SAP Business One
Express Edition for
Wholesale & Distribution
Simplify. Optimize. Succeed with pre-configured solutions for growth.
What is SAP Business One Express Edition?
SAP Business One is an ERP solution built for small and mid-sized businesses, delivering simplified access to the powerful SAP HANA database. Silver Touch’s SAP B1 Express Edition is a pre-configured package tailored for the wholesale and distribution industry. It helps companies streamline operations, scale with ease, and accelerate growth through best-practice solutions and rapid deployment, enabling agile and sustainable transformation.
The Industry Challenge
Wholesale and distribution businesses face complex challenges:
- Lack of real-time insights across finance, sales, warehouse, and procurement.
- Manual processes, compliance risks, and disconnected systems.
- Inventory gaps, poor visibility, and cross-department misalignment.
- Growing pressure to scale quickly while keeping IT costs under control.
Why SAP Business one Express Edition?
Silver Touch’s SAP Business One Express Edition is designed specifically for wholesale and distribution companies. With pre-configured best practices, it streamlines operations, accelerates implementation, and enables real-time visibility across your value chain.
- Pre-configured package with built-in analytics and reporting.
- Affordable & scalable ERP tailored to small and mid-sized firms.
- Flexible deployment – cloud or on-premise.
- Rapid implementation (15 man-days) with our AIP methodology.
- Fit-to-standard approach ensuring best practices.
Core Features & Capabilities
Financial Management
Empower wholesale and distribution businesses with automated accounting processes, efficient cash flow management, and simplified bank reconciliations. Support multi-currency transactions and compliance needs with ease. Real-time financial dashboards provide accurate visibility, enabling smarter, faster decision-making for growth.
Sales & Customer Management
Manage the entire sales cycle from quotes to orders to invoicing seamlessly. Strengthen customer relationships with timely processing and personalized service. Built-in reporting tools help sales teams track performance, identify high-value opportunities, and boost revenue.
Purchasing & Inventory
Gain tighter control over procurement with streamlined purchase order management, vendor tracking, and accurate inventory oversight. Features like bin management, batch, and serial number tracking ensure cost efficiency while minimizing stock issues.
Warehouse & Inventory Control
Achieve real-time visibility of stock levels and streamline warehouse operations with precise item tracking. Seamless integration with purchasing and finance eliminates data silos, reduces errors, and enhances operational alignment across the supply chain.
Reporting & Analytics
Turn real-time data into actionable insights with built-in dashboards and customizable reports. Advanced analytics empower decision-makers to monitor KPIs, spot trends, and refine strategies, ensuring your distribution business stays competitive in a dynamic market.
Business Benefits: Why Express Edition
Lower Total Cost of Ownership
less customization, fewer specialized modules, simpler maintenance.
Faster Time to Value
Deploy sooner and start using core functionality quickly.
Scalable
start small and expand modules/users as needs grow.
Reduced Complexity
Pre-configured best practices reduce configuration work and training requirements.
Real-Time Insights
better visibility into operations through modern analytics and reporting tools.
Go Live in 15 Days
Faster Implementation, Quicker ROI, Minimal Disruption.
Cloud or On-Premise Flexibility
Choose your deployment, scale as you grow, and adapt with ease.
Pre-Configured Best Practices
ready-to-use workflows, proven industry standards, reduced setup time.
Accelerated Implementation
With Silver Touch’s AIP Accelerated Implementation Methodology, your ERP goes live in just 15 man-days. Our approach ensures:
- Clean-core best practice deployment.
- Rapid time-to-value with minimal disruption.
- Built-in intelligence and automation from day one.
Role Specific Value. Enterprise-Wide Impact
Your Trusted SAP Partner
Silver Touch leverages decades of ERP experience and deep SAP expertise to deliver impactful business transformations.
Our Credentials:
- 29+ years in the IT industry
- 2000+ professionals worldwide
- 218+ SAP Business One implementations
- 4000+ successful IT projects across industries
- Local Canadian support backed by global delivery capability
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. The Express Edition is built to scale. As your wholesale and distribution business grows, you can add more modules, integrations, and customizations to meet expanding requirements.
Both options are available. Many wholesale and distribution companies choose cloud or hybrid deployment for flexibility, scalability, and reduced IT costs, while on-premise remains an option if preferred.
With our pre-configured Express package tailored for wholesale and distribution, implementation can be completed in weeks instead of months, depending on data readiness, user count, and process scope.
It covers core wholesale and distribution needs such as inventory tracking, warehouse management, purchasing, sales order management, and price list controls all pre-configured for faster adoption.
Yes. With built-in dashboards, KPIs, and SAP HANA-powered analytics, wholesale and distribution businesses gain real-time visibility into inventory, sales, procurement, and financials
Absolutely. Express Edition provides bin location management, batch/serial traceability, and stock transfer tracking across multiple warehouses—critical for distributors.
The solution helps distributors manage financial regulations, tax compliance, and audit-ready reporting, ensuring smooth operations even across multiple regions.
Yes. With available add-ons and APIs, you can integrate Express Edition with shipping providers (FedEx/UPS), customer/supplier portals, Amazon marketplace, and more.
Yes. SAP provides regular updates, security patches, and legal compliance updates. With Silver Touch, you also get ongoing support and the ability to expand as your wholesale and distribution operations grow.
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