We performed a comparison between SAP Business One and SAP ERP based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: SAP Business One is the winner in this comparison. According to reviewers it is easier to set up, more reasonably priced, with a proven ROI, and has better support than SAP ERP.
"The documentation part and the user manuals provided by SAP are quite comprehensive."
"So there are a lot of features included with the ERP system."
"I like the monthly order management features."
"The efficient Intercompany sales to purchase order conversion is great."
"What's most helpful to customers who use SAP Business One is that the solution is fully integrated and easy to use. It's very easy to digest and has many features for small to medium companies."
"I like analytics, dashboard, and KPIs a lot. It is very helpful when I need to check balances and financial statements."
"Business One's best feature is transport management and collections."
"The most valuable features of SAP Business One are user-friendliness, ease of use, visibility, and flexibility. Customizing the solution is simple."
"The most valuable features of SAP ERP are its stability, industry-specific package, and adaptable configuration."
"The new Visual Enterprise functionalities give an intuitive approach to data and make communication between engineering and production easy."
"ERP is stable. The outcome is clear to us as far as the design goes."
"The most valuable feature of SAP ERP is the financial module, pre-configured packages, and plenty of features. The solution is updating and adding new features that are helpful."
"The most valuable feature of SAP ERP is the integration. It can be seamlessly integrated across the board."
"MDG provides a central location for governance of the creation/updating processes of master data. It allows you to change several fields in the same object. For example, we can change a field on the purchasing view and change another field on an accounting view to the same material at the same time."
"The product connects to every software."
"SAP ERP has a good user interface with a lot of functionalities and good interface options."
"Our customers often request concurrent licensing, which is not available with SAP Business One. Adding this option would be beneficial."
"The initial implementation is not straightforward. It took approximately three months to complete. The process could be easier."
"Some features are missing."
"Security could be improved."
"SAP Business One would be a great product if more customization is available."
"Business One lacks built-in HR features."
"More support can be provided on the web client end."
"It could have RPA automation and RPA elements. There could also be add-ons for a Document Management System and Warehouse Management System."
"SAP ERP could improve by having better integration with other platforms."
"The reporting feature could improve in SAP ERP. It could benefit from being more flexible."
"When evaluating the current version I am using now, the SAP GUI is old-style and needs to be replaced with something more modern and easy to use. However, the SAP GUI is very optimized for connection networks and is extremely good. Many people would like to have a WebGUI or something else to have access in a different way. Additionally, there could be some drag and drop functionality added because these features are normally in any website that this solution does not have."
"SAP ERP is scalable. We have some five to ten thousand SAP ERP users."
"I think that implementation could be simplified."
"The integration with others application could be easier. There are many different features that this solution offers which could be easier to implement."
"If big companies are going for SAP and they would like to install it, they should know that it still needs time. Implementation will cost a lot of money."
"I do not have any notes for improvements."
SAP Business One is ranked 4th in ERP with 61 reviews while SAP ERP is ranked 1st in ERP with 100 reviews. SAP Business One is rated 8.0, while SAP ERP is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SAP Business One writes "Helps with intercompany sales and purchase orders, and optimizes inventory management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP ERP writes "The amazing, robust framework with unlimited scalability earns its #1 status". SAP Business One is most compared with SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, SAP S/4HANA Cloud and Epicor ERP, whereas SAP ERP is most compared with SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics AX, Anaplan, Infor M3 and Infor LN. See our SAP Business One vs. SAP ERP report.
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