Intelligent Colour Size Matrix

Create and maintain parent and child items within SAP Business One

Intelligent Colour/Size Matrix enables you to create and maintain parent and child items via matrix templates within SAP Business One. The matrix templates define the item code and description to be assigned to each child item created. The module also allows you to optionally copy parent item price list prices to their child items.

Functionalities

•Creates item codes within a user defined matrix template based on two item variables.
•Assign templates to parent items enabling user to create child items for the parent.
•Defines parent and child items in Item Master Data UDF – Colour Size Matrix.
•Assign multiple templates to one parent item.
•Apply parent pricing tab allows the user to copy selected price list prices from a parent item to all of its child items at any point in time.

Business Challenges

•Ensuring visibility and proper tracking of inventory for multi-variant items.
•Creating item codes for multi variant items.
•Efficiently completing inventory reporting and sales analysis by size and colour.

Key Features

•Customisable user defined colour/size matrix templates to meet your inventory needs.
•Multiple colour/size matrix templates can be assigned to one parent item to create multi-variant child items.
•Apply parent pricing to child items when applicable.
•Leverage standard order processing capabilities of SAP Business One such as special pricing, warehouse, availability check, etc in combination with colour/size matrix as items are processed through ordinary SAP Business One processing cycle.

Business Benefits

•Save time creating item codes by creating child items within user defined templates.
•Quickly set up a product range for a new multi-attribute.
•Beat the competition and capture the market with proper inventory tracking.
•Quickly fulfill orders for multi attribute items.
•Improves inventory reporting and sales analysis by allowing any business in need of tracking by the sizes and colours of their merchandise to do so efficiently.

To find out more about other Intelligent Essentials elements visit www.beabetterbusiness.co.uk or www.beabetterbusiness.ie

Intelligent Essentials, Making B1 Better!

Online sales - the barriers are smaller than you think with Intelligent Ecommerce!

Today’s consumers expect to be able to find everything they need or want online.
Despite this 69% of entrepreneurs have not yet made the move to e-commerce in the UK despite it being an extremely lucrative marketing channel. Many small businesses in the UK have failed to capitlise and enter the online market because they fear the unknown, they don’t know where to begin and a lot of them feel that the market is “out of their league” so to speak.

The most obvious benefit to trading online is that it gives you greater reach to customers and drives sales. In PayPoint.net’s recent report, Powering Small Business Britain, 59% of the over 800 entrepreneurs surveyed identified this aspect as the biggest pull to e-commerce. Consumers look to buy everything online, from their groceries and taxi bookings, to their insurance.

Clearly there are many advantages to e-commerce and this is recognised by small businesses in Britain; the issue, is that entrepreneurs want to go online, but feel that this is not possible for various reasons, such as cost, fraud, or simply apprehension.

With SAP Business One and Intelligent Ecommerce your small to midsize business can enter the world of online trading with ease.

Intelligent Ecommerce provides users of SAP Business One with a robust and easy to use solution to provide information to customers. Using Intelligent Ecommerce companies can provide their customers with an on-line portal. Customers can log onto the website, enter their username and password and view products on offer.

To find out more about SAP Business One, Intelligent Ecommerce and other Intelligent Essentials add-ons which take SAP B1 further visit www.beabetterbusiness.co.uk or www.beabetterbusiness.ie

Intelligent Deferrer

Easily defer income or expenditure in SAP Business One

Intelligent Deferrer provides additional functionality that will allow users to easily defer financial income & expenditure.

Functionalities

•Defer Income. Within SAP Business one, users will be able to select an existing Sales Invoice and for each line item decide to defer the income.
•Defer Expenditure. Equally when it comes to Expenditure, users can decide to defer any line on a Purchasing Invoice.

Business Challenges

•Need to defer income & expenditure to reflect best practice accounting.
•Currently this is a manual & time consuming process in SAP Business One.

Key Features

•Being able to defer both Income & Expenditure easily.
•All postings done correctly and automatically.
•Easy to review deferrals created.

