Distribution based businesses may be dealing with direct customers, online e-commerce or even representing various brands with various branding and eCommerce sites taking the product to market. Sales and Inventory management that were once complicated are now coordinated by SAP Business One through real-time integration and your choice of fulfilment platforms. With SAP Business One, you can integrate with your customer and supply chain whilst benefiting from Warehousing, 3PL logistics integration and Purchase Planning. Forecast and simulate your demand, optimise inventory and be proactive for inventory levels.
SAP Business One provides the tools to help you efficiently manage the entire sales process and customer lifecycle – from initial contact to final sale to after-sales service and support. Its integrated functionality provides a complete view of prospects and customers so you can better understand and meet their needs. As a result, SAP Business One can manage the process of managing prospects into customers, increase sales and profitability, and improve customer satisfaction.
Simply put SAP Business One capability for Inventory is class leading and connects all the business processes with industry specific capability on-premise, hosted and through mobile devices.
The strength of SAP Business One for wholesale distribution companies lies in effectively managing inventory. That means having the right material on hand when a customer needs it, but without having dead stock sitting around costing money. By using the forecasting and planning capabilities SAP Business One can help you to ensure that you maintain the appropriate amount of adjusted safety stock and through it all, you have to be able to take advantage of your suppliers’ special offers.
Sales management tools in SAP Business One allows you to create price quotes, enter customer orders, set up deliveries, update inventory balances, and manage all invoices and accounts receivable. SAP Business One offers efficient document development for every step throughout the sales process, including quotations. All relevant information is moved from one document to the next – from sales quotation to the sales order to the delivery note to the AR invoice – saving you time and reducing errors. SAP business One also gives you the flexibility to adapt the steps in the sales process to fit your needs and specific business processes.
SAP Business One offers a simple yet powerful planning function to help you schedule and manage items that will be produced or purchased using a variety of criteria. SAP Business One replaces informal, ad-hoc, error-prone production scheduling with a more structured process using better information from SAP Business One inherent capabilities such as bills of material, inventory data, inputs from scheduled production and purchase orders, and demand inputs from actual and forecast orders.
Whether its the myriad of standard reports that allow you to compare any date range to any date range or using Microsoft PowerBI or indeed using the inbuilt Report Designer or ultimately the Analytics ability of SAP Business One powered by HANA - SAP provide the answers to the questions! Obtain a unique, time-phased view of business data with dynamic analysis reports enabling you to readily spot trends, patterns, and behaviours of customers, items, suppliers, pick performance etc.
SAP Business One provides for management of the item master data, serial numbers, and price lists, as well as being able to define alternative items, perform inventory increase or decrease adjustments, execute cycle counts, and generate pick lists for open sales orders.
SAP Business One supports the real-time collaboration that companies need and enables:
Simplify pricing, contract, and order management to close faster.
Improve revenue and margin with insight and sales-process support.
Enable collaboration across the team that transforms the way sales operates.
Simplify pricing, contract, and order management.
Utilise document relationships to show complete life cycle and history.
The SAP® Business One application offers an affordable way to manage your entire business – from sales and customer relationships to financials and operations. Have a look at this introductory video for more!
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