SAP Business ByDesign
SAP Business ByDesign is a cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform designed for medium-sized organisations, but with massive flexibility and scalability. Its business management tools and real-time reporting allow you to track processes end-to-end across a variety of industries and disciplines, including CRM, HR, supply chain, project management, accounts and finance, as part of an almost limitless list.
ByDesign, sometimes abbreviated to ByD, is a subscription service, which helps to spread the cost for fast-growing businesses. You get built-in business analytics, support and tutorials, to help you make the best possible use of the platform.
SAP Business ByDesign For Growing Brands
SAP ByD supports medium-sized companies with anywhere from a handful of employees to as many as 5,000. Whatever your size and however fast you are growing, you get comprehensive, scalable ERP capabilities, delivered seamlessly as a managed cloud-based service.
Your key functions, such as HR, CRM, supply chain and procurement, accounting and finance, are all brought together under a single central application, giving you maximum visibility and simplified management. Save time, eliminate complexities during growth, and streamline your processes for maximum productivity.
Benefits of SAP Business ByDesign
SAP Business ByDesign does not ignore the challenges of rapid growth. Instead, it transforms them into opportunities to gain deep insight and instant experience.
- Make internal collaboration easier.
- Make processes more scalable and flexible.
- Automate workflows to save personnel hours.
- Improve compliance with regulators.
- Adapt quickly to new demands on your business.
All of this is delivered via a platform with AES-256 encryption, SOC 2 compliance, and from multiple datacentres in different physical locations around the world, so your data is never at risk.
Why Choose SAP Business ByDesign?
SAP Business ByDesign is an end-to-end business management solution and ERP platform with all the benefits of cloud hosting and SaaS delivery. It offers enterprise-level capabilities to medium-sized firms, allowing your company to ‘dress for the job you want’.
Professional support means deployment is easy and on-demand, and as you add more users in the future, the software will scale as required. You can also enhance the functionality of SAP ByD with personalised screens, dashboards and themes, while ensuring employees only have access to the elements they need to maximise productivity.
INDUSTRY CAPABILITIES
SAP ByD is massively versatile, with benefits for almost any industry or discipline. Here are some examples of how SAP ByD can help in specific roles.
CRM & INSIGHT
Accounts and finance teams are under pressure to deliver reliable results with minimal resources, and always complying with the relevant regulations. With SAP ByD you can manage multiple accounts, even across different countries and currencies, and comply with the appropriate reporting standards in each jurisdiction.
Streamline your processes for more effective core company accounts, and in turn improve your cash flow and liquidity. This helps to keep your business further in the black, so you can grow through reinvestment with less external finance needed. Data is captured in real-time, so at any moment you can generate reports that show your genuine financial position with a very high degree of accuracy.
FINANCIAL & ACCOUNTING MANAGEMENT
resources, and always complying with the relevant regulations. With SAP ByD you can manage multiple accounts, even across different countries and currencies, and comply with the appropriate reporting standards in each jurisdiction.
Streamline your processes for more effective core company accounts, and in turn improve your cash flow and liquidity. This helps to keep your business further in the black, so you can grow through reinvestment with less external finance needed. Data is captured in real-time, so at any moment you can generate reports that show your genuine financial position with a very high degree of accuracy.
HR
Improve efficiency in HR processes and HR management alike, while combining the two under a single platform that compounds those gains. SAP Business ByDesign simplifies onboarding new employees, managing payroll and benefits.
Track labour and personnel hours, reduce human errors and administrative mistakes when compiling payroll reports, and increase your use of self-service at all levels in your workforce hierarchy, to empower individuals and reduce your admin burden.
MANUFACTURING
Monitor manufacturing operations in real time using SAP Business ByDesign. Meet your service level agreements and customer delivery deadlines, while optimising processes to cut costs on an ongoing basis.
SAP Business ByD allows exception-driven planning and analysis of material flows, multi-level material planning, and demand forecasting based on detailed historical data. Your predictions and reports are intelligent and comprehensive, assisted by network diagrams and Gantt charts for an immediate, in-depth overview of manufacturing schedules.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
SAP ByD can automate and integrate your professional services across the board, including client management, project management, portfolio planning and finance processes.
You benefit from real-time tracking of projects and goals, from day one until beyond their delivery date. Reduce overdue delivery, improve service targeting and gain a competitive edge over your rivals by building a brand reputation for delivering maximum value to your clients.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
A centralised, personalised dashboard and comprehensive analytics combine to give you on-demand insight into every aspect of each project your business undertakes.