Business Benefits

•Put best‐practice accounting in place.
•Ease of use for users

To find out more about other Intelligent Essentials elements visit www.beabetterbusiness.co.uk or www.beabetterbusiness.ie

Intelligent Essentials, Making SAP B1 Better!

Intelligent Back 2 Back

Enhanced Back to Back Processing Including Real Costing in SAP Business One

Intelligent Back 2 Back provides enhanced functionality to the standard SAP Business One back to back Sales to Purchase Order process that will allow users to handle real world scenarios and improves the link between the Sales and Purchase elements of the process.


Functionalities

•Create a Sales Order.
•Generate a Back to Back Purchase Order.
•Update and Change Purchase Orders –and the effect on Sales Orders.

Business Challenges

•Inflexible and limited back to back process in SAP Business One.
•No strong link between Sales and Purchase Orders.
•Stronger Batch control.
•Customer information.

Key Features

•Direct link between Sales cost & Purchase pricing.
•Handles Split –and alternative Supplier scenarios.
•Allows for real costing on Sales Orders.
•Fully integrated with SAP Business One.

Business Benefits

•Actual costing. Accurate GP.
•Lower stock on hand.
•Flexibility.
•PO’s easily matched to customers

To find out more about other Intelligent Essentials elements visit www.beabetterbusiness.co.uk or www.beabetterbusiness.ie

Intelligent Essentials, Making B1 Better!

Lack of “printer and coffee trips” risk to UK office workers health

British workers are in poor health, with more than 10 million UK male employees overweight or obese.

According to a survey of 8,778 workers by water cooler company Water Wellpoint, two thirds have an unhealthy body mass index (BMI).Nearly a third of respondents have high blood pressure and 59 per cent have a lower fluid intake than is recommended. Female workers don’t fare much better, with 44 per cent of women tested having a higher BMI than recommended, reinforcing data showing that more than half (56 per cent) are overweight or obese.

Rory Murphy, spokesman at Water Wellpoint, says: “We believe poor health is a real issue, both for employers who are trying to tackle sickness absence levels and maintain productivity, and for the coalition government which has made it clear it will cut costs across the welfare system and the NHS.

It’s the long periods of sitting at your desk that may be the killer. Scientists have identified a new threat from our sedentary lifestyles that they call "muscular inactivity".

Sitting still for long periods of time leads to the buildup of substances in the blood that are harmful to health. And exercise alone won’t shift them.

Millions of people lead sedentary lives, spending their days between car, office desk and the couch in front of the TV. While the ill effects are well recognised it has conventionally been thought that they can be offset by frequent trips to the gym, swimming pool or jogging track.

Now researchers say that that is not enough. In addition to regular exercise, office workers need to keep moving while they work, by making regular trips to the printer, coffee machine or to chat with colleagues.

Writing in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, Elin Ekblom-Bak and colleagues from the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm say research shows long periods sitting and lack of “whole body muscular movement” are strongly associated with obesity heart disease, cancer and diabetes, and an overall higher risk of death, irrespective of whether they take moderate or vigorous exercise.

Dr Ekblom-Bak said: “Everyone knows about the health benefits of regular exercise. But what we have not been alerted to before is that long periods sitting down carries an extra risk that cannot be dealt with by taking exercise. There are a growing number of studies that show this.”

Dr Ekblom-Bak said that sitting still should be recognised as a risk to health, independently of taking too little exercise.

“It is important to have a five minute break from desk work every 45 minutes. Don’t email colleagues - walk across the office to give them the message. Take a coffee break or put the printer in the next room. I am a desk worker and I try to do it. It is not difficult but sometimes you get lost in your work and you forget about it.”

SAP used as a Twitter aggregation platform for Singapore Grand Prix!

This weekend the world-famous 2010 Formula 1 Singtel Singapore Grand Prix is being held, 25-26 September, will bring thousands of new time visitors to Singapore. The Singapore Tourism Board had partnered with SAP AG to build an online service combining Twitter feeds and geo tagging on YourSingapore.com, the STB’s online one stop visitor information center.

