Overview
What is SAP Business One?
SAP Business One is an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for small and medium-sized businesses, The product encompasses functionality around sales, customer relationships, inventory, operations, financials and human resources.
Excellent tool for its ease of use
Great program, Lots to still learn
SAP Business One for our small company is the right choice
SAP Business One, Comprehensive Business Management Solution for Small and Medium Companies
SAP a powerfull system that can create good automations for your warehouse! But it will come with a cost!
SAP Business One is #1
Simplifying operation for SMB with SAP Business One
SAP Business One: Fiscal and financial control with excellent access control
SAP Business One: Implementation and Training are the Key!
My SAP Business One Review
SAP Business One: Good data in = Good data out!
The power of real ERP for small businesses
Make choice/evaluation cautiously
Great product with a great implementation team
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Popular Features
- Accounts receivable (40)7.878%
- Accounts payable (41)7.878%
- Inventory tracking (40)6.464%
- Standard reports (40)6.464%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
Pricing
Limited
$99.00
Starter
$110.00
Pro
$132.00
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Product Demos
SAP Business One Demo
Step 9 - Installing SAP Business One on SQL Server
The SAP Business One WOW demo
SAP Business One Demo
Features
Payroll Management
Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.
- 10Pay calculation(8) Ratings
Pay calculation provides for computation of employee pay with state and federal deductions.
- 10Benefit plan administration(7) Ratings
Benefit plan administration is administration of health insurance plans and 401k plans, and other benefits.
- 10Direct deposit files(8) Ratings
Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.
Customization
This addresses a company’s ability to configure the software to fit its specific use case and workflow.
- 4.2API for custom integration(33) Ratings
An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.
- 6.4Plug-ins(33) Ratings
A number of third-party plug-ins are available to expand the core functionality of the software.
Security
This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.
- 7Single sign-on capability(32) Ratings
The software system supports a centralized authentication mechanism allowing the user to access multiple systems with a single, centrally managed password.
- 7.2Role-based user permissions(39) Ratings
Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.
Reporting & Analytics
Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.
- 4.7Dashboards(36) Ratings
Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.
- 6.4Standard reports(40) Ratings
The software offers pre-built reports with metrics standard to the category.
- 8Custom reports(36) Ratings
Users can create custom reports.
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Financial management solution, including capabilities for general ledger and configurable accounting
- 7.8Accounts payable(41) Ratings
This includes the automation and tracking of payment to vendors and suppliers, with features such as payment scheduling, check printing, open purchase order alerts, document management, direct ACH bill payment, and vendor records.
- 7.8Accounts receivable(40) Ratings
This includes the management and automation of invoices and collections, with features like statements, invoices, receipts, payment reminders, customer records, auto billing, and refund checks.
- 7Global Financial Support(26) Ratings
Account using multiple ledgers, multiple currencies, and multiple entities
- 7Primary and Secondary Ledgers(26) Ratings
Record and report across multiple currencies and accounting standards with primary and secondary ledgers
- 6.6Journals and Reconciliations(33) Ratings
Automate and synchronize ledgers and processes
- 6.2Configurable Accounting(31) Ratings
Configure accounting rules and segments for each chart of accounts
- 7Standardized Processes(36) Ratings
Centralize financial management to facilitate standardized financial processes
Inventory Management
The ability to track and manage the flow of goods or materials into and out of an inventory.
- 6.4Inventory tracking(40) Ratings
The software syncs orders and stock to maintain a real-time picture of inventory and supports multiple methods such as LIFO and FIFO.
- 8Automatic reordering(28) Ratings
The software can be set up to automatically reorder a good when it falls below a certain threshold.
- 7.2Location management(37) Ratings
The software can track multiple goods across multiple locations.
Order Management
The ability to process orders, and track them from quote to cash.
- 7.2Pricing(37) Ratings
Users can set up complex and unique pricing requirements.
- 7.2Order entry(38) Ratings
Users can enter an order once, and the data flows to all the necessary units such as fulfillment and billing.
- 8.5Credit card processing(22) Ratings
The software facilitates credit card processing.
- 7.2Cost of goods sold(38) Ratings
The software calculates the direct costs attributable to a finished product, such as materials and labor, and includes roll-up pricing.
- 7Order Orchestration(30) Ratings
Define and execute order fulfillment processes for products as well as services on the same order.
