What is SAP business One? If you look at to SAP Official website (www.sap.com), The SAP Business One application integrates all core business functions across your entire company – including financials, sales, customer relationship management, inventory, and operations. Unlike many other small business solutions on the market today, SAP Business One is a single application, eliminating the need for separate installations and complex integration of multiple modules. if you search on Wikipedia.org, SAP Business One is an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) software that targets business software requirements of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) from SAP AG based at Walldorf, Germany.
My version as nubie, SAP Business One is an application that integrates all of business functions so the information moves in real time.
SAP Business One contains 15 core modules:
- Administration Module, where configuration is performed
- Financials Module, where various accounting and financial activities are conducted
- Sales Opportunities Module, where existing customers and potential accounts are structured tracking
- Sales Module, where orders are entered, shipped and invoiced
- Purchasing Module, where purchase orders are issued and goods received into inventory
- Business Partners Module, where Business Partners (customers, vendors, and leads) are contacted and maintained
- Banking Module, where cash is received and paid out
- Inventory Module, where Inventory is valued and managed
- Production Module, where bill of materials is defined and manufacturing is tracked
- MRP Module, where purchase and production planning takes place
- Service Module, where after-service products are managed
- Human Resources Module, where employee information is kept
- Reports Module, where system-default and user-defined reports are generated (as on-screen tables, printouts or Excel files: Print Layout Designer, Advanced Layout Designer (To be Discontinued in 2009 due to purchase of Business Objects), XL Reporter and Crystal Reports 2008 Basic(One Free License per customer))
- E-commerce, allowing customers to buy and sell online to consumers or other businesses.
- WebCRM. Allows employees to manage customer support cases, salespeople to manage prospects, and customers to submit cases all via a web browser client.
source: wikipedia.ord and SAP.com
It can be a bit of an eye-opener when SAP Business One first goes in, particularly if you've jumped straight from doing the accounting on spreadsheets, like we did. But once you're used to it, you'll wonder how you ever got anything down without it.
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