This will help visitors to the website discover Singapore and access relevant, real-time information on events, activities and promotions by the city and local merchants. With SAP BusinessObjects Text Analysis software in the back end, the service will help improve the user experience on YourSingapore.com by processing tweets and filtering searches for special events and offers, listing these by specific street names, city districts and locations. Visitors to YourSingapore.com will get their first chance to test the Web application during the FORMULA ONE night race in Singapore, September 24–26, 2010.

This weekend marks the kickoff of this new Web service on YourSingapore.com and is something which will continue to be used in the regular tourism season allowing merchants around Singapore to tweet about sales, parties and events. The introduction of SAP software via YourSingapore.com will offer users an enhanced experience with intelligent text analysis that will analyze messages, group them intelligently and present them in a user-friendly way.

"This collaboration to aggregate tweets on YourSingapore.com will enhance the experience of visitors to the website and put them at the center of the online buzz in the Twitter space during this season. We invite everyone to join in the conversations at #Singapore GP."

With more than 45 million Twitter users in the key markets of visitors identified by the STB, the need to involve Twitter in the Grand Prix outreach campaign was clear. SAP technology provides a platform that will allow the STB to supplement its tourism Twitter initiative to showcase tweets about the FORMULA ONE race and surrounding events on YourSingapore.com.

"We are constantly looking for innovative ways to help our customers implement SAP technology; in this case, enabling Singapore visitors with useful information through familiar user access," said Krish Datta, president, SAP Southeast Asia.

"This application started as a spontaneous idea, but it quickly morphed into a means to demonstrate the potential of SAP software, and is a great showcase of the flexibility of our solutions. We are excited about partnering with Singapore Tourism Board and look forward to seeing the campaign results."

Source: SAP AG

SAP wins out over Oracle for aerospace firm

Russian aerospace company Proton Perm Motors has selected SAP software over Oracle applications to overcome constraints of its current information systems and optimise production planning, gain better insight into resource utilisation and profitability.

Proton-PM sought to better regulate the business processes and the IT systems running its day-to-day production planning and status reports to keep it on track with its strategic plans. It needed a single, automated information system to improve its enterprise resource planning (ERP), manufacturing and human capital management (HCM) processes. It also sought to enhance its investment potential, strengthen its ties with long-standing and potential business partners, and to expand its product portfolio.

With SAP Business Suite applications, Proton-PM intends to free itself of the restrictions of its existing automated information systems and to optimise day-to-day and discrete production planning in stride with advances in its production equipment. Deploying the software in accordance with manufacturing resource planning (MRP II) standards, the company aims to decrease stock by 20 percent and shorten its production cycle by 15 percent.

"These days, public enterprises of our caliber need world-class information technologies, thus integration of SAP solutions turns out to be not only a strong optimisation project aimed at securing financial stability, but also an efficient tool to enhance our company's reliability with the help of the best global business management practices," said Igor Arbuzov, director general of Proton-Perm Motors, OJSC. "We hope that this will offer us an additional set of competitive advantages and further potential for growth."

SAP Business One is a comprehensive integrated solution designed specifically for small to midsize companies. World class business software from the leading providers of such is now accessible for companies of all sizes; don’t be fooled, SAP isn’t too big for you. Think SAP is too big for you? Think Again!

Visit www.beabetterbusiness.co.uk or www.beabetterbusiness.ie to find out more about SAP Business One, and here from customers who have seen a substantial ROI on their investment in the solution.

Original Source: SAP AG

IIS help SAP Business One customer “take full advantage of the deployment”

When your business is expanding, you need tight control over data and processes. That was the case for Advanced Ventilation Ltd., the exclusive installer in the United Kingdom for domestic ventilation units manufactured by Nuaire. As Advanced Ventilation received more and more orders from Nuaire – and began pursuing new business opportunities – it recognized the limits of its existing business software.

