SAPs' new Software as a Service (Saas) product, Business ByDesign provides the best business processes and business intelligence software capabilities  delivered on demand. This allows SMEs’ to reign in initial costs while providing the support and information to accelerate their growth.  It also benefits small and mid-sized enterprises (SME) that prefer a SaaS solution. Smaller companies now will not have to increase their overhead by increasing their IT departments because of  the burden of managing an in house application. 

Seamlessly integrates  throughout all major business applications.  From clients facing operations such as sales and demand generation to supply operations such as purchasing, project management and  Manufacturing to internal functions such as finance and human resources.  This results in an improved information flow  and business process efficiency across the entire company. 

Direct Benefits

• An account representative can make material delivery promises to clients with greater lead time  and assurance
• Projects can be staffed with the most qualified personnel  on hand and service activities can be made to operate in a more efficient manner
• Operations such as converting a sales quote to an order or managing purchase orders can be automated.
• Human resource modules allow for Employees to handle their own  expense reports and vacation requests. This greatly fees up HR departments time allowing focus on more important tasks.
• Financial ledgers are immediately updated with sales, procurement and expense information, this  allows an “Enterprise look” at the general ledger statement. 
• By obtaining 360 degree visibility, full business intelligence and easy to access reports (leveraging SAP’s Business Object’s technology) on all  a company’s operations, all decision makers can obtain the information and insights they need. The overall and immediate issued reports give management the tools to make the right call in a fast paced manufacturing environment.
• Leveraging SAPs  business process experience and IP to become a best run business and increase their competitive advantage. Making it easy for customers to easily access the large scale business management capabilities without a large amount of up front capital
• Creating an advantage over competitors that still run their business using point solutions, outdated business applications, or Excel spreadsheets and costly, inefficient, error prone manual processes
• SAP Business ByDesign ERP/manufacturing solution offers flexability so that clients can only access those business process management modules and capabilities they currently require.
• Growing and changing businessess can continue to add additional capabilities to meet their new  requirements.  As a result, with SAP Business ByDesign manufacturing companies do not have to worry about outgrowing their software system which in turn creates an enhanced return on their investment.

SAP Business ByDesign’s all-inclusive pricing model enables fast time to value. With no IT investment and no capital outlay, predictable subscription pricing helps you manage your cost of ownership. And, with a fixed price deployment and a monthly subscription fee that covers ongoing maintenance, SAP Business ByDesign supports the needs and budgets of small and midsize enterprises.