Navigator Business Solutions

Aug 16: Gaining Financial Insight
Forecasting for your business success can be complex and time consuming -- especially if you are relying on data collected from isolated software applications. Time that you spend searching, extracting and combining separate sets of data could be spent creating more accurate financial plans for growing and managing your business.
When you move up to SAP Business ByDesign, you can streamline your entire forecasting and planning process - and improve the accuracy of your projections at the same time.
Begin your financial forecasting with the right set of numbers
Create your financial forecasts without the effort of compiling exhaustive spreadsheets with SAP® Business ByDesign™. Fully integrated, SAP Business ByDesign helps you align every area of your business - eliminating duplicate data entry and automatically refreshing your forecasts and systems with timely and accurate data. You no longer have to collect data from each department and multiple sources because SAP Business ByDesign does it for you - and your reporting is based on one single set of up-to-date data.
Do you really know how much it costs you to do business?
Find out how much it costs to run your business and how these costs directly impact your profits and cash flow. SAP Business ByDesign allows you to look at all your expenditures enterprise-wide, from human resources costs - such as salaries and benefits - to marketing costs - such as campaign expenditures and incentives - all in one application. Combine these expenditures with your production costs to have better insight into total operating expenses.
Profitability reporting gets significantly easier when you have both revenue and cost information available in a single application - and armed with the right information, you can make your financial decisions with confidence.
SAP Business ByDesign can simultaneously support different accounting standards, fiscal years and different currencies. With that kind of flexibility, you have everything you need to meet your reporting requirements.
See the power of "connected" spreadsheets
SAP Business ByDesign fully supports Microsoft Excel - so your users can rely on the tools they already use. But unlike using stand-alone spreadsheets, your financial information is standardized in Business ByDesign, so your data is always reconciled. You can drill down to information sources directly from your spreadsheets - and provide data lineage and a complete audit trail. See how much greater confidence stakeholders have in your numbers when they can see the source of your information.
You can also seamlessly export data from your spreadsheets - and present your financial information in visually impactful dashboards.
Integrate your financials with CRM applications
SAP Business ByDesign also gives you the tools you need to help you identify your best customers, what products they are buying and how profitable they are. By giving you greater insight into your sales pipelines, you can create more accurate revenue forecasts across each area of your business.
You will know which products are selling - and when monthly trends indicate that you should scale back on production. As soon as monthly thresholds exceed forecasts, you can immediately alert your vendors -- so they can get the product you need when you need it.
By keeping up- to -date on which products are moving in your key market segments, you have the tools to plan ahead, move inventory around or capitalize on a growing market segment you may have overlooked.
Keeping an eye on cash flow is critical to your continued success
Rely on SAP Business ByDesign alerts to help you manage accounts receivable - so that you have timely insight into which customers are falling behind on their payments and take action before cash flow becomes critical.
SAP Business ByDesign gives you the visibility to keep a strict eye on revenues, expenditures and cash in the bank. By creating more accurate liquidity forecasts, you no longer need to be squeezed for cash at the end of the month. SAP Business ByDesign gives you the ability proactively manage your cash flow - before it gets tight!
See your whole financial picture instead of isolated snapshots
When your business depends on accurate financial information, standalone spreadsheets cannot give you the timeliness and accuracy that you need. Eliminate the frustration of compiling data from multiple data sources and checking for accuracy - and start instead with information you can rely on.
SAP Business ByDesign provides businesses like yours the visibility to see the whole picture -- and the power to use that insight to build your business. Offered on an affordable on-demand basis, you can get started right away - without a significant infrastructure investment or time-consuming integration.
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About Navigator Business Solutions
Navigator Business Solutions, a National SAP Gold partner and SAP reseller, provides SAP Business One, SAP Business All in One, and SAP Business ByDesign ERP Cloud Computing SaaS software hosted ERP software
to small-midsize manufacturing, distribution and professional service businesses in: Arizona, California, Nevada, Washington, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Texas, Minnesota, Wisconson, Illinios, Michigan,
Ohio, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Connecticut, Tennesee, Massachussetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia.
Navigator is also the leading developer of more than 30 extensions to SAP software - increasing vertical and horizontal functionality to small and midsize companies in North America
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