What is it?:  SAP Business One is easy-to-use business management software specifically designed for small to mid-sized businesses. It is designed to manage critical business functions across sales, distribution, financials, manufacturing and CRM within a single, integrated system. With SAP Business One, you can gain access to complete, up-to-the-minute views of your business, all while responding to customers faster and growing your business more profitably.

What does it do?:  SAP Business One performs financial management. It can automate, integrate, and manage financial accounting processes. Your warehouse and production management allow for a broad view of management across multiple warehouses. You can track stock movements and manage production orders based on material requirement planning. With Customer Relationship Management functionality, SAP B1 allows you to grow customer profitability. You can increase your customer satisfaction due to effective sales, opportunity management, and after-sales support. SAP B1 also allows for automatic procurement purchasing processes, meaning the system takes care of the purchase order to the vendor invoice payment. Finally, SAP Business One has excellent reporting tools that act instantly and provide you with complete information and comprehensive real-time reports.

How can SAP Business One help me?: With SAP Business One, you can improve your overall efficiency by integrating your entire business into one system. You will see elimination in redundant data entries, error, and added costs. This allows you to focus on growing your business, streamlining your operations, thus making more profit. SAP Business One allows you to make smarter and faster decisions. Since all your data is in one, single source, you can easily drill down to gain up-to-the-minute information. People can, in turn, respond quicker, meeting everyone’s needs quicker. Upon implementation, SAP B1 is up and running within two to eight weeks with a single application. You will see reduced costs of ongoing IT support, and minimal user training. Overall, SAP Business One will support all your needs. Customization tools cover over 550 add-on solutions. It’s flexibly tailored platform is extended to meet your needs. If you are worried that SAP doesn't have the capability to cover your industry, you are mistaken. There are more than 500 specific solutions and add-ons that can meet the needs of your business specifically.

Real Life Example?:  Company V was having a difficult time obtaining a high level of customer satisfaction. They wanted to be dealing with accurate data and wanted easy access to it. They also requested to do away with manual processes (specifically the input and analyzation of data) and improve overall operational efficiency. After the SAP Business One implementation, they immediately saw reduced time to create reports, eliminated gaps in projects, reduced time to reconcile stock, and a complete broader range of understanding of their business processes. 

Question: Who would be a target client for Third Wave Business Systems?

Answer: Someone who is looking for any/all of the following:

-a reliable partner who will provide extended support

-a business management software with reasonable pricing

-working with a customer focused team

-a single, integrated software solution

-cost effective ways to manage their business activities

-upgrading from QuickBooks or other similar software

-small to midsized business wanting to grow

-work in the areas of Distribution, Manufacturing, or Professional Services

-automated business processes

-want to experience maximum Return on Investment (ROI)

-maxiumum CRM functionality

-reporting capabilities

Third Wave Business Systems specializes in setting up SAP Business One and Microsoft Dynamics GP solutions for customers who are looking for any of the above wants/needs. By thinking outside-the-box, we are able to provide software that fits you processes, instead of making you change the processes you have in place to fit the software we're implementing.

What is it?

SAP Business One provides up to the minute views of your business because our world is constantly changing. SAP Business One is an industry leader in the world of enterprise business management software, also known as ERP software. SAP enables you to manage your critical business functions across sales, distribution, financials, manufacturing, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). It is affordable and comparatively easy to use and implement. It is designed specifically for small to mid-sized businesses in the fields of Distribution, Manufacturing, and Professional Services. SAP helps you manage and coordinate your business functions and keep your customers informed, so you can work on growing your business.

Who uses it?

Small-to-midsized companies who are looking to optimize their performance are using Business One. Third Wave Business Systems has expert consultants in these areas. Since SAP Business One provides constant updated views of your business, you can keep your customers involved and be on top of making sure your business is growing. There is information here about what clients Third Wave Business Systems serves best.

How do businesses use SAP Business One?

View this video for an overview of SAP Business One

-Complete view of your business with a single source for current business data. Get the right information at the right time.

-You are able to maintain a complete customer view across sales, distribution, and financials.

-Automatic alerts, workflows, and response to key business events and customer needs.

-Seamlessly integrate important business processes.

-Eliminate redundant data entry and errors.

-Easy-to-use customization tool that enables you to tailor SAP Business One to your specific needs.

-Gives you a feeling of trust knowing you have partners that provide endless customer service and support.

Why companies like yours choose SAP Business One

Question: What if SAP is too powerful for my company? Is there a starter version?

Answer: Yes! Third Wave recently introduced Starter Pack for the SAP Business One Starter Package for small to mid-sized businesses. Available through SAP channel partners, the starter package is preconfigured for up to five software users and has the same basic capability as the full SAP Business One application.  This software is perfect for companies who need more than standard accounting software, but don’t need the power of the full SAP Business One. Starter Package’s functionality enables you to manage:

• Accounting & Financials
• Sales & Customers
• Purchasing & Operations
• Inventory & Distribution
• Reporting & Administration

The most beneficial aspect of Starter Package is that as you grow over time, you can upgrade to the full version of SAP Business One without investing in completely new software. You can simply import your new licenses and will be ready to go with the extended functionality.

Question: What, in your opinion, is the coolest thing you can do with SAP Business One?

Answer: One of the cooler new features in Business one 8.8.1 is the ability to set up scheduled queries to be run at certain times and deliver ad hoc reports to users.  It can be scheduled to send it to users on regular bases.  Customers need to monitor certain activities and list of to-do’s and this can help keep that information front and center for our customers

Here is a screen shot of the query manager's scheduling capability. As you can see, very useful and easy to use.

-Mark Breznak, COO

Question: In your opinion, what is TWBS' most valuable add-on product?

Answer: In my experience, the Advanced Productivity Pack ("APP") provides consultants and power users a toolkit in which they can creatively quickly develop automated procedures that can be used every day by end users.  

One example, we've used APP to automatically send customers dunning letters (once per week for more than 60 days and once a month for more than 30 days)  while also including a copy of each unpaid invoice.  The work in building this process was very fast - we simply built a SAP Business One query to list each customer that had at least one invoice open more than 60 days or 30 days.  We then took the standard statement Crystal Report that is included with APP and altered it to look like a dunning letter.  We then copied existing AR invoice Crystal Report to show all open invoices.  Prior to implementing this, the collector manually reviewed an aging report and manually printed a dunning letter for each customer based on their open AR.  They then had to address and mail all of the dunning letters to the customers.  After we implemented this functionality, the process to email dunning letters and open invoices became a two minute per week, three-click process.  Due to the added benefit of including copies of all open invoices, it reduced the number of customer collection and follow-up calls by approximately 70%.

Another example during an implementation was that we built a process that is three clicks at the end of day, APP automatically emailed delivery confirmation, a copy of the packing slip with tracking numbers to every customer for every shipment for that day.  Prior to having APP, this was not even possible.  The customer service could only answer emails and phone call inquires asking for shipping status and tracking numbers.  

Virtually every opportunity to improve business partner relationships, such as communication, automation, and correspondence can be accomplished with APP.  

-Michael Neuendorff, Consultant