Should I deploy SAP Business One on premise or on Cloud?

This is perhaps the foremost question you have found yourself asking about SAP Business One ERP solution since you made up your mind to invest in an ERP. To answer this question, you need to determine which option suits your business: running the operations in-house, relying on SAP Partner to take care of hardware requirements of the purchased software or use Business One on Cloud?

With SAP Business One, you can take advantage of both options. If you’re a first-time user, let us help you sort this predicament by weighing the benefits of both kinds of deployments.

Benefits of implementing SAP Business One on-premise

If you choose to implement SAP Business One on-premise, the first thing you should know is that it often involves an investment of time, money and office space towards setting up and managing an internal server.

Integrates effortlessly with your existing infrastructure

If you have an established business, chances are that you may already have an on-premise infrastructure in place. In that case, you can choose to migrate when the said infrastructure is up for renewal because Business One seamlessly integrates with your existing system. These days, businesses use multiple systems along with ERP such as CRM, Point Of Sale (POS), e-commerce and marketplace websites for online retail and so on. Linking these applications with SAP B1 is easy when you have an on-premise deployment.

Customize to suit your requirements

SAP Business One’s on-premise model provides unlimited customization options. If your business scenario is highly unique for which the ERP needs to be customized a lot then, it is advised to deploy the solution on-premise with the help of a qualified SAP partner.

Data compliance

If syncing your critical business data such as product pricing, period and volume discounts, supplier information, and most important of all customer and their order details to any third-party system is not acceptable, you’ll need to deploy SAP Business One on-premise.

Benefits of deploying SAP Business One on Cloud

Get faster ROI

One of the biggest purposes of businesses is to achieve a quick return on investments (ROI). Implementing an ERP system is a big investment for any business. So, if you are looking for an ERP that runs rapidly with minimum disruption in your business, SAP Business One on Cloud is the way to go.

Automatic software updates

SAP Business One On-Demand comes with standard customizations, keeping the core ERP features as it is for all customer requirements. Therefore, software patch and version updates to the instance is quite easy. Hence, Cloud deployment can be easily upgradable than an on-premise solution.

Pay as you go

Here comes the greatest benefit of deploying an on-Cloud system. SAP Business One’s Cloud deployment works perfectly for businesses that don’t want to make a massive one-time investment in ERP. You just need to pay a fixed monthly fee for software and users.

Keep your data secure

SAP Business One takes extra care to protect your critical data. Data is protected in secure data centers with an array of physical and network safeguards. Although most organizations are doubtful about using Cloud solutions because of data security issues, the data security for Cloud solutions is actually pretty good.

Talk to the ERP experts at Isys Techworks to understand the nitty-gritties of SAP Business One implementation and get started right away.

Streamline your logistics and supply chain with SAP B1

According to a study by AMR, 7% of all retail products are out of stock at any given time and 15% of goods that are on promotion are out of stock. Supply chain is an important part of a business because market demand requires immediate supply. That’s why your business needs a real-time supply chain planning software that easily connects stakeholders across your organization and integrates S&OP, demand and supply planning, and inventory optimization. This helps you meet the demands quickly and profitably.

With SAP Business One, you can manage your supply chain without hassles. This ERP comes with special integrated supply chain management (SCM) capabilities that simplify the entire supply chain process from beginning to end.

Manufacturers and distributors often utilize SAP B1 for this demanding task because it provides comprehensive applications for financial accounting, customer relationship management (CRM), inventory management, and so much more, thus allowing enterprise owners to run their entire organization on the same ERP platform.

Here’s a quick look at what SAP Business One can do in terms of logistics and supply chain management.

Immediate and actionable insights for better decision-making

SAP Business One also provides real-time business intelligence and data analytics tools so that you can have a clear picture of your supply chains at all levels. It provides real-time insights that not only track the status of your supply chain but also predicts potential changes, so you can quickly react in the best possible way.

