SAP Business Suite Reviews

Valuable for us is the flexibility of the SD module which allows us to address the complexity of this area.

The solution has enabled us to:

• ascertain costs and profitability online
• improve process control
• improve stocks control
• improve our planning and decision making process
• take advantage of critical information online that allows us to quickly take actions, and so on.

Complete suite and it works. Good thing about SAP is the product is mature and has the talent to support it. No other vendors, like Oracle, Sage, or Microsoft, have the maturity of the solution or they require too much customization.

Strong financials for project/logistics integration and most of the functionalities, like interco posting and MM-SD consolidation, work out-of-the-box. 

Most of the integrations work out-of-the-box. The only thing that you need to spend on ABAP is reports. There is hardly any customization required for SAP, if you implement it correctly. 

SAP Business Suite is an Enterprise Management tool enabling end to end management of most if not all areas of the business. The type of business will determine the type of implementation and the modules utilized. SAP is configured to meet your business requirements but provides standard practices and processes that in most instances should be able to be utilized. As a fully integrated solution the financial impact of transactions are visible at the time of creation/entry. This is the best and the worst thing about the product as if at any part of an end-to-end process the user tries to take short cuts or work around there is a flow on effect right to the very end. To fix the issue is always a case of reversing to the point that caused the problem and then continuing correctly from that point. This is often seen as additional work but reality is it keeps to strict process.

SAP is working on the interface which has been an issue for many years and reporting is always something that is lacking, however as the product is made to be implemented by all different types of organisations it really does come down to each company creating its own reports to meet its needs.