Tag: Business One

If you think about light customization of your user interface, prior to considering SDK programming we recommend you to review User defined fields and tables with your consultant. We would like to show you where they are and give you some modification case studies. We will base our publication on current version 8.81. However similar functionality is available in earlier versions, such as 2007A and B and 2005A/B. Lets begin with extending existing master records:

1.Business Partners table extension with user defined fields. Both Customers and Vendors are united in the same table. Lets now assume that you would like to add several persons with specific commission description and percentage each, where you need no more than three sales representative. Add nine fields to the Business Partner, each three per commission (Salesperson ID, Commission description and Percentage). How do I get there? Tools -> Customization Tools -> User Defined Fields Management, here expand Master Data, then Business Partner, highlight Business Partner and click on Add button on the right bottom corner of the window. Now, how do I do calculate commission without programming it in SDK? Good question. Consider Crystal Report, which looks at paid invoices and business partner custom commission fields

2.New User Defined Table monthly service unit cost. Lets now imagine that you are reseller of something like advertising time and your franchisor is varying your cost every month. Instead of updating the cost in all your Inventory Items, you would like to have one central table, where the cost is specified for each month, and probably in relation to the country or region, if you are participating in international business. If your business is relatively simple in the form of Sales Order and Invoice creation, you may decide zero cost for your service items and do one General Ledger monthly cost transaction to keep your Balance Sheet, P&L accurate. User Defined Cost table is accessible through normal user interface

3.Animating User Defined field or tables via SDK programming. If you feel that customization and reporting options described above are not doing the job, the next step would be to register User Defined Object or appeal to SDK programming. Object will be described in separate publication. Software Development Kit coding should be done through certified SB1 reseller, who carries certified programmers in staff

4.Some notes about version 8.8 and 8.81. First of all there are no more of such things as A and B versions. This means that your corporate ERP SAP Business One could be installed on the same Windows 2008 and SQL 2008 Server with companies for all the countries, where you have facilities (assuming that SAP B1 is localized for these countries). Previously there were two flavors A and B (like 2007A and 2007B, where USA and Canadian versions were available in A and Brazilian or Chinese in B, and you had to have two server installs). Second, we would like to mention such cool feature as Purchase Quotation and Purchasing Quotation Generation Wizard (in Corporate ERP terminology it is also referred as Requisition Management)

5.Business One as an option for your international subsidiary, where in USA or Canada you are deploying Microsoft Dynamics (GP, AX, SL, NAV). We did it for several of the well-known multinational corporations. There are several methods. One of them is to export SAP BO GL Trial Balance into Excel worksheet and use it in your FRx or Microsoft Management Reporter consolidated P&L or BS (this should be setup in Reporting Tree). The second method is GL transaction level consolidation. Here you have SB1 as your overseas accounting application and in US you have the shadow company with exactly the same GL accounts. You export SBO GL transactions every night or weekly and import them into Dynamics via Integration Manager or eConnect programmed custom integration. Similar options exist for Axapta, Navision, Solomon, as well as for non Microsoft Corporate ERP platforms, such as Oracle eBusiness Suite/Financials

6.Crossing the borders in Easter Europe and South America. This Corporate ERP application is localized for Russian Federation, where it is facing strong competition with such locally developed package as 1S Bukhgalteria (1S Accounting in English translation). In Brazil this small business MRP and ERP package has very good reputation and it is often implemented for larger organizations. It naturally competes with local accounting application Microsiga

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In present time, iPhone is an entertaining and helpful tool for business. By means of installing applications onto iPhone, you can gain more benefits. The features of iPhone todays mobiles is totally complete including some really attractive users applications. With increase in iPhone user `base, iPhone applications Development has become a new development of a business’s approach, both from the sales marketing and branding point of view for your business.

These are the few iPhone applications Development for:

Social Networking

iPhone provides outstanding application for social networking and makes possible to be in touch with people in an easy way.

Business

One of the benefits of iPhone to your business is that you can access online web applications. This means that you can check and access your emails no matter where you are. Also, Contact Resource Management iPhone Application provide help to your sales team and anyone dealing with the client to access all the needed information in relation to the customer.

Quick Operations

Nearly all people wants fast service, so if you installed iPhone applications for your business, that simply means that you are at the exact position where lots of possible clients can effortlessly access the services of your business. Therefore, iPhone provides fast services to the client. iPhone applications developer provide people the chance to access information effortlessly from any location , the only thing they need is have access to the Internet.

iPhone Applications is Easy to Use

The majority of the iPhone applications are relatively easy to use. The more comfortable the client in exercising your application, the better will be your connection with the client which can convert to higher sales.

iPhone Application Can Bring More Clients

The key to attracts more sales for any business is by creating awareness about the benefits of business product. With the help of iPhone application development, business owners can advertise their products and services to a growing audience. This is basically a ground-breaking and an innovative way to present your business.

Enhancing Proceeds

iPhone applications developer can build such applications which relate best to your business and product. A highly sensitive application can help business to generate proceeds from approaching offerings, consequently iphone applications provides help in increasing the proceeds.

These are some of benefits of iPhone applications that make them famous and popular in business world. So have you started installing and developing applications for your business? If not, then this is the right time to develop your iPhone applications.

Business One is good solution when you are midmarket organization with attributes of multinational corporation, such as branches in foreign countries and headquarters and research facility in the United States. SAP B1 is popular in international business scenarios as it is localized in such popular regional powers as China, Brazil and Russian Federation. There are known cases studies when companies with non-SAP Corporate ERP applications launched Business One for their branches in Brazil and later one switched to it in the headquarters as well. There are some challenges however and one of them is consolidated financial reporting. As you may know such popular tools as Microsoft Management Reporter and FRx do not have GL connectors to SAP BO. Some customers are doing GL trial balance export to Excel and then prepare it to fit consolidation template. This is definitely possible way but you may mention that it is time consuming and open to human errors. In this publication we recommend old-good-days method of GL consolidation:

1.How does it work conceptually? You have to create new company with account structure matching your template. Then you schedule regular GL entries migration into this company General Ledger. This company obviously doesnt represent legal entity but it has all your branches GL activity and ready for consolidated Balance Sheet and P&L. You can use internal reporting

2.How does it work technically? You can deploy several tools. First of all it is possible to pull GL records via Data Transfer Workbench when it has integrations for each company SQL database via ODBC. Second method is programming with Software Development Kit. This second method might seem like something challenging. However it is only one type of transactions and code samples in VB and C# are straight forward. There are ISV products working with SAP B1 SQL database via direct data feed. They are usually expensive and require learning curve. But if you are ready to deploy luxury solution then you should probably make your homework

3.International Business Specific multicurrency. Business One is multicurrency enabled so in our opinion it is just one additional factor to incorporate into the solution. We have done it for the company which operates in Brazil and USA with respectively Real and Dollar

4.Standard for Chart of Accounts. This might be additional challenge as often company deploys the same system in several countries but contracts different consulting partners to do from ground up implementation without coordination with central office. In consolidated financial reporting Chart of Accounts should be reviewed and unified in all business entities. In any case this is good exercise in order to understand you foreign country branch operations and finances or in other words strengthen central control

5.Other aspects of multinational environment and Business One. It is generally good idea to host all the installations on the server located in the Headquarters. There are definitely some specifics associated with foreign company regulations and tax code. But these compliances should not be the central emphasis. Instead you should think about your new Corporate ERP system as the tool allowing you to exercise tight central control over all of your overseas subsidiaries. General advice is to assign chosen consulting organization here in the United States for picking subcontractors for each country to implement just compliance related functionality. Compliance is just a small part of what the system is for

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