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SAP Business One latest version – what’s required to upgrade?

The current version of SAP Business One available in Australia is 8.82. Version 9 (next major release due early 2013) is currently in the initial testing phase. SAP is investing heavily in research and development and we have seen many new functions and features released in SAP Business One version 8.82. If you are on an older version of SAP Business One and you want to upgrade here are some suggestions:

  1. Make sure that you have a current maintenance and support plan with an accredited SAP Business One partner. This will give you access to the latest version of SAP Business One.
  2. The current version of SAP Business One that you are using will determine the appropriate upgrade plan to the latest version of SAP Business One. You can tell what version of SAP Business One you are running by going to the Help Menu and clicking on “About SAP Business One”
  3. A typical (once a year) major release upgrade should be planned as follows:

a.) Planning – activities that need to be completed prior to beginning the upgrade process. When is the best time to perform the upgrade? Where and when can a test environment be set-up? What support is required? etc. Planning will ensure a smooth transition. Make sure that any development and third-party integration is included in your upgrade planning.

b.) Test upgrade – SAP Business One – conduct a test upgrade of SAP Business One. Test key scenarios with users and conduct user training on new functions and features to get the most out of the new version. User acceptance testing is vital to any upgrade of software. This stage will also involve the test upgrade of any development, integration and third-party applications.

c.) Production system upgrade and test – upgrade the live SAP Business One system, development and third-party applications – test the upgrade.

d.) Hand over and support – ensure that users have been trained and hand the system over to the users. Provide support and maintenance as required.

Follow these basic steps together with information and documentation available in the SAP Business One Accelerated Upgrade Program and your upgrades will run smoothly – giving your users access to the latest technology form SAP – Dashboards, Mobility, Campaign Management and more.

SAP Business One 8.82

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Great news – SAP Business One 8.82 is now in general release. New functions and features include :


Enhancements to the payment wizard :

SAP Business One 8.82 enables you to use the payment wizard in a simpler way, and with more incorporated functions. Using the enhanced payment wizard function, you can now:

    • Define all selection criteria in the payment wizard. Note that the Payment Run Defaults – Setup window was removed.
    • Define payment methods in a simpler and clearer way
    • Handle bank charges in the payment wizard
    • Define projects for transactions
    • Sort and find transactions
    • Refresh the recommendation report
    • Simulate a payment summary before execution

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Marketing campaign management :

SAP Business One allows you to create, maintain, and analyze your marketing event information using the campaign management function. You can manage a promotional campaign by:

  • Creating and maintaining target groups
  • Creating a campaign using the Campaign Generation Wizard
  • Managing the campaign data
  • Generating leads and sales opportunities directly from a campaign
  • Analyzing campaigns based on the Campaign List report


Master Data Enhancements 

Master data cleanup :

SAP Business One 8.82, master data cleanup provides administrators and power users an easy way to remove or deactivate master data that is not required anymore for the operations of the company. It provides also a log for the batch removal and deactivation process. With this enhancement, users are able to clear a range of high-volume used master data, including items, business partners, G/L accounts, projects, profit centers, and distribution rules, either by physically removing the master data or by deactivating it, without compromising the business logic integrity.

BP and Item Master Data Series: 

The master data series permits users to define number series for customer, vendor and item master data. Assisting in auto-assignment of master data numbers during creation, results in higher efficiency in maintaining, tracing and managing master data records.

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MRP Enhancements : The Material Requirements Planning (MRP) module has been enhanced in the following ways:

MRP Wizard:

  • More document data sources for MRP calculation (for example, blanket agreements, recurring transactions, inventory transfer requests, and so on) and provision of flexible document selection
  • Significantly enhanced item and warehouse selection in the MRP run
  • Provision of extended control of item planning data when executing the MRP run
  • Expanded inventory level fulfillment options (maximum and required)
  • Enabled historical planning
  • Enabled automatic lead time calculation
  • Added future data display and calculation
  • Enhanced the wizard result display and recommendation report

Order Recommendations Report:

  • Enabled right-click menus for reports, which lets you investigate the item before you issue the recommended document
  • Enabled the option to select purchase quotations to be created instead of the recommended order
  • Enabled alerts for the recommendations

Inventory Transfer Request:

Inventory transfer request is a new document introduced into SAP Business One 8.82. You can now define inventory transfer request as an MRP recommendation type. This way, MRP will recommend inventory transfer between warehouses before recommending purchase orders or production orders.

Week Numbering:

Three options to calculate week numbering are provided in the Holiday Dates window. Your definition here will impact the presentation of MRP recommendations and forecasts based on weeks.

Forecast:

  • Enhanced the item selection methods
  • Enabled forecast generation based on sales history
  • Provided Scale up/down

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Dashboard updates

New dashboard parameters:

SAP Business One 8.82 allows you define and modify parameter sets for dashboards using the Dashboard Parameters window. You can create and maintain parameter sets in this window.

The following parameter set types are supported:

  • Single
  • Quarterly
  • Monthly
  • Multiple

New dashboards – cash flow forecast, purchase orders dashboard and purchase quotations dashboard.

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To take advantage of these great new functions and features give the team at Leverage a call on 1300 045 046 or email us [email protected].

Thanks to the team at SAP for a great new release of product.