Industries · Electronics
SAP Business One for electronics distribution
Serial numbers, warranty windows, fast-moving part numbers and suppliers on long lead times. Electronics distribution punishes an ERP that cannot track an individual unit.
- The cycle
- Procure on long lead · Receive with serials · Resolve part numbers · Kit and configure · Sell · Ship the serial · Warranty and RMA
- Alongside SAP Business One
- Inventory Counting, B2B eCommerce, Sales Rep App
The operating lifecycle
Serialised in, serialised out, and back again
Electronics distribution is defined by the individual unit. Once you have to track one, everything else changes shape.
Stage 01
Procure on long lead
Buying against lead times measured in months, with allocation and partial shipments as normal events.
What breaks as you grow
Planning on an average lead time when the actual one moved, so stock arrives after the demand did.
Handled by
Requirements
What matters in electronics
Serial number tracking
Individual units tracked from receipt through sale, so you can answer where a specific unit went and when.
Warranty and RMA
Returns against the original sale, warranty windows tied to the serial, and credits or replacements handled properly.
Manufacturer part numbers
Your codes, the manufacturer codes and your customers own codes all resolving to the same item.
Kits and bundles
Sales bills of materials for bundled products, so a kit sells as one line and depletes its components.
Long supplier lead times
Reorder points and lead times that reflect reality, with visibility of what is on order and when it lands.
Price volatility
Cost changes that flow through to margin visibility, so you are not selling yesterday price at today cost.
Recommended architecture
What a electronics 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
- 01Nobody can say which customer received a specific serial number.Serial tracking configured through receipt, delivery and return.
- 02RMAs are tracked in a spreadsheet separate from the ERP.Returns and credits as linked SAP Business One documents against the original sale.
- 03Customers order using manufacturer part numbers we do not hold.Cross-references and catalog numbers so the right item is found first time.
- 04Trade customers want to check stock and order without calling.B2B portal with live availability and their pricing.
Questions
Electronics 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.