SAP ERP Pros and Cons

The power of ABAP Development Tools is the main valuable feature in the SAP ECC system. Every couple of years SAP upgrades ABAP technology significantly, which facilitates developers' work.

It provides one overview of the capacity planning.

It gives us full control over each change, to the level of the individual field in a master record, including certificates.

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.

It integrates everything into one process.

The new Visual Enterprise functionalities give an intuitive approach to data and make communication between engineering and production easy.

Heavy integration is available with all types of systems, and we use it.

Finance view across functions is valuable.

It automates transactional processes.

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.

The power of ABAP Development Tools is the main valuable feature in the SAP ECC system. Every couple of years SAP upgrades ABAP technology significantly, which facilitates developers' work.

It needs to incorporate the new features from the SAP S/4HANA release, such as, utilizing data processes, which is quite nice.

The UI could use improvement.

There will always be something within our business that it won't fit.

Improvements to the UI. The UI is pretty old, but this will change with the upcoming release of S.4.​

It needs a more complete guidance with complete processes. Right now, it only has single transactions.

Although you can use SAP as a Warehouse Management System, and you don’t need any other program for that purpose, it is not enough as a Transportation Management System. You need another program which is integrated with SAP.

Poor ergonomics.