Subledger and Financial Process
Revenue management solution including capabilities for subledgers and financial processes
- 6.1Billing Management(29) Ratings
Access role-based billing work area, perform discrete and recurring billing
- 3.2Cash and Asset Management(26) Ratings
Manage liquidity and cash requirements, asset transfers, disposals, reclassifications, and financial adjustments
- 8.8Travel & Expense Management(21) Ratings
Enter expenses from mobile devices, integrate credit card and travel booking, configure policy enforcement
- 2.2Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting(25) Ratings
Control spending at any budget level or time interval
- 8Period Close(31) Ratings
Sustain fast close with integrated subledgers, intuitive dashboards, embedded collaboration
Project Financial Management
Project financial management solution including capabilities for project budgeting, cost control, billing and contract management.
- 7Budgeting and Forecasting(17) Ratings
Establish project budgets and forecast future project financials
- 7Project Costing(16) Ratings
Standardize, track, and control costs at all project phases
- 7Cost Capture(16) Ratings
Capture costs including those for procurement, financials or time and labor, including from external systems
- 7Capital Project Management(11) Ratings
Track and manage capital asset costs
- 7Customer Contract Compliance(14) Ratings
Associate projects or tasks with customer contracts, and lines within contracts, to meet billing terms
- 6.1Project Revenue Recognition(16) Ratings
Recognize project contract revenue in line with accounting policies and regulations
Project Execution Management
Project execution management solution including capabilities for project scheduling, resource management, and team member task management.
- 7Project Planning and Scheduling(14) Ratings
Interactive Gantt chart for establishing tasks, durations, and delivery schedule
- 10Task Insight for Project Managers(11) Ratings
Project manager visibility into task progress of team members
- 10Project Mobile Functionality(10) Ratings
Capabilities for project functions such as updating and monitoring task progress and timecards from mobile devices
- 10Definable Resource Pools(8) Ratings
Definable and hierarchical resource pools of potential project resources
Grants Management
Grants management solution for higher education, public sector, or non-profits with capabilities for managing financial awards for program and project funding
- 7Award Lifecycle Management(9) Ratings
Manage the life of program funding awards from initial funding to close-out
Procurement
Procurement management solution with capabilities for sourcing, contracting, procure-to-pay and supplier management
- 9.3Bids Analyzed and Compared(10) Ratings
Evaluate, compare and recommend across multiple bids in real-time using diverse user selected criteria and graphical analytics
- 7.5Contract Authoring(11) Ratings
Document authoring with guided navigation, negotiation templates and productivity tools for reviews and collaboration
- 8.6Contract Repository(9) Ratings
Secure and searchable contract repository leveraging standard company language components, structures and formats
- 8.2Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated(13) Ratings
Create touchless purchases using purchase orders generated automatically per rules from approved requisitions
- 7Supplier Management(12) Ratings
Broadly manage and report comprehensive supplier profiles, capabilities and performance; identify bottlenecks; balance allocations, workloads
Risk Management
Risk management solution with capabilities for managing controls, assessing control effectiveness, certifying controls, and addressing deficiencies
- 8.3Risk Repository(6) Ratings
Idenity, document, and manage business risks in a unified repository
- 8.9Control Management(7) Ratings
Establish and update risk and controls matrix, control test plans, and instructions
- 7.7Control Efficiency Assessments(6) Ratings
Assess control effectiveness on criteria such as geography, business unit, compliance requirements, etc
- 8.3Issue Detection(7) Ratings
Detect and create issues as part of the assessment flow
- 7.7Remediation and Certification(6) Ratings
Create and update remediation plans and certify controls
Logistics
Logistics solution with capabilities for transportation planning, transportation execution, trade compliance, customs management, warehouse management and warehouse workforce management.
- 6.2Transportation Planning and Optimization(13) Ratings
Plan shipments across all modes of transportation via lowest costs/highest service
- 6.2Transportation Execution Management(11) Ratings
Execute and track shipping orders
- 7Trade and Customs Management(11) Ratings
Manage duties, tax rates, customs documents, and other data required for products shipped in and to specified countries
- 6.8Fulfillment Management(16) Ratings
Support for multi-channel demand and execution fulfillment processes
- 6.2Warehouse Workforce Management(13) Ratings
Set goals, measure actuals, and analyze productivity for warehousing tasks and activities
Manufacturing
Manufacturing solution for managing manufacturing processes and costs.
