SAP BUSINESS ONE · BY INDUSTRY
Track every project's costs, billing and profit: SAP Business One with project management gives contractors job costing, progress billing, purchasing and finance in one system.
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OVERVIEW
Construction and contracting businesses make or lose money project by project. Knowing what each job has cost, what has been billed and what is still to come is essential, but it is hard when costs sit in one system and billing in another.
SAP Business One, with its project management features and construction add-ons, links purchasing, labour, subcontractors and billing to each project. You see committed and actual costs against budget, bill progress claims with retention and track profit by job in real time.
Because Business One is a single system, contractors get one version of the truth: sales, purchasing, stock and finance are always in step, and reports come from live data rather than spreadsheets assembled at month end. Managers can see margins, stock and cash without waiting for someone to prepare them.
Webtel implements SAP Business One with a practical, phased approach. We start with the processes that matter most, use standard features wherever possible and add industry add-ons only where they clearly pay back. Your key users are involved from the first workshop, so the system fits how your team actually works.
CAPABILITIES
Costs by project and phase against budget.
Interim invoices with retention and advances.
Purchase orders and receipts linked to jobs.
Subcontract orders, claims and payments.
COMMON CHALLENGES
These are the issues we see most often. Each one is planned for from the start, so it does not surface in the week before go-live.
01
Overruns are found after the project ends.
02
Work done is not billed promptly.
03
Retentions are forgotten and not collected.
04
Subcontractor claims exceed agreed values.
AT A GLANCE
SAP Business One is SAP's ERP for small and mid-sized companies. It brings the core of the business into one system, so every department works from the same, up-to-date information.
General ledger, banking, VAT, budgets and reporting.
Quotes, orders, invoices, opportunities and service.
Requests, purchase orders, receipts and supplier invoices.
Stock, warehouses, batches, serials and pricing.
Bills of materials, production orders and MRP.
HOW IT WORKS
We map how you sell, buy, stock and report today, and where it hurts.
Standard Business One plus the add-ons and reports your industry needs.
We set up the system, move your data and test with your real scenarios.
Your team is trained and supported through go-live and the months after.
WORKED EXAMPLE
How a contractor bills a month's work in Business One.
See It in a Demo →WHY IT MATTERS
See margins while there is still time to act.
Bill progress on time, every month.
Never lose track of money held back.
Finance, sales, purchasing and stock work from the same data.
Dashboards and reports run on real-time data.
A consultant team that knows your business and region.
IN DETAIL
BEFORE YOU GO LIVE
Having these ready before the first workshop shortens the project and gives you a more accurate proposal.
Free guides and checklists →
WHY WEBTEL
FAQS
Yes. Standard project management and project codes, extended by construction add-ons for budgets, progress billing and retention.
Yes. Budgets can be set by project and phase and compared with committed and actual costs.
Yes, through mobile or web access, so costs are recorded where they happen.
Business One is designed for small and mid-sized companies, typically from a handful of users up to a few hundred. We confirm fit during a short discovery session.
Yes. Business One can be hosted in the cloud or installed on your own servers, on SQL Server or SAP HANA. We recommend the option that fits your users and IT setup.
Business One supports VAT, and it can be connected to e-invoicing systems such as UAE e-invoicing, Oman Fawtara and ZATCA in Saudi Arabia through integrations.
EXPLORE MORE
Book a free demo built around your business, or talk to a consultant.