Srinivasan,

General Manager
94440 55077
Cookscape
Orhid interiors
rs@cookscape.in
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SAP B1 fits to majority of small and medium size businesses. We often see custom
er requirements to develop user interface custom features via SBO SDK or Softwar
e Development Kit, and later on, instead of using customization, users find the
way of entering their sophisticated transactions in SB1 directly. We would like
to give you several examples and how this ERP application fits:
1. Rental Contracts. If you think what rental contract is - it is not somet
hing that you would think is possible in out-of-the-box generic accounting appli
cation. Let us walk you through how you can do Rentals in standard SB1 interface
. Service module has so-called Warranty contracts. Create in Inventory control r
ental sales item with serial number (priced at the level of rental contract), as
sociate warranty contract template with it and sell to the customer. Then create
Sales Order, where simply allocate all the rental items, associated with the re
ntal contract (in this case Warranty contract). Create user alert, which will tr
igger at the end of the term of the renting contract, asking user to cancel Sale
s Order. What happens from the business logic standpoint - you allocate or commi
t rental items to warranty contract, however they are staying in your inventory
and on your GL balance, and so they are not available during the time of the con
tract. At the end of the contract you can even decide to extend the contract and
set new user alert, if required
2. Advanced logistics and warehouse management: pick and pack. Pick & pack
is available in vanilla version of SB1. It is useful for small business where bu
siness logic requires you to track the content of each box, that you pack and sh
ip to your customers
3. Warranty and Service module. Here it fits to the scenarios where you sel
l something which is under your warranty or even when you are subcontracted to s
upport warranty contract by somebody else. You can either cover or bill out such
expenses as parts, labor, travel
4. Disassembly Production Order. In discrete manufacturing, imagine scenari
o, when your customer returns something which was specially manufactured for him
. You know that it has good components and they could be reused for future assem
bly orders. SAP Business One has disassembly production order, allowing you to d
isassemble previously manufactured item and place parts back to the respective b
ins and shelves
5. CRM and Sales by business partner product line. SB1 CRM module allows yo
u to categorize your opportunities by partner, which is not your customer. For e
xample, if you sell computer products from Microsoft, Apple, Sun Microsystems, y
ou can categorize your opportunities by these strategic partners, or in essence
vendors.