Drawing upon our 35 years of experience in developing business management software, SAP built SAP Business One from the ground up – exclusively to meet the changing and industry-specific needs of small businesses like yours.
SAP Business One software includes:
- Financial management – Automate, integrate, and manage all your financial and accounting processes. Read the brief on financials management (PDF).
- Warehouse and production management – Manage inventory across multiple warehouses, track stock movements and manage production orders based on material requirements planning. Read the brief on warehouse management (PDF).
- Customer relationship management – Grow customer profitability and increase customer satisfaction with effective sales and opportunity management and after-sales support. Read the briefs on CRM (PDF) and service management (PDF).
- Purchasing – Automate your entire procurement process from purchase order to vendor invoice payment. Read the brief on purchasing management (PDF).
- Reporting – Act on instant and complete information with comprehensive, real-time reports.
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Get the details – Read the SAP Business One solution in detail, "Streamline Your Business, Accelerate Your Growth", to learn about functionality, reporting features, Microsoft Office integration, single-server architecture and system requirements and our software development kit.
With an SAP Business One solution, you can:
- Improve efficiency for a stronger bottom line – Centralise and integrate your entire business – across sales, inventory, purchasing, operations and financials – in one system, eliminating redundant data entries, errors and costs.
- Focus on growing your business – Streamline operations from end to end, so you can focus on making your business more profitable.
- Make smarter, faster decisions – Put your business information into a single data source, so you can instantly drill down to complete, up-to-date information – and so your people can respond quickly to customer needs and be more empowered to make decisions.
- Get faster time-to-value – Be up and running within two to eight weeks with a single application. The intuitive user experience minimises user training and reduces the cost of ongoing IT support.
- Support your changing needs – With easy-to-use customisation tools and over 550 add-on solutions provided by our software solution partners, SAP Business One can be flexibly tailored and extended to meet your specific business needs.
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Get an overview – Read the SAP Business One solution brief.
Watch an overview video - Watch SAP Business One - Software Designed with Small Businesses in Mind.
Every small business is unique, with its own set of requirements and strategies for success. That's why SAP offers more than 550 industry-specific solutions and functional add-ons that can meet the unique and changing needs of your business.
SAP works closely with selected software solution partners to develop solutions that offer simple, proven and affordable industry-specific functionality that is based on rigorous quality standards. These pre-packaged, fully integrated industry solutions are designed to be implemented efficiently and rapidly, giving you much more control over project costs and time.
Whether you are a retailer, manufacturer, or service provider, SAP can help you find the best solution for your needs.
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Read the press release to learn how industry solutions enabled by SAP Business One help speed implementation and keep costs low.
City Business Computers Limited - See why Nigeria-based City Business Computers chose SAP Business One to replace its legacy system and eliminate inefficient, expensive manual procedures in core processes such as purchasing, sales, and logistics.
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Crown Berger Kenya Limited - Learn why Crown Berger chose SAP Business One to help enable growth, connect and coordinate the organisation, increase process control and transparency, and improve efficiency. With improved information management, the company's executives can now make good decisions quickly.
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DuraPaints - Read how the Johannesburg-based coatings manufacturer integrated its systems by implementing SAP Business One, achieving an easier and more accurate information stream across all business areas.
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Eniphares Gneicho Limited - Read how promotional merchandise provider Eniphares Gneicho needed a comprehensive solution to support its growth that would integrate all its business functions and provide a sound planning environment. It chose SAP Business One, which has helped the Kenyan company cut costs while improving sales and profits.
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Greenbusters - Learn how SAP Business One helped this South Africa based toy store owner to get a 360 view of all business aspects, save money on personnel and enable her plans for growth.
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Henkel Kenya - Read how Henkel Kenya has implemented SAP Business One to help it modernise its operations and supported Henkel's global requirement for innovation and growth.
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iWayAfrica - Read how Africa's leading corporate data provider standardized disparate systems and improved the speed, efficiency, and accuracy of its business processes with SAP Business One. It now has a robust stock management system, a more productive staff, and better access to data, enabling quicker response to customer needs.
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James 1:27 Trust - See how James 1:27 Trust, a foundation that partners with care organisations to help them provide managed relief for orphans and vulnerable children, is using SAP Business One to create an effective system for collecting and distributing money to care organisations throughout South Africa.
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Jeffares & Green - Discover how South African civil and structural engineering firm Jeffares & Green successfully uses SAP Business One to manage and consolidate the financial data coming from its various legal entities.
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Pick n Pay Group South Africa - Learn how South African market-leading retailer benefited from implementing SAP software. To support new business models, the company needed to replace its in-house IT solutions with a foundation built on enterprise resource planning software. By standardizing on SAP software, Pick n Pay improved the way it runs its business.
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Planet Electronics - the Pretoria-based audio-video equipment supplier Planet Electronics foresaw rapid growth in its business, and needed to replace its inadequate accounting system with solid enterprise resource planning. The SAP Business One starter package provided the necessary functionality while minimizing implementation time.
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Shamas Motor Spares Ltd. - Read about Nairobi, Kenya–based Shamas Motor Spares and how it used the SAP Business One application to reduce inventory, improve planning for orders, enable more accurate pricing, perform more thorough business analysis with detailed reporting, and more.
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Tononoka Steels - Experiencing a sustained growth in its turnover, together with increasing operational complexity, successful Kenyan steel company Tononoka Steels selected the SAP Business One enterprise resource planning solution to support its expansion.
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Winesense – SAP Business One - The basis of revolutionary wine retailing
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If you're ready to take the next step to becoming a best-run business, find out how to buy an SAP Business One:
- Get details, including specifics about functionality, system requirements and more.
- Get a price estimate and learn about our financing options.
- Learn about services that SAP and our partners offer to ensure your deployment is a success.
- Find out how to buy SAP Business One.
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