- 8.2Production Process Design(17) Ratings
Define data for plant hierarchy, process standards, work areas, calendars and standard operations
- 8.2Production Management(18) Ratings
Centralized critical status information for production supervisors
- 7.6Configuration Management(13) Ratings
Capture and process customer configuration orders
- 8.2Work Execution(15) Ratings
Monitor procution status, manage work orders for standard and non-standard production, enforce tight controls on serialized products
- 8.2Manufacturing Costs(15) Ratings
Estimate, plan and monitor costs and variances by plant. Capture resource costs using standard, actual, LIFO, FIFO or multiple costing methods.
Supply Chain
Supply Chain Planning solution with capabilities for planning, performance monitoring, change responses and execution.
- 6.2Forecasting(22) Ratings
Statistically forecast based on historical patterns and sales input, monitor accuracy and estimate new demand
- 6.2Inventory Planning(23) Ratings
Establish projected inventory levels, monitor actual levels and compare with projected levels
- 6Performance Monitoring(17) Ratings
Analyze business metrics and compare actual performance to plans, identify issues, prioritize demands and respond to changes
Product Lifecycle Management
Product Lifecycle Management solution with capabilities for innovation management, product development
- 6Proposal Management(12) Ratings
Capture budget, resource, and benefit expectations for proposals
- 7Product Master Data Management(13) Ratings
Create, classify, and manage product items, BOMs and product changes
Product Details
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Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
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Reviews and Ratings
(220)Attribute Ratings
- 4.6Likelihood to Renew9 ratings
- 9Availability3 ratings
- 8Performance1 rating
- 7.1Usability11 ratings
- 9Support Rating11 ratings
- 4.5Online Training2 ratings
- 7.7In-Person Training2 ratings
- 2.9Implementation Rating24 ratings
- 9Product Scalability2 ratings
- 9Ease of integration1 rating
- 8Vendor pre-sale1 rating
- 8Vendor post-sale1 rating
Reviews
(1-5 of 5)The power of real ERP for small businesses
- Single pane of glass to entire business
- Highly flexible and customizable
- Strong API for integration with other systems
- CRM needs improvement
- Web based portals are lacking
- Built in reporting could be better
Best suited for smaller customers (under a few hundred users) in distribution or light manufacturing.
- Accounts payable
- 90%9.0
- Accounts receivable
- 90%9.0
- Global Financial Support
- 80%8.0
- Primary and Secondary Ledgers
- 80%8.0
- Journals and Reconciliations
- 80%8.0
- Configurable Accounting
- 90%9.0
- Standardized Processes
- 70%7.0
- Billing Management
- 90%9.0
- Cash and Asset Management
- 90%9.0
- Travel & Expense Management
- 80%8.0
- Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting
- 90%9.0
- Period Close
- 90%9.0
- Inventory tracking
- 100%10.0
- Automatic reordering
- 90%9.0
- Location management
- 100%10.0
- Pricing
- 100%10.0
- Order entry
- 100%10.0
- Credit card processing
- 80%8.0
- Cost of goods sold
- 80%8.0
- Order Orchestration
- 90%9.0
- Dashboards
- 90%9.0
- Standard reports
- 80%8.0
- Custom reports
- 80%8.0
- API for custom integration
- 90%9.0
- Plug-ins
- 90%9.0
- Role-based user permissions
- 90%9.0
- Single sign-on capability
- 90%9.0
- Budgeting and Forecasting
- 80%8.0
- Project Costing
- 90%9.0
- Cost Capture
- 80%8.0
- Capital Project Management
- 80%8.0
- Customer Contract Compliance
- 80%8.0
- Project Revenue Recognition
- 80%8.0
- Project Planning and Scheduling
- 80%8.0
- Task Insight for Project Managers
- 80%8.0
- Project Mobile Functionality
- 80%8.0
- Definable Resource Pools
- 80%8.0
- Bids Analyzed and Compared
- 90%9.0
- Contract Repository
- 80%8.0
- Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated
- 80%8.0
- Supplier Management
- 80%8.0
- Transportation Planning and Optimization
- 80%8.0
- Transportation Execution Management
- 80%8.0
- Trade and Customs Management
- 80%8.0
- Fulfillment Management
- 80%8.0
- Warehouse Workforce Management
- 80%8.0
- Production Process Design
- 80%8.0
- Production Management
- 80%8.0
- Configuration Management
- 70%7.0
- Work Execution
- 80%8.0
- Manufacturing Costs
- 80%8.0
- Forecasting
- 90%9.0
- Inventory Planning
- 90%9.0
- Performance Monitoring
- 90%9.0
- Proposal Management
- 90%9.0
- Product Master Data Management
- 90%9.0
- Excellent ROI in our business and much better control and visibility
- in-person training
- Accounting
- Inventory/Logistics
- Sales
- API Integration with many other systems
- Business Intelligence
- EDI
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Vendor Reputation
Great product with a great implementation team
- The user interface is easy to navigate.