Define and track KPIs for each project and connect them with core company financial data, to keep one eye on the bottom line in the context of operations and customer interactions. Accelerate decision-making on issues like growth, productivity and efficiency, while making those decisions more well-informed: decisions are both faster and better.
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Collect and compile detailed supply chain data for instant supply and demand matching, allowing you to react more fluidly to shifting demand from customers and availability of suppliers. Become more efficient and flexible.
SAP Business ByD gives you clarity of vision when monitoring complex supply chains and networks, with better planning of material flows and an exception-driven approach. Inventory management is easier, distribution is more reliable, and costs are more closely controlled.
KEY FEATURES
SAP Business ByDesign offers a set of key features to improve efficiency and operations, while supporting employees in the widest possible variety of ways:
On-site and mobile business support when and where it is needed
Optimised cash flow and financial process management
Improved focus on customers from sales and marketing to distribution
Management support for employees to reach their full potential
Integrated logistics, supply chain and production output tracking
Systematic tools and reports to improve project management
Smart support to make purchasing decisions based on timely, in-depth data
Reach and exceed your business goals via corporate performance management
In addition, SAP ByD has a long list of technical features and capabilities as standard, plus the ability to adapt to meet almost any industry or sector-specific demand for bespoke features.
TECHNICAL FEATURES
SAP Business ByDesign’s technical features integrate with industry-leading software platforms and core office technologies to establish completely seamless operating procedures and maximise efficiency gains.
MICROSOFT OFFICE INTEGRATION
SAP ByD can work with Microsoft Outlook to synchronise your tasks, appointments, emails and address book, for a smooth transition when using ByD for the first time.
This also helps with employee onboarding, as new hires will feel more familiar thanks to the integration of Microsoft Office programs widely used by other businesses and at home.
DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT
Give users the flexibility to manage documents, with easy access to email, fax and print resources, and authorisation for external communications.
Create simple ways to schedule new tasks, including directly via email, for better time management by personnel.
WORKFLOW OPTIMISATION
Create customised rules for workflow configuration, based on business scenarios and project planning.
Specify multiple approval steps where appropriate, to ensure workflows are independent where possible, but still in line with your approved business processes.
USER PREFERENCES
Put personnel in control with personalised dashboards and the ability to customise embedded reports, on-screen updates and shortcuts.
Layouts can be defined using a business-wide theme for in-house branding, and individual screens can be adjusted to better suit specific user roles and preferences.
PERSONALISATION & ADAPTABILITY
The adaptability and personalisation potential of SAP Business ByDesign extends across the platform, and our team can work with you to understand exactly what your business needs from your ERP platform.
We can tailor your ByD installation to serve those needs, with a firm focus on outcomes and results. Personalisation is a tool to improve efficiency and productivity, and ultimately to generate maximum revenues for your business, and this will always be our goal.
Thanks to the cloud-based, SaaS delivery of SAP Business ByDesign, you benefit from automatic updates and new capabilities, with close control over which users have access to which elements of the platform. The application itself is modular, so as your business grows and your needs change, we can scale and adjust your SAP ByD deployment to ensure it continues to give you what you want from it.
VALUE
SAP Business ByDesign delivers value across the board in a variety of ways. Here are just some of the examples of how clients benefit from the added value of deploying SAP ByD.
CONTROL
Data that was previously held in silos by different departments is integrated seamlessly into a single platform, allowing reports to take into account all of the different elements of a project, from sales and marketing through to delivery. Teams can collaborate more closely and, crucially, nobody is excluded or left behind.
INSIGHT
A comprehensive, all-encompassing database unleashes the full potential of in-depth analysis so the insight generated gives you the real picture, in a single company-wide snapshot. You no longer have to manually compile disparate data into a single report. Everything is done for you, and it’s done in real time.
PROFITABILITY
Profitability is, quite literally, the bottom line of business. By integrating projects and processes, personnel and material flows, you can eliminate previously overlooked inefficiencies and match the gains made across multiple projects, teams or departments. All of this drives maximum return on investment through cost savings and improved productivity.
SCALABILITY
SAP Business ByDesign is ideal for fast-growing firms. It is pitched at mid-sized businesses but has the scalability to support several thousands of personnel. SAP ByD doesn’t just cope with growth, it unlocks it, by allowing you to address the obstacles that may have been holding you back. Your ERP platform offers the insight you need to make rapid progress, and is flexible enough to scale with your growth so there’s no need to start all over again with an enterprise-level product.
