SAP B1 capacity

Dear All,
i have one client who might consider to implement SAP B1. The potential risk is: they have around 400-500K item ( no serial no/ batch number is needed); around 4-5 warehouses. Monthly transactions are not many. So, could anyone share with your valuable comment for :
1, any B1 can handle such a large number of item master?
2, Will it be very slow in generating inventory/ sales report? if yes, what's the workaround solution?
3, any suggested hardware configuration? I found that the hardware requirement doc from SAP does not mention anything about the master sizing (so i think i can't reply on it).
Many thanks
Andy

Hello Fergus,
I have experienced the same things with you but not until million items. The answer for your problems as follows:
1. SAP B1 can handle almost over 700 items but not until millions items. I suggest to use R/3 or All in One
2. The slow in inventory generating or sales report could be happened if your hardware requirement can't match what the recommendation from SAP in sizing guide. You must always check the download resource center for sizing guide update version, because SAP is always upgraded the version if there is a very important issue relate to installation.
3. Same as no. 2. Downloading the sizing guide (the new version)
I suggest to use 64-bit rather than 32 bit. It is most recommended to operate large size database server.
Rgds,

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