Industries · Auto Parts & Industrial
SAP Business One for auto parts and industrial distribution
Large catalogs, cross-references, counter sales and B2B accounts with negotiated pricing. The system has to find the right part fast and price it correctly every time.
- The cycle
- Maintain the catalog · Stock across branches · Find the part · Quote or sell · Trade accounts · Deliver or collect · Returns and cores
- Alongside SAP Business One
- Inventory Counting, B2B eCommerce, Sales Rep App
The operating lifecycle
Find the right part, fast, from an enormous catalog
In parts distribution the sale is won or lost at the moment somebody has to find the item. Everything else is downstream of that.
Stage 01
Maintain the catalog
Tens of thousands of parts with manufacturer numbers, specifications, fitments and supersessions kept usable rather than merely stored.
What breaks as you grow
Catalog maintenance falling behind, so the system holds parts nobody can find and parts nobody can buy.
Handled by
Requirements
What matters in parts and industrial distribution
Large item masters
Tens of thousands of items with manufacturer part numbers, units and packaging handled cleanly.
Alternates and cross-references
Alternative items, supersessions and customer and vendor catalog numbers so the right part is found first time.
Counter and B2B sales
Fast order entry at the counter and negotiated pricing for account customers.
Kits and assemblies
Sales bills of materials for kits and simple assemblies.
Backorders and drop shipments
Partial deliveries, backorder tracking and vendor drop ship handled in the document flow.
Account pricing
Contract and special pricing by customer and item group, applied automatically.
Recommended architecture
What a auto parts & industrial operation usually ends up running
Derived from the lifecycle above rather than picked from a catalogue: these are the systems its stages actually call on.
- CoreSAP Business OneFinancials, inventory, pricing, purchasing and orders in one system of record.Overview
- Layer 01Inventory CountingSee it
- Layer 02B2B eCommerceSee it
- Layer 03Sales Rep AppSee it
Every layer connects through supported interfaces, reading and writing the same records. None of them keeps its own copy of your prices.
Mapping
Where the work usually goes
- 01Customers order with their own part numbers.Business partner catalog numbers and formatted searches.
- 02Account customers want an online catalog with their prices.B2B portal priced from SAP Business One.
- 03Bin labels are hand-written.Label printing from SAP Business One item data.
- 04Cycle counts never get done.Inventory Counting by zone with barcode scanning.
Questions
Auto Parts & Industrial questions
Next step
Talk to someone who has configured SAP Business One for your kind of operation.
Bring your order flow, your inventory headaches and your reporting wish list. We will tell you what SAP Business One does out of the box and what we would build around it.