gapScan What the gap is costing you
A maturity check for SME manufacturers on SAP Business One or still on spreadsheets: an as-is score for every step, and a clear next move.
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Three situations. One honest picture.
Three situations where gapScan helps SME manufacturers on SAP Business One. If one of them sounds like your plant, gapScan is where your way into ViSA begins.
Which one sounds like your plant?
SAP Business One is live, but the return has not come
- Today
- Usage is partial, reports are unreliable, or the system was set up around a legacy process rather than a better one.
- What changes
- You see where the gaps are, what they are costing the plant, and what it takes to close them.
Decisions come from spreadsheets, not from the system
- Today
- Reports exist but do not reflect reality. Management decides from spreadsheets built outside SAP Business One.
- What changes
- You get the reporting and data changes that turn the system into the place decisions are made from.
The team still does the same manual work
- Today
- Data entry is done twice, workflows have not changed, and the system feels like extra admin rather than less.
- What changes
- You see where the automation potential really lies, step by step.
Still on spreadsheets? gapScan scores where your plant stands on every step all the same. For a first ERP, our sister company MEIS (on this page) implements SAP Business One.
Step 00 · Maturity check. An as-is score for every step.
smartStep, Excel to Intelligence, is the BPAS roadmap for SME manufacturers on SAP Business One: a maturity check and eight steps, each paying back before the next. gapScan is how its step 00 is delivered: where your plant stands on each of the eight steps, and a clear next move.
Findings are stated as operational gaps and what they cost, in rupees, not as a list of products to buy. Where your current system can already carry an improvement, the report says so.
- 01Digital core
- 02PlanNext move
- 03Make & control
- 04Cost & margins
- 05Store & trace
- 06See
- 07Connect
- 08Predict
Written down, and yours. Built to be acted on.
Four deliverables, each written down and yours to keep. Each one addresses a different side of getting full value from what your plant already runs.
Your challenges, written down, each with its answer
Your plant’s business challenges, each written down and paired with the change that addresses it and, where relevant, the Boyum Solution that delivers it. Management gets one agreed picture of where the system is falling short and what needs to change.
An audit report: what you own against what you use
On SAP Business One: current use set against what you already have. For each module it scores utilisation, names the features with commercial value that sit unused, and the changes that close the gap. It answers one question for leadership: are we getting full value from what we already own?
The reports and dashboards management needs
Not a list of recommendations: the reports and dashboards your management is missing, specified and delivered for your plant.
As-Is and To-Be process models
How every key process runs today, and how it should run once the gaps are closed. They are the base every later ViSA engagement builds on.
In a BPAS gap review you get a short list of what is costing your plant dates and money today, and the order to fix it in.
Know what your system can do, and what it takes to make it do it. Every deliverable is designed to be acted on, not filed away.
Step 00 on the arc. Nothing needed before it.
No prerequisite. It works from wherever the plant is today, on SAP Business One or on spreadsheets.
An as-is score for every step, a gap register, and As-Is and To-Be process models.
Where gapScan finds process gaps rather than configuration gaps, procEnact fixes them. What gapScan maps becomes the specification for toolDeploy.
- 00gapScan
- 01procEnact
- 02toolDeploy
- 03devCenter
- 04maxValue
- 05costAbsorb
- 06aiEnable
Fix the process before you touch the software. Later services on the arc are scoped from what gapScan found.
Not ready to talk yet? Learn where your plant stands.
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Webinar · Session 02Third Thursday of every month
Know where you stand
smartStep webinars · Session 02
The session on the maturity check: where an SME plant stands on each step of the ladder, and why that comes before any new software. It stands on its own, like every session in the series.
- How often
- Third Thursday of every month
- Format
- 40 minutes: a 30-minute session and 10 minutes of live Q&A · free, online
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Newsletter · For owners and CXOsSecond Wednesday of every month
smartStep CXO Compass
Navigating Towards Industry 5.0
A five-minute monthly briefing: one step of the smartStep ladder each month, explained in business terms, with one practical thing to do before the next issue.
- How often
- Second Wednesday of every month
- Format
- A five-minute read, by invitation
For SME manufacturers.
No ERP yet? Start with MEIS
For SME manufacturers putting in their first ERP, MEIS implements SAP Business One.
Live in weeks, not months.
Visit meis.in ↗ (opens in a new tab)- Still on spreadsheetsNo ERP yet
- MEIS implements SAP Business OneYour manufacturing ERP, live
- Add the Boyum Solutions
- Beas Manufacturing
- B1UP
- B1 Print & Delivery
- Produmex WMS
- Produmex Scan
- Perfion PIM
- Choose your ViSA servicesSeven services, from gapScan to aiEnable
ViSA implements, customises and supports the Boyum Solutions on top of your SAP Business One, with SAP Business One certified consultants doing the work.
gapScan is one of seven. Here are the other six.
Each service is a complete engagement on its own, so you can choose the ones your plant needs. Taken in order, the seven cover a manufacturing operation from the maturity check to AI on your own plant data, and that is the route we advise.