SAP Business One Vs. NetSuite

The global food and beverage market is constantly changing and relies on a complex supply chain. Add new customer demands and regulations regarding traceability, quality management, and inventory control, and your business needs to access and report on an array of data in real-time. 

SAP Business One customers are winning in the food and beverage industry because they use SAP Business One to:

• Comply with strict industry standards and GMP guidelines, including FDA, EMA, BRC, IFRA, and GHS
• Manage shelf life and expiry dates by tracking byproducts, co-products, yield, wastage, shelf life, expiry date, FIFO, and FEFO
• Track materials backward and forward from vendor to customer
• Calculate costs with flexible, multilevel margin calculations per article, production order, and batch
• Eliminate waste and minimise delays with advanced quality controls on raw materials and components
• Improve planning, communication, and responsiveness with advanced scheduling and production controls
• Make faster, more informed decisions with real-time reporting, dashboards, and alerts 
• Easily integrate with subsystems such as SCADA and LIMS 

Effective inventory controls, warehouse management, and recall features are built into SAP Business One, not bolted on as an afterthought. SAP continuously incorporates these features and functions into the product because SAP Business One was developed as a comprehensive business management software solution that handles all forms of operational data.

Huy Fong Foods Automates Distribution Operations with SAP Business One

California-based Huy Fong Foods simplified end-to-end supply chain operations by consolidating five systems into just one: SAP Business One. The intuitive nature of the software enabled the company to implement its ERP using only non-technical staff.

SAP Business One can manage your entire life sciences business, from inventory control to production and customer relationship management. The system can automate processes and bring sales transactions, supply chain logistics, warehouse management, and accounting capabilities under one platform. You also gain reporting capabilities specific to medical device companies, as you can access real-time information and view all operations in one place.

Meeting FDA Requirements

Regulators want to know your business has the proper controls, particularly for CAPA collection, analysis, resolution, reporting, and trending. With SAP Business One, your medical device company can produce documents and evidence to prove you’re following standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Quality Control

Your medical device company must provide quality management for class I, II, III, and IV medical devices, including quality standards compliance (i.e., TS14485 and ISO 9001). SAP Business One configures workflows and provides quality check procedures; after measurements are defined, the system sets up the acceptable quality level at each production checkpoint to ensure components don’t proceed until they meet that checkpoint’s criteria.

Traceability and Product Recalls

SAP Business One includes serial number traceability to help companies ensure products are tracked accurately through all stages. The system can manage UDIs, guarantee traceability, and enable your company to properly and efficiently manage recalls.

Avinger Transforms an Entire Business

Medical device company Avinger implemented SAP Business One to transform their business and prepare for growth. Today, they manage everything better with their finance, supply chain, logistics, and warehouse management under one platform.

SAP Business One is an all-in-one solution that provides accurate, real-time information for managing your end-to-end operations. The platform integrates features unique to discrete, process, and project manufacturing, including:

• Production
• Profitability measures
• EDI
• Supply chain management
• Shipping logistics
• Advanced manufacturing capabilities

Because SAP Business One maintains a full, 360-degree view of your operations, it delivers the broadest set of features and functions on the market:

• Opportunity management
• Advanced inventory management
• Project-based purchasing
• Comprehensive project management
• Partner updates and news
• Real-time, cross-functional reporting
• Time and materials management with a built-in MRP system
• Process-oriented bill of materials (BOM)
• Centralised sales order entry
• Change order management
• Customised quality controls
• Production management, including planning and scheduling 

SAP Business One simplifies BOM management. The platform’s advanced real-time reporting lets you control user rights and offer BOM reporting views that display only the information employees need to do their jobs. Because SAP Business One stores all its information in a single database, all product data is captured in a single record. This centralizes the information from your engineering, manufacturing, and purchasing BOMs along with data for packaging, quality inspection, and identification labels. This ensures you produce and ship products exactly as specified.

Advance Adapters Exceeds Revenue Doubling

The highly complex products of Advance Adapters require detailed information-sharing with customers and prospects. The manufacturer switched to SAP Business One and more than doubled its revenue by streamlining customer views and feedback on project-specific data.

The supply chain network is becoming more complex. Customers want more choices, faster fulfilment,, and lower prices. To meet expectations, SAP Business One gives you a single, transparent view of all your warehouse and distribution operations, which helps you deliver goods on time, boosts customer satisfaction, and optimise inventory.

Greater Inventory and Supply Chain Management

SAP Business One provides real-time information about inbound and outbound shipments and inventory data. Whether you stock and ship hard or soft goods, food, or other items with complex serialisation and lot tracking, or your services are a mix of drop ship, 3PL, and stock and ship, SAP Business One will smooth your operations and improve your operating margin. With integrated solutions for EDI, shipping logistics, and supply and inventory management, Vision33 can automate your warehouse so everything happens automatically based on a single transaction.

EDI enables wholesale distributors to electronically exchange order information with a supply chain partner without manual data entry and re-entry, which results in fewer errors and faster order completion. SAP Business One integrates your backend data (e.g., sales, invoicing, production, scheduling, and shipping data) via EDI, eliminating manual processes associated with sharing data with business partners in a format they accept.

Innovative Cloud EDI 

Cloud EDI is designed and built exclusively to connect SAP Business One to a network of over 55,000 retailers, manufacturers, suppliers, 3PLs, and more. The integrated EDI solution is available on both Microsoft SQL Server and SAP HANA and enables customer- and supplier-facing EDI in a single environment.

With cloud EDI for SAP Business One, you can:

• Use standardised document formats to seamlessly interact with any partner
• Increase cash flow by reducing invoicing and payment cycles
• Send and receive real-time catalogue, inventory, order, and shipping information
• Save time by no longer building individual point-to-point connections with each trading partner

Superior Auto Extras

Superior Auto Extras, a full-service distributor, manages a range of products and product variants in SAP Business One and implemented advanced inventory management so their 60 employees, 75 outside sales reps, and two distribution centres are always synchronised.