SAP ERP Scalability

Srinivasan Kuppuswamy - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder Partner & Chief Consultant at Sagesse Abundance

The scalability is amazing. The solution is the number one ERP in the world and can be scaled up to any size. 

In 2004, I was working for Deloitte with a company called Rohm and Haas that was based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. They have since been acquired by Dow Chemicals. But at the time, they implemented the solution for 178 countries throughout the globe in one single instance. That is the level of scalability. It is huge. 

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Mariia Gondal - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Business Consultant at FG Business Consultant

In terms of scalability, SAP offers quite a high grade for organizational change possibilities. It's manageable to plan organizational changes, and there is a lot of information available and SAP consultants on the market who can help with this.

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SEAN Justine - PeerSpot reviewer
Professor at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

In terms of scalability, everything is very modular. It would be great if you could combine everything.

I would rate the scalability a five or six out of ten.

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VishalChopra - PeerSpot reviewer
VP Global Sales and Marketing at VC ERP CONSULTING PRIVATE LIMITED

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

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TZ
CEO at Lifestyle Services Group (part of Phones4U)

Yes, it's highly scalable. SAP ERP operates within an open-source framework, allowing clients the flexibility to modify anything they need. If they wish to make changes, we consult with them, understand their requirements, and then write the necessary programs to accommodate those changes.

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Githinji Githogora - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Manager at Dawa Life Sciences

Around 200 people in my company work with the solution.

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Sameer Ghewade - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Information Technology at Parag Milk Foods Ltd

It is a scalable solution.

More than 100 people in my company use the product.

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PedroJimenez - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Advisor at NBTeam

The scalability of SAP ERP is very good, allowing companies to grow and expand their operations in various areas and industries. The scalability is the best.

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Desmond Festus - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Officer ERP at Swakop Uranium

The solution is scalable. We can add users to the system without issues, but getting them loaded on the system requires approval. When you load a user on SAP and understand what the user is supposed to do, it takes you about five minutes to load the user. Currently, we have about 638 users on the system, and about 60% are active users. Currently, we have about 638 users in different roles on the system.

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Sara Sara - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Engineer at Maroc Telecom ADSL

It offers good scalability. I'd rate the ability to expand eight out of ten. You can grow out f you need to. 

We do not have plans to change solutions. While we're planning to switch to the new version of SAP S/4, we will stay with our ERP.

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Mustapha Sedki Ben Romdhane - PeerSpot reviewer
Sourcing Purchasing Manager at Nexans autoelectric GmbH

I will need to have more experience with the product to comment on this.

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Wael Elsagh - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at EJADA

SAP ERP is scalable. You are able to add administrative modules to increase the features. There are many other modules that can be added, such as the Linux framework and the business technology platform.

For an on-premise deployment, there needs to be administration monitoring of all services. This is because there can be a lot of resources being used that have to be monitored on the server. We have found some instances of overloading in the reports.

The cloud deployment is managed by the cloud provider and it is highly scalable.

I have approximately 10 clients using this solution.

I rate the scalability of SAP ERP a nine out of ten.

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RP
SAP Platform Advisory at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The solution is highly scalable.

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Harish Golla - PeerSpot reviewer
SAP Consultant at Quadricit

I rate the scalability of SAP ERP a ten out of ten.

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Olaf Dölz - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Engineer at Winshuttle

Right now, because of all these different deployment methods like cloud, the scalability is very good. There are plenty of options you can select. It's not a pure public cloud solution. You still have the possibility to go for on-premise or to go for hybrid and use these super large services like Amazon Web Services or go with a small private IT provider. Scalability is very high in my opinion.

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Friedhelm Lefting - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at GESTRA AG

The tool provides the scalability we need. We have around 250 users.

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Kanchan Khubnani - PeerSpot reviewer
Management trainee at a analyst firm with 51-200 employees

The tool is scalable. My company has around 2,000 employees. 

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Mohamed Nabih - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Information Technology at OSHCO group

We have hundreds of users that are using SAP ERP.

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ML
Sr. Manager at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

It is a scalable product. In our company, we have around 200 licensed users for SAP ERP. When it comes to administration and maintenance, we have only one system administrator for the basic IT needs. Additionally, we have less than ten people handling application-related IT tasks. Overall, the management is straightforward, with a small team handling the responsibilities.

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Neno Lazarov - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Financial Control at TED BED JSC

SAP ERP is scalable.

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AjayKumar7 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Business Analytics, BI Lead at Capgemini

It's scalable.

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AH
Director at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

It is a very scalable solution but it can be cost-prohibitive at the same time due to the time it takes.

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MV
Consultant at RDM Tech Solutions

I would say that the scalability is around a seven on a scale of one to ten.

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David Kunc - PeerSpot reviewer
Account Manager at Cadmium

Companies in certain segments find the solution scalable. For companies that require SAP, where employees are required to have high flexibility in changing processes, SAP ERP is not the right software. However, the solution is very scalable for large companies with 1,000 employees and more.

When I was using SAP, there were 80,000 users.

