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 sales and wholesale distribution are great."
"SAP Business One has good reports and is simple to customize and use."
"The solution offers a structured view and is useful for the top management. The top management finds it organized and structured. It is stable and gives you fewer headaches as an IT manager."
"Add-ons that can be implemented are most valuable."
"It offers users a rather simple interface."
"The document search feature is very good."
"SAP Business One is very stable, and I would rate its performance as ten out of ten."
"Business One's best feature is transport management and collections."
"It is the best solution in the class of ERP products."
"It gives us full control over each change, to the level of the individual field in a master record, including certificates."
"The valuable feature of SAP ERP is that everything is connected and under one roof, creating a unified system."
"The most valuable features are that it's very customizable and it's flexible."
"The most valuable features are the ease of installation and the MM functionality."
"The best thing that SAP ERP has is the extensive coverage of processes for every field and business unit such as procurement, inventory, financials, asset management, plant maintenance, and production. We can cover up to 99.9% processes of our organization, which is the best thing about this solution. It also has a very good capability to integrate with other applications. The security and authorization level of SAP ERP is very high. No other solution can match this level."
"SAP has provided a much more integrated platform for managing our manufacturing business."
"Everyone who uses SAP ERP has benefited from the functionality."
"The extension of dashboards into mobiles is something which SAP Business One has to improve on."
"The initial implementation is not straightforward. It took approximately three months to complete. The process could be easier."
"There is no dependency, the integration between the other applications."
"SAP Business One could improve by automatically inputting exchange rates in the software. We currently have to enter them manually to find the appropriate exchange rates from a website. If it could be done with one click it would be helpful and more straightforward."
"I would love to have more reporting capabilities. It should have an embedded BI engine. Currently, I have to maintain an additional system for BI."
"The solution could improve by adding HR and payroll, and consolidation should be included by default."
"It could have RPA automation and RPA elements. There could also be add-ons for a Document Management System and Warehouse Management System."
"The solution needs to have comprehensive visibility into the entire sales-to-purchase cycle, enabling businesses to monitor SO-PO relationships, track order progress, and generate insightful reports."
"Implementing SAP ERP can be very costly, particularly for smaller organizations with limited resources."
"Reporting is why most companies need to acquire business intelligence add-on solutions, and when it comes to SAP ERP, they could improve the reporting graphical representation of the data."
"SAP is not making a big effort to make it easy to integrate solutions from other vendors. It's not easy at all... Integration is what they can do better."
"SAP ERP needs to be more innovative when it comes to areas like mobility and the internet."
"The only feature that is not available in our current version is web access."
"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 system is very big. It is not exactly user-friendly, due to the fact that it's so massive and complex."
"The UI could use improvement."
SAP Business One is ranked 3rd in ERP with 29 reviews while SAP ERP is ranked 1st in ERP with 37 reviews. SAP Business One is rated 8.0, while SAP ERP is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SAP Business One writes "Caters to the company's B2B business model and highly stable solution". 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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