Optimizing production orders and inventory processes
Accurate and streamlined inventory management is crucial to your ability to deliver on promise, as well as to maintain customer satisfaction and inventory cost control. Inventory and production management tools in the SAP Business One application help manage detailed warehouse data, track and record stock movements, and plan and release production orders based on your material requirements planning.
Business Challenges
• Manage inventory across multiple warehouses and locations
• Track and record stock movements
• Ensure raw materials and parts are ordered at the right time and available for production when needed
• Avoid shortages and ensure timely delivery without maintaining surplus inventory
• Access real-time, accurate information
Business Benefits
• Gain efficiency by automating processes and using integrated production functionality
• Improve customer service with on-time delivery and fewer shortages and stock-outs
• Reduce inventory costs with improved inventory control and materials planning
• Improve business insight with powerful warehouse and inventory reporting tools
- Warehouse and inventory management – Manage inventories 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 transfers; enable consignment, drop-ship, and other orders; perform inventory and cycle counts
- 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
- Mobile app – enables real-time access to the enterprise resource planning (ERP) functions of SAP Business One
- Efficient, up-to-date reporting – Generate reports with data that is regularly refreshed, and display them in various report formats or as dashboards
