As your business grows, one of the things you’ll eventually find is that your manual processes don’t cut it any more. A high level of activity is great, but not when it takes you three hours each day to compile financial reports and update your stock levels. Many companies turn to ERP for this reason, as it allows them to streamline their processes and keep all of their business data in one place.
If you’re a traditional retailer and new to ecommerce, you’ll probably eventually find yourself in a position where you need to upgrade your backend systems. The difficulty of having to manage stock across channels, get products to customers on time, and keep your prices and product information up to date can otherwise put a lot of pressure on your margins and customer satisfaction.
If you’re a SAP Business One user, you’ll know that it packs a punch when it comes to reporting. Creating an up-to-the-minute report or dashboard is something you can do in seconds and with ease, and combining the software with an external solution like QlikView or Microsoft Power BI provides an even greater degree of power and insight.
A couple of months ago, we published a blog post on the cost of SAP Business One. This looked at some of the factors that affect the lifetime cost and ROI of a SAP Business One solution, including pre-implementation work, customer-side resourcing, and reviews and optimisation.
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.
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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.
