Controlling – accurately manage cash flow, track fixed assets, control budgets, and monitor project costs. Simplified – management of fixed assets, the virtual fixed asset function frees you from repetitive manual data entry. Banking and reconciliation – quickly process reconciliations, bank statements, and payments by various methods, including checks, cash, and bank transfers. Financial reporting and analysis – create standard or customized reports from real-time data for business planning and audit reviews. Acquiring new customers is important for success, but maximizing customer relationships is just as crucial. SAP Business One provides the tools to help you efficiently manage the entire sales process and customer lifecycle – from initial sales quote to final sale, to after-sales service and support. Its integrated functionality provides a complete view of prospects and customers so you can better understand and meet their needs. As a result, you can turn prospects into customers, increase sales and profitability, and improve customer satisfaction.

Sales and opportunity management – track opportunities and activities from the first contact to deal closing. Marketing campaign management – create, manage, and analyze marketing activities. Customer management – store all critical customer data in one place, synchronize and manage customer contacts stored in Microsoft Outlook. Service management – manage warranty and service contracts efficiently, enter and respond to service calls quickly. Reporting and analytics – create detailed reports on all aspects of the sales process, including sales forecasting and pipeline tracking, using time saving templates. Mobility – your sales team – manage your sales information on the move with SAP Business One Sales mobile app. Optimize buying and purchasing to increase margins. Every small business needs a systematic approach to managing the procurement process, from requesting vendor quotes, to creating purchase requests and paying vendors. SAP Business One helps manage the complete order-to-pay cycle, including receipts, invoices, returns, and payments. Integrated reporting tools let you easily compare suppliers and prices to negotiate better deals and identify opportunities for cost savings.

Procurement – create purchase requests, POs, and goods receipts; link purchase documents and view document trails for audit purposes; and manage returns, additional expenses, and multiple currencies. Master data management – manage detailed data in a user-friendly interface; view account balances and purchase analyses; and maintain detailed item purchasing information with price lists and tax information. Warehouse and accounting integration – achieve real-time synchronization of goods receipts and inventory warehouse levels. Process accounts payable invoices, cancellations, and credit memos with a P.O. reference; plan your material needs; and schedule your purchases accordingly. Easier up-to-date reporting – generate reports with real-time data and display them in various report formats or dashboards. Transparent inventory control and distribution. SAP Business One provides accurate information about inbound and outbound shipments, inventory, and item location. You can value inventory using standard costing, moving average, FIFO, and other methods, monitor stock levels, and track transfers in real time. You can also make time-inventory updates and availability checks and manage standard and special pricing.

Warehouse and inventory management – manage inventory using various costing models, maintain item master data, and use multiple units of measure and prices. Bin location management – manage stock in multiple warehouses, by dividing each one into multiple subzones, set up allocation rules, optimize stock movements, and reduce picking times. Goods receipt and issue control – record goods receipts and issues; track stock locations and transfers; enable consignment, drop ship, and other orders; and perform inventory cycle counts. Production and material requirements planning create and manage multi-level bills of materials (BOMs), issue and release production orders manually or by backflushing, and globally maintain prices for BOMs. Effective reporting – generate reports with timely data and display them in various formats or dashboards. See your business clearly with business intelligence, analytics and reporting. SAP Business One provides powerful analytic and reporting tools. It includes a complimentary and fully integrated version of SAP Crystal Reports for SAP Business One, so you can gather data from multiple sources and generate timely and accurate reports based on company-wide data. Integration with Microsoft Office. SAP Crystal Reports lets you choose from a variety of report formats and control access to information displayed. With national analytics powered by SAP HANA, SAP Business One takes advantage of in memory computing for analysis and reporting. You can gain real-time access to predefined dashboards and reports, as well as productivity tools to support decision-making. You can tailor forms and queries to meet specific requirements without technical training. You can also configure forms to define storage locations, set authorization parameters, and create import and export functions for internal mail, e-mail, and data.

Report creation and customization – access data from multiple sources, create new reports, and customize existing ones in a variety of layouts with minimal IT overhead. Interactive analysis – use with standard MS Excel features to create ad-hoc and to get your business from new angles. Intuitive search – powerful relate, drill downs, search assistance, and workflow-based alerts. Analytics plus pre-defined KPIs (key performance indicators) help you to see average delivery variance alerts for five sales employees. Empower your people with powerful visualizations by integrating SAP Lumira for SAP Business One. Empower your people to make smart decisions. SAP Business One empowers your employees to make instant, smart, confident decisions, faster by capturing all critical information across sales, customer, operations, and finance – making it instantly available company-wide. By integrating this data in one system instead of multiple disconnected spreadsheets, it eliminates duplicate data entry, costs, and related errors. Workflow-based alerts trigger automatic responses when important business events occur, allowing you to focus on the most critical events. You have clear visibility into your entire business, so you have greater confidence in the information used to make decisions.

Together with the fully integrated SAP Crystal Reports for SAP Business One, you can create dashboards and reports that provide insight into all business areas. Intuitive, interactive drill-down functionality helps you get answers to your most pressing questions. Employees can address customer needs faster, and management can instantly track revenues, costs, and cash flow to assess performance and take action. With native analytics, for even faster information access, the SAP HANA version for SAP Business One provides powerful analytics in real time, making it easier for users to search SAP Business One for the information you need and create standard or ad hoc reports in a moment.