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aiEnable AI where the decision is made

AI inside SAP Business One for SME manufacturers: six operating domains, three stages, and every answer written back where the decision is made.

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Is aiEnable right for you?

Three reasons AI stops at the demo.

None of them is about the model. All of them are about the ground it has to stand on in an SME manufacturing company.

Situation 01

Your data is thin, not big

Today
Not ten million rows: years of orders, a duplicated item master and unit-of-measure fields nobody ever agreed on. Every AI idea stalls on the data.
What changes
The masters are made trustworthy before any model is trained, so the first AI work starts on data a model can use.
See the six domains (on this page)
Situation 02

The insight lands nowhere

Today
A forecast in a separate portal is a forecast nobody acts on. If the answer is not on the screen where the decision is made, it does not exist.
What changes
The answer appears in SAP Business One, on the screen where the decision is made: as a field, a draft document or a log.
See the six domains (on this page)
Situation 03

Nobody owns the answer

Today
An AI recommendation with no named owner and no authority to act quietly becomes another report.
What changes
One named owner per domain, and change management, so people trust a model they were taught to argue with.
See the six domains (on this page)

No real history yet? aiEnable needs real manufacturing history in SAP Business One to learn from; gapScan → shows where you stand. For a first ERP, our sister company MEIS (on this page) implements SAP Business One.

The three stages

Three stages. The difference is who decides.

Every domain is packaged at the same three stages. What changes from one to the next is not how clever the model is. It is who decides.

Stage 01 of 03

Basic: AI assists, you decide

Ask questions of your SAP Business One data in plain English, turn documents into draft transactions, and read a summary instead of a 40-column report.

Who decidesYou decide

What it needs

Clean mastersNext: Essential

What it does

  • Plain-English questions
  • Documents into drafts
  • Summaries you can read
Stage 02 of 03

Essential: AI predicts, you decide

Scores and forecasts: win probability, demand, lead time, scrap, cash. The score is written into SAP Business One, on the document where the decision is made.

Who decidesYou decide

What it needs

Clean transaction historyNext: Professional

What it does

  • Scores
  • Forecasts
  • Written back into the document
Stage 03 of 03

Professional: AI acts, you approve

Agents read the context and draft the document in SAP Business One for a person to approve. An agent never holds an authority a person would not hold.

Who decidesYou approve

What it needs

Guardrails written downThe top of the ladder

What it does

  • Agents draft
  • A person approves
  • Every action logged

Professional builds on Basic and Essential. An agent acting on a dirty item master is a liability with a licence. Each stage builds the data and the trust the next one spends.

The six domains

Six domains. 111 services. Not one of them a rule.

Each domain is an engagement of its own, and every one writes its answer back into SAP Business One. Choose a stage to see it across all six.

Domain 01: Sales Intelligence

20 services

Quotes go out on gut feel, and follow-up depends on who happens to remember.

  • Basic stage: Enquiry emails and customer orders read into draft documents, plain-English questions over sales history, and quotation cover notes drafted from the document itself.
  • Essential stage: Win probability on every open quotation, a churn signal on quiet customers, cross-sell suggestions on the order, and a margin floor flagged before the quote goes out.
  • Professional stage: An RFQ-to-quote agent reads the mailbox, checks stock and planned orders, drafts the quotation in SAP Business One, and waits for a person to release it.
Lands inSAP Business One Explore Sales Intelligence

Domain 02: Agentic Procurement

20 services

Buying decisions live in the buyer’s head and in an email thread nobody else can read.

  • Basic stage: Supplier quotes out of PDFs into one table, supplier scorecards written in sentences, and spend questions answered without writing a query.
  • Essential stage: Predicted lead time per supplier and item, promised against actual, behind reorder points that keep themselves current, and price anomalies flagged on supplier invoices.
  • Professional stage: Reorder and expediting agents: planning output becomes draft purchase orders for the buyer to approve, and chasers are drafted for late orders.
Lands inSAP Business OneBeas Manufacturing Explore Agentic Procurement

Domain 03: Smart Inventory

17 services

Too much stock, and still short of the item the customer wants today.