Increased visibility and accountability across your extended supply chain

Collaborate not just with your suppliers but also with their suppliers to identify every little glitch in your chain. SAP Business One supports inventory management across multiple locations and subsidiaries, which allows business owners to combine supply chain management processes and ensure that every level of the chain is operating proficiently and ethically.

Generate accurate reports and speed materials across the chain

With access to enterprise data on a single information system, get accurate and real-time data in seconds. Coordinate directly with your suppliers to find out about the status of raw materials or inform them of the next products your customers will require so they can get the necessary resources in place to avoid delays and lags.

Create a dynamic supply chain

Convert your supply chain into a dynamic supply chain that can quickly adapt to growth, erratic markets, geographical problems, changing customer preferences, and so on. SAP Business One’s integrated supply chain management and business analytics software programs provide the ultimate intelligence for enterprise leaders wanting to align the entire chain on the same path.

With all of these amazing ERP capabilities assimilated on a unified software system, distributors and manufacturers can quickly streamline and optimize operations, eliminate inadequacies, reduce expenditures, make smarter decisions, and easily adjust to faster business growth and changing market demands.

Do you have multiple branches for your business? Do you find it difficult to generate consolidated reports for all of them? SAP Business One 9.1 might have a solution to this problem. SAP Business One 9.1 introduced the Multiple Branches functionality, which works perfectly for businesses that have multiple branches.

If your company has multiple business units that are legally registered as separate companies and you need separate financial reports for these legal entities, then you can use different databases for each company i.e. separate company for each branch/business unit. But if you’re operating in a country where it is not essential for you to register as a separate entity and yet you require a different report for each account, the multiple branches functionality is perfectly suited for such a situation.

This function allows automatic allocation of transactions to a branch using user defaults, and the users can then run accounting and financial reports per branch.

Setting up multiple branches functionality

Before enabling the Multiple Branches option, ensure that your company manages the inventory by warehouse, which allows you to assign the warehouses to the relevant branches. To proceed to set up the multiple branches functionality, go to Administration > System Initialization > Document Settings > General and select “Manage Inventory by Warehouse”.

Once you complete the initial setup, go to Administration > System Initialization > Company Details > Basic Initialization and choose “Enable Multiple Branches”.

If there is an existing transaction, the Branch Registration Number window appears. Please Note, that the registration number for the default main branch cannot change after activating multiple branches because transactions exist with the branch. Therefore, ensure that you enter the correct or appropriate registration number in this step.

Finally, go to Administration > Setup > Financials >Branches and enter branch name, default warehouse ID, country and other information.

Features of Multiple Branches functionality

Replication of master data – The functionality allows all required entities to view the same data, at the same time.

Multi-currency support – With the multiple branches function, financial data discrepancies can be avoided by recording intercompany transactions in local and foreign currencies.

G/L allocations – allocate and consolidate incomes and expenses throughout all, or selected, branch companies.

Supply chain visibility – Get a more holistic, real-time view of all stock levels, as well as available-to-order quantities across all warehouses with multiple drill down levels.

Marketing collaboration – The functionality also helps you avoid duplication of effort by sharing documents throughout all or selected entities.

Benefits of the Multiple Branches functionality

• Data and content sharing is easy and more streamlined through a two-way process
• A comprehensive way to consolidate enterprise data from various channels and entities
• Streamlined data processes across all entities
• Get a crystal-clear view of all operations on a unified platform
• Customization options from SAP allow control of the shared data (master users can see everything; branch users can only see the data they need)
• Increased control, compliance and collaboration opportunities

Voice communication has been a dominant way to address customer issues for far too long. But with the advent of mobile and social networking apps, voice calling is about to take a back seat.

Your customers are looking for multiple choices when they need their problems resolved. They are looking for choices where they can initiate an interaction in one channel and complete it in another with consistent user experience across the channels. That’s why, as a service organization you have to deliver these choices for increasing your customer loyalty and retention while keeping the support costs low.

