What Is SAP Business One?

As a leading business management software, you’ve probably heard the name, but what is SAP Business One? Unlike most other software applications that focus on a specific area of business, such as accounting or customer relationship management (CRM), SAP Business One is an integrated business management application.

It offers a complete set of core functions, including financials, customer relationship management, inventory and distribution, sales, operations, and logistics, which address the business management needs of your entire company.

What is SAP Business One?

More Than a Point Solution

SAP Business One is more than the typical financials software that was born out of accounting and bookkeeping, or a standalone customer relationship management solution. It helps businesses like yours manage the entire process of selling and servicing clients, and once orders are taken, they flow directly into automated fulfillment.

As a comprehensive and integrated system, SAP Business One gives you full visibility into your business, through on-demand analytics and business intelligence in a personalized cockpit, live alerts and approval procedures, and end-to-end business processes.

Information at Your Finger Tips, Any Time, Anywhere

With SAP Business One’s flexible delivery model, you can choose where and when to receive information. If you are in the office, use your personal computer to access the company data directly, if you are on the go, use your mobile device to receive alerts, approvals, and reports, view customer’s sales data and even create sales documents using the free mobile application for SAP Business One.

An Application for Everyone

The easiest way to understand SAP Business One is to think of all of the people who are involved in a business:

• There are people in sales that gather leads, go on sales calls, and make sales.
• There are people who account for what has been bought and sold, and who make sure the money flows properly in and out of the company to and from suppliers, customers, and employees.
• There are people who take customers’ orders and fulfill them, either by sending goods or by providing services.
• There are people who manage operations such as inventory control or service delivery.
• There are managers who monitor and manage the entire business.

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SAP Business One

Now imagine that one application can help all of these people do their jobs and that all of them work with the same set of information using the same application that can do the following:

• Integrate all parts of your business so everyone operates on the same core business information
• Supply users with personalized interfaces designed to support the way they work
• Process data in real time so you never have to wait for nightly or weekly postings, which means that the financial data of your business is always up to date and available
• Issue warnings and trigger corrective actions to take place automatically when certain limits set by managers and other users are exceeded
• Simplify reporting and analysis with “easy to create and run” reports delivered to you on demand.

To learn more about SAP Business One, contact Third Wave.