To succeed in the global competitive market of today’s business environment, companies need an affordable, integrated business management solution. It should automate processes and deliver reliable views of company operations and performance based on real time data.

Small and medium businesses have an altogether different set of challenges to face in comparison to large organisations. In addition to requiring much of the functionality required by large organisations, they do not want to carry risk by experimenting with different applications to satisfy their business needs. In short, they require a tried and trusted enterprise resource planning system.

SAP Business One (SAP B1) is such a solution, offered by SAP specifically for this market.

It is against this background that we offer complete, integrated IT solutions to the small and medium business enterprise (SME).

The challenges faced today by SME sector include:

• The lack of skilled resources, with constant pressure on budgets.
• Limited exposure to global best practices.
• An inability to plan properly, due to the time spent in business execution.
• Inaccurate and disintegrated data, leading to Information gaps
• Inability to plan and control operations accurately.

Until now they have been working with standalone solutions pertaining to mainly financials and to some extent to inventory tracking or billing applications.

SAP the market leader of business software solutions and with years of research and service in this segment has developed the SAP Business One suite (SAP B1) especially for small to medium enterprises.

Designed specifically for small and midsize enterprises, SAP Business One (SAP B1) allows business owners to achieve an up-to-date and unified view of their operations, improve business-process efficiency and take advantage of growth opportunities. The application suite can be deployed rapidly, providing instantaneous access to critical business information through intuitive, easy to use reporting and drill down capabilities.

The SAP Business One (SAP B1) has been designed considering the following key points which are important for Small and Medium business (SME):

• It comes at a very competitive and affordable price.
• It can be implemented quickly.
• It is easy to customize/modify, to address changing needs/new requirements.
• It has an easy-to-use interface with drag and drop options, giving users total control.
• It has a relatively lower maintenance cost.
• Add-ons are available to take care of any/all additional needs of an organisation.
• It supports multiple currencies/languages.

SAP Business One (SAP B1) has 14 core modules: each client can select the modules which are required for their circumstances:

• Accounting
• Financials
• Sales opportunity management
• Sales – A/R
• Purchasing – A/P
• Business partner management
• Banking
• Inventory
• Production
• Material requirements planning (MRP)
• Service management
• Human resources management
• Reporting
• E-commerce

Discover how SAP Business One (SAP B1) can meet your immediate and long-term needs in conjunction with Automatic's capabilities. Automatic is a SAP Business One (SAP B1) Channel Partner, with a pool of highly skilled, professional and certified SAP Business One (SAP B1) consultants.

Automatic's SAP Business One (SAP B1) team partners with client’s team to study the AS IS and TO BE business processes. We then benchmark these business processes with industry best practices to help our clients leverage maximum benefits from SAP Business One (SAP B1). Our in depth SAP Business One (SAP B1) experience and SAP partnership helps client, reduce implementation time and maximize Return On Investments (ROI).

Generally the SAP Business One (SAP B1) implementation cycle runs only in weeks and SAP suggests that with management commitment and full focus the implementation cycle can be completed within a month.

SAP Business One (SAP B1) is a simple to operate solution offering a very broad range of functionality and requires simple customising to help map existing business process. It is also scalable easily, as is the way in which new functionality can be added. We provide with proper training and knowledge to the end users to help them utilise the application to its maximum potential.
Our team members are continuously available to provide support to clients for any new modifications, upgrades, issue resolutions, etc.

For those clients who have already implemented SAP Business One (SAP B1), we offer our Support Services for development / problem resolution, based upon our unique Shared Services Delivery Model.

SAP B1 enables clients to have purchasing, manufacturing, inventory management, sales, financial management and banking all under a single, flexible, responsive system. When clients run SAP B1, they and their staff will:

Get a complete view of their business with a single, accurate source for all critical, up-to-the-minute business data. Give business users instant access to the right information they need to run the business.

Expand the business and improve customer service. A complete customer view across sales, distribution, and financials helps uncover new ways to serve customers faster and better.

Take proactive control of the business through automatic alerts, workflows, and response to key business events and customer needs. These will ensure avoidance of reactive, time-consuming “fire drills.”

Save time and resources by streamlining operations with seamless out-of-the-box integration of key business processes such as sales, purchasing, inventory, and financials , eliminating redundant data entries and errors.

Support their dynamic business needs with easy-to-use customization tools that will tailor SAP B1 to fit specific business needs and individual user preferences.

Trust in a solution to count on. SAP B1 is offered by SAP, the world’s leader in business software solutions, and delivered by a global network of certified partners that provide local customer service and support.