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PrateekBansal - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at Mitsubishi Electric in India

It is a scalable solution; our organization has around 250 solution users.

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SN
ICT Consultant, CEO, Entrepreneur at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It's not appropriate for smaller companies. For example, ECC 6.0 has a lot of modules that a small customer may not use.

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IH
Vice President at Abacus Consulting

The tool is scalable and I would rate its scalability a nine out of ten. We have around 40 customers for the solution.

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MD
IT Development Director at Lottomatica SpA

In the company where I worked before, we had a large installation of SAP with approximately 10,000 licensed users. The solution was able to handle it without a problem and we were using the classic version of the Oracle database. 

In the company I work for currently, we do smaller installations of approximately 350 users. We have not had any problem or any issue regarding performance, it is highly scalable. However, working with S/4 HANA, where all the database is working in the RAM memory could pose some difficulties if you want to scale because you would have to have a computer system with a large number of gigabytes of RAM.

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MS
Senior Application Delivery Specialist at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

We are using it on a daily basis 24/7. Currently, there is no plan to add additional users. However, if we upgrade to S/4HANA, we will get new functionality and features. Most likely, we will also have more users.

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SG
Manager, Robotics & Automation Systems at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

Around 400 people in my company use the tool.

The tool is used daily in my company.

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SF
DGM HR at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

It's scalable.

There are currently 8,000 users who use SAP in my company. Our IT team maintains it.

We do not have plans to increase usage. SAP has said that they are dropping the ERP part. They advise moving on to SuccessFactors for HR. SAP themselves has said not to go forward with more usage, but to change the system.

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Shady Mogawer - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Arabian Cement Company

I doubt if it is scalable. That's because it is on-prem, so you have a lot of parameters, and scalability would be a little bit hard.

We have 130 people, but in my company, only about 65 people are using it. It is being used every minute of every day. There might be a plan for expanding its usage, but I am not sure.

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NJ
Consultant at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees

The product can scale. If a company needs to expand it, it's not a problem. Users should be able to do so. 

It is scalable in the sense that tomorrow if you have 10 users, you can scale it to 50 users, 50 to 100. That's not a problem. It's pretty easy to scale. SAP is now pushing cloud. It used to be on-premise. When it was on-premise you would have to change your hardware. Now, that is not necessarily the case. 

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CV
Director of Transformation SAP at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees

Scalability has not been an issue for our customers. Our smaller clients have between 2,000 and 3,000 users, whereas a large company has between 10,000 and 20,000 users.

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AA
GLOBAL ERP (SHIFT) Logical design and Technical Integration Lead at Sanofi

This product is very scalable and easy to expand.

We have approximately 40,000 users.

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NarendraKumar2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Process Mining Consultant at AG Consultancy & Apps. Lt.

The product is scalable and suitable for large enterprises.

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Numair Mazhar - PeerSpot reviewer
Practice Head - Qlik / Solutions Architect at TMC (TallyMarks Consulting)

I cannot comment on scalability. I've never tried to scale. 

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Ra456it - PeerSpot reviewer
Digital Business Solutions - Key Account Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

It is very scalable. There are only a few companies that can actually deliver an ERP or the overall business model solution at this scale. There are not a lot of players. We have SAP, and we have Epicor and others too, but we know that Epicor can never scale up to what a national service provider would need. We are talking about serving 80,000 or 85,000 people on a daily basis, so a different type of business scalability is required. Overall, we have about 10 clients who use this solution.

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Anshuman Bansal - PeerSpot reviewer
Head - SAP & Digital Transformation at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

This is a very scalable solution. 

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DM
EAM Executive at a educational organization with 5,001-10,000 employees

It is scalable. It has to be scalable. Otherwise, SAP will not be able to survive.

Currently, we have 5,000 to 6,000 people who are using SAP ERP as end-users. On the development side, we have around 40 to 50 people, and they are technical consultants and functional consultants. For maintenance, we have around 40 people from different function models.

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SI
ERP Project Manager & Managing Consultant at Liwa Education, Iranfava

The scalability is very good. If a company needs to expand it, it can. It's ideally for large organizations.

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US
Senior Manager IT Business Systems Architect / SAP Project Manager at a consumer goods company with 201-500 employees

The solution is very easy to scale. IOf a company needs to expand it, it can do so.

It's also very easy to integrate with other solutions and legacy systems.

We have about 500 users on the solution currently. We use it quite regularly.

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Shivdatt Patel - PeerSpot reviewer
Officer Programmer at Colourtex Ind Ltd

The scalability of SAP ERP is very good.

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Alaba Ayotunde O. OLUWAYIMIKA - PeerSpot reviewer
It Asset Management Lead at Dangote Industries Limited

The solution is scalable. 

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JS
Development Specialist at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is scalable. We also have multiple back up systems so if one goes down there is immediate back up that's transparent for the user, because we're totally dependent on our systems.

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it_user138537 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Strategy Officer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Yes. Sybase, the newly-acquired RDBMS SAP was purchased and we were integrating it into the ERP, didn't scale well and was slow initially. Being one of the first customers of the Sybase/SAP ERP combo, I was disappointed that SAP didn't test out its integration with Sybase thoroughly prior to release.

