What is SAP Business One?

A single, affordable solution to manage your entire small business – from accounting and financials, purchasing, inventory, sales and customer relationships to reporting and analytics.


SAP Business One

Gain greater control over your business or subsidiary with SAP Business One. Streamline key processes, gain greater insight into your business, and make decisions based on real-time information – so you can drive profitable growth.

On-premise or cloud deployment

  • Integrated business intelligence
  • Integration with the SAP HANA platform
  • Quick deployment

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Financial Management

Improve margins, reduce errors, and drive more profitable decision-making with a complete set of tools for streamlined financial operations.

Financial Management

Accounting

Automate the handling of all key accounting processes such as journal entries, accounts receivable and accounts payable.

Controlling

Manage cash flow, track fixed assets, control budgets, and monitor project costs with greater accuracy and efficiency.

Fixed asset management

Simplify the management of your fixed assets with a virtual function, eliminating the need for repetitive manual data entry.

Banking and reconciliation

Process reconciliations, bank statements, and payments faster through various methods including checks, cash, and bank transfers.

Financial reporting and analysis

Create standard or customised reports from real-time data to improve your business planning and audit review processes.

Sales and Customer Management

Oversee the entire sales process and customer lifecycle more efficiently – from initial contact to final sale, after-sales service, and support.

Sales and opportunity management

Track all sales opportunities and lead activities throughout the sales cycle, from the first contact to deal closing.

Marketing campaign management

Create, manage, and analyse marketing activities to turn prospects into customers and grow sales and profitability.

Customer management

Store all critical customer data in one place by synchronising and managing customer contacts stored in Microsoft Outlook.

Service management

Craft and manage warranty contracts and service agreements efficiently, and enter and respond to service calls quickly.

Reporting and analysis

Design detailed reports on all aspects of the sales process – from forecasting to pipeline tracking – by using templates.

Mobile sales

Empower your entire sales organisation to manage information on the move anytime, anywhere, and on any mobile device.

Sales and Customer Management

Purchasing and Inventory Control

Optimise purchasing practices and control costs by managing the complete order-to-pay cycle including receipts, invoices, returns, and payments.

Purchasing and Inventory Control

Procurement

Streamline procurement processes such as requisition requests, purchase order and good receipts creation, and returns management. Improve audits by matching documents, viewing information trails, and handling multiple currencies.

Master data management

Centralise purchasing processes by managing detailed data in a user-friendly interface. View account balance and purchase analyses while maintaining detailed item purchasing information with price lists and tax information.

Warehouse and accounting integration

Benefit from real-time synchronisation of goods receipts and inventory levels in the warehouse to perform purchase planning with ease and create an accounts payable invoice automatically from a purchase order or goods receipt.

Accounts payable

Lower costs and optimise your supply-chain relationships. Process accounts payable invoices, cancellations, and credit memos with a purchase order reference; plan material needs; and schedule purchases accordingly.

Reporting

Generate integrated reports with real-time data and display them in various report formats or dashboards to gain an overview of what matters most to your business, whether you’re using your desktop or your mobile device.

Business Intelligence

Create timely and accurate reports based on company-wide data with analytics and reporting tools.

Report creation and customisation

Access data from multiple sources, create new reports and customise existing ones in a variety of layouts with minimal IT overhead.

Interactive analysis

See your business from a variety of perspectives by using SAP Business One integrated with standard Microsoft Excel functionalities.

Intuitive tools

Get insights faster with the ability to drag and relate and drill down data and use search assistance and workflow-based alerts.

Analytics with predefined metrics

Improve your cash balance visibility and sales performance dramatically with analytics and predefined key performance indicators.

Powerful data visualisations

Make better decisions by enhancing your reports with powerful visualisations.

Business Intelligence

Analytics and Reporting

Empower your employees to make smart, confident decisions faster by capturing all critical information and making it instantly available company-wide.

Analytics and Reporting

Dashboards and reports

Design intuitive, interactive dashboards and reports that answer your most pressing questions. Managers can also track revenues, costs, and cash flow accurately; assess performance; and take swift corrective action.

Real-time analytics

Access information faster and evaluate it with powerful analytics in real time. With SAP Business One you can simplify data searching and the on-demand creation of standard or ad hoc reports.

Industry-Specific Capabilities

Take advantage of extensive industry-specific functionalities, best practices, and processes with tools designed for small and midsize businesses.

Consumer products

Align every aspect of your operations to the needs of modern consumers. Anticipate, plan, and manage demand to deliver the consumer goods and products shoppers crave.

Manufacturing

Meet customer demand and develop new revenue streams by shrinking supply chain costs, speeding time to profit, shortening cycle times, and minimising scrap and rework.

Professional services

Deliver consistent, high-value services by establishing a repeatable process for service delivery while improving resource planning, project management, and billing.

Retail

Give consumers the products, information, and personalised experiences they want. Harness real-time customer and point-of-sale insights and optimise operations end to end..

Wholesale distribution

Respond to customer and supplier demand with flexible, tightly integrated processes. Improve the entire business from planning to inventory and supply-chain management.

In-Memory Platform

In-Memory Platform

Optimise decision-making across your business

Increase margins and grow your business without complicating your on-premise or cloud-based IT landscape. With the SAP Business One application you can use embedded analytics and high-performance functionality to work more efficiently than ever before.

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Technical Information

Technical Information

View technical information and documentation for implementing, managing, and securing SAP Business One.

Hardware requirements

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Data security

Focus on your business and customer relationships with a proactive, predictive approach to maintaining compliance and data security in the cloud and within an on-premise data centre.

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Deployment options

Cloud

Deploy SAP Business One Cloud for a monthly license fee to extend your capabilities anytime and anywhere the business grows – without the intervention of IT.

On Premise

Gain direct control of your ERP data with an on-premise deployment. You can enable flexible reporting while complying with internal data security policies.

Mobile

Manage your business on the move by instantly accessing integrated analytics for real-time decision-making – anytime, anywhere, and on any mobile device.

Compliance

Find out how SAP regularly undergoes external reviews and audits to check compliance and supports data security and privacy regulations worldwide.

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Implementation, Integration, and Extensibility

Implementation, Integration, and Extensibility

Access the latest guides and information on implementing, integrating, and extending SAP Business One.

Implementation

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Integration

Standard integration

Use one source to access data tools such as dashboards; mobile apps; and automated quotations, purchase orders and invoicing.

Subsidiary integration

Unify SAP Business One running in subsidiaries into a headquarter location with preconfigured scenarios and tailored content.

Integration framework for development

Enable scenarios such as non-SAP solutions, cloud extensions, electronic data interchange, collaboration, and Web services.

Intercompany integration

Replicate master data and transactions automatically and support reporting and collaboration across multiple implementations.

Extensibility

Find important information, tips, and discussions with experts about SAP Business One Extensibility APIs and tools.

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