You want your best people finishing the work with real value and going home on time, even at month-end. Most growing manufacturers and distributors run the other way. Good people spend their days carrying information between systems, and the pile grows faster than the team.
Forge AI is the AI agent platform Third Wave built for SAP Business One. Forge reads your SAP Business One data live, reasons across your other systems, and does the work: checking orders, building quotes, reporting for finance, planning for operations, and briefing sales. A person approves anything consequential.
Our new film tells the story in 93 seconds. Dana and her company are fictional. The work is not. The film shows three jobs from one chat. This post covers what sits behind those three jobs, and why Forge goes well beyond them, into finance, operations, sales, and leadership.
The Problem Forge Solves: Work Between Systems
Forge solves the work between systems. SAP Business One holds the transactions, but orders arrive as PDFs, pricing rules sit in someone’s head, the schedule lives in a spreadsheet, and the CRM holds the pipeline. People carry the information between all of them by hand, and every department pays for the gap.
The film opens on the symptom every leader knows: a colleague still at the office at seven during close. In the film, Dana carries purchase orders, quotes, and the floor schedule. In your business, the same load sits on a controller rebuilding the P&L every month, a buyer chasing late parts by email, and a sales rep retyping customer data into the CRM.
None of the work is hard. All of the work piles up. A mistyped price ships. A quote waits on one person’s calendar. A report arrives after the decision. You should not need your best people working late to keep the basics moving.
What the Film Shows: Three Jobs from One Chat
The Forge film shows one request in one chat turning into three finished jobs: a customer’s PDF purchase order checked and built into a sales order, a configured quote priced and ready to send, and the day’s production queue ordered by cost, time, and machine capacity. Each job has real Third Wave results behind the story.
Orders checked before they ship. Forge reads an emailed PDF purchase order, finds the customer in SAP Business One, and checks every line against the contract price list. In the film, Forge flags a $17,000 error. In a real Third Wave test, Forge caught $17,850 in pricing errors on a $50,000 order, in under a minute instead of 15 to 30 minutes by hand. Harney & Sons Fine Teas runs email order processing in production, with a rep approving anything uncertain.
Quotes without the bottleneck. In the film, the configuration and pricing rules move out of one person’s head and into shared handbooks Forge follows every time. In real work, a specialty food manufacturer used Forge to turn a new opportunity into a quote in minutes, adding missing items to SAP Business One at the right cost and applying a consistent margin.
A floor that stops guessing. In the film, Forge orders the production queue by cost, time to finish, and capacity. In real work, Forge pulls invoice history from SAP Business One, projects three months of demand, and flags what to order against stock and open purchase orders. Quoting and scheduling builds are scoped with your team.
Forge for Finance
For finance, Forge takes the manual work out of reporting and payables. Teams start with a Rolling 12-Month P&L, Sales Analysis, and AR and AP Aging tied to the SAP Business One reports of record, then move to invoice matching, scheduled exchange-rate updates, and cost of quality on the P&L.
The Forge Startup Project puts those three finance dashboards live in as little as two weeks, for a fixed $2,500. Each dashboard emails to stakeholders and answers follow-up questions in chat, so the controller stops rebuilding the same spreadsheet every close.
Beyond reporting, Forge refreshes exchange rates in SAP Business One every morning at 7am, before the first transaction, with every update logged. Forge also builds a three-way invoice match, posting clean invoices inside your tolerances and routing only the mismatches to accounts payable, so early-payment discounts stop expiring in the inbox.
Forge for Operations and Supply Chain
For operations and supply chain, Forge puts live SAP Business One data where the work happens. Operators capture production data at the line, buyers see late parts ranked by revenue at risk, and anyone on the floor gets stock answers by text message, without an ERP login.
Harney & Sons replaced 20+ paper forms with validated capture at the point of work. Operators scan item, batch, and bin, Forge checks each entry against SAP Business One, and anything out of tolerance waits for a supervisor before posting. Harney grew from one production pilot to 15 people across four teams on the same foundation.
Current Tools runs a text-message inventory assistant in production on the shop floor, with a median of 28 seconds to the first answer. Other operations builds include a late parts expedite list, delivery problem tracking, and a capacity and backlog dashboard, all covered in our guide to the top 10 Forge applications.
