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."The ability to deploy a generic implementation without advanced customization."
"Epicor ERP is very technical friendly, if you want to do any customization, it's very easy."
"Epicor ERP is an easy-to-use solution."
"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."
"Dashboards and Business Activity Query are very useful."
"With Epicor, we can call a pitch between Epicor and the PLM database, which is a significant advantage."
"There's good flexibility within the inbuilt tools such as alerts, business process management, dashboards, and screen customization."
"The product enables users to customize their dashboards and reports."
"From a long-term perspective, I can say that the solution can offer a return on investment, but it may take around three to four years for our company to experience it."
"The solution has a lot of good integrated modules."
"The Material Management and Sales and Distribution modules are great. The Financial Accounting module is also great."
"ERP is very stable."
"The solution has made the most significant impact on our human resources function, specifically in HR operations and HR analytics. One feature of SAP ERP that I found most valuable is its use of codes for accessing specific functions."
"It gives us full control over each change, to the level of the individual field in a master record, including certificates."
"There are many interfaces, so you really can build satellites around it like with other SAP stuff or even third-party stuff."
"SAP ERP has a good user interface with a lot of functionalities and good interface options."
"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."
"I would like to see a better reporting tool."
"A number of bugs in 9.05 were only fixed in 10."
"Epicor didn't care about user level and software applications. So, it's not so user-friendly for nontechnical people."
"There are some glitches in Epicor ERP."
"Right now, it doesn't really have a good cloud story."
"The tool should provide a better user interface."
"In the newer version of Epicor ERP, it's very difficult to find out that tracing."
"Improvements to the UI. The UI is pretty old, but this will change with the upcoming release of S.4."
"Implementing SAP ERP can be very costly, particularly for smaller organizations with limited resources."
"They need to improve a few processes, including transformation, intelligence, governance, modeling, etc."
"The only feature that is not available in our current version is web access."
"The production system must be upgraded."
"In the next release, I would like to see more technical integration for directly designed solutions on behalf of the selling process so that you can design solutions and not have to use ten or more other tools to get the solution for selling."
"SAP ERP could improve by having better integration with other platforms."
"Functionality could be improved."
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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