system of record lives in SAP. We built a Forge pipeline that extracts lead business partners from SAP B1 and creates them as companies in HubSpot, complete with contact details, addresses, and notes. SAP stays the master record. HubSpot stays in sync. No middleware, no integration project, no data lake. We described what we wanted, Forge wrote the code, and the pipeline runs on a schedule. Extending it to sync additional fields took another conversation, not another project. This is what “reads and writes across all your software” actually looks like.
Sales forecasting and MRP across nine months of history
Forge connects to SAP B1, pulls nine months of invoice history broken down by customer and item, generates monthly sales forecasts using historical averages to project the next three months of demand, and then builds an MRP report comparing forecasted demand against current inventory, incoming orders, and existing commitments. Items are flagged ORDER NEEDED, SURPLUS, or BALANCED. The net requirement calculation (Forecasted Demand minus Available Stock minus On Order plus Already Committed) used to live in a spreadsheet someone updated quarterly. Now it refreshes on demand. This is reasoning across multiple SAP tables, not simple retrieval.
Live exchange rates every morning at 7am
Finance teams running multi-currency operations update exchange rates daily. We built a Forge pipeline that fetches live rates from a public market data API, authenticates to the SAP B1 Service Layer, and updates rates for CAD, EUR, and other currencies against the USD base every morning at 7am, before business transactions begin. Each update is logged and auditable. Forge reads from outside your stack and writes inside your ERP, on a schedule, without a middleware project.
An always-current operations dashboard, no BI ticket required
Forge pulls from SAP B1’s Service Layer to render a four-panel dashboard: sales invoice volume by quarter across rolling 12 quarters with revenue side-by-side, vendor on-time delivery performance ranked by reliability, inventory velocity split across top and bottom quintiles by units sold over the past year, and customer payment behavior showing average days to pay, max days, and total volume per customer. Each panel would be hours of manual report-pulling. With Forge, it’s one conversation that produces a dashboard the team can rerun on demand or save as a Playbook.
Turning a Hershey opportunity into a quote in minutes
A specialty food manufacturer we work with had a real opportunity land on their desk: supply ingredients for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups to Hershey. The classic version of this workflow takes hours. Set up Hershey as a lead in SAP B1 with full contact details. Cross-reference all 16 Reese’s ingredients against the existing item catalog. Identify gaps, source new ingredients from a current vendor, configure the items in SAP at the right cost. Apply a consistent margin and generate a professional quote.
Forge ran the entire sequence end-to-end. It created Hershey as a lead in SAP Business One ready for sales follow-up. It compared the Reese’s ingredient list against the catalog and surfaced the gaps — only 2 of 16 ingredients were already in the system. It added 4 new ingredients (sugar, cocoa butter, chocolate, skim milk) at the right cost and linked them to an existing vendor in SAP. It generated a clean quote with a consistent markup across the 6 available items and flagged the 10 ingredients still needing to be sourced to capture the full opportunity. The whole sequence took minutes, not the better part of a day, and the data went into SAP correctly the first time.
Each of these would have been a multi-week integration or BI project a year ago. With Forge, they’re conversations that produce working pipelines by the end of the day.
Connects to the rest of your stack, not just SAP B1
Forge ships with 200-plus pre-built connectors and can author new ones on demand. The categories we see most often in mid-market SAP B1 environments: Microsoft 365 (Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Excel), Google Workspace (Gmail, Drive, Sheets, Docs), CRM (HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive), e-commerce and EDI (Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, common 3PL and EDI providers), payments and finance (Stripe, public market-data APIs, banking files), and databases and file shares (SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, network shares). The pattern is the same in every case: read across systems, reason in context, write or act where the work needs to land. Because Forge generates code per query rather than relying on a fixed integration, adding a new system is usually a conversation, not a project.
The takeaway: Forge isn’t a SAP B1 add-on with AI features. It’s an agent that lives across the systems your team already uses, with SAP B1 as the system of record at the center of it all.
Why we partnered with Structify to bring Forge to SAP Business One
Third Wave has been implementing SAP Business One for more than 15 years, across more than 500 mid-market engagements in manufacturing, distribution, consumer goods, and wholesale. We’re an SAP Gold Partner and SAP Master Partner, and we’re the exclusive Business One channel partner for Structify. Forge was built by people who live in the system, on a platform built for messy enterprise data.
