We performed a comparison between Epicor ERP and SAP ERP based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two ERP solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Epicor ERP is very technical friendly, if you want to do any customization, it's very easy."
"The product enables users to customize their dashboards and reports."
"Dashboards and Business Activity Query are very useful."
"The ability to deploy a generic implementation without advanced customization."
"With Epicor, we can call a pitch between Epicor and the PLM database, which is a significant advantage."
"The most valuable features of Epicor ERP are ease of use, powerful API, and comprehensive integration. It is a one-vendor solution, where other vendors need other software systems from multiple vendors."
"There's good flexibility within the inbuilt tools such as alerts, business process management, dashboards, and screen customization."
"Real-time results make for faster decision making."
"It provides one overview of the capacity planning."
"The most valuable features of SAP ERP are the general operations. It has a good way to manage a business and do financial reporting. Overall we are happy with the robustness of the solution."
"The stability is SAP ERP is not good only because the version is old. They could work on improving the versions."
"I like the solution’s features in finance, supply chain, sales, and distribution."
"We like that we have real-time dashboard views."
"The valuable feature of SAP ERP is that everything is connected and under one roof, creating a unified system."
"The Material Management and Sales and Distribution modules are great. The Financial Accounting module is also great."
"It is a stable solution...Our company has experienced a return on investment using the solution."
"Epicor didn't care about user level and software applications. So, it's not so user-friendly for nontechnical people."
"Right now, it doesn't really have a good cloud story."
"There's a new version of the solution that has some bugginess. They're cleaning that up. The user interface is an area that needs improvement and they're improving."
"There are some glitches in Epicor ERP."
"I would like to see a better reporting tool."
"A number of bugs in 9.05 were only fixed in 10."
"The tool should provide a better user interface."
"In the newer version of Epicor ERP, it's very difficult to find out that tracing."
"We will not make any major changes, and we are not expecting any enhancements or new features from SAP because they already have a new solution. No development is happening on SAP ERP because SAP has come up with a new version called SAP S/4HANA, which is memory-based technology. We are planning to upgrade to SAP S/4HANA, but we don't know when it will happen. We are in the preparation phase."
"The warehouse management could be better."
"It has a high cost."
"Customizations are a bit expensive."
"This solution could be made more user-friendly for development teams."
"There will always be something within our business that it won't fit."
"Implementing SAP ERP can be very costly, particularly for smaller organizations with limited resources."
"There is room for improvement in the integration of the solution, especially in the payroll area."
Epicor ERP is ranked 17th in ERP with 12 reviews while SAP ERP is ranked 1st in ERP with 100 reviews. Epicor ERP is rated 7.8, while SAP ERP is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Epicor ERP writes "The product is flexible and easy to use, but the user interface must be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP ERP writes "The amazing, robust framework with unlimited scalability earns its #1 status". Epicor ERP is most compared with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, SAP S/4HANA, Odoo, SAP Business One and NetSuite ERP, whereas SAP ERP is most compared with SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics AX, Anaplan, SAP Business One and Infor M3. See our Epicor ERP vs. SAP ERP report.
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