The Challenge
Businesses today have to find more ways to achieve higher profitability and business growth. More than just controlling cost and finding more customers :
- Competition is more intense than ever, emerging from overseas to “over the wire” (internet)
- Your ability to respond faster to the changing market needs than competitors is key to a successful business
- Providing better customer service can lead to more repeated businesses and new revenue opportunities
However, there are inevitably many challenges along the way to higher growth and profitability, particularly:
- Lack of instant access to the right information often hinders small businesses’ ability to quickly respond to your customer’s needs faster than their large competitors
- With many things still being done manually or “disjointedly”, redundant work or errors directly result in lower efficiency and profitability
- To drive their business with better technology, companies often acquire different systems for different purposes at different times. Keeping these disparate systems working together poses a major challenge, demanding the IT expertise, staffing and money far beyond what small businesses are prepared to take on
- Lastly, small business owners often find themselves spending most of their days reacting day-to-day operations and fire drills, instead of planning and focusing on the more important aspects of their business to drive their business forward
Meeting the Challenge
SAP Business One represents a new breed of business software that is specifically designed to meet today‘s small and mid-size business needs and challenges. It completely removes the needs and problems associated with having disconnected business processes or systems.
Because SAP Business One was designed with a “One System“ philosophy, you can run your entire business on a single system, automating your business processes from end-to-end.
- It integrates and streamlies all business functions across sales, marketing, customers, financials and operations, all in a single system so your business operates like a seamless one
- It stores all critical business information in one database so you can instantly access without having to get information from different systems that often don‘t agree with each other
- It provides built-in customer relationship management (CRM) and E-Commerce tools that are fully integrated to the backoffice operations to help you better manage sales, provides better cusotmer services and develop a new channel to sell your products & services online
- It‘s also a flexible system that can be easily customized and tailor to your own business and industry needs
- Last but not the least, SAP designed and built Busiess One from the ground up, specifically for the small and mid-size businesses like yourself, so you can leverage the best experiences and practices that SAP has learned over the past 30 years yet don‘t have to deal with the complexities
This complete software solution comprises every core function you need to run your growing business in one single system, including:
- Administration
- Financial & Management Accounting
- Banking
- Sales
- Purchasing
- Customer Relationship Management
- Stock Control
- Field Service Management
- Manufacturing
- Reporting
Managers and employees across your organization can process and share information more effectively, helping them make sound business decisions.
