SAP Business ByDesign ERP Software

Sales and Customer Management

• Develop, manage, and assess marketing activities for turning prospects into customers and increasing sales and profitability.
• Monitor opportunities and leads throughout the full sales cycle.
• Synchronize and store all customer data in one location and make it accessible through Microsoft Outlook and other systems.
• Meet GDPR and other regulatory requirements for customer data security and accessibility.
• Develop and manage warranty contracts and service agreements.
• Quickly log and respond to customer service inquiries.
• Create custom reports or use templates for each part of the sales process, including forecasting and pipeline management.
• Empower sales staff by enabling them to access and update product and sales information in real-time from their laptop or mobile phone.

Human Resources

• Manage all employee data, including contact details, salary, overtime, holiday, leaves of absence, and loans.
• Track attendance and run automated payroll calculations and pay stubs.
• Assign and manage vacation days, calculate carry-over leaves, and auto-generate employee status reports.
• Automatically process reimbursements.
• Set up earnings and deduction rules, end-of-service processes, and gratuity calculations.
• Manage employee loan plans and installments, collect payments and reflect loans on pay stubs.
• Automate payments and pay stubs.
• Create and manage air ticket rules by the employee, manage airline ticket issuing, and automatically reimburse for unused air tickets.

Inventory Management

• Make smarter inventory decisions with detailed reports on stock transactions and inventory valuations, inventory counts, BOMs, production planning, and material requirements.
• Track inventory in real-time by item or bin location.
• Manage inventory in multiple warehouses and locations using FIFO, actual by lot or serial, moving average, or standard costing.
• Use serial and batch management for tracking goods throughout the inventory cycle.
• Produce complete item list, transaction, and valuation reports.
• Use min/max designation and reporting.
• Maintain multiple units of measurement and item prices in both local and foreign currencies.
• Capture goods receipts and goods issues automatically.
• Set up the consignment, drop-ship, and back-to-back order processes.
• Enable pick and pack fulfillment.
• Automate shipping, returns, and stock refilling.
• Initiate inventory cycle counts to avoid full physical inventories and stock counting delays.

Production

• Issue and maintain multilevel bills of materials (BOMs) with items, resources (capacity), and text (instructions).
• Calculate material requirements with forecast wizards.
• Manages prices for BOMs at global levels.
• Plan better with pool controls that can be defined by volume of work.
• Issue production orders manually or by backflush.
• Execute quality tests during material flow from initial procurement through the complete manufacturing process.
• Use advanced planning and scheduling tools for viewing order times, lead times, transition periods, capacity allocations, BOMs, batch groups, and resource availability.
• Manage supply chains with real-time visibility through EDI, blanket orders, and automated transaction triggers.
• Cost estimate for standard and custom manufacturing with automatic profit margin calculation.
• Deploy custom dashboards for quick production data access and flexible ad-hoc queries and analysis.
• Manage product variants to configure, calculate and integrate with existing products.
• Oversee projects with real-time, cross-functional project management reporting that includes manufacturing and logistics management, cost accounting, and controlling, among others

Purchasing

Optimize purchasing with greater pricing and availability visibility and complete control over the management of the order-to-pay cycle, including invoices, receipts, returns, and payments.

• Simplify procurement processes such as purchase order and good receipts creation, requisition requests, and returns management.
• Audit more easily with matching documents, viewing information trails, and multi-currency support.
• Centralize purchasing for visibility and greater control of spend.
• See account balances and analyze purchases alongside detailed item information including price lists and tax information.
• Manage supply chain disruptions and optimize supplier relationships with real-time visibility into availability and cost.
• Process invoices, cancellations, and credit memos with purchase order reference numbers.
• Schedule purchases and oversee future material needs.
• Automatically create integrated reports with real-time data and push these reports to dashboards, desktops, and mobile devices.

Business Intelligence

Spot trends and improve decision-making with BI, analytics, and reporting tools that make sense of your company’s data.

• View data from multiple sources and create or customize reports without the need for IT overhead.
• Analyze data without a learning curve by using standard Microsoft Excel functionality.
• Improve the speed of analysis with drag and drop, data set relations, drill-downs, search, and workflow-based alerts.
• Create intuitive BI dashboards with an interactive dashboard builder.
• Quickly improve visibility with predefined key performance indicators.
• Enhance reports with powerful data visualization tools.

Reporting and Real-time Analytics

Streamline reporting and improve insight with automation and easy-to-use analytics tools.

• Generate reports with integrated data from across the company.
• Automate the creation of standard and custom reports.
• Make data available in real-time with mobile access, dashboards, and automated reports.
• Track KPIs in real-time such as revenue, cost, and cash flow.
• Analyze data with a powerful analytics engine.
• Streamline data search and the creation of on-demand standard or ad hoc reports.
• ByDesign becomes even more powerful with SAP Analytics Cloud.

In-Memory Computing

Operate without system slowdown by running on SAP’s robust, in-memory SAP HANA platform for superior performance.

• Grow without worrying about performance issues, system tuning, or scalability.
• Run embedded analytics and high-performance functions without system lag.
• Focus on business growth instead of IT systems management.