Know About the Different Functional Modules of SAP Business One

SAP Business One is business software that comprises different modules and is accessed by users for managing business data and operations. The idea of these modules is to bring greater efficiency, productivity, and visibility to the requirements of small and medium-sized businesses for their growth.

What are business modules?

Modules refer to a set of functionalities that enable businesses to integrate the various processes and business data more efficiently. You need to have a professional user license to use the SAP B1 modules. ERP Consulting is about using these business modules to ensure the smooth functioning of businesses with better clarity and transparency. Let’s have a look at the key modules.

The Modules:

• Purchasing- AP- It takes care of controlling purchase quotations, good receipts, purchase orders, and vendor payments.
• Sales- AR- This is about controlling sales quotations, deliveries, sales orders, and invoices.
• Financials- It comprises managing financial and posting reports, accounting, and charts of accounts.
• Opportunities- It is about sales opportunity reports and records.
• CRM- This involves marketing and activities.
• Inventory- This is about managing all items or goods that are bought or sold by the business, and maintaining a record of the same.
• Business partners- It is about managing leads, vendors, customers, and their respective contact details and addresses.
• Banking- This includes outgoing and incoming payments, and even bank reconciliation.
• Project management- It involves project issues and tasks, projects, and project financial summaries.
• MRP- This includes a wizard for controlling inputs of demands for creating recommendations for purchases.
• Resources- It involves resource capacity planning and resource master data.
• Production- It enables control of production orders, bills of materials, and other manufacturing details.
• Administration- This includes system settings and user administration.
• Service- It is about controlling service contracts, service calls, field service management, and customer equipment cards.

User access to modules is controlled in two ways. One is the license type and another is through security and administration. It should be noted that professional users can easily have access to all the available modules. On the contrary, limited users have specific access to modules which is limited to sales, logistics, and finance. Companies can consider buying the Starter Package Licence that has limitations of the number of modules included.

Are all modules accessed through the mobile app? The mobile app of the SAP B1 contains various modules. It includes Business Partners, Activities, Inventory, Alerts, Sales Opportunities, Price Lists, Delivery, Quotation, Services Calls, Sales Orders, Dashboards, Sales, and Service Contracts. To put it in nutshell, you have three options of limited, mobile, and professional user license for accessing the SAP Business One mobile app.

The above-mentioned modules are meant to manage the various business functions. If there is a need for further modules, then you can buy add-on products to get further solutions for your existing operational areas. Financial management is the most important module in SAP B1. It includes a set of tools that are streamlined for the various financial operations to aid businesses to reduce errors, improve margins, and induce better profitable decisions.