- Reports are easily created in order to analyze data.
- Inventory is tracked in an efficient manner.
- SAP doesn't allow for there to be updates to inventory items once they have been created. It would be ideal if updates to items could be made.
- Accounts payable
- 90%9.0
- Accounts receivable
- N/AN/A
- Global Financial Support
- N/AN/A
- Primary and Secondary Ledgers
- N/AN/A
- Journals and Reconciliations
- 90%9.0
- Configurable Accounting
- 90%9.0
- Standardized Processes
- 90%9.0
- Billing Management
- N/AN/A
- Cash and Asset Management
- N/AN/A
- Travel & Expense Management
- N/AN/A
- Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting
- N/AN/A
- Period Close
- 90%9.0
- Inventory tracking
- 90%9.0
- Automatic reordering
- N/AN/A
- Location management
- 90%9.0
- Pricing
- N/AN/A
- Order entry
- N/AN/A
- Credit card processing
- N/AN/A
- Cost of goods sold
- N/AN/A
- Order Orchestration
- N/AN/A
- Pay calculation
- N/AN/A
- Benefit plan administration
- N/AN/A
- Direct deposit files
- N/AN/A
- Dashboards
- 80%8.0
- Standard reports
- 90%9.0
- Custom reports
- 90%9.0
- API for custom integration
- N/AN/A
- Plug-ins
- N/AN/A
- Role-based user permissions
- 90%9.0
- Single sign-on capability
- 90%9.0
- Award Lifecycle Management
- N/AN/A
- Budgeting and Forecasting
- N/AN/A
- Project Costing
- N/AN/A
- Cost Capture
- N/AN/A
- Capital Project Management
- N/AN/A
- Customer Contract Compliance
- N/AN/A
- Project Revenue Recognition
- N/AN/A
- Project Planning and Scheduling
- N/AN/A
- Task Insight for Project Managers
- N/AN/A
- Project Mobile Functionality
- N/AN/A
- Definable Resource Pools
- N/AN/A
- Bids Analyzed and Compared
- N/AN/A
- Contract Authoring
- N/AN/A
- Contract Repository
- N/AN/A
- Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated
- N/AN/A
- Supplier Management
- N/AN/A
- Risk Repository
- N/AN/A
- Control Management
- N/AN/A
- Control Efficiency Assessments
- N/AN/A
- Issue Detection
- N/AN/A
- Remediation and Certification
- N/AN/A
- Transportation Planning and Optimization
- N/AN/A
- Transportation Execution Management
- N/AN/A
- Trade and Customs Management
- N/AN/A
- Fulfillment Management
- N/AN/A
- Warehouse Workforce Management
- N/AN/A
- Production Process Design
- N/AN/A
- Production Management
- N/AN/A
- Configuration Management
- N/AN/A
- Work Execution
- N/AN/A
- Manufacturing Costs
- N/AN/A
- Forecasting
- N/AN/A
- Inventory Planning
- 90%9.0
- Performance Monitoring
- N/AN/A
- Proposal Management
- N/AN/A
- Product Master Data Management
- N/AN/A
- It has allowed us to track inventory efficiently.
- in-person training
- Integration of purchase orders to goods receipt to invoices
- Set up of the account determination. You really need to know what to do here since this set up drives a lot of the transactions in SAP.
Finance
Purchasing
- SAP has a well developed Accounting module
- We are still waiting to fully implement SAP (Production module). That is the area that we will see how SAP helps our organization.
- When we have sales, we will see how SAPs service module functions along with warranty tracking on products sold.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
Excellent budget ERP for Medium and Small Businesses
- All the modules are connected. A document you post on the sales or purchase modules gets an immediate journal entry on the finance module.
- The system is very customizable. You can add extra fields to almost every document in the system.
- The reporting is very good. You can create your own report via the Query Manager and then even add some layouts to the reports.
