Some Cool Features in SAP Business One 9.0

If you haven’t upgraded to SAP Business One 9.0 yet, you’re missing out on a wide range of new features and functionality that will help your organization. SAP Business One 9.0 is easier to implement, personalize, and extend. The enhanced integration has extended core functions to a greater industry focus. Below are a few crucial features of SAP Business One 9.0 that we haven’t covered in our previous blogs:

Financials

• Deferred Tax Enablement in Manual Journal Entries: Manage deferred tax in physical journal entries, journal vouchers, posting templates, and recurring postings.
• Down Payment Request Reconciliation: Manually reconcile, fully or partially, a payment of down payment request with an invoice. In a particular reconciliation, you can reconcile one of many payments of down payment requests with one invoice.
• Intrastat Declaration: This add-on has been fused into the SAP Business One 9.0 core application. The SAP add-on allows you to configure the Instrastat settings of your company, business partners, and items, create output files in required formats (TXT, XML, CSV), and view previously created declarations.

Sales and Purchasing

• Adjusting Total Freight in Goods Receipt POs Based on AP Reserve Invoices: 0 supports adjustment of freight amounts when creating a goods receipt PO based on A/P reserve invoices. The prerequisite for each adjustment is that each freight row has not exceeded the allocated freight charge.
• Landed Costs Based on A/P Invoice: With SAP Business One 9.0 you can produce Landed Costs documents based on an A/P invoice. This new option is mainly relevant in cases where the A/P invoice is not based on a goods receipt PO.
• Adjusting Item Cost in Non-Based A/R Return and A/R Credit Memo:  The item cost is a non-based A/R return and an A/R credit memo is determined by item cost at the time of document creation. As of SAP Business One 9.0, the user can adjust the item cost in these documents.

Banking

• Payment Wizard Supports Correction Invoices: You can now include the Correction Invoice document type in the payment wizard

Inventory

• Multiple Unit of Measurement (UoM): The multiple UoM features enable you to sell, buy, receive, and ship products in any UoM that your organization needs and to define default UoMs for various types of transactions. All sales, purchasing, and inventory documents support items with multi-UoM definitions. Some highlights include unrestricted global and product-specific UoMs, setup of UoM groups used in item master data, marketing documents, and inventory documents, default sales UoMs, purchasing UoMs, inventory UoMs, and automatic conversion to other applicable UoMs in transaction processing.
• Price List and Discount Enhancements: The price list and the ‘discount groups’ functionality has been heightened to increase efficiency and to support specific organizational processes. Utilizing the enhanced price function allows you to give a price list to a business partner group, define prices in numerous currencies for a specific price list or for a special price list, define prices and special prices for different units of measurement, and define price lists as active or inactive.
• Inventory Counting: SAP Business One 9.0 provides new capabilities for running a comprehensive inventory counting process. This counting process starts with cycle counting alerts and continues with well-structured tasks and innovative reporting. Some enhancements include: providing documents to record and manage inventory counting and posting, freezing items during inventory counting, counting the exact serial numbers and batches, providing documents to record and manage inventory opening balances, and providing an Inventory Counting Recommendation dashboard report.
• Serial and Batch Items in Drop Ship Warehouses:  SAP Business One 9.0 lets you manage serial and batch items in drop ship warehouses. After you enable the serial and batch management for your drop ship warehouses, you can do the following:
  • Allocate serial and batch items in drop ship warehouses to newly created documents
  • Maintain the serial and batch information for items in drop ship warehouses using Serial Number Management and Batch Management
  • View the transactions of the serial and batch items in drop ship warehouses using Serial Number Transactions Report and Batch Number Transactions Report
  • Transfer the serial and batch information of items in drop ship warehouses to a target company during year transfer

  If your serial items in drop ship warehouses are delivered, SAP Business One can create client equipment cards automatically for these items in the same way as for the items in non-drop ship warehouses.

Implementation Project:  SAP Business One 9.0 lets you generate and edit implementation projects that help you with the implementation and configuration of SAP Business One. An implementation project is a template that details the specific steps that must be completed to fully install and implement SAP Business One for a specific client. During the implementation process, you can use templates to allocate your time to specific tasks and track your progress.

Quick Copy:  In SAP Business One 9.0, the Copy Express SAP add-on has been integrated as a standard application feature and renamed Quick Copy. You can use Quick Copy to copy company configuration information from one company to another and to save configuration information in an XML file.

Infrastructure Enhancements

Accessibility Standard:  To enhance user accessibility, SAP Business One is now aligned with SAP’s Product Standard Accessibility requirements enforced by the Product Innovation Lifecycle (PIL) process. User interface elements, such as icons, images, and abbreviations have tool tips with descriptions.

Contact Third Wave to discuss upgrading to SAP Business One 9.0 and get on the road to better business today.