SAP Business One vs. NetSuite

The global food and beverage market is constantly changing and relies on a complex supply chain. Add new customer demands and traceability, quality management, and inventory control regulations, and your business needs its data in real-time. 

Food and beverage companies use SAP Business One to:

• Comply with strict industry standards and GMP guidelines, including FDA, EMA, BRC, IFRA, and GHS
• Manage shelf life and expiry dates by tracking byproducts, co-products, yield, wastage, shelf life, expiry date, FIFO, and FEFO
• Track materials backwards and forwards from vendor to customer
• Calculate costs with flexible, multilevel margin calculations per article, production order, and batch
• Eliminate waste and minimise delays with advanced quality controls on raw materials and components
• Improve planning, communication, and responsiveness with advanced scheduling and production controls
• Make faster, more informed decisions with real-time reporting, dashboards, and alerts 
• Easily integrate with subsystems like SCADA and LIMS 
  
  

Effective inventory controls, warehouse management, and recall features are built into SAP Business One, not bolted on as an afterthought.  

The key to keeping up with advancing technology is adopting a solution that gives food and beverage manufacturers greater transparency, efficiency, and supply chain visibility. 

Download Vision33’s eBook, How Food Manufacturers Can Manage Sudden Supply Chain Shifts, to learn how SAP Business One lets you plan better and make decisions faster in an increasingly competitive and ever-changing industry.

Huy Fong Foods Customer Case Study

California-based Huy Fong Foods simplified end-to-end supply chain operations by consolidating five systems into one: SAP Business One. The software’s intuitive nature enabled the company to implement the ERP solution using only non-technical staff.

SAP Business One manages everything from inventory control to production and customer relationship management for life sciences companies. The system automates processes and combines sales transactions, supply chain logistics, warehouse management, and accounting capabilities on one platform. You also gain access to real-time data and a big-picture view of operations.

Meeting FDA requirements

Regulators want to know your business has the proper controls, particularly for CAPA collection, analysis, resolution, reporting, and trending. With SAP Business One, your company can produce documents and evidence to prove you’re following standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Quality control

Your company must provide quality management for class I, II, III, and IV medical devices, including quality standards compliance (e.g., TS14485 and ISO 9001). SAP Business One configures workflows and provides quality check procedures; after measurements are defined, the system sets up the acceptable quality level at each production checkpoint to ensure components don’t proceed until they meet that checkpoint’s criteria.

Traceability and product recalls

SAP Business One includes serial number traceability to ensure products are tracked accurately through every stage. The system manages UDIs, guarantees traceability, and enables your company to manage recalls properly and efficiently.

With SAP Business One, life sciences companies can overcome challenges and thrive in this complex, competitive industry.  
 
Our short eBook, Top 6 Technology Challenges in BioTech—Solved, is based on our BioTech customers' experiences.

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Avinger Customer Case Study

Medical device company Avinger implemented SAP Business One to transform its business and prepare for growth. Today, Avinger manages everything better with finance, supply chain, logistics, and warehouse management on one platform.

SAP Business One is an all-in-one solution that provides accurate, real-time information for end-to-end operations management. The platform integrates features for discrete, process, and project manufacturing, including:

• Production
• Profitability measures
• EDI
• Supply chain management
• Shipping logistics
• Advanced manufacturing capabilities
  
  

Because SAP Business One maintains a 360-degree view of your operations, it delivers the broadest set of features and functions on the market, including:

• Opportunity management
• Advanced inventory management
• Project-based purchasing
• Comprehensive project management
• Partner updates and news
• Real-time, cross-functional reporting
• Time and materials management with a built-in MRP system
• Process-oriented bills of materials (BOMs)
• Centralised sales order entry
• Change order management
• Customised quality controls
• Production management, including planning and scheduling 
  
  

SAP Business One simplifies BOM management. The platform’s advanced real-time reporting lets you control user rights and offer BOM reporting views with only the information employees need to do their jobs. Because SAP Business One stores all its information in a single database, all product data is captured in a single record. This centralises the information from your engineering, manufacturing, and purchasing BOMs, along with data for packaging, quality inspection, and identification labels, ensuring you produce and ship products exactly as specified.

Manufacturing success comes easily with technology that tracks your products from the production floor and improves your customer service.  

Vision33’s free eBook, Simplifying ERP for Small and Midsized Manufacturers, explains how cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions drive manufacturing forwards for discrete, process, and project manufacturers. 

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Advance Adapters Customer Case Study

Advance Adapters's highly complex products require detailed information-sharing with customers and prospects. The manufacturer switched to SAP Business One and more than doubled its revenue by streamlining customer views and feedback on project-specific data.

The supply chain network is becoming more complex. Customers want more choices, faster fulfilment, and lower prices. To meet expectations, SAP Business One gives you a single, transparent view of all your warehouse and distribution operations so you can deliver goods on time, boost customer satisfaction, and optimise inventory.

Greater inventory and supply chain management

SAP Business One provides real-time data about inbound and outbound shipments and inventory. Whether you stock and ship hard or soft goods, food, or other items with complex serialisation and lot tracking, or your services are a mix of drop ship, 3PL, and stock and ship, SAP Business One smooths operations and improves operating margins. With integrated solutions for electronic data interchange (EDI), shipping logistics, and inventory management, Vision33 can automate your warehouse so everything happens automatically based on a single transaction.

EDI enables wholesale distributors to electronically exchange order information with a supply chain partner without manual data entry and re-entry, resulting in fewer errors and faster order completion. SAP Business One integrates your backend data (e.g., sales, invoicing, production, scheduling, and shipping) via EDI, eliminating manual processes associated with sharing data with business partners.

Innovative cloud EDI 

Cloud EDI connects SAP Business One to a network of over 55,000 retailers, manufacturers, suppliers, and 3PLs. The integrated EDI solution is available on both Microsoft SQL Server and SAP HANA and enables customer- and supplier-facing EDI in a single environment.

With cloud EDI for SAP Business One, you can:

• Use standardised document formats to seamlessly interact with any partner
• Increase cash flow by reducing invoicing and payment cycles
• Send and receive real-time catalog, inventory, order, and shipping information
• Save time by no longer building individual point-to-point connections with each trading partner
  
  

Discover the full potential of ERP for distribution in our guide, Warehouse Management 4.0.   

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Superior Auto Extras Customer Case Study

Superior Auto Extras, a full-service distributor, manages a range of products and product variants in SAP Business One and implemented advanced inventory management so their 60 employees, 75 outside sales reps, and two distribution centres are always synchronised.