“We were struggling to run our operations efficiently because we were relying on manual processes to manage our data,” explains Jamie McCann, managing director for Advanced Ventilation.

Advanced Ventilation was impressed by the success of other small and midsize companies using SAP Business One. It also liked the fact that the solution could be tailored to address its unique requirements. “We decided to implement SAP Business One 8.8 so we could take advantage of new innovations such as embedded analytics from the SAP Business Objects portfolio,” explains McCann.

For implementation, the company opted to work with Intelligent Information Systems (IIS) Ltd., a local SAP partner experienced with SAP Business One.
McCann appreciated the level of involvement of IIS employees. “By fostering relationships with people throughout our organisation to truly understand our needs, IIS helped us develop and implement the best solution. Moreover, it made us aware of functionality we didn’t know existed, enabling us to take full advantage of the deployment,” explains McCann.
In six months, the company went live with SAP Business One. Now the software is being used by employees in both company divisions.

Because SAP Crystal Reports® software is integrated into SAP Business One 8.8,
Advanced Ventilation employees can access rich graphic reports and forms.

“In the past we based many of our decisions on gut feeling. Because SAP Business One provides access to up-to-the-minute financial information, including cash flow, we can make more informed decisions about our business. Plus we have the control over our finances and planning needed to effectively deploy new companies,” says McCann.

“SAP Business One provides us quick and accurate insight into project status, which helps us stay on track and ultimately boosts customer satisfaction.”
Jamie McCann, Managing Director, Advanced Ventilation Ltd.

SAP AG Case Study

To find out more about Intelligent Information Systems, SAP Business One and read other customer success stories visit www.beabetterbusiness.co.uk or www.beabetterbusiness.ie

Unemployable Traits Influencing UK Small Business Recruitment

"In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent." Carter G. Woodson

Is this quote ringing true? Are individual personality and physcial traits now bearing greater influence on the employability of people?

According to a survey carried out by the largest growing HR Consultancy in the UK www.Reuber.com recruitment by small to midsize companies is still largely influenced by traits which a person employable or unemployable...

When asked the multi-answer question ‘which of the below traits would make you less likely to hire an individual?’ below are the top ten most common answers from respondents:

1. Poor personal hygiene – 68%

2. Negative body language – 64%

3. Poor speech and grammar – 59%

4. Dress sense – 56%

5. Bad attitude – 52%

6. Excessive body piercing or tattoos – 49%

7. Inappropriate sense of humour – 47%

8. Accent – 44%

9. Unattractive – 41%

10.Poor employment history – 38%

Kirsty Burgess, co-managing director of Reabur.com had the following to say about the findings;


“These results demonstrate that despite an increasing amount of legislation protecting applicants from being rejected for reasons other than their skills and experience personal traits still appear to be a distinct factor in making a recruitment decision. Although I appreciate that we are all human this really shouldn’t be the case and therefore it is important that employers use robust recruitment methods. This will ensure a fair process and provide a justification to reject an applicant that will stand up if legally challenged.”

Source: SME Web

SMEs that seek to change are thriving!

"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."

Dale Carnegie

There are seemingly plenty of smaller companies in the UK which are successfully increasing sales and posting healthy margins according to Small business growth UK.

A well-run business will nearly always prioritise profitability above basic sales growth. Of course, a company that harbours the seeds of greatness will manage to grow both sales and profits. That's not been an easy task over the past 18-months, but SmallBusiness.uk has spoken to the CEOs of a number of companies which, through bold sales and marketing strategies, have shown admirable focus and robustness amid the wider concerns about the British economy.

What is evident when you look at the customers they have spoken to is that they have grown by taking risks, moving forward, being innovative and responding to their customer needs. They have continually fought to improve their competitive position identifying that standing still and trying to weather the storm of the recession would do no one any good. Failure hasn’t been an option as they haven’t given up. They have been successful as they have been willing to go that bit further and do and offer more than their average competitors.