Aside from the patch, this problem was solved by changing the worker thread parameter on Sybase. We had to rely on our own knowledge based on our previous experience with Sybase.

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EM
Senior SAP Solutions Analyst at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees

SAP ERP is very hard to scale, it is very time-consuming, and once fully implemented it is normally fixed.

We have approximately 350 users using the solution. It is extensively used, every single position in the company uses SAP, which includes but is not limited to, customer service, customer service managers, purchasing, purchasing director, finance, and finance controller.

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it_user520524 - PeerSpot reviewer
Programmer Analyst Principal Leader at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I have encountered scalability issues, but not to a critical extent.

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MR
Senior Solutions Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

This solution is scalable.

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MB
Independent Consultant at Bosch&Cia

The solution is scalable, and we have two people for deployment and maintenance.

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AR
Sr. SAP Portfolio Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

SAP ERP is scalable. We have some five to ten thousand SAP ERP users. 

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MV
Deputy Manager - SAP / ERP at Cooper Corporation Pvt Ltd

It is scalable. We have around 180 users. We have licenses for 250 users, but 180 users are actively using the system.

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CW
Chief of Systems Development at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees

We don't have scalability problems. We can go 100 times our volume of transactions and we won't have any problems with it. We are not a very big shop so we don't have any problems, nor do we think that in the future we are going to have trouble with it.

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AR
Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

This solution is scalable.

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SH
IT Manager at Chun Wo Construction

I haven't really dealt too much with scalability. Our company has been pretty steady in terms of usage. We haven't really increased anything. IN our environment, scalability isn't so much of an issue.

That sai, it is my understanding that the solution scales well, and if a company needs to expand it, they can do so with relative ease.

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DS
Digital Transformation Manager at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The scalability could be better, it is not simple to do.

We have approximately 300 users using this solution. We are not planning to increase usage.

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MZ
Head of ICT Infrastructure at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Its scalability is good, but it is not flexible. 

We can keep going with SAP. We have been growing, and we have been adding new business entities to our SAP. The number of enterprises that we manage with our SAP is growing. So, it is scalable.

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it_user311268 - PeerSpot reviewer
SAVP Accounting Information System Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Never encountered issues.

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Jayabarath S - PeerSpot reviewer
RPA Developer at Atominos consulting

It is scalable. We have about 15 companies using SAP ERP.

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NP
Manager - Business Intelligence, Business Relationship Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The solution is scalable. There are four plants in my area and about 100 people using SAP. There are many, many more users worldwide. 

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AM
Head of Product Operations Planning at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's very scalable. It's just a matter of cost. We have 100 to 150 users at the moment.

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MA
Sr. Manager IT at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Scalability is not really relevant in this type of product. 

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NM
Senior Business Process Analyst (BPM-BPMS) at Jiring

SAP ERP has been used in many large companies, so I guess it has a reputation for being scalable. In my company, we have about 10 to 20 people using the product. But we are a small part related to a large company . In that parent company, there are somewhere between 2,000 or 3,000 people who are using SAP.  

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VB
Applications Architecture at a engineering company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The scalability is good.

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Veerender Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Owner at Software Technology

I have found SAP ERP scalable.

We have approximately 100 people using this solution in my organization.

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AM
SAP Architect/ Business Analyst BPC, BW , SAC , FI at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees

The scalability of SAP ERP depends on different modules.

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PV
Project and Service delivery Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I was doing working with three different companies for the past 15 years as well as a couple of external clients. I've used it across a few different industries. 

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MH
SAP Professional at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

There have been no issues scaling it.

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MB
Associate Director at a tech company with 201-500 employees

This is a scalable solution that comes with many options and add-ons. 

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OP
Azure Cloud Solution Architect(CSA) at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is a bit smaller than I prefer to use, however, we don't have to take too many liberties with it, so, for us, it's fine.

We have about 20 users on the product currently.

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it_user881271 - PeerSpot reviewer
CIO at Kolektor Group d.o.o.

The solution is very scalable. It's quite a sizeable product, to begin with. Users would have no problem expanding it out if they need to.

We have around 1,000 users on the solution currently.

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TT
Associate Manager at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

Most customers are moving to the cloud so scalability is not an issue. We have an internal team of around 10 people who deal with engineering software. We have hundreds of users of this product. 

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ND
Java Software Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

On average, the companies that use SAP ERP have around 50 users. 

=> I mean that related to license, company may has over 200 or 300 employees, but company only buys 50 account for 50, 70 end-users to use system.

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AM
Solution Application Development Manager at a real estate/law firm with 201-500 employees

We have between 18 and 20 people who regularly use this ERP.

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it_user540270 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior HCM Consultant at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

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KK
Manager Finance at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is also scalable. Currently, we have more than a thousand users.

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CJ
Vice President at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

SAP ERP is scalable. Our current user base is maybe around 1,000 people. We should be able to increase that at will if we have the need.  

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FH
SAP Basis Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

SAP ERP is very scalable.

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SAP ERP
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