SAP West Africa showcases business solution applications to CEOs

SAP West Africa in collaboration with one of its partners, Hartford Green Consulting, showcased the SAP Business One Solution at the 10th Leap Africa CEOs Forum, which held in Lagos recently.

 

Explaining the rationale for this, Kelechi Nwosu, channel director, SAP West Africa, said: “In this era of trade globalisation, organisations are constantly seeking ways to improve performance and remain competitive.  SAP is a global leader in enterprise solutions delivery and has over the years worked with organisations of different sizes to become more innovative. This has helped redefine the competitive landscape and also help them run better.”

 

“We recognise that SMEs play an important role in the growth and development of every economy and are committed to supporting the growth of this sector in Nigeria working with our partners.  SAP offers best in class solution for SMEs and Enterprises alike.  Our alliance with Leap Africa is a justification of our commitment to make a difference in the SME space.  The best run businesses run SAP,” he added.

The SAP Business One application is a business management software that caters to small and mid-sized businesses.  A complete and customisable solution, the single, integrated solution provides clear visibility into the entire business and complete control over every aspect of business operations.  It captures all critical business information for immediate access and use company-wide.

 

Unlike accounting packages and spreadsheets, it delivers what is needed to manage key business areas such as accounting and finance, sales and customer management, purchasing and operations, inventory and distribution, reporting and administration.

SAP Business One is designed with flexibility in mind because every business is different.  Whether it is deployed in the office or in the cloud, it can be accessed from the road using SAP Business One mobile app.  What’s more, employees can start using it from day one.  And as the business grows, it can be customised and extended to meet the evolving needs.

Ade Adenuga, managing partner, Hartford Green Consulting said, “The SAP Business One application offers an affordable way to manage your entire business – from sales and customer relationships to financials and operations. Designed specifically for small businesses and sold exclusively through SAP partners like Hartford Green Consulting, it helps you streamline processes, capture all of your business information in a single, scalable system, act on timely information and drive profitable growth.”

He added that the SAP Business One application is trusted by over 47,000 companies in 150 countries and can be deployed on premise or in the cloud in as little as two to eight weeks.

Earlier in his keynote address at the forum, Dharnesh Gordon, managing director, Nestle Nigeria plc, said Nigeria has very creative entrepreneurs with a passion to win, and warned that a crisis is a terrible thing to waste if the entrepreneur cannot learn from it, because business is about learning.

He urged entrepreneurs to continue to innovate as a new way of doing business lies in the innovation process.  “Crisis and risk are exactly what life is about. You have to continue to innovate and in the innovation process is a new way of doing business.  Embracing risks should be the DNA of every entrepreneur, so embrace it as an opportunity to learn,” he said.