Change and growth are key characteristics of the strategies employed by the SMEs that have continued to achieve success which in sense are interchangeable. Growth doesn’t just mean physical growth but in the abstract sense can me doing things differently, changing. Change is an environmental constant, and in order for a business to achieve continual success they must endeavor to achieve a fit with their external environment which subsequently means that change a prerequisite to success!

Successful SME companies in the UK this year have included London Food Service, red24, Crayon, Lumison, Node4 and Control Circle. To find out more about their successes and gain insight into the 50 fastest growing and successful companies in the UK Visit Growth Business UK.

SAP Business One can help you change the way your business operates by streamlining processing, integrating business functions, increasing efficiency and productivity and ultimately supporting growth. To find out more visit www.beabetterbusiness.co.uk or www.beabetterbusiness.ie

Measure CO2 impact with SAP!

SAP has upgraded a software-as-a-service application that lets businesses measure their greenhouse gas emissions in a simple manner.

Its Carbon Impact OnDemand 5.0 can now be used in more than 50 countries, while its new features include the ability to obtain carbon emission and energy use data from business application software suites and building management systems.

The software-as-a-service tool also includes modelling functions which allow environmental managers to predict the impact of their plans to cut carbon output.

Peter Graf, chief sustainability officer at SAP, said the application could be highly useful to many businesses.

"Due to the uncertainty and volatility in energy prices, as well as the growing concerns of consumers, NGOs and governments about organisations' energy and carbon costs, companies face a tremendous challenge," he stated.

Earlier this month, a study conducted by SAP's Sybase was praised by IT Business Edge blogger Loraine Lawson for proving the importance of data quality to business operations.

Source: Experian QAS New Zealand

SAP ranked 26th in 2010 top 100 Global Brands poll!

“A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.”

Jeff Bezos

SAP has been ranked 26 in the latest Top 100 Global Brands poll. They have moved up one place from last year, and have moved up from 31st place since 2008.

The value of the SAP brand has risen 5% since last year. There latest campaign, “It’s time for a clear new world” clarifies their shift to customer needs, showing how SAP solutions offer business transparency and accountability. It remains one of the most globally integrated among big IT firms with most of its 50,000 employees now working outside of Germany. SAP has also put a lot of effort into developing their social media community which also reflects and supports their shift to being truly customer centric.

The message behind the SAP brand is "SAP helps to make work become a more personally enjoyable and rewarding experience." This was their mission statement in 2000 which reflects the spirit of SAP and describes how they wanted their customers to see them.

SAP recognised the value and importance of their brand back in 2000.

“SAP's brand strategy has strengthened the ties between users and the software, while uniting the company internally in a mission everyone can support. The SAP brand sets the stage for the development of a community of users who respond to SAP's core values and personality, thus enabling them to find greater satisfaction in their software and their work.”

Intelligent Information Systems recognises the importance of branding and endeavors to reflect the best practices that companies like SAP employ.

The Intelligent Information Systems mission is “to offer the SME market ONE innovative piece of software that will cater to their distinct business needs and provide them with long term profitable benefits; continually creating solutions for our customers, building relationships with them and earning their lifetime loyalty.” From this we have developed our range of standardised add ons for SAP Business One, designed to make it even better. They are akin to the Apple Apps in the SAP Business One world!

To find out more about Intelligent Essentials and IIS visit: www.beabetterbusiness.co.uk or www.beabetterbusiness.ie

Do you have a company or product brand? How has or does your brand contribute to the success of your company? All feedback and insight is welcome!

Sources: SAP AG; Article in relation to brand development 2000
Interbrand

Email becoming counterproductive leading to information overload

Office workers are being overwhelmed by a deluge of unwanted data and are largely becoming less effective as a result of their companies' email practices says research.

In a poll of 1,000 workers conducted by market researcher OnePoll, 70 per cent of employees complained about being sent irrelevant emails or being copied on emails of no interest.

More than a third (38 per cent) of respondents said they now suffer from information overload at work.

