SAP Business All-in-One

SAP Business All-in-One is the solution for business process management of the company which is set up taking into account industry specifics and supporting the permanent growth of the enterprise. In Russia and the CIS the SAP solution Business All-in-One is used by more than 1000 companies. According to vendor, the SAP solution Business All-in-One is now used more than in 2600 companies of medium business in 47 countries.

The SAP solution Business All-in-One represents the software product consisting of the core of the ERP system including all main business processes and industry packets for 28 different industries.

SAP Business All-in-One supports the following business processes of the company:

• financial accounting;
• management accounting;
• sale and distribution;
• supply and processing of purchases;
• inventory management and warehouses;
• production management: planning and accomplishment of production;
• analytics and corporate portal.

Development plans for a system

The company SAP submitted plans for integration of analytical opportunities BI platforms BusinessObjects with ERP solution for medium business of SAP Business All-in-One. It is supposed that the functionality of BusinessObjects will be included directly in SAP Business All-in-One. By estimates of SAP, such solution will provide to users an opportunity for the flexible analysis of operational and reliable data and also will reduce risks and will increase the speed of deployment of solutions thanks to additional tools for data migration.

According to plans of the developer, by the end of 2009 the SAP solution Business All-in-One will contain the preconfigured reports and dashboards implemented on the basis of the BusinessObjects tools. The functionality of BI as a part of the ERP system is designed to help clients to accept the timely business solutions directed to increase in sales level, management of financial and operational processes on the basis of the continuous actual data. The "best practices" focused on requirements of the companies of medium business should provide to clients operational deployment of complex ERP+BI resheniya, reduction of terms of return of investments (ROI), cutting of costs for maintenance.

It is supposed that originally the functionality of BI as a part of SAP Business All-in-One will be available in such countries as Brazil, Germany, the USA (further this list owes life it is expanded).

Additional tools for data migration which are also going to be offered clients will have to reduce risks and costs at data transfer from former corporate information systems in SAP Business All-in-One and also to provide quality and accuracy of the data.

To addition of SAP she intends to provide the preconfigured packet of "best practices" on data migration of SAP Best Practices for Data Migration based on use of the most usable objects, models and business processes. Originally this packet will be available also only to clients in Germany and the USA, and further the list of the countries will extend.

Subscription based hosting in Russia

The SAP company announced in May, 2011 the beginning of sales of the solutions Business All-in-One on the basis of a subscription. The new offer will allow the small and medium companies to implement and use the SAP solutions Business All-in-One without need to employ and train additional IT specialists for implementation and software management.

This offer will allow small and medium business to set the software with a small amount of users and the limited functionality, and then, if necessary, to scale a system in the course of growth of the company. The Softline company which Data center is already certified by specialists of SAP became the first partner who signed the agreement with SAP company on provision of services based on a subscription.

Partners of SAP will be able to propose solutions based on a subscription as an alternative traditional, more large-scale, to options of deployment of the project based on the client. The feature of the program is that the solution is established not at the client, and on the certified Data center to which the client gets access. The new offer is specially developed for the small and medium enterprises and directed on cutting of costs for implementation, reduction of project deadlines, ensuring effective implementation and also fast return of investments.

"The strategy of SAP consists in offering our software in those options which are convenient to the client — Dyomin Andrey, the Partnership director of SAP CIS noted. — It can be full acquisition of the software or its use on the basis of a subscription or on the client's equipment, or based on the partner. With this offer we allow clients to use through our partners the software of SAP on demand".

The new offer of the Hosting means that partners of SAP take the responsibility on placement and management of solutions on the certified DPCs and also on support of infrastructure and a software update.

The Subscription based Hosting program will help clients to minimize initial capital investments into acquisition of IT infrastructure and to reduce current operating expenses.

The SAP solutions Business All-in-One in the best way conform to requirements of the small and medium enterprises which are looking for the clear and integrated industrial solutions for support of the business. Available with flexible deployment, SAP Business All-in-One proposes to the medium-sized and small companies the single set-up solution for management of finance, human resources, purchases, stocks, production, logistics and also for product development and corporate services for sales and marketing.

SAP Business All-in-One for wholesale

Use of our standard solution package of SAP Business All-in-One for wholesale allows:

• reveal non-profitable goods in assortment;
• reduce stock balance due to exact calculation of requirement;
• optimize logistic costs;
• increase efficiency of financial control;
• make decisions in real time;
• reduce dependence of the company on personnel.

The SAP solution Business All-in-One for wholesale includes the functionality supporting management of the following business processes:

• Purchases and management of material flows – purchase of goods and services, purchase under the customer order or under the project, management of additional costs and their reference on cost value of goods, management of returns, commission trade, management of bonuses with suppliers, the movement of goods between warehouses and legal entities, inventory of goods using the shipping documentation, management of transportation, accounting of a retail store equipment.
• Sale and distribution – a system supports all process of work with the client from the first contact before completing of goods and execution of invoices according to purchase and sale agreements and the commission. Sales and movements of goods between legal entities within one group are implemented. Bonus calculation is implemented. At sale credit limits of partners are checked, the goods are reserved, document flow according to a statement and approval of sales documents is configured. The standard interchange formats are implemented by data, including EDI FACT.
• Project management – for the companies which are engaged in sale of the equipment processes of maintaining the project on purchase and installation of equipment under the customer order are implemented.
• Management accounting (controlling) – the solution provides information necessary for acceptance of management decisions which allows to coordinate, trace and optimize all processes at the enterprise, including to keep account in places of emergence of costs and places of emergence of profit and also accounting of results.
• Accounting – the solution allows to keep accounting in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, all basic reports and printed forms are implemented. If necessary integration with a 1C system existing at the enterprise is executed.