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SAP Business All-in-One solutions best fit the needs of midsize
companies looking for comprehensive, integrated industry solutions to power their businesses end-to-end.
Unlike other business software on the market, SAP Business All-in-One offers your business a single configurable
solution to help you manage everything from financials, human resources, procurement, inventory, manufacturing,
logistics, product development, and corporate services, to customer service, sales, and marketing."
Source : SAP
Giving Trade Companies a Fast Start SAP Business All-in-One Fast-Start Program
Business All-in-One is also known as :
Best Business All in One,
Small Business All in One,
All in One Business Machines,
All in One Business Software,
Business All in One Solution,
Business All-in-One Desk Reference,
Business All-in-One Hosting Services,
Business All-in-One Partner,
Small and Medium Business Solutions,
Business One Product Line,
Online Business All-in-One,
All-in-One Business Template,
Business All-in-One Environment,
Business All in One Low Price,
Existing Business One,
Best Small Business All in One,
All in One Business Management.
Whether you are a wholesale distributor
of furniture, machinery, chemicals, or
food and beverages, your success depends
on how quickly you adapt to demands
from customers and suppliers.
You must constantly differentiate your
services from the competition while
improving operating efficiencies and
controlling costs.
To do this, you need access to real-time
information about the availability, level,
and delivery of your inventory. You also
need to offer your customers valueadded
services, such as easy online
inquiries and transactions. Operational
excellence, while key to delivering on
these expectations, is not easy to
achieve. Consolidation is widespread,
and the proliferation of contract pricing
is leading to fewer opportunities to recover
costs. Today's wholesale distributors
must juggle conflicting priorities -
growing their business, increasing
profits, contending with customer demands
for outstanding service, and distracting
merger and acquisition activity.
The SAP Business All-in-One fast-start
program is designed to help you tailor
an SAP Business All-in-One solution to
your needs and get it up and running
quickly. Complete with preconfigured
software, the program is easily adaptable
to your changing requirements,
growing as your business does.
The SAP Business All-in-One solution
supports all the basic processes you
perform to meet your daily business
needs - from materials management
and production planning to asset accounting
and sales and distribution.
Based on SAP's years of experience in
developing business software, the solution
will enable your employees to make
better, more informed decisions.
Preconfigured to Support Trade
Companies
The SAP Business All-in-One fast-start
program is designed to support midsize
trade companies seeking functionality
specific to their needs at a low cost of
ownership. The program offers a bounded
project scope, predictable costs, and
short implementation times. Your SAP
Business All-in-One solution will enable
you to minimize IT staff dedicated to
supporting on-site business software.
You can expect not only to improve the
transparency and coordination between
the warehouse and the executive suite
but also to efficiently streamline inventory
management and movement.
Pretested and Preconfigured
The SAP Business All-in-One fast-start
program provides everything you need
to get started today and to build for the
future. The program provides tools and
methodologies for you to improve software
acquisition and shorten implementation
times. It gives you the ability to
configure a solution online and get cost
estimates before you start. The faststart
program includes complete, pretested
software, including options for
lower licensing, installation, and operating
costs. Your implementations will be
quicker because the fast-start program
uses a clearly defined set of preconfigured
industry-specific functions.
As a wholesale distributor,
you need to stand out from
your competition while improving
your own efficiency.
SAP Business All-in-One
solutions give midsize trade
companies a fast start with
preconfigured software
designed specifically for
current needs, yet capable
of supporting future growth.
Functionality for Trade Companies
SAP Business All-in-One functionality
supports trade industry best practices
in the following categories:
- Materials management
- Sales and distribution
- Logistics, product life-cycle management,
and quality management
- Accounting
- Controlling
- Forms and reporting
Materials Management
Materials management software helps
you transform your logistics function
from a series of disparate linear processes
into a network of alliances with
customers, partners, and suppliers.
Within an integrated environment, you
can efficiently handle and execute
purchase orders and optimize your inventory.
The software supports procurement
from quotation to contract,
management of inventory, purchasing,
stock handling and transfer, and
returns.
Sales and Distribution
The SAP Business All-in-One fast-start
program quickly equips your sales
organization with tools to help shorten
sales cycles, increase revenues, and
maximize productivity. Sales-order
management software encompasses
sales-order processing, delivery, billing,
and payment, so that you can execute
customer sales orders quickly and efficiently.
Preconfigured distribution functionality
ensures that your delivery and
transportation processes support optimal
sales-order fulfillment. The information
required to serve and retain your
customers throughout the sales cycle is readily available in a single system
for your sales and marketing personnel.
Logistics, Product Life-Cycle
Management, and Quality
Management
Key logistics and quality management
best practices are supported by the
solution, including batch management.
Accounting
The SAP Business-All-in-One solution
gives you access to the financial information
you need - when you need it.
Your finance department can use it for
efficient management of the general
ledger, accounts receivable and payable,
cash management, and other
functions.
Controlling
Properly closing the books at the end
of the fiscal year - dependably, accurately,
and consistently - is a challenge
heightened by the possibility of mergers
and acquisitions, organizational
restructuring, employee mobility, and
changing local, regional, or national reporting
requirements. Trade companies
must adhere to internal guidelines and
ensure secure access to generate the
consistent and accurate results stakeholders
expect. The SAP Business-Allin-
One solution supports a wide range
of planning processes and forecasting,
as well as cost calculations, to help you
track your business accurately.