Office workers now face the choice of trawling through countless irrelevant emails or ignoring them and potentially missing out on vital messages.

Tim Barker, vice president of EMEA strategy for CRM solutions company Salesforce says: ‘The habit of “blasting out” emails to a large group of people to ensure that there is no chance of leaving anyone out of a message has created a situation where email is now becoming counterproductive.’

BECOME A FILTER NINJA

Outlook and other email software lets you set up filters that show you only the messages that meet your selected criteria.

When you filter your emails by contact or by those which are direct to you the ones which are likely to deserve a faster reply too can be brought to your attention. Filters can be as customised as you like depending on the content or contact of most interest or relevance to you.

REDUCE YOUR CARBON COPY FOOTPRINT

Many of us use the cc line too liberally, copying everyone in our organization who has recently expressed an opinion on the subject we're writing about.

While there are legitimate reasons for using the cc line to keep people in the loop, abuse of the electronic "carbon copy" is a big factor behind inbox bloat.

You can dissuade persistent offenders by politely explaining to them what you need to know. But good etiquette is always best taught through example. Cut down on the cc'ing and trust that others will follow your lead.

GRAB A TECHNICAL ASSIST

Filters are okay, but my email software really ought to be able to do the hard work for me. After all, it has all the information it needs to figure out who are my most important contacts based on the frequency with which we exchange email.

That's the theory behind Gmail Priority Inbox, a feature Google introduced on August 30. This optional way of organizing your Gmail puts your important messages at the top of your inbox.

Original Sources: Computerworld.com, Salesforce.com and Smallbusiness.co.uk, Reuters.com

Be a best run business with SAP

Are You a Best-Run Business?

What is a best-run business?

•Optimises every aspect of operations
•Maximises revenue and minimises costs
•Fully utilises resources and leverages partners
•Beats the competition by consistently delighting customers

Being a best run business is about turning inefficiencies in to opportunities.

Four Steps to becoming a best run business from SAP…

See the Whole Picture to Make Faster, Smarter Decisions
With the right solutions in place to produce meaningful, company-wide data, you can act decisively to align resources and investments with the best opportunities; prioritise both short- and long-term goals; increase productivity throughout the organisation; and generate remediation plans to minimise risks.

Control Your Cost Structure End to End
Setting up an environment that automates and integrates processes can help you unify the day-to-day operations of the business. By solving an immediate need in the business, say integrating sales and marketing activities, and then centralising the company’s fundamentals – financials and supply chain operations – you can establish a collaborative, optimised team across your company.

Minimise Risk and LiabilityThe third step to optimise your business is to embed metrics and reporting into your end-to-end processes – whether you are being measured on financial performance, product quality, delivery standards, service level agreements, regulatory compliance, or technical support and service.

Anticipate Change
The fourth step in becoming a best-run business is to build a flexible business model to manage and embrace changes that will invariably come. When you open a new line of business, expand into a new geography, or decide to offer services in addition to products, your business model must be agile.
You must be able to roll out new processes or adapt existing business processes to suit a global account or new supplier – or extend these processes to new regions. You may also need to change your organisational structure, shifting people’s goals or roles quickly to adjust to new opportunities so the company can quickly support them.

See how you compare in just two minutes by visiting www.sapsmebestrunbusinessprofile.com . See how you can become a best run business or improve your current operations.

As an SME, SAP Business One has been designed specifically by SAP to meet your business needs. To find out more about SAP Business One visit: www.beabetterbusiness.com

SAP worth more than Oracle and has greater market share

SAP (NYSE:SAP) and Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) are the two biggest players in the enterprise application software market.

SAP has a greater share of the Enterprise Resource Planning, Customer Relationship Management, Business Intelligence, and Supply Chain Management markets. They are the clear world leaders in the provision of business software solutions offering applications and services that enable companies of all sizes and in more than 25 industries to become best-run businesses.
SAP leads Oracle in terms of market share

Market Share (2016 projections) ERP CRM BI SCM
Oracle 15% 17% 18% 17%
SAP 24% 19% 24% 25%

A Trefis Forecast estimates that SAP’s applications software business is worth about $62 billion, versus $45 billion for Oracle’s application software business. (Trefis is a US based financial community helping us to understand how a company’s products impact on their stock price.)