  • Basic stage: Duplicate items found even when they are spelt differently: “M6 HEX BOLT SS” and “Bolt Hex M6 (SS)” are one item bought twice. Plus categories for the items sitting in “Others”.
  • Essential stage: Item-level demand forecasts with seasonality, safety stock set by a service-level target rather than habit, and an obsolescence risk score on every line.
  • Professional stage: A replenishment agent proposing transfers between warehouses before the shortage, with its forecast feeding planning in Beas Manufacturing and replenishment in Produmex WMS.
Lands inSAP Business OneProdumex WMS Explore Smart Inventory

Domain 04: Intelligent Production

20 services

The plan is made in a spreadsheet and the actuals arrive on paper, on Monday.

  • Basic stage: Work instructions in the operator’s language on the shop floor, and forty ways of typing “machine problem” grouped into the few causes that actually exist.
  • Essential stage: Real cycle times per resource, learned from the times recorded in Beas instead of the standard, so promise dates stop being fiction. Scrap risk predicted before the run.
  • Professional stage: A schedule-repair agent: when a machine goes down, it proposes the revised schedule that saves the most orders and hands it to the planner to accept or reject.
Lands inBeas ManufacturingSAP Business One Explore Intelligent Production

Domain 05: Hyper-efficient Warehouse

14 services

Pickers walk a long way every day because the fast movers are at the back.

  • Basic stage: Scan errors grouped into the causes that actually exist: a mislabelled bin, a batch that will not resolve, one aisle where the signal drops. Plus supplier packing lists read before the goods arrive.
  • Essential stage: Slotting from real scan data, where each item should live, plus pick-time prediction, carton sizing and how many pickers tomorrow needs.
  • Professional stage: Picking and exception agents: picks grouped against carrier cut-offs, short picks resolved by substitution, split or backorder, proposed to the supervisor, never decided behind their back.
Lands inProdumex WMSSAP Business One Explore Hyper-efficient Warehouse

Domain 06: Strategic Finance

20 services

Month-end tells you what happened, weeks after you could have changed it.

  • Basic stage: Supplier invoices captured into draft A/P invoices and matched to the purchase order and goods receipt, bank reconciliation assisted, and the P&L explained in a paragraph a non-accountant can read.
  • Essential stage: A cash forecast built on how customers actually pay, not the terms they agreed. Collection risk and a suggested credit limit on every business partner. Duplicate payments caught before they leave.
  • Professional stage: A collections agent that segments every overdue account, drafts the right reminder for each, logs the activity in SAP Business One, and flags a likely dispute to the owner.
Lands inSAP Business One Explore Strategic Finance
The readiness gate

Five things that must be true. Before the first model.

If they are not true yet, fixing them comes before aiEnable, and that is a gapScan or a procEnact engagement. We will say so plainly.

  1. Condition 01: Masters a model can trustOne item is one item. Units of measure mean what they say. Business partners are not duplicated across three spellings.
  2. Condition 02: Transactions captured where they happenOn the Beas shop-floor terminal and the Produmex scanner, at the moment of the event. Data keyed in later is data invented later.
  3. Condition 03: A process that has been drawnMapped against the APQC Process Classification Framework®, with the waste taken out. A process nobody has written down cannot be automated.
  4. Condition 04: A named owner with authorityOne person per domain who can act on what the model says without calling a meeting.
  5. Condition 05: Guardrails written down before go-liveWhat the agent may do alone, what it must ask for, what it may never touch, and who switches it off. Written before the build, not after the incident.
Five of five.Then the gate opens. Not yet? gapScan or procEnact comes before it.
Guardrails

What an agent in your ERP is never allowed to do.

Professional-stage services put software in a position to act. These limits are built in by default.

  • No authority a person would not have

    An agent holds only the authorisations a named person in your team would hold, never more.

  • Draft, never post

    Agents create drafts for a person to add. Documents that break a rule wait in an SAP Business One approval procedure for an authorised approver.

  • Every action auditable

    If you cannot see what the agent did, and undo it, it does not go live.

