By Maribeth Baba

Managing Director, APPTechnology Experts, Inc.

 

 

Thinking of implementing a manufacturing software solution?

The manufacturing industry is dynamic and ever-expanding, and it needs a powerful integrated ERP solution to maintain high productivity.

Companies are faced with a lot of data; material procurement, sales, production, scheduling, and logistics are all examples of data being tracked in software somewhere, somehow. In order to be successful in this rapidly evolving industry, you need to break down the silos and have complete visibility into your entire operations.

How do you do that? By investing in centralized ERP technology specifically designed for manufacturers looking to uncover new ways to increase efficiency, optimize processes, and realize value.

ERP software is expected to grow by 22.6% in the next five years

The global market for enterprise resource planning software reached $110.51 billion in 2022, according to Allied Market Research. The rapidly thriving manufacturing sector can leverage the benefits of ERP software by getting clear visibility and control over the supply chain and actionable insights to make rapid decisions. Manufacturers can meet their diverse and complex business needs with a robust ERP solution like SAP Business One.

Why SAP Business One would be a good fit

SAP Business One is a comprehensive ERP solution that covers every aspect of your manufacturing business like resources, sales, operations, and accounting. It can enhance efficiency at a reduced cost and increase profitability by enabling companies to make accurate and informed decisions.

 

Here’s what SAP Business One can do for your Manufacturing processes

1. Better Visibility in Supply Chain

In a highly competitive manufacturing sector, visibility holds the key to success. SAP Business One offers you greater visibility of supply chain and inventory data to enable you to control costs and meet deadlines while addressing customer demands more effectively.

In a highly competitive manufacturing sector, visibility holds the key to success. SAP Business One offers you greater visibility of supply chain and inventory data to enable you to control costs and meet deadlines while addressing customer demands more effectively.

2. Interlinking of Sales with Inventory

SAP Business One can streamline the sales order process by linking all sales orders to inventory data. As you place an order, you will know the number of items available and can adjust that to your customer’s order. Because SAP Business One is designed to keep track of receipts and issues of goods in your warehouse, you’ll be able to track stock transfers from one warehouse to another.

3. Higher Productivity

The SAP Business One solution has a Material Requirements Planning (MRP) function to enable you to manage the optimum plan for multilevel production processes. The MRP functionality adds resource information to requirement planning for the maintenance of machines.

4. Minimize Waste

With SAP Business One, you can minimize waste and allocate the material properly. This solution can integrate the purchase orders and BOMs (Bills of Material). After designing BOMs, you can create production orders. Once these orders are released, the available material and costs are added to the work orders automatically.

5. Centralized system for Shop Floor Assistance

Gone are the days when a hard copy of instructions was needed to manufacture products on the shop floor. This traditional system was inefficient and difficult. With SAP Business One, you can provide all the instructions and processes directly to your workers through a centralized system.

6. More Control Over Inventory

The availability of raw materials can be a headache for manufacturers. Whether you are an SME or a large enterprise, inventory accounts for a big chunk of expenses. SAP Business One helps you do this by providing a wide range of features that let you manage your inventory across multiple warehouses in different locations. You can access real-time information about your inventory as well as place orders through desktop or mobile devices.

Manufacturing Sector transformed by APPTech and SAP

SAP Business One offers a range of features to help you streamline the manufacturing process. From inventory control to shop-floor experience to customer services, SAP Business One can help you run your business more cost-effectively

 

About APPTech

Over the last decade, the APPTech Experts team has been building industry-specific solutions for customers on the SAP platform. We love to innovate and help customers become Intelligent Enterprise through automation of their processes. It is only with APPTech Experts where expertise meets commitment

In this photo: APPTech directors with James Deakin during the company’s Customer Day 2022