SAP Business One Consultant Newsflash: SB1 Selection and Implementation

SAP B1 is relatively new ERP and MRP application for small and mid-size business.  We recommend you to consider SB1 if you are feeling that you outgrew small business accounting, such as PeachTree, Quickbooks.  It should fit to the majority of small businesses, however some of the industries might capitalize on pretty cool SAP BO modules and features.   We would like to give you information session in this small publication: 1. CRM.  If you have sales people, who are doing full cycle sales: registering leads, qualifying prospects, giving sales quotes, closing sales and then transferring new customers to customer service department – please review SB1 CRM.  In fact, you can purchase special user licenses for CRM users at discounted price 2. Service Contracts.  If you sell your serialized items under warranty contracts, you should review Service functionality.  You can do maintenance and warranty service, which could be either non-chargeable or chargeable to your customer – decision could be made by your service technician in SB1 based on various criteria: price of the spare parts, number of required hours, expenses, etc. 3. Light Manufacturing and Assembly.  Here you have pretty robust small business discrete manufacturing with bill of materials, simple ERP, inventory replenishment engine.  One of the cool features in SAP Business One is disassembly order, where you can receive returned assembled item and then completely disassemble it into parts and place them back to your Inventory bins 4. SB1 data conversion.  You do not need external tools, you should use Data Transformation Workbench.  In Workbench you could use preconfigured Excel templates, or if your conversion is more complex, you could deploy ODBC templates, where you will need to replicate the same document schemas as in Excel templates 5. SAP Business One in eCommerce scenarios.  If you launch ecommerce business from scratches, you should consider deploying ecommerce module of SB1.  However, and it is often the case, when you already have legacy ecommerce website, you could deploy simple SB1 SDK programming to connect ecommerce web application with SB1 backend

SAP B1 is relatively new ERP and MRP application for small and mid-size business.  We recommend you to consider SB1 if you are feeling that you outgrew small business accounting, such as PeachTree, Quickbooks.  It should fit to the majority of small businesses, however some of the industries might capitalize on pretty cool SAP BO modules and features.   We would like to give you information session in this small publication:

1. CRM.  If you have sales people, who are doing full cycle sales: registering leads, qualifying prospects, giving sales quotes, closing sales and then transferring new customers to customer service department – please review SB1 CRM.  In fact, you can purchase special user licenses for CRM users at discounted price

2. Service Contracts.  If you sell your serialized items under warranty contracts, you should review Service functionality.  You can do maintenance and warranty service, which could be either non-chargeable or chargeable to your customer – decision could be made by your service technician in SB1 based on various criteria: price of the spare parts, number of required hours, expenses, etc.

3. Light Manufacturing and Assembly.  Here you have pretty robust small business discrete manufacturing with bill of materials, simple ERP, inventory replenishment engine.  One of the cool features in SAP Business One is disassembly order, where you can receive returned assembled item and then completely disassemble it into parts and place them back to your Inventory bins

4. SB1 data conversion.  You do not need external tools, you should use Data Transformation Workbench.  In Workbench you could use preconfigured Excel templates, or if your conversion is more complex, you could deploy ODBC templates, where you will need to replicate the same document schemas as in Excel templates

5. SAP Business One in eCommerce scenarios.  If you launch ecommerce business from scratches, you should consider deploying ecommerce module of SB1.  However, and it is often the case, when you already have legacy ecommerce website, you could deploy simple SB1 SDK programming to connect ecommerce web application with SB1 backend

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Andrew Karasev, Alba Spectrum LLC, help@albaspectrum.com, http://www.albaspectrum.com, 1-866-528-0577 , subdivision of M2-D2, SAP Business One VAR and Reseller in Illinois, Georgia, South Carolina, California, Texas. Please visit our info portal Pegas Planet: http://www.pegasplanet.com. Local Service in Chicago, Atlanta, San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange County, Houston. We also have SAP Business One Software Development Factory and SB1 Technical Support Call Center, serving USA country side businesses and internationally: Canada, Brazil. Illinois practice: Naperville, Aurora, Plainfield, Marseilles, Ottawa, DeKalb, Springfield, Oakbrook, Glenn Ellyn, Wheaton, Bolingbrook, Romeoville, Lisle, Melrose Park, Brookfield. San Diego and LA practice: Rancho Bernardo, Oceanside, Poway, Long Beach, Irvine, Mission Viejo, San Marcos, Carlsbad, La Jolla, Escondido. Houston Practice: Dallas, Galveston, Sugar Land, Pearland, Katy, Pasadena, Rosenberg, League City, Galena Park

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