why sbo for manufacturing brochure

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Why SAP Business OneFor Manufacturing Companies

SAP Business One is an integrated, affordable, business management solution built

from the ground up to meet the immediate and long-term needs of small and midsize

businesses. It provides a true and unified view of operations across customerrelationship management, manufacturing, and finance. Simple to use yet powerful, SAP

Business One puts business users in charge, arming you with the critical, up-to-the-

minute information you need to make smart business decisions.

SAP Business One supports every critical business function, allowing you to stay on top

of your business and grow profitability. And you can easily adapt applications to meet

new requirements. Non-technical users have the power to make critical changes on

their own, and the system can easily accommodate new functionalities when required.


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Advanced Business M anagement

SAP Business One instantlynotifies users withscheduled activities inaddition to system

generated alerts likeMinimum Inventory,Overdue Task and more.

User generated alerts are

quick and easy to setup.

Want to know which

customers have not placed

an order in 30 days? Create

an alert!

Simple yet Powerful Workflow

SAP Business One provides workflow-based alerts that monitor, notify, and take action

based on specific events. Any breach of predefined business policies triggers an

immediate notification of the event. SAP Business One goes an extra step and

automatically initiates a workflow process to direct resources and prompts a response

to the event.


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Setting up new Workflows only

takes minutes. In this example,

Purchase Orders greater then

10,000.00 automatically launches a

formal Workflow / Approval

process.

User defined queries can also

launch Workflows, putting the

power of approval and best

business practices in your hands.

Any number of users can beinvolved with a specific Workflow.

Microsoft Integration

SAP Business One is fully integrated with the Microsoft Office suite of products. This

enables seamless communication within your organization and includes functionality

such as sharing contacts, appointments, and tasks.

Microsoft Outlook Synchronize customers, contacts, appointments, tasksand more between Microsoft Outlook and SAP Business One. Create snapshotsof customer or supplier activity to take with you on customer / supplier visits.

Microsoft Excel Instantly send the contents of any screen, form or reportto Microsoft Excel. Generate powerful Dashboard reports with XL reporter.Schedule reports in Excel to be e-mailed for any duration, at any frequency.

Microsoft Word Instantly mail merge data from SAP Business One in tostandard and custom Microsoft Word forms. Generate SOWs (Statement ofWork) in seconds, migrating customer and job information into a boiler placeSOW template.


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Unlimited User Defined Tables and Fields

Every company is different, and each and every company strives for that competitive

edge. Easily capture demographics, marketing initiatives, additional quality information

and more with user defined tables and fields.

Example N eed to keep track of molds, mold status and calibration

Example N eed to manage containers for import and export

These are just two real examples of how user defined tables and fields can add instant

value to your organization.


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User Defined Queries and Formatted Searches

SAP Business One enables users to quickly generate new queries based on the data the

user has access to view. The user defined queries can be stored and recalled at any

time, dramatically adding value to the overall business solution.

Formatted Searches are taking the user defined queries, and enabling them from withindata entry forms, further adding significant value.

Here is a real example of a company who desired to see production information for

parts being sold from a sales order. The first step is to create the desired query.

Example Query to deliver production information

All of the user defined queries in SAP Business One have instant graphing capabilities

built right into the query.


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Example Leveraging this new query from Sales Order Entry

With SAP Business One, not only can you run the query from the data entry form, youcan also pass information to the query, so only relative information is returned. This is

the same query as above, but this time run as a Formatted Search.


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Light Manufacturing in SAP Business One

Coupled with the flexibility and power of everything discussed to this point, SAP

Business One also includes simple yet powerful manufacturing capabilities, ideal for the

light manufacturing company.

With SAP Business One, light manufacturing companies get:

Lot and Serial control Backflushing Capabilities in Production Standard, Special and Disassembly Production Orders Project Cost Tracking Labor Management Multi-Level Bill of Materials Extensive Item Master management Forecasting MRP (Material Requirements Planning) Multi-Warehouse capability FIFO Inventory Issue And more

Item M aster Management Easily manage part specific attributes like lot and serial

control, purchasing parameters for each part, sales parameters for each part while

providing attachments, production instructions and more.

Example Item Master


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Multi-Level Bil l of Material SAP Business One supports an unlimited number of

BOM levels, managing complete product structures with integrity and accuracy. Mass

change capabilities exist in addition to generate Engineering Change activities and

alerts, keeping everyone in the company informed and on the same page.

Example Bill of Material

Not only are SAP Business Ones Bill of Materials powerful and flexible, users can store

specific operation information, operation instructions and more, providing a single

production view.

Simple yet Pow erful Production Orders SAP Business One delivers three types of

Production Orders.

Standard (default) - to produce a regular production item, using a productionbill of materials.