What can emerge as one of your USPs is providing support to customers with efficient problem resolution, transparency in progress with a self-service portal. With customer self-service, customers can get their problems resolved by an intuitive and branded self-service support channel. This will help your business create an exceptional customer service by empowering customers to easily get answers and create and track service request online.

SAP’s customer self-service is a cloud-based portal solution hosted on the HANA cloud platform aimed at offering hassle-free user experience to customers along with mobile consumption. Here’s how SAP customer self-service portal helps you enhance your customer experiences.

Accurate and up-to-date information

With SAP Business One’s customer self-service portal, your patrons can get access to a real-time view of the operational status of their order status, shipment information, invoices, payments, and more.

24/7 access

One of the most important parts of customer service is availability. Problems don’t arise at your convenience. The self-service portal helps you provide your customers the convenience of 24/7 online access to account information through a secure browser-based login.

Create and track service requests

The customer self-service portal hosted on Cloud makes it available as a service channel for end customers. Through this, you can create attractive sites and provide your customers access to create service requests and track request status without breaking a sweat. Customers can access the knowledge base for quick solutions and work together with service agents to resolve issues quickly.

Better response quality and overall customer satisfaction

By allowing end customers to access self-service portal, you can avoid waiting calls in call center queues, improve your customer response time and quality of ticket resolution. It also helps you maintain a central knowledge base and eventually improve overall customer satisfaction.

First-time users often find it difficult to define tax codes on their ERP system. Though it may seem like an overly complicated process, it isn’t. There are a series of steps involved in defining the tax codes. But before we dive into the details, let us understand what tax codes are and why do we need them.

What are tax codes?

A tax code is a government file that contains thousands of numbered pages that defines the rules that individuals and businesses must follow while settling the taxes to the central or state government. Tax codes are used to calculate tax in domestic procurement.

Tax codes are unique to each country. The rules for tax rate calculation and other important features are stored in a table for each tax code. You should use tax codes with a 0% rate for tax-exempt or non-taxable transactions, if the corresponding transactions are to be displayed in the tax returns. You’ll have to define new tax codes if tax rates are changed by the government during the annual reviews. The old codes with the old tax rates must remain in the system till the open items which use this tax code don’t exist anymore.

According to SAP Business One, tax code refers to the two-digit code that represents the specifications used for calculating and displaying tax.

Here are a few specifications defined under the tax code:

• Tax rate
• Type of tax (input tax or output tax)
• Calculation method (percentage included or percentage separate)

So, you need the tax code to:

• Check whether the associated transaction is related input or output tax
• Check if a tax account with tax type (input or output tax) can be posted to
• Check the tax on revenue amount in the document
• Calculate the amount of tax on sales automatically on request
• Determine the tax account

Creating tax codes on SAP Business One

Here’s a step-by-step procedure to create tax codes on SAP Business One.

Step 1: Define the tax parameter

• From the Main Menu of SAP Business One, select Administration > Setup > Financials > Tax > Tax Engine Configuration > Tax Parameter
• Specify the Rate as the tax parameter code in the Code section and describe it in the Description field
• Select Rate from the Attribute dropdown. Choose Define New to create a new attribute
• Select Tax Amount and Base Amount from the Return Value dropdown list
• Click on the Add button to save the tax parameter

Step 2: Define the type of tax

• Choose from the Main Menu, Administration > Setup > Financials > Tax > Tax Types
• Specify the type of tax in Tax Type Name field
• Select the relevant tax category from Tax Category dropdown list. You can also define a new tax category by choosing the Define New from the Tax Category – Setup window
• Select the relevant parameter from the Tax Parameter dropdown list
• Click on the Update button to save the changes

Step 3: Add the tax formula

• From the Main Menu, choose Administration > Setup > Financials > Tax > Tax Engine Configuration > Tax Formula
• Specify the Code and Description in the respective fields
• Select the tax type formula from the Tax Type dropdown list
• Open the List of Tax Parameters window by choosing Tab in the empty field of the Parameter Code column, and select tax parameters for the tax formula by double-clicking the row or choosing the OK button after selecting the row
• Define the formulas in the formula pan on the right
• Check if the formulas are correct by clicking button before the Formula Validation Message. If you don’t get a message, your formula is correct
• Select Add button to save your formula

