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SAP Business One 10.0 FP2602 brings noticeable improvements in three key areas: Payment Processing, warehouse management and production planning. New apps and enhanced features simplify the daily work routine and reduce manual steps. This post presents the most important innovations in detail and shows which processes benefit from them.

Read more: Neu in SAP B1 10.0 FP2602: Lager & Logistik, Produktion, Bankwesen

Warehousing and Logistics: Availability Check and Inventory Management

FP2602 strengthens inventory management with three new or expanded features: an automatic availability check, an app for initial stocktaking, and an app for inventory postings after a stocktake.

Available to Promise

the Availability check From now on, it will automatically trigger as soon as an item quantity on the sales receipt exceeds the available stock. The system will display the ATP (Available to Promise) check directly and inform about the unavailable quantity.

Users are then given several options for action.

• Adjust amount Correct the order quantity directly in the voucher.
• Check other warehouses: Enquire about the availability of the article in alternative locations.
• Select alternative items: Store an equivalent replacement item directly in the sales receipt.

Additionally, a comprehensive ATP report is available. This can be accessed directly from the sales order, from the list view of the item master data, or from the detail view of the item master data. The automatic check prevents orders with undeliverable quantities from being processed further, thereby improving delivery reliability.

Record initial stock with the Inventory Opening Balances app

The new „Inventory Opening Balances“ app simplifies the recording of initial inventory quantities and item values at the start of a financial year. On the „General“ tab, the system automatically sets the posting date to the beginning of the financial year. This eliminates manual date entries and reduces sources of error.

Users select a price source and an open stock account that applies by default to all items on the content tab. If necessary, the stock account can be individually customised per item. This means the app offers both quick default entry and the necessary flexibility for special cases.

Inventory Postings after Inventory Count with the Inventory Postings App

The „Inventory Postings“ app allows for the adjustment of inventory quantities based on a stock take. When creating a new Stock entry Users deposit accounts for stock reconciliation upon increase and decrease. These accounts serve as the default for each document line and flow directly into the financial transactions of the stock posting.

The „Copy from“ function is particularly time-saving. It creates the inventory posting directly from an existing inventory count document. This allows users to transfer the count results to the posting document without manual duplicate entry.

Requirement An existing inventory count document must be present for the copy function.

Production and Planning: Production Orders and Resource Management

In the production area, FP2602 expands the handling of production orders as well as the management of resources and capacities.

Production Orders: From Release to Production Access

The revised process for production orders covers the entire lifecycle. Users first select a Bill of Materials (BOM) item and release the production order. The completion message is then available via the „Functions“ menu.

The completion notification automatically generates a production order. This process simultaneously processes all backflushed items and resource components. This means that the system automatically posts component withdrawals and resource consumptions without any additional manual steps.

On the „Summary“ tab of the production order, a cost analysis can then be carried out. The actual product costs correspond exactly to the sum of the actual costs of Article components and the actual costs of the resource components. This transparency simplifies retrospective costing and helps to identify cost variances early on.

Requirement The production order must be in the status „released“.

Resource management: Four new apps

Resource management receives four new apps with FP2602, which together cover the entire resource management:

• Resources App Used for viewing, editing, and deleting existing resources. Users can also manage the daily capacities of individual resources here.
• Create Resource App Enables the creation of new resources in three categories: Machine, Labour, and Other. In addition, resource groups can be defined to logically bundle related resources.
• Resource Capacity App Provides a batch update for daily internal capacities and single-run capacities. Users update multiple resources– and storage combinations within a defined date range in one operation.

The batch update function within the Resource Capacity App, in particular, saves a considerable amount of time. Instead of managing each resource individually, users can adjust the capacities of multiple resources and warehouses simultaneously. This is especially useful during seasonal fluctuations or when restructuring production.

Outlook

SAP Business One 10.0 FP2602 optimiert durchgängig die Prozesse im Zahlungsverkehr, in der Lagerverwaltung und in der production planning. The new apps and features reduce manual input, automate standard processes, and create transparency for costs and inventory. Companies upgrading to FP2602 will immediately benefit from streamlined workflows in these three core areas.