- The Software Development Kit (SDK) has some errors that haven't been solved from previous versions of the system.
- The Print Layout Designer (PLD) is somewhat tricky to work with.
- The cost of each user license could be pretty expensive for some companies.
- Accounts payable
- 90%9.0
- Accounts receivable
- 90%9.0
- Global Financial Support
- 70%7.0
- Primary and Secondary Ledgers
- 90%9.0
- Journals and Reconciliations
- 90%9.0
- Configurable Accounting
- 80%8.0
- Standardized Processes
- 90%9.0
- Billing Management
- 80%8.0
- Cash and Asset Management
- 80%8.0
- Travel & Expense Management
- 80%8.0
- Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting
- 80%8.0
- Period Close
- 90%9.0
- Inventory tracking
- 90%9.0
- Automatic reordering
- 90%9.0
- Location management
- 90%9.0
- Pricing
- 90%9.0
- Order entry
- 90%9.0
- Credit card processing
- 80%8.0
- Cost of goods sold
- 80%8.0
- Order Orchestration
- 80%8.0
- Dashboards
- 90%9.0
- Standard reports
- 90%9.0
- Custom reports
- 90%9.0
- API for custom integration
- 90%9.0
- Plug-ins
- 90%9.0
- Role-based user permissions
- 90%9.0
- Single sign-on capability
- 90%9.0
- Award Lifecycle Management
- 90%9.0
- Budgeting and Forecasting
- 90%9.0
- Project Costing
- 90%9.0
- Cost Capture
- 90%9.0
- Capital Project Management
- 90%9.0
- Customer Contract Compliance
- 80%8.0
- Project Revenue Recognition
- 80%8.0
- Project Planning and Scheduling
- 80%8.0
- Task Insight for Project Managers
- 70%7.0
- Project Mobile Functionality
- 70%7.0
- Bids Analyzed and Compared
- 70%7.0
- Contract Authoring
- 80%8.0
- Contract Repository
- 80%8.0
- Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated
- 90%9.0
- Supplier Management
- 90%9.0
- Transportation Planning and Optimization
- 90%9.0
- Transportation Execution Management
- 80%8.0
- Trade and Customs Management
- 80%8.0
- Fulfillment Management
- 90%9.0
- Warehouse Workforce Management
- 80%8.0
- Production Process Design
- 90%9.0
- Production Management
- 90%9.0
- Configuration Management
- 80%8.0
- Work Execution
- 90%9.0
- Manufacturing Costs
- 90%9.0
- Forecasting
- 90%9.0
- Inventory Planning
- 90%9.0
- Performance Monitoring
- 80%8.0
- Proposal Management
- 70%7.0
- Product Master Data Management
- 70%7.0
- SAP Business One dramatically reduces the time of communication between the departments in the company.
- The possibilities for the users to make their own reports (at least the simple ones), reduces the cost of the consulting you will need, although some consulting will always be needed at the start of the project if you don't have an in-house team.
- All the processes in sales and purchase departments are greatly improved in our company, so users can spend more time analyzing information and scenarios, and less time doing routinary work and data input.
- The licenses are usable on multi companies by the same users as long as the DB is on the same server.
- The project could perform some delay if there is no 100% dedication from the users.
- It's important to have a very well defined business blueprint.
- The whole accountability is registered on the system.
- All the item tracking is performed on the system.
- All the reports are generated directly from the information stored on the system.
- We have interfaced SAP B1 with our logistic software.
- We used SAP B1 on more than 30 companies in 15 different countries.
- We connected the system with most of the local tax authorities that requires to send online information.
- We could use SAP B1 on every company of the group.
- We might be able to connect SAP B1 to our WMS System.
- We could configure and use some modules of the tool that are not currently in use.
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Vendor Reputation
- Implemented in-house
- In-person training
- The reports are easy to generate.
- The system in general is very user friendly.
- the document traceability is really helpful.
- Some modules could have better reports.
- The MRP process could be improved.
- The exchange rate window doesn't have a modification log.
- Several connections to local tax authorities.
- Logistics Systems.
- WMS Systems.
- None at the moment.
- File import/export
- API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
- Better web interface and performance.
- Upgraded reports.
- Upgrade of the security module.
- Improvements on the service layer for SQL Server version.
- Multiple triggers for formatted searches.
- Improvements on the production module.
