SAP Business One 8.8
SAP Business One 8.8 is in general availability from May 2010. SAP Business One 8.8 has a revolutionary look and feel than other SAP Business One version. SAP Business One 8.8 has some significant changes in the user interface as well as in architecture. Major architectural changes were taking place to improve the performance.
Also, SAP Business One 8.8 provides the flexibility to control different companies with different local settings under one business solution.
In this article, we are going to discuss the changes in the user interface of SAP Business One 8.8.
Changes in Master Data Screen: –
- Status Section: – Instead of two checkbox options in these section, SAP Business One 8.8 represents this section with three option buttons. The options are Active, Inactive and Advanced.
- For Active and Inactive options you can specify a date range. But for the Advanced option, you have to specify an active as well as an inactive date range. But the date ranges can’t be the same.
- In Item and Business Partner master data Choose from the lost window doesn’t show inactive Items and Business Partners.
- The contact and address information is very important data for a Business Partner. But an SAP User can delete this information without getting any alert message in the previous versions. Well now in SAP B1 8.8 an alert will generate while deleting these data.
Deleting Warehouse: – In the previous versions of SAP Business One a warehouse can’t be deleted if this is associated with an item. Now in 8.8, a warehouse can be deleted with items that are not involved in any transactions.
Presence of Inactive Items in price lists: – In the previous versions of SAP Business One Items with inactive status does not appear under price lists. Now in 8.8 all items will be displayed in price lists.
Foreign currency recalculation in the finance section: – In the previous versions of SAP Business One the foreign currency values are recalculated automatically in the Journal Voucher lines while changing local currency settings. Now in 8.8 the functionality is the same for upgraded companies but will not work for new companies.
Ship to and Bill to address in marketing documents: – Now in SAP B1 8.8 billing and shipping addresses can’t be updated in marketing documents.
Marketing document for noninventory items: – In SAP B1 8.8 marketing documents can’t be produced for noninventory items which are not associated with a warehouse.
Sales Opportunities: – Sales opportunities with status set to ‘Open’ can’t be added if there is a reason specified.
Now you are pretty well aware of the general and architectural changes in SAP Business One 8.8 version. If you have any queries or doubts you may feel free to contact our team. And if you have find this article as a valuable piece of information, then don’t forget to share it.
