With SAP Business One ERP, you are getting an integrated software system and management solution with Purchasing and Operations capabilities
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Every small business needs a systematic approach to managing the procurement process, from requesting vendor quotes, to creating purchase requests and paying vendors.
SAP Business One helps manage the complete order-to-pay cycle, including receipts, invoices, returns, and payments. Integrated reporting tools let you easily compare suppliers and prices to negotiate better deals and identify opportunities for cost savings.
Brief System Overview of Purchasing and Operations
- Procurement – create purchase requests, POs, and goods receipts; link purchasing documents and view document trails for audit purposes; and manage returns, additional expenses, and multiple currencies
- Master data management – manage detailed data in a user-friendly interface, view account balance and purchase analyses, and maintain detailed item purchasing information with price lists and tax information
- Warehouse and accounting integration – achieve real time synchronization of goods receipts and inventory warehouse levels;
- Process accounts payable – invoices, cancellations, and credit memos with a PO reference; plan your material needs; and schedule your purchases accordingly
- Easier, up-to-date reporting – generate reports with real-time data and display them in various report formats or dashboards.
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Detailed Software Functionality of Purchasing and Operations
You can manage and maintain supplier related activities with SAP Business One, including issuing purchase orders, updating inventory quantities, calculating the landed cost value of imported items, delivering goods, and handling returns and credits.
- Purchase order – Create purchase orders for materials or services you order, and print, mail, fax, or e-mail them directly to the supplier. A purchase order can be created from a sales order to ensure that the appropriate levels of goods are in the warehouse on the required shipping date. A purchase order updates the available quantity of the ordered items and informs the warehouse manager of the expected delivery date. In addition, you can split a single purchase order into multiple parts when, for example, items need to be shipped to multiple warehouses.
- Goods receipt purchase order – Decide whether you would like to receive deliveries at one warehouse or multiple warehouses. Goods receipts may be linked to a purchase order, which means that the purchase order quantity can change if the quantity received does not match the original order amount. For items that need to be returned to the vendor, a goods return document can be created to either partially or completely reverse the quantity and prices in goods receipt PO.
- AP invoice – Process payments to suppliers by acting on journal entries the software automatically generates when you process supplier invoices.
- AP credit memo – Issue a credit memo to any supplier for returned merchandise. You can quickly draw the data required for that credit memo from the original invoice.
- Landed costs – Calculate the purchase price of merchandise by allocating the various landed- cost elements (such as freight, insurance, and customs duties) to the FOB cost of each item. The actual warehouse value of merchandise updates automatically.
- Down payments – Manage your vendors’ down-payment requests for purchase orders. You can process the down payment with or without an invoice, and can decide whether you would like to create the appropriate accounting postings once the down payment is made or only document without creating any postings.
- Freight charges – Track and document any additional costs – like freight charges – involved in purchasing transactions such as insurance, shipment or other fees that apply to your goods.
- Document drafts and printing – Edit and manage all purchasing documents that have been saved as drafts and print them (including drafts) by period, document number, or document type.