Step 4: Define the tax type combination

• From the SAP Business One Main Menu, choose Administration > Setup > Financials > Tax > Tax Engine Configuration > Tax Type Combination
• Specify the Code and Description in the respective fields
• Select tax type from the dropdown list
• Open the List of window by choosing Tab on the Formula Code field and select the corresponding formula code by double-clicking the row
• Click Add to save

Step 5: Define your tax code

• Choose Administration > Setup > Financials > Tax > Tax Codes. Add Code and Description.
• Select the tax type combination from the dropdown list
• Select the List of Sales Tax Authorities window by choosing Tab in the Code field. Select a code for each tax

If you want to define new attributes for the tax type, proceed as follows:

1. From the List of Sales Tax Authorities window, choose the New button to open the <Specific Tax Type> Attributes – Setup window to define attributes for the corresponding tax type
2. In the corresponding fields, specify the name, purchasing tax account, sales tax account, and non-deductible %
3. Open the Valid Period – Setup: <Specific Tax Type> window by selecting a row and performing one of the following operations:
4. Double-click the row you just selected
5. From the menu bar, choose Goto Valid Period.
6. Right-click the row you just selected and choose Valid Period
7. In the Effective From field, specify the effective date, and in the Rate field, specify the rate
8. In the Valid Period – Setup: <Specific Tax Type> window, choose the Update button to save the valid period for the rate
9. To close the Valid Period – Setup: <Specific Tax Type> window, choose the OK or Cancel button
10. In the <Specific Tax Type> Attributes – Setup window, save the attributes for the tax type by choosing the Update button
11. To close the <Specific Tax Type> Attributes – Setup window, choose the OK or Cancel button
12. Finally, select the newly defined attributes by double-clicking the row or choosing the Choose button after selecting the row in the List of Sales Tax Authorities window

• Click on Add to save the changes

 

The pharmaceutical industry is faced with complex regulatory and compliance needs with a highly demanding customer base. The customer demands have proven more challenging over the years and the compliance requirements have become all the more stringent. Thus, the pharmaceutical companies aren’t left with a lot of choices.

With the advent of ERP, the pharmaceutical product manufacturing has been offered an advanced set of gears to support fundamental processes, especially when it involves guaranteeing compliance and complying the industry’s highly regulated standards. An ERP software for the pharma industry can help meet all of those requirements and more.

So, how exactly can you leverage the power of ERP in the pharmaceutical industry? Let us explain it in the context of SAP Business One.

Warehouse management

ERP solutions like SAP Business One comes with the Warehouse Management system, which is equipped with tools for planning and monitoring all aspects of warehouse management. It helps you prevent inventory balance discrepancies and operational requirements mismatches. It also ensures you’re your resources can be called upon as and when required and limits excess inventory which leads to misuse.

Compliance control in manufacturing

The matter of compliance has been a bone of contention for pharmaceutical companies looking to consistently produce and control in accordance with regulatory standards that are set. SAP Business One ensures that products are consistently produced and controlled according to the regulatory standards such as FDA, GMP and GxP, among others.

Managing distribution channels

SAP Business One can interface with leading messenger companies. With the help of this feature, you can work seamlessly with internal and external warehouses, which allows them to limit sales of specific products to specific countries and more fittingly manage stock in consignment.

Work order management

Perhaps one of the most crucial features of SAP Business One solution is work order management. You can build processes for production work orders to restock standing inventory levels of finished goods, track batches and expiration dates and organize material usage based on individual expiry of items.

Monitoring and reporting

With the right ERP solution, you can manage all the stages required to bring a drug into the market. This long process includes budget management, tracking products through each lifecycle stage, and control product versions and revisions. You need this critical information that provides insights into the process for catalyzing production improvement and enhancing processes of improving production costing and driving higher revenue.

