SAP B1

Cogent2 offers comprehensive SAP B1 integration and ERP consulting services, focusing on optimising business processes and improving operational efficiency. Our Systems Audit identifies integration gaps and inefficiencies within your SAP B1 setup, ensuring your ERP system aligns with business objectives. With a deep understanding of ERP systems, we provide strategic insights to enhance your SAP B1 implementation, driving measurable improvements. Our expertise ensures that your technology ecosystem is future-proofed and ready to support sustainable growth. Trust Cogent2 to deliver actionable solutions that address your unique business challenges and optimise your SAP B1 and ERP systems.

The integration design for source systems and SAP B1 prioritises the integrity of the general ledger above all other metrics. We typically establish SAP B1 as the source of truth for item masters and financial postings, while the source system owns the initial customer transaction. A key design decision involves the trade-off between real-time sync and batch processing. We often recommend batching financial postings on a defined schedule to simplify the reconciliation of payouts and VAT, even though this creates a slight lag in reporting compared to real-time sync. This architecture ensures that when the finance team prepares for month-end, the data in SAP B1 is already mapped to the correct accounts and ready for audit. This approach typically allows CX to work from the source system while finance closes monthly off SAP B1.

Cogent2 leverages iPaaS platforms to swiftly and securely deliver SAP B1 integration, connecting ERP systems with ease. iPaaS offers a centralised framework for ERP data exchange, ensuring smooth workflows. With ISO 27001 and SOC 2 accreditations, these platforms guarantee top-notch security. SAP B1 users benefit from agile, reliable integrations that are easy to manage, enhancing operational efficiency and data protection.

Standard dashboards often show that data is moving but fail to highlight when that data is wrong. Real visibility requires monitoring of the reconciliation between systems, not just the connection status. We focus on surfacing hidden issues, such as tax calculation differences between a storefront and SAP B1 or orphan records caused by API timeouts. Without this level of oversight, errors compound quietly until they appear as balance sheet discrepancies. The Cogent platform helps identify these exceptions by type, allowing your team to resolve data mapping or master data issues before they impact reporting accuracy.

Handover focuses on ensuring the finance and operations teams can maintain the new operating model. Finance learns to monitor the reconciliation between the source system and the SAP B1 ledger, while operations focuses on managing SKU and Business Partner mapping. We provide operational documentation that details where each data object lives and what to check during daily or monthly routines. Your team will understand how to read alerts from the integration layer and who owns the resolution for different exception types, such as tax mapping errors or stock discrepancies. This handover is anchored in your specific design, ensuring documentation serves as a practical manual for running the business rather than a technical archive.

Support is focused on maintaining the accuracy of your financial data flow. We provide ongoing monitoring to detect and resolve synchronisation exceptions before they impact your reporting. This includes managing API version updates and addressing data drifts that occur as your business processes evolve. Our team takes operational ownership of the integration layer, ensuring that technical issues are resolved without disrupting your finance or operations teams. Escalation paths are clearly defined to ensure that critical failures are addressed within agreed schedules.