SAP Business One,
for a business that has outgrown the way it runs

When everything lives in one place, running your business starts to feel a lot easier. Month end becomes quicker and calmer, because your numbers are already together and ready to go. You can see your stock, orders and cash as they are right now, giving you the confidence to make decisions in the moment. When someone asks how a product line or a customer is doing, there’s one answer that everyone can see and trust. As your business grows, whether that’s welcoming new people, launching new products or opening another site, your system grows with you, taking on the extra work so your team can stay focused on what they do best.

SAP Business One suits businesses of roughly 10 to 250 people, usually somewhere between £5m and £50m in turnover, that have outgrown accounting software and want one system covering the whole operation. It works particularly well where stock, manufacturing or distribution sit alongside finance, because those are the places spreadsheets tend to break first.

SAP Business One is a great choice for many growing businesses, and if your processes are more complex or your plans are especially ambitious, SAP S/4HANA may suit you even better. We’ll look at how you work today and where you’re heading, then decide together which option is right for you. Talk to us and we’ll help you find the right fit.

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Implementations can range from £30,000 to £150,000, depending on how many people use the platform, how many parts of the business it covers and how much of your existing process needs to change. Our pricing page sets out the three package bands, what sits inside each one and what tends to move the number.

SAP Business One pricing

SAP Business One can run on-premises, which means on servers at your own site. It can also run in a private cloud or be hosted by Codestone, and the choice usually comes down to data residency, how you prefer to pay and what infrastructure you already own. Underneath it you can run either the SAP HANA database or Microsoft SQL Server. HANA brings faster analytics but SQL Server is often the practical choice where your team already runs it. You do not need to know the answer now. The choice shapes your licensing, your upgrade route and how much of the running falls to your own people, so we will work through each option with you and agree the best one before your implementation starts.

See SAP Business One for yourself

SAP Business One 10.0 Feature Package 2608 brings generative AI directly into everyday business processes. The new Ask AI functionality lets users ask contextual questions from business documents, build reusable AI templates, and get immediate insights within the SAP Business One Web Client. AI-assisted SQL generation in User-Defined Queries also means business users can create powerful reports in natural language, without needing advanced SQL skills.

Codestone was the first SAP Business One Gold Partner in the UK and has been an SAP Gold Partner since 2003. The useful part is what sits behind it: enough businesses taken through this to know which bits of an implementation cause trouble, and to plan for them before they do.

We start with how your business runs, and the product demonstration comes later. We plan the project around what your team can absorb alongside the day job, because the implementations that overrun are usually the ones scoped as though nobody had another job to do. Once you are live, we stay, because getting value out of a system takes a lot longer than switching it on.

Consilient Health distributes pharmaceuticals and was running a legacy Sage finance system with no real materials planning, and forecasting done in spreadsheets held in several places. Once the system went live, it served users across the UK, Ireland, the Nordics and the rest of Europe, who used it to raise and approve purchase orders. Product information now sits in a single repository, with a real-time interface into their third-party logistics provider.

Taste Connection makes seasonings and flavourings and had recently been acquired by the Nactarome Group, which was already standardising on SAP Business One across its businesses. Codestone took them live on finance first, covering the sales cycle through to invoicing and VAT, with manufacturing planned for a later phase.

The CFO Centre, Totally Wicked, K2 Partnering Solutions, Priory Direct and TPS Rental Systems are all running SAP Business One with us as well.

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