Data collection

You cannot operate a business without proper data. SAP Business One’s data collection feature allows companies to stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends by collecting and storing important customer, vendor and prospect data on a single, unified platform. It gives you a great amount of flexibility as a user, with the option to manage operations from anywhere and anytime. You can make vital ground level decisions efficiently and manage all these processes from the convenience of your home.

What is more important for your business other than acquiring new customers? It is maximizing customer relationships. Nowadays, sales is all about meeting customer expectations and building lasting relationships by providing relevant services. But how do you understand your customer’s requirements and how do you keep track of their buying patterns? That’s why you need SAP Business One.

SAP Business One provides the tools to help you effectively manage the entire sales process and customer lifecycle – from initial contact to final sale, to after-sales service and support. Its integrated functionality provides a complete view of prospects and customers so you can better understand and meet their needs. Consequently, you can turn prospects into customers, increase sales and profitability, and improve customer satisfaction.

With SAP Business One you can manage your sales pipeline with ease and you’ll find reports on various stages and criteria associated with the sales pipeline. It offers tools to convert prospects into customers, grow your customer base, and enhance customer loyalty through customer satisfaction.

SAP Business One is ideal for SMEs where it is imperative to know what potential sales are on the horizon. Instead of playing roulette about the sales opportunities which may or may not lead to an actual conversion, you can have a detailed view of each opportunity and accurate sales forecast in order to take effective decisions for your business. Here are a few ways in which SAP Business One helps you manage your sales pipeline without hassles.

Managing sales opportunities

Business One allows your sales team to conveniently enter new opportunities and add details around potential sales volumes, closing dates and sales stages. With this amount of information available, you can easily track the opportunities and activities surrounding every lead that has been generated.

Effective pipeline management

Pipeline management may seem like a pointless task but it is essential for organizations that crave growth. Research shows that a well-managed pipeline begets 15% faster revenue growth than those who neglect it to stay on top of their leads. Doing this through SAP Business One is a piece of cake. By simply installing a clearly defined sales process and conducting training sessions for sales executives and sales managers on the importance of pipeline management, small businesses can precisely forecast potential sales and achieve growth targets.

Customer management

The sales process doesn’t end with converting leads into opportunities. It goes beyond that and your customer is at the center of it all. To understand your customers’ preferences, you must know their purchase patterns and unless you have a systematized report that provides the information at a glance to your sales representatives while they are handling clients, it is impossible to keep your clients occupied. With Business One, you can store all critical customer data in one place, synchronize and manage customer contacts stored in your Microsoft Outlook account. With a 360⁰ view of the customer, your sales representatives will be in a better position to make a pitch.

Marketing campaign management

Apart from enhancing your sales opportunities, Business One also helps you create and manage your marketing campaigns. This includes the capacity to create a campaign list from base customers, leads or an imported /purchased list. This campaign list can then be used to send newsletters or offer e-mailers, and so on to the targeted customers.

Service management

After-sales service is one of the most important tenets of your sales process. SAP Business One delivers integral Customer Relationship Management (CRM) functionality as part of the complete application. Your service team can manage warranty and service contracts efficiently, enter and respond to service calls quickly, and so much more with the power of Business One.

Having trouble keeping up with the inventory? It’s time to ditch the old bookkeeping ways and embrace the futuristic warehouse management ERP solutions that will take all the manual labor out of the equation. Effective warehouse management is crucial for your business because even a small glitch can cause a rippling effect and affect profits.

There are several warehouse management issues businesses face day-to-day such as the inability to access warehouse inventory, inaccurate stock control, overspending, and so on. Is there a way to manage all the aspects of inventory and warehouse? The answer is SAP Business One.

To improve on-time delivery and avoid shortage while ensuring there’s no surplus inventory, you need a system that can manage your inventory accurately across multiples warehouses and locations. Business One gives you real-time access to accurate information on your inventory and production details even from a remote location.

