We still have to wait a little. Version 9.0 of SAP Business One is scheduled to go into ramp-up in December 2012, but will not be available to the entire "SAP Business One community" until Q3. Nevertheless, we can already say what innovations SAP Business One 9.0. will bring. And there are quite a few!
Among other things, the following functions and innovations were announced for SAP Business One 9.0:
Storage locations / places
- Division of the warehouse into up to 4 sub-levels (zone-area shelf row)
- Storage location codes (with up to 10 user-defined attributes e.g. size, weight, dangerous, etc.)
- Integration of batches
Regular inventory
- More flexible counting frequencies and settings of repetitions for these
- Definition of inventory cycles per warehouse, storage location or at item level
- Receiving notifications for items with inventory due
Stock count
- New document for recording and managing the counting process and counting result
- Direct booking of stock count results without counting process
Various units of measure (ME)
- Individual ME can be combined as a subset based on conversion rules
- Standard ME can be automatically converted to alternative ME in transaction processing
- Updating price lists for each ME
- Determination of different packaging types per ME
Internal purchase requisition
- New form and report
- Creation of supplier enquiries or purchase orders directly from the purchase requisition or report
- Support of the creation wizard for supplier requests
- Supports approval procedures
Pricing
- Set price lists and discount groups active and set validity period
- Different units of measure and different currencies for price lists
- Price lists per customer/supplier group
- Extension for discount groups and freer discount design on business partner level
Voucher cancellation
- Newer ?Cancellation?receipt
- Transactions in accounting, tax, finance and warehouse management are completely reversed in one step
- Documents are automatically closed and completely cleared internally
- Original documents can be used again as a base document
- Display 'cancelled' and 'cancellation' documents in reports and link schedules. Documents in reports and link schedule
- Authorisation-controlled
Integrated and comprehensive asset accounting solution
- Handling of different accounting areas (e.g. local accounting and parallel accounting standards)
- Flexible calculation of the Depreciationthat meets local requirements and international accounting standards
- Authorisation concept
Further functional extensions
- incoming invoice
- Drop shipment of articles with serial numbers and batches
- Item costs for sales returns and A/R credits
- System currency - vote
Localisation - Finance
- Accounting (all localisations): Simplified preparation of financial reports
- Advanced search (all localisations) for G/L account selection
- Manual reconciliation of down payment requests (all localisations)
Reporting & Analytics - SAP Crystal Reports 2011
- Editing reports and layouts from SBO in SAP Crystal Reports 2011 designer
Electronic File Manager
- Support for multiple languages
- Possibility to translate generic electronic and bank files
- Possibility to import and export translations
Implementation Centre: Tasks and project
- Summary of implementation tools in the Implementation Tasks window
- Quick Copy is a new solution for data exchange between companies
- Prefabricated Project managementt checklists based on the SAP AIP methodology
- 3 sample project templates (available in several languages), option to create your own project templates
- Option to add general information, notes or attachments to each step
System Landscape Directory (SLD)
- New SLD service for security configuration and server management
- SLD service has been added to the server tool installation and replaces the current security configuration process
Single Sign On
- 64bit support for SAP Business One
- Supports 64bit DIAPI and UIAPI, 64bit SAP Addons, 64bit SDK for Addon Migration
- Supports transactions with high memory consumption such as DB upgrades, revaluations, etc.
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Asset accounting appears in this article.