Structify provides the agentic platform underneath Forge. It was built from the ground up for messy enterprise data, reading and writing across structured and unstructured sources natively. That’s not a feature added later. It’s the foundation.
The token cost architecture deserves a direct explanation. Tools that feed large slices of ERP data through an LLM pay for that data volume in token spend, and real enterprise datasets are large. Forge generates code that runs targeted queries and passes only the results to the model. The LLM processes answers, not raw tables. That’s why the economics stay under $50 per month for most customers regardless of database size. It scales, it’s auditable, and it holds up on messy data, which describes every ERP, always.
Live in 30 minutes, real answers by end of day
The onboarding has three phases.
First, connect SAP B1. Go to forge.structify.ai, start the free trial, request Service Layer access from your IT or consulting team, and connect in test mode. That takes about 30 minutes.
Second, teach Forge your business. Invite teammates, assign Forge to their domains, drop your handbooks (the documents that capture how your business actually runs), and connect adjacent systems via 200-plus pre-built connectors. That takes about half a day.
Third, start asking real questions. Query sales, inventory, margin, customer behavior. Save answers as Playbooks the team can rerun on demand. Add connectors and custom handbooks as needs grow.
This is the opposite of a six-month BI implementation. Most teams are answering live questions inside the first sprint.
Pricing built for mid-market
The trial is free for 14 days. No credit card required.
After that, Forge runs at $500 per month for three users. That includes SAP B1 Service Layer access in test and live mode, 200-plus pre-built connectors, Handbooks, Projects, Playbooks, community site access, and email support.
With typical token costs under $50 per month, most mid-market teams spend well under $600 a month all-in. That makes Forge the lowest total-cost AI Agent in the SAP B1 market. Custom connectors, advanced setup, migrations, and dedicated implementation work are billed time and materials through Third Wave.
We stopped waiting. Here’s what we built.
We spent months running Forge on real SAP B1 workflows with real data, and built the product we wished existed. If you run SAP Business One and you’re tired of the BI backlog and the analyst queue, this is what we built for you.
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FAQ
What is Third Wave Forge?
Third Wave Forge is an AI Agent for SAP Business One, built by Third Wave Business Systems and powered by Structify. It reads from SAP B1, your CRM, your documents, and your other business systems, reasons across all of it, and takes action — drafting transactions, building dashboards, fixing data, and running scheduled pipelines. It is not a chatbot or a copilot. It is a new category of ERP AI agent designed for mid-market teams that don’t have a data lake and shouldn’t need one.
What systems does Forge connect to besides SAP B1?
Forge ships with 200-plus pre-built connectors. The most common in mid-market SAP B1 environments are Microsoft 365 (Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Excel), Google Workspace (Gmail, Drive, Sheets, Docs), CRM platforms (HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive), e-commerce (Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce), EDI and 3PL providers, payments (Stripe), banking files, public market-data APIs, and standard databases (SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL). Because Forge generates code per query, adding a new system is usually a conversation, not an integration project.
Do I need a data lake or a data warehouse to use Forge?
No. Forge is designed for the messy, real-world data most mid-market companies actually have. Instead of staging data in a lake, Forge generates and runs targeted code against your live systems. That’s also why it stays affordable — your full dataset never gets passed through an LLM context window.
How much does Forge cost?
Forge is free for a 14-day trial with no credit card required. After that it is $500 per month for three users, including SAP B1 Service Layer access (test and live), 200-plus pre-built connectors, Handbooks, Projects, Playbooks, community access, and email support. Token costs typically run under $50 per month due to the code-generation architecture, so most customers spend well under $600 per month all-in. Custom connectors, advanced setup, and migrations are billed time and materials through Third Wave.
How long does it take to get Forge running on SAP Business One?
About 30 minutes to connect SAP B1 in test mode, about half a day to load handbooks and connect adjacent systems, and most teams are answering live questions inside the first sprint. There is no multi-month implementation project.
Can Forge write to SAP Business One, or is it read-only?
Forge reads and writes. It can draft sales orders, AP invoices, and business partners; update master data; create bills of materials; and run scheduled pipelines that update SAP records on a fixed cadence. All writes are auditable, and most teams configure Forge to draft transactions for human approval before they post.