It is ideal for small and medium businesses, since it is a complete application, with a good technical service, and with accessible costs for the benefits received.
- It allows making a real follow-up of the state of the company, without the need to wait for periodic reports. This provides a corrective tool for situations that deviate from the standard.
- It prevents the business areas from working separately so the information is not duplicated and is managed effectively by all involved. thus avoiding conflicts and optimizing resources.
- It allows the proper management of the client portfolio, accurately projecting the inputs and outputs of resources, products, orders, and invoices. Therefore, the inventory and cash flow are properly managed.
- By correctly managing cash inflows and customer requirements, a real plan of goals can be established that is adjusted to the company's capabilities.
- It is a standardized program in its use, with a parent company with decades in the market and renowned, which provides adequate user support to the tool.
- The learning curve is greater than other programs of its type. You need staff who previously worked with the tool. The learning time is going to be high. Being a more developed tool, the user requirements are high compared to other similar ones.
- Visually, it is a sober program. I believe that the presentation could be improved by adjusting it to the user level with which it is worked. In order to make it more user-friendly, we must not forget that a tool such as an ERP will be used by all areas of the company, which includes inexperienced personnel up to senior levels.
- They should improve the integration with other tools that do not belong to the SAP family. In today's world, emphasis should be placed on emails, social networks, mobile applications, applications of calls and messaging, as well as providing adequate storage access on the cloud.
- The implementation of the tool is in accordance with the type of program, however, for people who have not worked with programs of the SAP family, it will require more implementation time, as well as intensive user training courses.
- Accounts payable
- 90%9.0
- Accounts receivable
- 80%8.0
- Global Financial Support
- 80%8.0
- Primary and Secondary Ledgers
- 70%7.0
- Journals and Reconciliations
- 70%7.0
- Configurable Accounting
- 80%8.0
- Standardized Processes
- 90%9.0
- Billing Management
- 70%7.0
- Cash and Asset Management
- 90%9.0
- Travel & Expense Management
- 70%7.0
- Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting
- 70%7.0
- Period Close
- 80%8.0
- Inventory tracking
- 90%9.0
- Automatic reordering
- 80%8.0
- Location management
- 80%8.0
- Pricing
- 90%9.0
- Order entry
- 80%8.0
- Credit card processing
- 90%9.0
- Cost of goods sold
- 80%8.0
- Order Orchestration
- 90%9.0
- Pay calculation
- 80%8.0
- Benefit plan administration
- 90%9.0
- Direct deposit files
- 80%8.0
- Dashboards
- 90%9.0
- Standard reports
- 70%7.0
- Custom reports
- 70%7.0
- API for custom integration
- 70%7.0
- Plug-ins
- 70%7.0
- Role-based user permissions
- 80%8.0
- Single sign-on capability
- 80%8.0
- Award Lifecycle Management
- 80%8.0
- Budgeting and Forecasting
- 80%8.0
- Project Costing
- 80%8.0
- Cost Capture
- 80%8.0
- Capital Project Management
- 80%8.0
- Customer Contract Compliance
- 90%9.0
- Project Revenue Recognition
- 80%8.0
- Project Planning and Scheduling
- 90%9.0
- Task Insight for Project Managers
- 80%8.0
- Project Mobile Functionality
- 80%8.0
- Definable Resource Pools
- 80%8.0
- Bids Analyzed and Compared
- 80%8.0
- Contract Authoring
- 80%8.0
- Contract Repository
- 90%9.0
- Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated
- 90%9.0
- Supplier Management
- 90%9.0
- Risk Repository
- 90%9.0
- Control Management
- 90%9.0
- Control Efficiency Assessments
- 90%9.0
- Issue Detection
- 80%8.0
- Remediation and Certification
- 90%9.0
- Transportation Planning and Optimization
- 90%9.0
- Transportation Execution Management
- 80%8.0
- Trade and Customs Management
- 70%7.0
- Fulfillment Management
- 70%7.0
- Warehouse Workforce Management
- 70%7.0
- Production Process Design
- 70%7.0
- Production Management
- 80%8.0
- Configuration Management
- 80%8.0
- Work Execution
- 80%8.0
- Manufacturing Costs
- 80%8.0
- Forecasting
- 70%7.0
- Inventory Planning
- 90%9.0
- Performance Monitoring
- 80%8.0
- Proposal Management
- 80%8.0
- Product Master Data Management
- 80%8.0
- The first impact we measured in the implementation of this tool was saving paper for printing, invoices and security paper, and savings in the issuance of reports that have allowed the reduction in 10% of administrative expenses.
