Saturday, May 31, 2014

Run Better With The SAP Business One Starter Package

By Susan Balintong


Rather than toiling with spreadsheets or being limited by stand-alone business software, choose the starter package for the SAP Business One application. Gain instant visibility and control while establishing an integrated software foundation to manage your business and support your evolving business needs.

With today's technological advances, there is a growing need for connectivity and information accessibility as your customers expect you always to have up-to-date information at your fingertips. They would like to know what's available, how much it costs, and when you can deliver it. And to stay on top of things, people and businesses are increasingly turning to smart phones.

With the SAP Business One mobile application for iPhone, SAP empowers you by providing immediate access to the most relevant information to enable you to run your business from any location, at any time. You can manage customer and partner data, process pending approval requests, view reports, and much more.

Key Features: Task and activity management, Ability to receive alerts on important business events; Management of approval tasks with the ability to drill into related business data; Access to built-in, mobile-customised reports from SAP Crystal Reports software; Real-time management of key customer and vendor data; Inventory monitoring and intuitive browsing of detailed item data; Flexible technology to add custom features; Licensing and Availability - Is available for free - no setup or usage fee; Can be installed in minutes; Supports all languages of the SAP Business One application; Is compatible with iPhone and iPod touch and requires iOS 3.1.3 or higher

Ready to Use with Unlimited Potential: SAP Business One is widely used as a single, affordable application for managing business processes. It helps streamline operations across finance, sales and purchasing, customer relationship management (CRM), inventory, light manufacturing, light professional services, and operations. The SAP Business One starter package addresses your fundamental business requirements with basic finance, sales, purchasing, CRM, and inventory functionality. This functional scope is particularly suited for companies in the wholesale distribution, high-value-item retail, and light professional services industries. It's available for all countries and languages supported by SAP Business One and is offered as a prepackaged solution for specific countries. The table compares functionality between the starter package and the full version of SAP Business One.

SAP Business One: Flexibility and Adaptability:Powerful tools let you tailor the application to meet your changing business needs. Users can specify their preferences for fields, data type, policies, queries and reports without time-consuming IT involvement. Changes go into effect immediately across all relevant areas, so you can adapt the application to fit the way you do business.Various levels of customisation make it easy to add unique business processes to a standardised system. Integration capabilities offer flexible integration between external systems and SAP Business One.

Purchasing and Supplier Relationships:Every small business needs a systematic approach to managing the procurement process, from creating purchase orders to paying vendors. The starter package helps manage the complete order-to-pay cycle, including receipts, invoices, and returns.

View and interact with alerts and approval tasks: Get alerts on specific events such as deviations from approved discounts, prices, credit limits, or targeted gross profits - using an intuitive interface that allows you to sort various alerts by date, type, or priority; View and complete approval requests, and drill into the relevant data or metric before making your decision - with just a few taps; Ask for additional information or provide comments to requesters in the approval and rejection process.

Access real-time reports: Access built-in reports from SAP Crystal Reports software that present key information about your business; Add your own customised reports to the application, and share them via e-mail. Manage customer and partner data: Access and manage your customer and partner information, including addresses, phone numbers, and contact details; view historical activities and special prices; Create new customer and partner data, and add new activities as new opportunities arise; Have all changes automatically synchronised with the SAP Business One application on the back end.

Check on-hand inventory and item data: Monitor inventory levels, and access detailed information about your products, including purchasing and sales price, available quantity, manufacturer, shipping type, product specifications, and pictures. ustomise by adding new features: Add custom features to the application by working with your SAP partner to meet your exact needs.




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