To see how you can join SAP's 102,500 customers, 77% of which are SMEs, visit
www.beabetterbusiness.com

Dairyglen - innovation driving this best run business!

“Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity”

Michael Porter

Wicklow based ice cream supplier Dairyglen continue to achieve success with innovative products in timely response to customer demand.

"The whipped ice-cream market has changed in the last four years," said Philip Delaney, a director of the family run business.

"Consumers wanted more, so we introduced our Smooch brand, which is similar to a McFlurry but comes with a huge range of fresh toppings that are blended with the artisan ice-cream flavours."

He said the best way to get products to retailers was to offer them a retail solution: a branded Smooch unit "which gives the retailer an instant ice-cream parlour".

"We’re introducing our newest products at Shop - which will fill a gap we noticed in the milkshake market - as well as highlighting some of our other brands, including Hawaiian Ice, a sort of posh slushy, Frutina Slush, and our full range of accessories and machinery."

Smooch was first to the market with the mini ice cream parlour and was first again with the introduction of the luxury soft-serve ice cream, the Smooch Deluxe. Dairyglen continues to develop new products, brands, menus, and promotions to stay ahead of the curve.

Shop is Irelands largest three day food and drink trade only event, which takes place in the RDS Simmonscourt in Dublin from September 28 to 30. Advice on how retailers can tap in the now cited upswing will be given at Shop. The event will also be a chance to display the latest products and innovations coming on stream in the Irish market.

"Some 150 exhibitors will be showcasing the latest innovations and products that the Irish market has to offer to about 5,000 visitors, including those from supermarkets, convenience outlets, independent chains and high-end delicatessens," said Leyla Mulvihill, show manager for Easyfairs, the event organiser of Shop.

Some 90 per cent of the exhibitors are Irish.

Dairyglen are an IIS customer who have been utilising SAP Business One since 2004.

Managing Director Philip Delaney on SAP Business One – “I would recommend SAP Business One to any business of our size. People shy away from it, thinking it’s for bigger companies, but it’s not expensive and it’s a comprehensive business tool for any company that really wants to understand how it is operating.”

To find out more about Dairyglen visit: www.dairyglen.ie

See how you can make your business even better with SAP Business One by visiting www.beabetterbusiness.co.uk or www.beabetterbusiness.ie

Original Source: The Post.ie 19th September 2010

Intelligent Essentials - Licensing

Find out more about Intelligent Essentials Licensing.You can readily access information with regard to the licenses you possess with regard to the different elements of Intelligent Essentials and allocate these to specific users within your organisation.

Intelligent Essentials - Making SAP Business One even Better!



Visit www.beabetterbusiness.co.uk or www.beabetterbusiness.ie to find out more about Intelligent Essentials and SAP Business One!

SMEs need to realise that success and sustainability are not mutually exclusive.

SME managers across the UK have traditionally skirted around energy management and sustainability in favour of focus on short-term profit.
But rising energy bills and new carbon reduction legislation are now conspiring to force their hand.

SMEs need to realise that success and sustainability are not mutually exclusive, says Adrian Newton of Energy Solutions by bringing sustainability into the boardroom, companies can not only slash energy costs; they can also boost their bottom line, build their brand equity and reinforce their reputation.

Despite growing interest in corporate and social responsibility (CSR) issues, the UK’s business leaders have, until recently, neatly managed to sidestep any real strategic approach to energy management and sustainability. A recent survey by O2 of senior leaders in the private and public sectors revealed a divergence of views on this issue.