- In the second chronological order, we have reduced the storage and transportation expenses by 8% because we can monitor the behavior of the client portfolio in an adequate manner, making an adequate use of the inventory, largely due to the sales forecasts made by the billing team.
- Reduction of 15% in accounts receivable, since a collection task has been carried out adjusted to each client, in the same way, we have reduced the banking leverage by improving our cash flow as we will only use the banks for investment in assets.
- It is a tool that gives you all the necessary information, the data you need to make the right decisions.
- The design is elegant and sober, offers a corporate image.
- It is a reliable and safe tool, giving guarantee of data integrity, also manages a good accessibility scheme by user profiles.
- The user level learning curve is slow, especially if you have not worked with the tool before. It is a complete program, which can generate the feeling that it is not friendly, the interface is serious. Since there are many options and modules, it can generate confusion in the average users.
- User profiles, if they are not well designed, do not allow the handling of unauthorized parameters. Therefore, the Work Flow and all those involved in it must be handled very well, along with their functions. To avoid accessibility problems.
- The reports must be well defined, otherwise there is a risk of not presenting the desired data, since many reporting options are available.
- The inventory management, purchasing requirements, as well as the sales projection, allows for an adequate attention of the clients and needs.
- The accounting management, the tool is very robust in this aspect, allowing in real time to determine business needs. Provides data that allows designing sales plans, reducing costs, strengthening profitability strategy.
- Administratively it is a very strong program, it contemplates all the scenarios and administrative needs of the company. It is very well developed in this aspect.
- Inventory management, markenting needs and planning promotion strategies for seasons and product lines.
- Appropriate accounting management of the company, as well as, adaptation to tax policies that may change, to avoid penalties or fines.
- Reports, graphs and tools for monitoring business management.
- Integration of markenting tools, social networks and promotion.
- Integration with other sales force tracking tools, and mobile apps.
- Management of editable reports in real time by those involved, facilitating decision making
- Product Features
- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
- TIBCO professional services
SAP Business One - from a 12 year veteran implementer
While these companies have different specific needs, the individual SAP B1 implementation is tailored (using SAP tools) to their individual needs.
- SAP B1's technology is superb. SAP provides user tools to quickly add fields to a screen, re-arrange fields on a screen for optimal user interface, and create SQL queries to verify data as it is entered.
- SAP B1 is tightly integrated. This is a product developed for this millennium - all of the modules are tightly integrated and the flow from one module to another. Even third party add-on products use the same technology platform for development -- making it seamless integration.
- SAP B1 has integration to phone technology as an integral part of the software, allowing user's access to their data not just from their office but from anywhere they have network access.
- The look and feel of the software is the same no matter what module you are using. Training is simplified - if you are trained on the sales order --> shipper --> invoice process, the same user could easily manage the purchase order --> PO receipt --> A/P invoice process because the screens are so similar.
- SAP's education is superb. They have literally hundreds of hours of on-line training available for their customers. If you need to brush up on a process or train a new employee, you simply direct them to the appropriate video and they can learn at their own pace.
- The software is robust. There are many 'wizards' included in the software. For instance their is an A/P payment wizard that leads you through the payment process.
- SAP includes approval processes as an integral part of their software. For instance, if purchasing requests could be entered by any user but all (or some) could require approval by the head of purchasing.
- There are alerts for out of condition processes. For instance, you can define an alert for the sale of any item below 10% margin, or an alert whenever a major client shipment is near to missing on time delivery. The alerts are all SQL queries that look for conditions that you define as requiring an alert.
- No payroll module.
- The initial implementation of the dashboard is overly complicated. Once it is set up it functions well, but it takes more effort than it should to get operational. And it takes lots of computer expertise to get operational.
- Few customers use the Outlook integration with SAP. The ease of use between Outlook and SAP B1 could be improved.
- Few customers use the CRM module heavily. Mostly this is because of the Outlook integration and the discipline it takes to use it properly.
Since I mostly implement distribution and manufacturing systems, let me address those areas. In those companies the accounting functionality of SAP B1 is very complete and there are no holes.
