Production Planning

Transparent inventory control and distribution

Production Planning

Transparent inventory control and distribution

SAP Business One provides accurate information about inbound and outbound shipments, inventory, and item location. You can value inventory using standard costing, moving average, FIFO, and other methods; monitor stock levels; and track transfers in real time. You can run realtime inventory updates and availability checks and manage standard and special pricing. You can also apply volume, cash, and customer discounts and run reports that reveal their impact.

Warehouse and inventory management –

Manage inventory using various costing models, maintain item master data, and use multiple units of measure and pricing.

Goods receipt and issue control –

Record goods receipts and issues; track stock locations and transfers; enable consignment, drop-ship, and other orders; and perform inventory and cycle counts.

Bin location management –

Manage stock in multiple warehouses, by dividing each one into multiple subzones, set up allocation rules, optimize stock movement, and reduce picking times.

Production and material requirements planning -

Create and maintain multilevel bills of materials (BOMs), issue and release production orders manually or by backflush, and globally maintain prices for BOMs.

Efficient reporting –

Generate reports with timely data and display them in various formats or dashboards.

Warehouse Management with SAP Business One

Optimize Inventory and Production Processes

The warehouse and inventory management tools in the SAP® Business One application allow you to manage your supply chain and enhance customer satisfaction by providing reliable information about inbound and outbound shipments as well as current inventory levels. You can keep track of product inventory, quantity at each warehouse, movement history, and stocking status. Inventory data is updated in real time so that you can extract insights to meet customer demand and expectations.

SAP Business One gives you integrated accounting functionality, so you can be assured that your warehouse management and your financial accounting data are consistently synchronized. The software automatically values every goods movement and cost and price change, thereby eliminating manual interaction and the associated errors and costs.

Using integrated production functionality, you can manage various types of bills of materials and link your warehouse with your order processing and production operations. Additionally, the material requirements planning feature in the application allows you to effectively plan material requirements for complex, multilevel production processes and maintain an optimum level of inventory.

Warehouses and Inventories

SAP Business One lets you manage multiple warehouses from a central console. Perform instant availability checks and track item stock levels with real-time visibility of the inventory you have “available to promise.” The software provides you with quantity details that are adjusted by what is already committed to other customers, incoming purchases, and production orders.

The master data management feature in SAP Business One lets you maintain item numbers and descriptions with detailed purchasing, sales, and inventory data. It also supports multiple unit types in sales, purchasing, and inventory documents. This means you can purchase and sell your inventory in different units (such as buying in cases and selling in individual bottles) while continuing to maintain an accurate count of units in stock.

Stock Movements

SAP Business One records goods receipts and goods issues in any warehouse and allows you to track your stock transfers from one warehouse to another. By integrating individual item prices or price lists, the application simultaneously updates inventory valuation. SAP Business One also fully integrates inventory and accounting transactions. As a result, when stock levels are adjusted, inventory accounts are immediately credited or debited, and applicable inventory variances are accounted for as soon as a stock movement is posted.

The pick-and-pack manager in SAP Business One lets you quickly create pick lists and pull the listed items from the inventory.

Production and Material Requirements Planning

SAP Business One supports all your basic requirements for production activities by enabling you to accurately and effectively manage bills of materials (BOMs), production orders, and material requirements.

The application simplifies definition and management of BOMs for production, assembly, and sales. For example, with a production bill of materials, you can readily document the type, quantity, and price of materials needed to manufacture the final products, as well as quantity availability. Once BOMs have been defined, production orders can be created and released based on them. Component needs, costs, and materials availability are automatically added to your work orders, enforcing accurate allocation of raw materials to products and volume control.

Production and Warehouse Reports

Reporting tools in SAP Business One allow you to create sophisticated warehouse and production management reports. You can choose from a variety of report formats (such as PDF, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel) to display standard reports or incorporate them as dashboards. Use predefined templates to issue inventory status, audit, and valuation reports, as well as item and warehouse transaction lists. You can also generate production reports, such as production orders by status and BOM reports.

With “drag-and-relate” and interactive drill-down functionalities, you can click through relevant data and get answers quickly. For more advanced reporting, use the report designer to integrate custom queries, parameters, formulas, and layouts. The report organizer allows you to execute and manage your reports and efficiently distribute them to other users through report books.

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