Forms and Reporting
Reporting financial and operational
results can consume large amounts of
time and energy if the infrastructure
lacks automation or makes custom reporting difficult. The SAP Business
All-in-One solution allows you to manage
all kinds of reporting, with best
practices for forms and reporting built
in. Custom reporting - both on a recurring
as well as an ad hoc basis - is fully
supported.
Getting Started
Your first step in using the SAP Business
All-in-One fast-start program is to
access the online solution configurator
for SAP Business All-in-One. With this
tool, you choose the functional building
blocks that will determine your estimated
solution scope and cost. This process
also connects you with an SAP
consultant or local partner who has
corresponding industry expertise to
counsel you on next steps.
Next, your SAP consultant or partner
will create a personalized demo, using
your data and the demo assistant tool
for SAP Business-All-in-One. The
demo, which can run on a laptop, will
show you end-to-end scenarios - for
example, a day in the life of a trade
company.
Once you have committed to purchase,
your SAP consultant or partner will use
the solution builder for SAP Business
All-in-One to further scope, adapt, and
activate your functional implementation.
This tool, which uses standard templates
based on industry and local best
practices, simplifies your path to run
SAP Business All-in-One.
Finally, your SAP consultant or partner
will use the solution builder's installation
wizard to install the implementation
specific to your needs on your chosen
hardware configuration.
"IDC research strongly
indicates that the more
automated a distributor
becomes, the better the
chance that it will
succeed amid the sweeping
changes that are
transforming the
marketplace."
Albert Pang, IDC
Building Best Practices into Your
Business - Quickly
The SAP Business All-in-One fast-start
program provides a way to incorporate
best practices in trade into your operations.
Implementation is rapid, resulting
in a quick return on your investment,
and also predictable, both in benefits
and in cost. (Price and implementation
time vary based on the depth of functionality
implemented.) The solution's
flexibility allows you to tailor it to suit
your business's current circumstances
and to expand it as your business
grows.
Fast and Flexible
Using the fast-start program, you can
implement an SAP Business All-in-One
solution within a predefined scope and
with minimal risk. Because the relevant
software for wholesale distribution
business processes is pretested and
preconfigured for you, choosing and
configuring those processes can be
quick - accelerating your time to value.
The program provides not just the functionality
you need, but the detailed
guides and documentation that allow
for quick deployment.
As an option prior to implementation,
you or your implementation service
provider can use the configuration tool
in SAP Business All-in-One to select
only the precise subset of business
processes you need, helping to facilitate
a rapid, straightforward
implementation.
Predictable and Proven
Using decades of experience with
midsize wholesale distributors, SAP
has preconfigured and preinstalled
the functionality most relevant to your
operations. The result is a more
predictable and cost-effective
implementation.
The SAP Business All-in-One fast-start
program also works with hardware
options from various partners and with
software options that incorporate the
SAP MaxDB database and SUSE
Linux operating system to reduce your
total cost of ownership. With this program,
you can eliminate the guesswork
and implement an affordable solution
for your company.
Thanks to the extensive network of
SAP partners, you have access to local
implementation support wherever you
are in the world. SAP partners can help
you use the fast-start program to rapidly
implement the SAP Business All-in-
One solution that meets your specific
needs.
Safe and Scalable
You can easily adapt the SAP Business
All-in-One fast-start program to your
changing business needs, making it a
safe investment now, yet supporting
aggressive growth goals. You can begin
with the preconfigured fast-start offering
and later add software components
for online collaboration with your
external partners or radio-frequency
identification (RFID).
Want to Learn More?
For more information on what the SAP
Business All-in-One fast-start program
can do for your company, contact your
SAP representative today or visit us on
the Web at www.sap.com.
You'll gain the agility
and support you need
to grow, while staying
well within your budget.
In addition, you'll benefit
from a global partner
that can support and
extend your solution.
QUICK FACTS
Summary
The SAP Business All-in-One fast-start program delivers rich functionality in a pretested,
preconfigured package that reflects SAP's years of experience in developing business
applications. Whether your company is small or midsize, the program will enable you to
implement proven best practices in trade while smoothly adapting to changing business
requirements. In addition, you'll benefit from a global partner ecosystem that can support
and extend your solution.
Challenges
- Create more efficient business processes
- Speed up response to changing markets, consumer demands, and government
regulations
- Control costs
Supported Business Processes and Software Functions
- Materials management - Create an integrated network to improve efficiency and optimize
inventories
- Sales and distribution - Shorten sales cycles and maximize productivity for better
customer service
- Logistics, product life-cycle management, and quality management - Track finished goods
and ensure top quality
- Accounting - Increase the efficiency and accuracy of financial accounting
- Controlling - Obtain access to accurate data for planning, forecasting, and reporting
- Forms and reporting - Obtain standard and custom reports easily
Business Benefits
- Quick return on investment, due to rapid implementation of a predictable and proven
solution incorporating best practices in trade
- Faster response to changes in markets, customer demands, and government regulations
- Lower cost of operations, due to better planning and coordination between business
processes
For More Information
Call your SAP representative, or visit us today at www.sap.com.