Inventory handling of bins, warehouses and items is superb. The system handles serial controlled items (1:1), batch controlled items (1:many) and normal stock items. The number of SKUs is not an issue - I have one customer with 150,000 SKUs. Hand held devices for data collection are third party add-ons, but there are several options available. The inventory is set up for discrete parts handling. There are few distribution industries where SAP B1 would not be a good fit.
The manufacturing functionality was weak until the latest release of SAP B1 in 2014. Now the BOMs support routers and processes - as they should have. Plants making discrete products that follow specific routing steps are excellent candidates for SAP B1. The MRP functionality is very good and allows for quick creation of POs and production orders from the results. New functionality in SAP 9.1 allows for import of transaction data to most SAP processes - so integration to data collection functions on the floor have been streamlined.
- Accounts payable
- 100%10.0
- Accounts receivable
- 100%10.0
- Inventory tracking
- 100%10.0
- Automatic reordering
- 100%10.0
- Location management
- 100%10.0
- Pricing
- 80%8.0
- Order entry
- 90%9.0
- Credit card processing
- 60%6.0
- Cost of goods sold
- 100%10.0
- Dashboards
- 80%8.0
- Standard reports
- 100%10.0
- Custom reports
- 100%10.0
- API for custom integration
- 100%10.0
- Plug-ins
- 100%10.0
- Role-based user permissions
- 100%10.0
- Single sign-on capability
- 100%10.0
- As a consultant implementing SAP B1, I can only give examples of SAP B1's affect on clients.
- Capital equipment company heavy user of manufacturing functions: full cost rollup functionality eliminated errors in knowing the full cost of a machine (11 level BOM, 3000 plus parts). Let to proper pricing of end products and improved profitability.
- Automotive aftermarket company - using SAP enabled them to quickly add and manage 600+ parts to their product mix for a major retail customer - doubling their business with that customer.
- A manufacturer of arts and crafts products integrated SAP to Amazon and generated an incremental $60,000 in revenues per month.
- A distributor with sales employees all over North America integrated the sales employee portal to SAP and now allows these employees to have up to the minute real time information on orders, invoices, stock, etc. - on their i-Pads, while at the customer.
None of the products were developed from scratch and fully integrated from the beginning. SAP puts more effort and dollars into R&D than any of their competitors - combined. And it shows in the products being delivered and the continuous improvements being made.
The key thing - I have no doubt that the SAP will continue to improve upon functionality and the underlying technology for SAP over the next 10 years or more.
1 - uses all ERP modules for SAP - have implemented over 30 customers, each with varying use of modules
2. Knowledge of the SAP Business One database structures - allows me to write queries, alerts, formatted searches and Crystal reports from the data.
3. Knowledge of the setup functions required for SAP Business One.
4. Knowledge of when a function requested by a customer cannot be performed by standard SAP Business One - AND the knowledge of how to extend SAP by creating an add-on product. Detailed add-on design capabilities.
- I am a consultant, so internally I am using SAP Business One for accounting.
- My expertise is in inventory - manufacturing and distribution. This entails detailed use of the product with sales order processing, purchasing and all aspects of inventory control.
- Combining my knowledge of the customer's business processes with the capabilities and extended capabilities of SAP Business One to make a more flexible and user friendly implementation.
- Integration of SAP Business One with 2 label programs - Bar Tender from Seagull Scientific and P-Touch editor from Brother. Allows users to automate & control the production of labels at various points in the workflow. Included are a couple of label systems that are integrated with automated packaging systems - direct to SAP delivery orders.
- Integration of SAP Business One to meet Automotive EDI requirements.
- Addition of a performance measurement program to allow SAP users to review a vendor's on time delivery and fill rates. Same program also show how you are doing with deliveries to your customers.
- Added a 'remanufacturing' functionality to SAP Business One to allow users o 'repair' drive shafts, pumps, engines, etc - items that are brought in for repair and the same item is shipped back to the customer.
- Added a surcharge handling function to a customer that has a high percentage of copper within their product (solenoids).
- Added hand held units to collect physical count information and pass this to SAP Business One - eliminating the need to hand write the data and face transposition errors.
- In plant data collection for production work orders.
- Many ways - I am a consultant, so whatever the next customer requires.
It is the best product on the market - head and shoulders above other ERP packages I have looked at or implemented in the past.
Add-ons to SAP B1 can also be added as specific needs are encountered that are not closely met by the standard product. These may be required early in the product life because of the nature of your business, or as you expand the use of SAP B1.