While 46 per cent of respondents said they planned to prioritise sustainability over the next two years, 36 per cent acknowledged that they would move away from it. But the report also showed an emerging consensus that sustainability is good for business, with almost 60 percent of the senior executives questioned saying it would increase market share over the next ten years and 44 percent thought it would boost profits by underpinning a more efficient operating model.
According to Peter Graf, chief sustainability officer at SAP, sustainability is a trend that is “really powered by IT”, especially as SAP provides software that supports all different enterprise areas, from supply chains and logistics to distribution and HR.

“Software is key because software can measure, optimise and improve how business is run."

“IT creates transparency. With software, you can find the areas where you can have the biggest impact [on the carbon footprint.”

To Find out More about SAP Business One, designed specifically to meet the needs to small to midsize companies, visit www.beabetterbusiness.co.uk or www.beabetterbusiness.ie

Original Article: SME Web

Drop in UK Business Failures; SAP Business One can help!

Equifax Business Failures Report: 13.2% drop recorded year on year.

Equifax has released its latest figures on business failures across the UK, showing that despite continuing difficult trading conditions, businesses are doing their best to reverse the negative trend.

In August 2010, there was a reduction in the number of businesses that went bust across every sector compared to the same period last year. Overall there was a 13.2%drop year on year.

There was also an 8.2% decline for August compared to July. Only the Retail sector saw a small increase in failures in August compared to July at 3.2%.

“As was the case at the end of Quarter 2, our Business Failures tracking shows the very close control businesses continue to put on cash flow and costs” explained Nic Beishon, Head of Equifax Commercial Information Solutions.

“Our numbers also seem to suggest that the banks might have been responding to calls to free up their lending criteria to provide new funds to businesses. This could have played a part in helping businesses struggling with cash flow as they chase late payments. More often than not these are good healthy businesses – they just need a helping hand when late payments make it hard to balance the books at the end of the month.”

“Headlines continue to report cuts in headcount as well as some fairly high profile failures. But a close control on debts and cash flow management certainly appears to be working for many businesses. The trend that we saw throughout all of 2009 for failures to increase has definitely been reversed – which has to be positive news for businesses and their employees."

“The speculation has continued about whether we are heading for a double-dip recession, but our Business Failures Report seems to indicate that all the right actions are being taken by UK businesses – and the organisations that support them - to survive in the continuing difficult trading conditions.”

SAP Business One can help support small to midsize companies through the recession allowing them to work smarter, turn downtime into productive time, enhance efficiency and improve visibility across the organisation which can support the maintenance of crucial cash flow. Flourish during the recession with SAP Business One.

To find out more visit: www.beabetterbusiness.co.uk or www.beabetterbusiness.ie

Original Article: SME Web

Software powering sustainability, SAP continues to reduce carbon footprint!

“Sustainable development is a dynamic process which enables all people to realise their potential, and to improve their quality of life, in ways which simultaneously protect and enhance the Earth’s life support systems.”

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According to Peter Graf, chief sustainability officer at SAP, sustainability is a trend that is “really powered by IT”, especially as SAP provides software that supports all different enterprise areas, from supply chains and logistics to distribution and HR.

“Software is key because software can measure, optimise and improve how business is run."

“IT creates transparency. With software, you can find the areas where you can have the biggest impact [on the carbon footprint.”

SAP reduced its global carbon footprint by 15 percent last year, saving the company around €90 million. This comes as the company announced a 12 percent increase in revenues.

The reduction, from 501 kilotons of carbon in 2008 to 425 kilotons in 2009, was well ahead of the company’s annual goal of five percent less than the previous year’s emissions. SAP attributed the achievement to internal measures such as reducing the number of business flights, and the impact of the economic crisis on the business.
SAP’s long-term goal is to reduce its total carbon emissions to the level of 2000 by the year 2020.

This is no easy task, as Dr Peter Graf, chief sustainability officer at SAP, explained: “Our carbon footprint is mainly driven by the number of people in the company. In 2000, we had 24,000 employees. In 2007, we had 50,000 employees. Now, we are at about 48,000."

“We need to reduce the carbon footprint for each employee by more than 60 percent.”

Original Source: Businesszone.co.uk