Features of
SAP Business ByDesign
Finance
Delivering a real-time view of your financial condition, so you can streamline core accounting processes and better manage cash and liquidity
General ledger and accounts payable and receivable
Get a clear overview of financial transactions and outstanding balances with vendors and customers to manage cash flow effectively and assess the company's financial health.
Cash flow management
Make more effective decisions to help ensure your company's liquidity and financial stability with tools that enable real-time monitoring, forecasting, and optimising cash positions.
Reporting and analytics
Get comprehensive insights into your company's financial health to better support planning, budgeting, and trends identification.
Compliance and governance
Adhere to financial regulations and internal policies by using audit trails, internal controls, and compliance checks.
Global operations management
Simplify the management of your multinational company's operations across multiple legal entities, currencies, local requirements, and accounting principles in parallel and in real time.
Customer relationship management
Driving customer engagement with expert management of marketing, sales, and service processes
Marketing
Use personalised customer information for more effective campaigns, lead generation and qualification, and sales team handovers.
Sales
Gain complete sales force automation and improve account management, from contact interactions to invoicing.
Service
Equip employees with the tools and insights they need to deliver superior service and boost customer satisfaction.
Human resources
Streamlining HR processes, from organisation management and workforce administration to time and attendance, and employee self-service
Time and labour management
Manage time, labour, and compensation more effectively with centralised data and self-service processes.
Payroll
Facilitate payroll processing and take advantage of interfaces for third-party payroll providers.
Workforce administration
Manage and execute employee-related tasks, including time sheets, procurement processes, and personal information.
Resource management
Give internal employees and external service contractors access to integrated knowledge, such as skills, availability, utilisation, and information for project, time, and labour management.
Supply chain management
Improving supply chain effectiveness with better supply-demand matching, and increasing flexibility to streamline customer and supplier collaboration
Product development
Accelerate time to market and help ensure product design meets customer specifications.
Supply chain management setup
Get a clear view of your supply networks and layouts for supply chain modelling.
Planning and control
Control material flows with an exception-driven approach to procurement planning.
Manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics
Produce high-quality products efficiently, manage production better, and automate related processes.
Procurement
Empowering employees with self-service procurement capabilities to save time and costs, centralise supplier information, and negotiate better deals
Sourcing
Maintain a central database of supplier and product information, easing negotiation of better prices and management of multiple supplier contracts.
Purchasing
Streamline your company's purchasing activities and provide buyers with real-time information so they can negotiate better prices.
Project management
Managing projects of any size and complexity
Project management on any scale
Manage projects across your business, especially in areas as diverse as research, product development, and marketing.
Project planning and execution
Integrate project management smoothly with other relevant business areas in your company, including financials, purchasing, and HR.
Real-time project collaboration and monitoring
Run more effective, profitable projects by facilitating collaboration and enabling your teams to manage, deliver, and monitor projects in real time.
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Industry-specific functionality
Professional services
Connect and automate key professional services processes
Get real-time project insight to maximise client value
Understand customer lifecycle data to effectively position your service offerings
Evaluate project and client profitability to help meet your portfolio goals
Manufacturing
Get a real-time view of your entire manufacturing operation
Improve manufacturing efficiency
Simplify channel and partner management to meet market demand
Increase customer satisfaction and loyalty with a 360-degree view of customers
Wholesale distribution
Forecast and meet demand with greater accuracy
Gain transparency into your entire supply chain
Reduce operational costs while optimising inventory levels and working capital
Present one face to the customer across your business, regardless of channel or region
Explore the latest release highlights and product road map
Release highlights
See new features, functions, and highlights in the latest release of SAP Business ByDesign.
Product road map
Find out about our planned innovations and future features and functions.