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SAP Business One, explained by people who build for it.
Short guides about the warehouse, the scanner, the licence, the technician on the road, HR and sales. No sales talk: what B1 does by itself, where it stops, and what you need to check before you buy anything, from us or from anyone else.
01 / THE GUIDES
Written for the people who run it.
Warehouse managers, service planners, application managers and the B1 partner who gets the question.
Barcode scanning in SAP Business One without a WMS: what the Service Layer can and can't do
How a scanner app posts receipts, picks, transfers and counts straight into SAP Business One through the Service Layer, and where a WMS really is needed.
Which Android scanners work with SAP Business One? Zebra, Newland, keyboard wedge and the phone camera
Handheld scanners for a SAP Business One warehouse: Zebra DataWedge, Newland, any keyboard-wedge scanner, and camera scanning on an Android phone.
SAP Business One licences for scanner and app users: named user and Indirect Access explained
Named user, Professional, Limited, Starter Package and Indirect Access: what SAP Business One licence rules mean for warehouse staff on a scanner.
Field service in SAP Business One: what the standard Service module does, and where an app for the technician comes in
What the SAP Business One Service module offers out of the box (calls, contracts, equipment, scheduling lines) and what planners and technicians miss.
GS1-128 barcodes in SAP Business One: what is in the label, and how a scanner reads batch and expiry in one go
GS1-128 for SAP Business One users: application identifiers for GTIN, batch, expiry and quantity, what B1 stores, and how a scanner fills a line from one scan.
HR in SAP Business One: what the employee master does, what Dutch HR needs on top, and where a personnel system comes in
What the B1 employee master and HR module do out of the box, what leave, sick leave and the GDPR in the Netherlands need on top, and what to check before putting an HR system next to it.
CRM in SAP Business One: what the sales side already does, where a sales person gets stuck, and what to check before adding a CRM
What B1 already has for leads, opportunities, activities and quotations, where a sales person gets stuck, and what to check before you put a CRM next to it.