SAP Business One Solution for Indonesian MSMEs

SAP Indonesia, in its business journey in Indonesia so far, has begun to look at the market share of Small and Medium Enterprises, considering that according to data released by the Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) of the Republic of Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia) reports that in terms of the number of units, MSMEs (Micro Small Enterprises) Medium) has a share of around 99.99% (62.9 million units) of the total business actors in Indonesia (up to the 2017 period), while large businesses only account for 0.01% or around 5400 units.

Of the 62.9 million companies, the composition consists of 62,106,900 Micro companies, 757,090 Small companies and 58,627 Medium companies.

The name SAP Indonesia may be familiar to business people in Indonesia, especially large and multinational companies. But what is SAP? And why SAP Indonesia is so famous and widely used by business people in Indonesia and throughout the world.

What is ERP and SAP?

ERP (which is an abbreviation of Enterprise Resource Planning) is the term for an integration system created by a company to support the company's daily business operational activities by integrating all parts/departments in the company so that all parts/departments can work together effectively. and efficient to achieve company objectives or targets.

SAP is enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. SAP ERP was developed by SAP AG which is a German company and the largest software company in Europe and also one of the largest in the world, especially in the world of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) applications (software).

SAP is an abbreviation of Systeme, Andwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung, or if translated into English it would be Systems, Applications and Products in data processing.

Based on data as of April 2020, the number of companies using various SAP products throughout the world has reached 440,000 companies in 180 countries. The latest update can be obtained at https://www.sap.com/corporate/en/company.html

SAP Business One solution from SAP Indonesia for Small and Medium businesses

Initially, users of the SAP system in Indonesia and globally were only large companies and conglomerates or what are commonly called Enterprises. By looking at small and medium companies whose composition is larger than large companies, SAP then targets this market with an ERP product called SAP Business One.

SAP Business One was introduced by SAP Indonesia around 2005, but it was only 3 years after that that SAP Business One began to be widely known by Indonesian small and medium businesses. Based on official data from the SAP website as of May 29 2018, users of SAP Business One products worldwide have exceeded 60,000 companies. The following is the official explanation from SAP Global https://news.sap.com/2018/05/sap-business-one-surpasses-60000th-customer-milestone/

What is SAP Business One?

SAP Business One is business management software (ERP) designed for small and medium businesses (SAP SE). As a SAP solution, this ERP system also has the same goal as the ERP solution provided by SAP Indonesia for large scale / enterprise companies, namely to help companies automate key business functions in Finance, Sales & Business Opportunities, Purchasing & Supply Chain, Production Planning & Inventory Control, Project Management, and Business Analytics & Intelligence. Check out the understanding and advantages of using SAP in the following article. What is SAP and why is SAP widely used 

What is the function of SAP Business One?

With SAP Business One from SAP Indonesia, all business processes in a company are connected to each other, and are in one system and one continuous data. In this way the company will gain.

1.  Financial Management Automate accounting tasks and carry out financial / banking activities with one ERP solution. To further unify financial operations with other business processes to speed up transactions and improve cash flow.

2.   Sales and Customer Management Manage/manage the entire sales process and customer status efficiently. So you can get an integrated view of your prospects and customers so you can better understand, understand and meet their needs.

3.   Purchasing and Inventory Control Provides access to accurate insights about incoming and outgoing shipments, inventory levels, and item locations. Get real-time information, ratings, availability and price impact reports

4.   Production Manage finished goods formulas, calculate raw material requirements, calculate production costs in detail for each item, so that you can know the cost price of finished goods more accurately, including if there are any resources needed (other than materials).

What are the advantages of using SAP Business One?

With SAP Business One, all business processes in a company are connected to each other, and are in one system and one continuous data. In this way the company will gain.

1.       An integrated system that reduces data input errors from data entry.

2.      Consistent data, integrated between one department and another department.

3.       Standardization of Operational Systems and Procedures.

4.      Improve monitoring and control functions, because real-time data is available.

5.      Reduce costs because you can analyze needs better.

6.     With available data, accurate and fast, it can reduce the time for reconciliation to be shorter, and it will be more useful to analyze the data that is already available.

7.    With accurate and fast data, companies can respond more effectively to market or customer changes quickly.

Who are SAP users in Indonesia?

The following are a small number of examples of users from SAP Indonesia who use SAP Business One Products

1.       Retail Industry – PT. Planet Selancar Mandiri / Planet Surf, here is a video testimonial https://youtu.be/mMtq6ZMTJ34

2.      IManufacturing industry – PT. Eagle Indo Pharma / Cap Lang, here is a video testimonial https://youtu.be/FDnpuC_59n4

3.       Manufacturing Industry – PT Bando Indonesia, here is a video testimonial https://youtu.be/z6C5NRpjPsA

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