For small and midsize companies eager to emerge as their industries' new leaders, taking that next step in business evolution is a critical decision. Their new business management software must be quick to implement, easy to use, and make the best use of their current IT infrastructure. And while it must be sufficiently powerful to manage their business through its future growth, it has to be affordable enough to represent a reasonable investment today.

Fast Implementation SAP Business One is easy to use. Featuring intuitive navigation, a familiar Microsoft Windows environment, and multiple customization tools. It's also easy to deploy and maintain. With fast implementation, high performance and scalability, robust security, and the ability to evolve into more sophisticated solutions. Most important, SAP Business One is powerful. Its sophisticated analysis tools and unique "drag and relate" technology give management full control of company information and activities.

Business Benefits SAP Business One is the ultimate management program for your company. By allowing employees, customers, and business partners to collaborate with management, this powerful software ensures company growth and a better bottom line. Business benefits include:

Enhanced productivity - The easy-to-understand user interface makes it possible to work quickly and efficiently. Faster and better business decisions - To make the best decisions, managers can quickly and effectively get strategic information from every aspect of the enterprise. Robust scalability - Flexible, open technology makes it possible to change and adapt as your business grows. Global reach - Business transactions can be conducted and reported in multiple currencies. Cost control - Maximum cost control is ensured by increasing employee productivity, enhancing communication with suppliers, and improving efficiency of all operations. Increased revenue - Fast and easy access to real-time information anywhere in the system helps identify new sales opportunities, bring new products to market quickly, and provide business-building levels of customer support and service. Sales opportunity management - The solution gives companies the essential tools to manage their sales opportunities, including full connectivity to gross profit and inventory information.

Features and Functions SAP Business One allows managers and employees to process information more effectively -- so they can make sound business decisions. This solution covers all the core operations necessary to run successful businesses, including:

Administration - Provides tools that enable you to customize and backup data, define currency exchange rates, configure permissions and alerts, and access information from non-SAP software. Financial Accounting - Handles all your financial transactions including general ledger, account setup and maintenance, journal entries, foreign currency adjustments, and budgets. Sales - Helps you create price quotes, enter customer orders, setup deliveries, update stock balances, and manage all invoices and accounts receivables. Purchasing - Manages and maintains supplier contracts and transactions including issuing purchase orders, stock receipts, calculating value of imported items, handling returns and credits, and processing payments. Business Partners and Sales Opportunity Management - Controls all the information on your customers, resellers, and suppliers including profiles, contact summary, account balances, and sales pipeline analysis. Banking - Takes care of all your financial processing such as cash receipts, check writing, deposits, advance payments, credit card payments, and bank reconciliation. Warehouse Management - Handles inventory levels, item management, price lists, special price agreements, transfers between warehouses, and stock transactions. Final Assembly - Delivers product production tools that define multilevel bill-of-materials and create work orders while it enables you to verify and report on product and material availability. Management Accounting - Enables you to define profit centers and overhead absorption factors as well as generate profit and loss reports for each center. Reporting - Creates powerful reports for nearly every aspect of your enterprise including, customer and supplier debt, sales, cash flow, customer-contact summaries, bookkeeping, warehouse stock, financial statements, pricing, customer activity, and more.

XL Reporter

The SAP® Business One solution offers a fully integrated reporting and financial analysis tool that works with Microsoft Excel to provide instant access to financial and operational data residing in the SAP Business One database. Employing a Microsoft Excel–style interface and unique drag-and-drop technology, the XL Reporter tool in SAP Business One simplifies report creation. The tool also enables you to create up-to-the-minute dashboards that provide snapshots of key performance indicators such as sales bookings, year-to-date revenue, accounts receivable, and open orders.

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