It provides you with several inventory valuation models and facilitates core production planning, including material requirements planning and production orders management. Take a look at how SAP Business One warehouse management solutions help you achieve smart warehouse management.

Keep a track of your inventory and manage costs efficiently

SAP Business One warehouse management solutions help you manage inventory using various costing models, maintain item master data, and use multiple units of measure and pricing. You can create an unlimited number of price lists, integrate multiple currencies, pre-assign prices to specific customers, and define discount rules that are automatically applied to transactions with vendors and customers. It is also fully integrated with costing methods such as FIFO, moving average, serial and batch, and standard price to give you a deep understanding of your item costs, letting you accurately define prices and item discounts.

Track your stock levels on real-time

Can’t keep track of your stocks? Switch to Business One and see the difference for yourself. The software gives you details of quantity, adjusted by what is already committed to other customers, incoming purchases, and production orders. With the power of SAP HANA, ATP checks occur in real-time so you can have a holistic view of your stocks at any point in time. You can propose new delivery schedules, control delivery quantities, and reschedule deliveries on the move.

Maintain an optimum production plan

SAP Business One is equipped with material requirements planning (MRP) functionality, which helps you maintain an optimum production plan for multilevel production processes. Using the MRP wizard, you can specify timelines, stock, and data sources to be considered in planning. This data is used by Business One to make recommendations about your resource needs. Using these recommendations, you can create the production and purchase orders needed to manufacture a final product in the quantity and time specified by the production schedule.

Get up-to-date warehouse reports

SAP Business One in collaboration with SAP Crystal Reports software generates a comprehensive set of reports to meet your warehouse, inventory, or production management reporting needs. You can choose from a variety of programs such as MS Word, Excel or PDF to display the generated reports or compile report information into dashboards. Detailed reports on stock transactions and inventory valuations, inventory counts, BOMs, production planning, and material requirements provide the information necessary to make quick and effective management decisions.

SAP Business One warehouse management solutions provide you a smart way to manage your inventory and warehouse. This efficient warehouse management ERP solution helps you streamline your inventory and production management processes to enhance operational efficiency and productivity.

The snazzy new version of SAP Business One 9.3 is armored with fantastic features, thanks to the new gems that give it that extra oomph. Speaking of which, if you’re up to speed with SAP Business One and plan on rolling it out for your business you definitely want to know more.

Let’s kick in with a detailed review of this new version so you can upscale Enterprise Resource Planning to the next level. Fitted with awe-inspiring modules and editions, SAP Business One 9.3 is all set to take on the industry for all the right reasons.

What’s New?

The recent prerelease tests revealed that SAP Business One 9.3 has a lot to offer your business and give you an edge over your competitors. Here’s how:

1. Simplicity
   Backed with enviable new features, you can now set up and administer your users easily. Importing data directly from Excel, adding more user groups, copying table formats of an individual and applying them to groups – all this and more can save time when expanding your list of users. The existing Copy and Workflow features have also gone through a tremendous makeover. You can now comfortably manage and configure workflows in the web-based admin console.
2. Managing Multiple Branches
   SAP Business One 9.3 allows you to bring together information from multiple branches. This means enhanced functionality and efficiency in filtering data. What does this entail? Users only have access to information in the branches they are assigned to. This means, there’s minimal or zero conflicts between branches.
3. Increased Tools for Light Manufacturers
   To further their competitive advantage, it’s a no-brainer that light manufacturers need to be efficient and productive. SAP Business One 9.3 is loaded with new tools – Routings feature – in the production module. Earlier, this aspect was an add-on feature that needed to be purchased; now it’s a standard component. What’s more? Individual employees can be assigned to specific cost centers to help build financial insight.
4. Enhanced Customer Service
   Though SAP Business One is renowned for its supreme presence in heightened CRM capability, the new version pushes boundaries. The addition of the automated Return Material Agreement process (RMA) is just one of the many aspects to look out for.Say, an unhappy customer needs to return a product. The Return Material Agreement process fast-tracks and streamlines it for easy returns. All the user needs to do is put together a pre-step of the return document, populate the fields -quantity, price, and reason for return before they can return the purchased product.
   
