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, 243 KB).
- 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, 357 KB).
- 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, 1.4 MB) and service management (PDF, 1.79 MB).
- Purchasing – Automate your entire procurement process from purchase order to vendor invoice payment. Read the brief on purchasing management (PDF, 278 KB).
- Reporting – Act on instant and complete information with comprehensive, real-time reports. Read the brief on using SAP Business One with SAP Crystal solutions (PDF, 453 KB).
Drive Real-Time Business with In-Memory Technology
With analytics powered by the SAP HANA platform, up-to-date data from the SAP Business One application is brought into local memory, offering instant, real-time insight into your business. And because the software is designed for ease of use, anyone can create and run custom reports without IT or consulting assistance.
To find out more, read the brief on real-time analytics and reporting for small businesses (PDF, 409 KB).
Extending Your Reach with Mobility
To extend your reach to your business data while away from the office, SAP also provides a mobile application for iPhones and iPads.
To find out more, read the brochure on SAP Business One for iPhone and iPad (PDF, 195 KB), or watch the demo. You can also visit the App Store to download the application.
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Get the details – Read the SAP Business One solution in detail, "Streamline Your Business, Accelerate Profitable Growth" (796 KB), to learn about functionality, reporting features, Microsoft Office integration, single-server architecture and system requirements, and our software development kit.
Learn how ERP can help you become a best-in-class small business – Read the white paper, "ERP as a Platform for Data-Driven Decisions" (740 KB). Log-in required.
Experience the power of SAP Business One – Watch the SAP Business One spotlight video.
Get an overview – Read the SAP Business One solution brief (237 KB).
Get proof – Read about all the businesses SAP is helping to run better in the SAP Business One e-book.
See it in action – Take the SAP Business One itour.
See SAP Business One in action – View demos, videos, references, and more.
Businesses Running Better with SAP
Read about all the businesses SAP is helping to run better in the SAP Business One e-book.
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Action Industries – To help accelerate its order-to-delivery cycle, improve inventory management, and enable smarter purchasing, this garage-door-part distributor chose SAP Business One.
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Alice Springs Watershed – When this small Australian firm needed business software to ensure support in its remote location, SAP met the need with SAP Business One and the partner network that supports it.
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Alison's Pantry – SAP Business One enabled this food distributor to speed up purchasing and accounting processes, capture key business data, and obtain comprehensive reporting across the company.
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Apex Fuels – A partner solution built on SAP Business One helped this growing petroleum marketer reduce workload, streamline processes, and increase profitability.
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Barron's Wholesale Tire – This wholesale tire distributor used SAP Business One to transform an ordinary business into an extraordinary business partner network embracing customers and suppliers.
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Bea Fisher Organization – This public sector organization, providing individual-driven services for persons with developmental disabilities, is using the SAP Business One application to enhance service delivery.
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C-COM Satellite Systems – When this provider of mobile satellite-based Internet technology realized its growth was in jeopardy for lack of comprehensive, integrated software to run its business operations, the company found the ideal solution in SAP Business One.
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Checkpoint Systems – This global leader in shrink management solutions used the SAP Business One application to launch and integrate its network of businesses – improving its ability to compete.
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C. & E. Fein GmbH – With its reporting and planning system based on SAP solutions, this power tools producer is using SAP Business One at its international subsidiaries to get a company-wide view of all sales processes and key figures.
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Closed Loop Recycling – The United Kingdom's first food-grade plastics recycler is using SAP Business One to more easily scale up and manage its growing business, helping to ensure its success now and in the future.
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Collicutt Compression Solutions – This natural gas compression and power generation equipment sales and service company implemented SAP Business One to gain clarity and control needed to run and grow diverse multicountry operations.
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Cooperative Human Tissue Network, Eastern Division – This provider of human biospecimens to cancer researchers increased efficiency and accuracy with the SAP Business One application.
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Coral Beach Farms – Moving to SAP Business One when its legacy software began to fail and client satisfaction threatened to ebb, Canada's largest supplier of cherries now enjoys happy customers and robust business software that serves as a huge competitive differentiator.
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Dave's Gourmet – Using SAP Business One, San Francisco-based Dave's Gourmet makes smart business decisions to keep its customers happy and increase its revenue – all with a lean staff.
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DRIFIRE – Not only does SAP Business One provide the key ERP functionality this manufacturer of comfortable, fire-resistant clothing needs, its third-party application library fulfills all DRIFIRE's special requirements with software that shares the same user interface.
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Electra-Sound – After landing a contract with a major auto manufacturer for refurbished instrument clusters, Electra-Sound turned to the SAP Business One application to complete a business network transformation that connected both companies.
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Entertainment Trading – With SAP BusinessOne ensuring reliable, smooth processes across their entire business, this consumer electronics company saw a 30% increase in growth. Using SAP BusinessOne mobily from their iPhones, users have full access to the back office, even while away from their desks.
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Groupe Roullier – This industrial group turned to SAP Business One when it wanted to standardize business processes, reporting, and IT systems across 33 subsidiaries in more than 27 countries. All 33 subsidiaries were up and running quickly with SAP Business One.