  • A confidence threshold, always

    Below it, the work goes to a person. Silence is not a decision.

  • Your data stays where you say

    Where the models run follows your data governance.

  • An off-switch anyone can reach

    One a non-technical person can use, and a measured baseline, so you can prove the agent still earns its keep.

BPAS proprietary roadmap

Step 08 · Predict. Delivered by aiEnable.

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. aiEnable delivers step 08, Predict: AI inside SAP Business One, once there is real manufacturing history to learn from.

Step 08 · PredictDelivered by aiEnableNeeds real manufacturing history.
00Maturity checkgapScan

Steps 1–4 · The digital core

  1. 01Digital coreFirst ERP: MEIS (on this page)
  2. 02Plan
  3. 03Make & control
  4. 04Cost & margins

Steps 5–6 · Control and visibility

  1. 05Store & trace
  2. 06SeemisBoost

Steps 7–8 · Connected and intelligent

  1. 07ConnectWith an MES specialist
  2. 08PredictaiEnable
BPAS proprietary

misBoost

A management layer for SAP Business One

235 boosters in ten domains. The packs build themselves from your SAP Business One data and arrive on their own, so nobody prepares or sends them. They can start on any SAP Business One plant from week one.

misBoost morning pack arriving in Outlook on a tablet, headline numbers in the email itself
Email
misBoost pack on WhatsApp on a phone, headline numbers with the PDF attached
WhatsApp
misBoost KPIs and dashboards on a phone, as a published page with no app
Mobile
misBoost Visual Workflow board inside the SAP Business One client on a laptop
Inside SAP
Explore misBoost →
235 boosters in ten domains Sent on autopilot
BPAS proprietary

proBoost

BPAS Custom Libraries for SAP Business One

The second ViSA line alongside the seven services: pre-built libraries that configure straight into SAP Business One, one tuned to each set-up. You choose the boosters your plant needs.

  • 313proBoostSAP Business One
  • 409mfgBoostSAP Business One + Beas
  • 409wmsBoostSAP Business One + Produmex
  • 529scmBoostSAP Business One + Beas + Produmex
Explore proBoost →
4 libraries Boosters chosen by you, not bundled
How we start

The gate comes before the model.

In your business, on your SAP Business One data. You get a domain-by-domain readiness score and an honest answer about which stage you can stand on today.

How we start

  1. The readiness gateThe five conditions above, on your own data: a readiness score for every domain.
  2. One use case, provedOn your data, in your system, against a baseline measured beforehand. If it does not beat the baseline, we stop and say so.
  3. Adopted, not bolted onOn the screen where the decision is made, with change management, so people trust what the model says.
01What we won’t do

Write AI on top of a broken process

A model trained on a broken process automates the breakage, faster and with more confidence than the people ever had. Not one line of AI code until the process underneath it is fixed.

02What we will do

Tell you which stage you can stand on today

If the gate is not passed, we say so, and fixing it comes before any model. Less exciting than an agent, and the only order in which this works.

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.

Where aiEnable sits

The last of the seven. For a reason.

  1. 00gapScan
  2. 01procEnact
  3. 02toolDeploy
  4. 03devCenter
  5. 04maxValue
  6. 05costAbsorb
  7. 06aiEnable

Fix the process. Then feed the model.

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  • Webinar · Session 11 · For owners, CXOs and plant heads
    Third Thursday of every month

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    smartStep webinars · Session 11

    The session on smartStep step 08, Predict, the step aiEnable delivers. It stands on its own, like every session in the series.

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    40 minutes: a 30-minute session and 10 minutes of live Q&A · free, online
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Sister company of BPAS

No ERP yet? Start with MEIS

For SME manufacturers putting in their first ERP, MEIS implements SAP Business One.

Live in weeks, not months.

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  1. Still on spreadsheetsNo ERP yet
  2. MEIS implements SAP Business OneYour manufacturing ERP, live
  3. Add the Boyum Solutions
    • Beas Manufacturing
    • B1UP
    • B1 Print & Delivery
    • Produmex WMS
    • Produmex Scan
    • Perfion PIM
  4. 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.