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.
"It's very powerful and very complete."
"I had been using it for the end-to-end functionality."
"The solution has all the basic features that are required for us."
"It is quite simple, and it is suitable for medium and small businesses."
"It's simple to use and very direct."
"For us, the most useful feature of Business One is Material Requirements Planning (MRP)."
"We have been satisfied with the technical support."
"The solution is user-friendly in comparison with Oracle."
"SAP ERP has a good user interface with a lot of functionalities and good interface options."
"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."
"Everyone who uses SAP ERP has benefited from the functionality."
"I like SAP's premade workflows for various areas, such as supply chain, procurement, or finance."
"The most valuable features are the ease of installation and the MM functionality."
"It meets our requirements for what we need it to do in the manufacturing industry."
"The transactional integration of operations is the best-recommended feature of this product. It provides integration of all operational modules."
"We like that we have real-time dashboard views."
"There is no dependency, the integration between the other applications."
"The solution could improve by providing HR payroll, quality control, and maintenance. These are the missing features which we have to use add-ons solutions to provide the functionality."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with other systems and reporting."
"In SAP Business One, customization can be made easier...I would tell those planning to use the solution that though it is a good solution, it might not be a complete solution since there are some missing features in it."
"In terms of business processes, the production could use improvement."
"We don't have the functionality of the supply chain and mobile applications."
"Security could be improved."
"You get support through the vendor, not SAP directly. If your vendor is good, you get good support. If it is not a good vendor, the support is very bad."
"It could always be cheaper. There is no doubt about it."
"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 service could be more user-friendly in the area of transition codes."
"Improvements to the UI. The UI is pretty old, but this will change with the upcoming release of S.4."
"When there is a system error it provides an error code and a lot of times these can be complicated. The support team could have more knowledge to be able to assist with these situations more promptly."
"The user interface can be more intuitive and user-friendly by having it be more menu-driven, this would be a large benefit."
"Though SAP ERP's FICO module is a strong part of the product, its integration capabilities can be made stronger."
"The UI could use improvement."
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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