If your company is a small or medium-sized business that needs to integrate accounting, sales and purchasing data, SAP Business One is a highly competent solution. The system works extremely well for manufacturers, but also companies in the retail and wholesale distribution sectors. In our many years as a SAP Business One partner, we’ve implemented the system in a wide variety of businesses across the UK.
If your managing director called you into his/her office and asked for an accurate update on the costs of every project currently in progress across the business, could you provide it?
Excel has been one of the finance director’s most reliable tools for a long time. Particularly in small and medium-sized companies, Microsoft’s industry standard spreadsheet application is a versatile and accessible platform that serves a huge variety of purposes in the average business. On its 25th anniversary back in 2010, Excel was even described as “perhaps the most revolutionary software program ever” by Business Insider.
SAP Business One is now used by more than 47,000 companies worldwide to streamline key processes, access vital information about their business in real-time and drive growth.
Visibility of data. Access to job information in real time. Regular readers of this blog will know that these are recurring themes for us here at APH.
Cash-flow and forecasting – as a finance director, a large number of the conversations you have with your MD on a daily basis probably revolve around these two issues.
If you’re planning to deploy a new ERP system and you’ve opted for SAP Business One then congratulations, you’ve made a good decision. But don’t pat yourself on the back just yet. The next stage of the process is implementation – and the stakes are high.
Engineering services companies need a robust and efficient job costing tool. Too often, their existing software is incapable of meeting this requirement. They rely on a combination of accountancy software, project management applications and spreadsheets that don’t share data with each other, and therefore cannot provide the visibility needed to cost jobs accurately. For these businesses, being able to monitor the profitability of each project as it progresses can seem like a distant dream. But it doesn’t have to be…
Almost every company can say their always busy, but not many of them generate the kind of profits they’d like to. In an industry like engineering services, it can seem the conveyor belt of contracts and projects is never-ending and there’s barely enough time to fit it all in, but your revenue figures never quite reflect that frantic level of activity.
