Looking for an expert’s opinion on whether or not ERP is right for your business? You could do worse than to ask the internet. Put “reasons to implement ERP” into a search engine, and you’ll find pages and pages of articles in which writers of all backgrounds have grappled with the subject, and often with a remarkable level of insight and clarity.
Most field service organisations have one simple objective: to get the right engineer to the right place at the right time. The better their ability to do this, the better the outcome for their business – less time lost, more profitable service visits, and a happier and healthier customer base.
If you’re reading this, there’s a chance you’re already aware that SAP Business One is a popular and well-established ERP solution for small and medium-sized companies. According to SAP’s website, it currently counts over 50,000 users in 150 countries, and there’s an active community of partners and add-on developers that help customers get the most possible value out of the software.
{{cta(‘55527b8f-9194-4ce9-9b57-6d1b07078b63’)}}
Choosing the right job costing solution for your business may not sound like a particularly difficult task. In fact, it may not even sound necessary in the first place – not when you can rely on Excel or a basic project management tool to do more or less the same job.
Not long ago, we wrote about the challenges of getting an ERP solution like SAP Business One set up for mobile working. This might sound like a simple enough job, but it’s actually a little more involved than installing a vendor’s app on a handful of devices – there are also important decisions to make around factors like security, usability and cost, and even a small misjudgement could spell the difference between a successful rollout and a failed one.
Not long ago, we blogged about the cost of SAP Business One. Even with its small business focus, implementing SAP Business One can be a big investment – particularly if the user wants to get the best possible return on the project, and therefore spends the time and money to deliver an effective and future-proof rollout.
There’s something of an appetite for new technology in the field service industry at the moment. Thanks to trends like the cloud, mobile and big data, organisations are starting to see much more potential in their service teams to act as engines of revenue: teams empowered with the right technology to drive performance and profitability, and not just break even.
Back in the day, companies didn’t have a whole lot of options when it came to where to host their IT. Running an ERP solution like SAP Business One often meant putting time, money and office space towards setting up and managing an internal server – regardless of whether the resources were free and readily available.
If you’re an existing user of SAP Business One, or you’re thinking about rolling it out in your organisation, you’ll know it has a range of mobile features that make it a great option for ERP connectivity in the field. Whether you need sales, inventory management or reporting functionality, it’s all possible with little more than a consumer-grade handset and an internet connection.
Back in January, we published a blog post on some of the new features appearing in SAP Business One 9.2. At that point, this version of the software was only available through SAP’s Early Adopter Care Program – you had to be customer or partner to try it out.