Special - to produce and repair items that may be any inventory item, serviceitem or MRO item. (Maintenance Repair Overhaul)

Disassembly - to dismantle a parent item to its components, using aproduction Bill of Materials.

SAP Business One makes production easy. Everything production related can be

accomplished from the production order, without having to move to other screens and

forms. For example, users can issue material from a production order, record

completions, create activities, capture quality activities and more all from the production

order. The summary tab of the production enables users to drill down into the cost

accounting details.


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Example P roduction Order

Example Production Order Summary Dril l Down


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Advanced Manufacturing in SAP B usiness One

Advanced Manufacturing provides extended manufacturing production order capabilities

to the SAP Business One application suite. Advanced Manufacturing is ideal for

companies looking to track the detailed costs and production processes during the

assembly or production of work orders. Production oriented organizations can now

flexibly and easily manage their labor and material costs using touch screen and bar

code collection devices each step of the way on the shop floor.

With SAP Business One, Advanced manufacturing companies get:

Lot and Serial control Backflushing Capabilities in Production Standard, Special and Disassembly Production Orders Project Cost Tracking Labor Management Multi-Level Bill of Materials Extensive Item Master management Forecasting MRP (Material Requirements Planning) Multi-Warehouse capability FIFO Inventory Issue ECN (Engineering Change Control) Revision Control Work Center Management Shop Floor Scheduling Bar Code, Shop Floor Data Collection Labor Overheads Setup Labor Additional Production Reports Enhanced Quality Control And more

Advanced Manufacturing delivers the most requested, mission critical capabilities for

companies who go beyond light manufacturing.


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Example Work Center Management

Advanced Manufacturing enables companies to setup and define mission critical work

centers, then schedule those work centers through a dynamic scheduling board.

Example Dynam ic Scheduling Board


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Product Lifecycle Management can be a challenging task. Managing different revisions,

change control, keeping everyone on the same page. Advanced Manufacturing makes it

easy by automatically generating ECN documents when changes occur. SAP Business

One preserves the product structure before the change, after the change, logging the

date, time and user who actually made the change.

No need to purchase a third party Product Lifecycle Management application with

Advanced Manufacturing. Leveraging SAP Business Ones Workflow and alerts,

proposed changes can be processed through a respective best business practice,

ensuring proper impact analysis and notification is completed.

Example ECN for an Assembly

Complete change history and audit ability exists for each and every change. Colors are

utilized to help users quickly see quantity changes, part adds and subtractions etc.

Shop Floor Data Collection Because SAP Business One is a real-time business

management solution, it is imperative to capture shop floor activity as it occurs.

Advanced Manufacturing provides this capability through numerous bar code devices

and touch screens.


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Many competitor solutions require a unique user ID to process shop floor changes, not

SAP Business One. One names user enables real-time processing of all shop floor

activity through the shop floor web based server.

Example Data Collection with Advanced Manufacturing

Easily record labor, view work instructions, videos, sign in, sign out, report labor on

multiple jobs and more.

Example Advanced Manufacturing Reporting WIP Sum mary and Status

Report


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Example Estimated Production Hours to Actual Hours R eport

Example Shop Floor Dispatch Report


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Example Shop Resource / Work Center Load Reporting


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Better manage capacity constraints with Advanced Manufacturing. Knowing ahead of

time enables companies to proactively allocate appropriate resources required to meetcustomer delivery dates.


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Example Advanced Production Scheduling

See the production floor graphically. Drag and drop jobs around to best utilize resources

and meet customer scheduled delivery dates. APS is also a tremendous tool for level

loading the shop floor.

Why Level Eight Systems?

Founded in 1997, we have grown steadily and have established ourselves as one of the

premiere business solution providers on the West Coast. Level Eight combinesseasoned, experienced industry experts with the best software technology available in

order to provide our clients with safe, cost-effective, solutions designed specifically for

the Medical Device industry. We turn IT from an expense item to a competitive

business tool to increase profits.

Reliable People

Certified SAP consultants with an average tenure of 7 years with ourcompany.

20 years of average industry experience in manufacturing solutions.Reliable Answers

10 years of demonstrated performance as a ERP services provider. Proven best practices consulting to optimize your business operations.

Reliable Results

Over 200 implementations worldwide in small-to-medium enterprises. Proven track record of success with on time on budget projects.


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With Level Eights Help you can expect:

Lower your risk/cost and increase predictability via fixed-scope projects. Gain rapid productivity and ongoing return on your software investment. Optimize your software investment through improved applicability and

utilization. Ensure complete, end-to-end integration of your enterprise solutions. Leverage the power of collaboration among customers, suppliers, and

employees. Enable your company to run and manage global operations via the web. Experienced Software Validation Experts!

ForMoreInformation

Contact: LevelEightSystems3CorporatePark,Suite260

Irvine,CA92606

9494356600

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