Why SAP Business One For Manufacturing Companies

SAP Business One is an integrated, affordable, business management solution built from the ground up to meet the immediate and long-term needs of small and midsize businesses. It provides a true and unified view of operations across customer relationship management, manufacturing, and finance. Simple to use yet powerful, SAP Business One puts business users in charge, arming you with the critical, up-to-theminute information you need to make smart business decisions. SAP Business One supports every critical business function, allowing you to stay on top of your business and grow profitability. And you can easily adapt applications to meet new requirements. Non-technical users have the power to make critical changes on their own, and the system can easily accommodate new functionalities when required.

Advanced Business Management

SAP Business One instantly notifies users with scheduled activities in addition to system generated alerts like Minimum Inventory, Overdue Task and more. User generated alerts are quick and easy to setup. Want to know which customers have not placed an order in 30 days? Create an alert!

Simple yet Powerful Workflow

SAP Business One provides workflow-based alerts that monitor, notify, and take action based on specific events. Any breach of predefined business policies triggers an immediate notification of the event. SAP Business One goes an extra step and automatically initiates a workflow process to direct resources and prompts a response to the event.

Setting up new Workflows only takes minutes. In this example, Purchase Orders greater then 10,000.00 automatically launches a formal Workflow / Approval process.

User defined queries can also launch Workflows, putting the power of approval and best business practices in your hands.

Any number of users can be involved with a specific Workflow.

Microsoft Integration
SAP Business One is fully integrated with the Microsoft Office suite of products. This enables seamless communication within your organization and includes functionality such as sharing contacts, appointments, and tasks. Microsoft Outlook Synchronize customers, contacts, appointments, tasks and more between Microsoft Outlook and SAP Business One. Create snapshots of customer or supplier activity to take with you on customer / supplier visits. Microsoft Excel Instantly send the contents of any screen, form or report to Microsoft Excel. Generate powerful Dashboard reports with XL reporter. Schedule reports in Excel to be e-mailed for any duration, at any frequency. Microsoft Word Instantly mail merge data from SAP Business One in to standard and custom Microsoft Word forms. Generate SOWs (Statement of Work) in seconds, migrating customer and job information into a boiler place SOW template.

Unlimited User Defined Tables and Fields

Every company is different, and each and every company strives for that competitive edge. Easily capture demographics, marketing initiatives, additional quality information and more with user defined tables and fields. Example Need to keep track of molds, mold status and calibration

Example Need to manage containers for import and export

These are just two real examples of how user defined tables and fields can add instant value to your organization.

User Defined Queries and Formatted Searches

SAP Business One enables users to quickly generate new queries based on the data the user has access to view. The user defined queries can be stored and recalled at any time, dramatically adding value to the overall business solution. Formatted Searches are taking the user defined queries, and enabling them from within data entry forms, further adding significant value. Here is a real example of a company who desired to see production information for parts being sold from a sales order. The first step is to create the desired query. Example Query to deliver production information

All of the user defined queries in SAP Business One have instant graphing capabilities built right into the query.

Example Leveraging this new query from Sales Order Entry

With SAP Business One, not only can you run the query from the data entry form, you can also pass information to the query, so only relative information is returned. This is the same query as above, but this time run as a Formatted Search.

Light Manufacturing in SAP Business One

Coupled with the flexibility and power of everything discussed to this point, SAP Business One also includes simple yet powerful manufacturing capabilities, ideal for the light manufacturing company. With SAP Business One, light manufacturing companies get: Lot and Serial control Backflushing Capabilities in Production Standard, Special and Disassembly Production Orders Project Cost Tracking Labor Management Multi-Level Bill of Materials Extensive Item Master management Forecasting MRP (Material Requirements Planning) Multi-Warehouse capability FIFO Inventory Issue And more Item Master Management Easily manage part specific attributes like lot and serial control, purchasing parameters for each part, sales parameters for each part while providing attachments, production instructions and more. Example Item Master

Multi-Level Bill of Material SAP Business One supports an unlimited number of BOM levels, managing complete product structures with integrity and accuracy. Mass change capabilities exist in addition to generate Engineering Change activities and alerts, keeping everyone in the company informed and on the same page. Example Bill of Material

Not only are SAP Business Ones Bill of Materials powerful and flexible, users can store specific operation information, operation instructions and more, providing a single production view. Simple yet Powerful Production Orders SAP Business One delivers three types of Production Orders. Standard (default) - to produce a regular production item, using a production bill of materials. Special - to produce and repair items that may be any inventory item, service item or MRO item. (Maintenance Repair Overhaul) Disassembly - to dismantle a parent item to its components, using a production Bill of Materials. SAP Business One makes production easy. Everything production related can be accomplished from the production order, without having to move to other screens and forms. For example, users can issue material from a production order, record completions, create activities, capture quality activities and more all from the production order. The summary tab of the production enables users to drill down into the cost accounting details.

Example Production Order

Example Production Order Summary Drill Down

Advanced Manufacturing in SAP Business One

Advanced Manufacturing provides extended manufacturing production order capabilities to the SAP Business One application suite. Advanced Manufacturing is ideal for companies looking to track the detailed costs and production processes during the assembly or production of work orders. Production oriented organizations can now flexibly and easily manage their labor and material costs using touch screen and bar code collection devices each step of the way on the shop floor. With SAP Business One, Advanced manufacturing companies get: Lot and Serial control Backflushing Capabilities in Production Standard, Special and Disassembly Production Orders Project Cost Tracking Labor Management Multi-Level Bill of Materials Extensive Item Master management Forecasting MRP (Material Requirements Planning) Multi-Warehouse capability FIFO Inventory Issue ECN (Engineering Change Control) Revision Control Work Center Management Shop Floor Scheduling Bar Code, Shop Floor Data Collection Labor Overheads Setup Labor Additional Production Reports Enhanced Quality Control And more Advanced Manufacturing delivers the most requested, mission critical capabilities for companies who go beyond light manufacturing.

Example Work Center Management

Advanced Manufacturing enables companies to setup and define mission critical work centers, then schedule those work centers through a dynamic scheduling board. Example Dynamic Scheduling Board

Product Lifecycle Management can be a challenging task. Managing different revisions, change control, keeping everyone on the same page. Advanced Manufacturing makes it easy by automatically generating ECN documents when changes occur. SAP Business One preserves the product structure before the change, after the change, logging the date, time and user who actually made the change. No need to purchase a third party Product Lifecycle Management application with Advanced Manufacturing. Leveraging SAP Business Ones Workflow and alerts, proposed changes can be processed through a respective best business practice, ensuring proper impact analysis and notification is completed. Example ECN for an Assembly

Complete change history and audit ability exists for each and every change. Colors are utilized to help users quickly see quantity changes, part adds and subtractions etc. Shop Floor Data Collection Because SAP Business One is a real-time business management solution, it is imperative to capture shop floor activity as it occurs. Advanced Manufacturing provides this capability through numerous bar code devices and touch screens.

Many competitor solutions require a unique user ID to process shop floor changes, not SAP Business One. One names user enables real-time processing of all shop floor activity through the shop floor web based server.

Example Data Collection with Advanced Manufacturing

Easily record labor, view work instructions, videos, sign in, sign out, report labor on multiple jobs and more. Example Advanced Manufacturing Reporting WIP Summary and Status Report

Example Estimated Production Hours to Actual Hours Report

Example Shop Floor Dispatch Report

Example Shop Resource / Work Center Load Reporting

Better manage capacity constraints with Advanced Manufacturing. Knowing ahead of time enables companies to proactively allocate appropriate resources required to meet customer delivery dates.

Example Advanced Production Scheduling

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