SAP Business One Modules
Discover the constantly evolving functionality within SAP Business One
Functionality Areas
Stock Management
SAP Business One gives you powerful tools to maintain and manage the entire stock process, from detailed item master records to multiple price lists. Complete stock functionality, including stock and nonstock items, linked Bills of Materials (BOM), cycle counts, Batch and Serial control as well as Blanket Agreements.
Purchasing
Manage and maintain supplier transactions from purchase quotations, ordering, updating stock numbers, calculating landed costs for imports, handling returns and credits, and processing payments.
Service
Keep customers’ equipment functioning with a detailed service module. Track service contracts, calls, materials used, customer interactions, quotes and sales during a service.
Production
Build your multi-level Bill of Materials (BOM) and help plan the full production process. Manage resources, stages, items for production and plan availability of resources.
Sales
Covers the entire lifecycle of a sale, with immediate live impact on stock and financials – with the added option to create draft documents. Create quotes, enter customer orders, monitor deliveries, update stock balances, and manage invoices/credit notes.
Customer Relationship Management
Record every sales opportunity across the customer lifecycle within the SAP Business One CRM Module. Keep extensive notes to track won/lost rates, sales cycle management with stages, track the competition and monitor all Sales Team activities.
Financials
SAP Business One provides a complete set of tools to help manage and streamline key financial operations. Get detailed reports at the touch of a button to enable accurate and informed decision-making. Full integration in the UK with HMRC is available for Making Tax Digital (MTD).
Reporting
Tools for the creation of business, accounting, warehouse, and financial reports, account statements, and creation of customised reports. Reports can be exported to a variety of different formats including Microsoft® Excel®, Microsoft® Word® and PDF.
Microsoft Office Integration
Enables users to exchange and share data between SAP Business One and Microsoft Outlook so that all team members are kept up-to-date about account developments and can proactively respond to business opportunities.
SAP Add Ons
Warehouse Management System (WMS)
Frontline’s Warehouse Management System for SAP Business One provides the ability to use SAP’s warehouse management capabilities and deliver them to handheld barcode scanners for booking-in, picking, delivery and stock transfers, making stock control and order fulfilment simpler.
It captures live data at the point of activity around the warehouse, providing a true picture of stock data across operations. No more misplaced inventory, sending the wrong orders to customers, or staff overtime to meet hectic order fulfilment. Just simpler warehouse management in the palm of your hand:
- Faster and more accurate data entry with handheld devices
- Increased productivity and efficiency of staff and reduced labour costs
- Reduce time for stocktaking and minimise stock levels – and therefore reducing warehousing costs and minimising over-delivery
- Compatible with most mobile devices and bar code scanners
- Improve customer service
- Better decision-making
With Frontline’s specialist add-on for SAP Business One to deliver functionality to handheld devices, we take a holistic approach to warehouse management and deliver improved efficiencies and reduced costs for customers. Through a combination of Frontline’s WMS and our knowledge of SAP Business One, you can make smarter decisions more easily, fulfilling orders and keeping your customers happy.
Automated Sales Order Entry
Frontline Automated Sales Orders Entry for SAP Business One solution allows customers to send PDFs of their purchase orders into a central email address. From there the solution automatically selects the emails and converts the data inside the PDF and matches against fields such as ‘Item Codes’, ‘Prices’ and Customer details.
Once authenticated, a Sales order will be added into the system and become available to normal SAP Business One fulfilment and invoicing processes.
- Automated, faster entry of orders
- More accurate order entries
- Automated order acknowledgement (if required)
- Saves administrative time for Sales Departments
- Fewer delivery errors caused by incorrect order details
- Improved customer service standards
- Fewer internally caused Returns
Automated Purchase Invoice Processing
Frontline Automated Purchase Invoice Entry and Validation automates the invoice approval process, thereby allowing streamlining the workflow and reducing processing costs.
Invoices received from suppliers are automatically validated and added into SAP Business One. The Frontline solution identifies and extracts the data from the invoice and validates against supplier records.
The Purchase Invoice is matched against the Goods Receipt and Purchase Order (GRPO) in SAP Business One. If all values are within allowable tolerances then a Supplier Invoice is added and made available to the next payment run.
- Automated faster entry of AP invoices
- Exception process for mismatched invoices
- More accurate AP invoice entries
- More accurate, on-time payments to suppliers
- Stronger relationships with suppliers
- Reduced workload on the Finance Department
Frontline Available to Promise (FL-ATP)
Frontline Available to Promise helps businesses provide accurate and reliable insights into stock commitment, allowing businesses to determine if they have enough stock to fulfil customer orders and production materials based on current inventory levels, incoming goods, and existing commitments.
Frontline Available to Promise provides:
- Enhanced selection criteria
- Multiple Filters
- Improved visibility over all ‘in’ and ‘out’ transactions
- Functions to take action
Shop Floor Data Capture
Frontline SAP Business One for Manufacturing gathers real-time information from the production floor, including labour time, machine status, and production quantities, to monitor operations.
Leading to improved visibility of shop floor activities, whilst enabling better decision-making, delivering improved operational efficiency.
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