Forge for Sales and Leadership
For sales and leadership, Forge turns scattered data into answers in seconds. Leaders ask plain-language questions of live SAP Business One data, get dashboards on demand, and work from one set of numbers. Sales gets clean CRM data, competitor price moves, and a map of every customer relationship.
Forge builds dashboards in one conversation, covering sales by quarter, vendor on-time delivery, inventory velocity, and customer days to pay, then saves each one as a Playbook to rerun. Third Wave also built a Forge pipeline syncing lead business partners from SAP Business One into HubSpot, so SAP Business One stays the master record and the CRM stays current.
For commercial teams, Forge builds competitor price monitoring matched to your own part numbers, relationship intelligence flagging accounts held together by one person, and a single source of truth across storefront, finance, and warehouse data. Every one starts from the same live connection.
Why Forge, Not a Generic AI Tool
Forge differs from a generic AI tool in three ways. Forge reads your SAP Business One Service Layer live and reaches other systems through 200+ pre-built connectors. Forge writes and runs code to reason across those systems instead of guessing from text. And Forge acts, drafting the transaction, dashboard, or report under rules you set.
Generic chatbots never see your price lists, your handbooks, or your open orders, and they never write back to SAP Business One. Forge learns your business from handbooks, the documents capturing how you run, so answers come back in your terms. Connecting SAP Business One takes about 30 minutes, and teaching Forge your business takes about half a day.
We understand the caution about handing work to an agent. Forge starts with read-only access, each workflow gets narrow permissions, every action is logged, and teams such as Harney & Sons require a person to approve before anything posts. You decide how far each workflow goes.
Why Third Wave Built Forge for SAP Business One
Third Wave built Forge for SAP Business One teams tired of the BI backlog and the analyst queue. Forge combines Third Wave’s 500+ SAP Business One implementations and 98.7% client retention with Structify’s agentic AI platform, built for messy enterprise data.
SAP lists Forge AI in its AI Partner Innovations Playbook for SAP Business One, and Third Wave is bringing Forge into the SAP Business One web client, so your team reaches Forge inside the same browser screens used for sales, purchasing, and production. As an SAP Gold & Master Partner, we built Forge for the system you already run.
Get Started with Forge
Getting started with Forge takes three steps. Book a demo or start the 14-day free trial with no credit card required. Pick the first job costing your team the most time, from order checking to finance reporting. Then go live with approval rules and extend Forge to the next team.
- Book a demo or start your 14-day free trial.
- Pick the first job costing your team the most time.
- Go live with approval rules, then extend to the next team.
Waiting has a price. Every PDF retyped by hand is another chance for a pricing error to ship. Every month-end rebuilt in spreadsheets is another late night. Every question nobody asks because the answer takes a week is a decision made on old numbers.
Picture month-end with Forge in place. Orders checked before anyone opens them. Finance dashboards built before the meeting. Buyers chasing only the parts with revenue behind them. Your people leave at five, and the work still gets done.
Book a demo with our team and see Forge on your own SAP Business One data, or explore Forge, the AI agent for SAP Business One and start the trial today.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Forge AI?
Forge AI is the AI agent platform Third Wave built for SAP Business One. Forge reads SAP Business One live through the Service Layer, reasons across your other systems, and drafts transactions, dashboards, and reports for a person to approve.
What departments does Forge AI work for?
Forge works across finance, operations, supply chain, sales, and leadership. Common starting points include order checking against contract pricing, finance dashboards, shop floor data capture, late parts expediting, and CRM sync.
Is the company in the Forge film a real customer?
No. Dana and her company are fictional, created to show a typical week. The results in this post, including the $17,850 pricing catch and the Harney & Sons rollout, come from real Third Wave work.
Does Forge post to SAP Business One without approval?
You decide. Forge starts with read-only access, each workflow runs on narrow permissions, and teams such as Harney & Sons require a person to approve before anything posts. Every action is logged.
How long does Forge take to set up?
Connecting SAP Business One takes about 30 minutes once you have Service Layer access. Teaching Forge your business takes about half a day. Most teams are answering live questions inside the first sprint.
How much does Forge cost?
Forge starts with a 14-day free trial with no credit card required, then $500 per month for three user seats. The Forge Startup Project offers a guided launch for a fixed $2,500, and custom work is billed time and materials by Third Wave.