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Groupe SEB – The world’s largest manufacturer of small household appliances and cookware integrated newly established subsidiaries using SAP Business One – and saw fast results at low cost.
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Home Health Products – By providing its sales teams with always-on iPad connectivity based on SAP Business One, this rapidly growing German retailer of massage beds built an integrated business that accelerated direct sales and expansion into new markets.
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iWayAfrica – This leading African corporate data provider standardized disparate systems and improved the speed, efficiency, and accuracy of its business processes with SAP Business One.
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James 1:27 Trust – This foundation is using SAP Business One to create an effective system for collecting and distributing money to children's care organizations throughout South Africa.
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JAR Systems – Using SAP Business One to streamline its business processes, this leading U.S. maker of mobile solutions for education and training was able to integrate CRM and service billing, improve inventory planning, and enhance warranty tracking.
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JGB Distributing – This distributor of Invisible Fence Brand products credits SAP Business One for helping the firm capture a 40% market share across North America and stand above the competition.
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LORD Corporation – This chemical company used SAP Business One to link its local sites with the SAP ERP application running in its headquarters and large manufacturing facilities, resulting in 360-degree customer visibility and streamlined reporting.
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Mario Camacho Foods – When two U.S. consumer products firms merged to form Mario Camacho Foods, both deployed SAP Business One as a single integrated solution for finance, logistics, sales, and distribution, creating a new single-purpose business force to support the company's fast growth.
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MDJ Light Brothers – After implementing SAP Business One to centralize and enhance operations, maximize efficiency, and increase throughput, this U.K. waste and recycling company was able to cut administration costs, processing time, and financial routines.
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Metropolis Technology – When business boomed, SAP Business One enabled this hair care products distributor to improve service, increase operational control, and focus on growth.
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Mr. Shower Door of Florida – This multimillion-dollar shower door company gained control of its inventory, achieved better security, and improved its follow-up on leads after implementing SAP Business One in all of its showrooms.
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NCVW Management Group – This conglomerate of five small companies based in Bay City, Michigan, replaced its small business software, spreadsheets, and paper-based processes with SAP Business One.
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Oversea Casing – SAP Business One has enabled this food company to achieve real-time data, implement lot tracking, and give sales and warehouse workers easy access to current, role-based information.
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Panificadora Hawit – This leading Honduran bakery moved to SAP Business One, SAP BusinessObjects Mobile software, and SAP Crystal Reports to improve the quality of its business data and enable real-time decision making.
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Rapid Conn Group of Companies – This provider of cable, wire, and connectors turned to SAP Business One to meet its goal of maintaining global leadership by rapidly satisfying customer requirements for high-quality parts.
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Reiden Technik – Using SAP Business One to meet its requirement for a complete, intuitive ERP solution, this leading Swiss machine-tool manufacturer and service provider was able to lower its cost of providing management information and improve customer service significantly.
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Richporter Technology – By replacing its outdated legacy software with SAP Business One, this supplier of ignition distributors was able to cut costs, improve efficiency, and gain substantial new sales opportunities.
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707 Resource Management – Offering United Kingdom organizations a refreshing concept in waste management that combines low cost with sustainability, 707 chose from the start to run its operations on SAP Business One and is now well positioned for growth.
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Skechers USA Italia – This Italian subsidiary of the popular shoe manufacturer Skechers USA uses SAP Business One as a single, consistent source for all its business functionality – saving the company significant time and cost on invoicing, one of its biggest tasks.
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Sohan Lal Commodity Management – Providing warehouse management and procurement solutions in 70 locations and 12 states in India, this agrilogistics company uses SAP Business One to gain efficiency and control across its entire operation.
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Sondra Roberts – Small-size wholesale distributor Sondra Roberts rolled out SAP Business One in eight weeks, realizing an ROI in just 12 months.
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Thomas Raymond – Realizing the importance of ERP software and a scalable solution to its efficiency and growth, this start-up men's footwear company implemented SAP Business One from day one of operation.
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Tivoli Audio – In SAP Business One and the Softengine Retail/POS Extension, this supplier of top-quality audio products found the software support it needed to open its own retail outlets without changing existing software processes.
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Velsimex – A growing force in Mexico's agrochemicals market, Velsimex used SAP Business One to improve productivity across every department and saw revenues grow 30% in one year, thanks in no small part to the software's support.
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VenloPack – This distributor of vacuum-packing machines became the first company in the world to go live with the SAP Business One starter package, giving it an integrated solution with complete functionality at a very low total cost of ownership.
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Vet's Sheet Metal – After replacing its outdated business systems with SAP Business One, this sheet metal producer gained efficiencies that allowed the company to reduce staffing requirements.
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WorldHeart Corporation – When this developer of heart pump devices obtained approval for implantation of its products into patients, WorldHeart moved to SAP Business One and found integrated, automated support for the full gamut of its business operations.
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Discover how customers worldwide are using SAP Business One to fuel growth – Read the paper, "SAP Business One: A Leading Platform for Growth and Expansion for Small Businesses (517 KB)," from Pierre Audoin Consultants. Log-in required.
Learn how three small businesses use SAP Business One for a competitive advantage – Read the white paper, "Can Your Business Afford ERP?" (554 KB).
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