   What this means for you?
   • Comfortably manage the process and track its status
   • Based on the original sales or purchase transaction you can create return requests
   • Ability to track reason for return and a viable action
   • Before goods are returned, register the stock ordered and committed
   • Using a service call to manually create return requests

   The Campaign Management aspect has been tweaked to positively transform your marketing and sales pitch. Your response to customer service concerns will be quicker and more effective given these amazing upgrades.

5. Project Management Reloaded
   SAP Business One 9.3 comes with extra muscle and myriad updates to its already existing features. Now you track all time-sensitive details of your project in one place. The Gantt chart is also available in case you’re more comfortable with that aspect. For a more efficient cost analysis, you can assign transactions to a project stage and not the project itself.
6. Pricing Accuracy
   This version of SAP Business One there’s a noted improvement in price list functionality. Besides the default hierarchy, choosing the highest/lowest prices, you can define the price per unit for a component. This allows you to comfortably choose the pricing unit unlike the earlier version where prices were tied to the stock unit within the system.
   
   The icing on the cake – You can add a believable time period, special prices, and volume discounts for your business partners!
   
   It’s time to switch over to the new and improvised version of SAP Business One if you haven’t already. You can work your projects with ease and efficiency and maximum profitability with a few upgrades to your business. Time to sharpen your spurs and get started!

So you have decided to grow your business with the most popular SAP business one solution. Great! Now comes the tricky part- choosing the right partner to implement and support you in your various business needs. A right SAP partner can provide the right balance of integration and customization for your business, helping you continuously push the envelope on what SAP B1 can do for your business.

It definitely takes two to tango when it comes to SAP Business One. If the implementation is not fashioned and managed by experts who know what they are doing and have the necessary skills, even the greatest software deployment can go terribly wrong. An inaptly done implementation can result in astronomical costs that put your company in jeopardy. Most cannot afford to abandon their ERP project after time, money and resources have been invested. At the end of the day, your business needs their ROI quickly which happens only if you couple the software with a right implementation partner.

When whittling down the shortlist, one has to do their homework early on, for assessing potential partners who can be the right fit for your business and for what you want to achieve.

1. Is your partner fit for your purpose?
   The reason for implementation whether it is a purely technical upgrade or an enterprise-wide consolidation and process harmonization is important while considering the implementation partner. Both require partners of different tools, methodology and functional teams. There is no point trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.
2. Is your partner experienced with similar implementation?
   Ideally, a right partner should not only be familiar with the implementation of similar size and scope of your project but also have the experience with the various SAP functional modules. Check out the customer portfolio and ask for references.
3. Does your partner have the vertical expertise?
   Select an implementation partner who has the domain knowledge and industry expertise in the mentioned area as well as understanding the various requirements of the business.
4. Is your partner culturally fit for you?
   SAP implementation could take more time with consultants and internal people working side by side in a collaborative way. Sharing similar values and work cultures thereby enhance the success of the venture.
5. What more does your partner offer?
   Not just implementation, but services like training and support, licensing, add-ons development, hardware and service solutions, up-gradation services would ensure an overall solution from procurement to post-deployment of your ERP software.
6. Is your partner flexible and adaptive?
   It is said that the only constant in life is change. Make sure that your SAP B1 implementation partner is flexible to change in project scope. A right partner will evolve, improve and adapt to the change and circumstances.

You hit the nail on the head when you choose the right implementation partner for your SAP B1 system. So don’t bark on the wrong tree when your right partner is so near to you. Your business is safe in the expert hands of ISys Techworks, a leading SAP Business One partner in South India. A complete array of services such as customization, licensing, implementation and support with our expert team will surely unlock your company’s growth potential.