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ABB Ability Solution Suite vs Expandable

ABB Ability Solution Suite
7 Ratings
Expandable
2 Ratings

ABB Ability Solution Suite

7 Ratings
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Score 9.9 out of 100

Based on 7 reviews and ratings

Expandable

2 Ratings
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Score 8 out of 100

Based on 2 reviews and ratings

Feature Set Ratings

  • ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 1 feature set: Customization
  • ABB Ability Solution Suite and Expandable are tied in 4 feature sets: Security, Inventory Management, Order Management, Supply Chain

Customization

10.0

ABB Ability Solution Suite

100%
8.0

Expandable

80%
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 2/2 features
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 2/2 features

API for custom integration

10.0
100%
1 Rating
8.0
80%
1 Rating

Plug-ins

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Security

10.0

ABB Ability Solution Suite

100%
10.0

Expandable

100%
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 2/2 features
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 2/2 features

Single sign-on capability

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Role-based user permissions

10.0
100%
1 Rating
10.0
100%
1 Rating

Inventory Management

10.0

ABB Ability Solution Suite

100%
10.0

Expandable

100%
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 3/3 features
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 3/3 features

Inventory tracking

10.0
100%
1 Rating
10.0
100%
1 Rating

Location management

10.0
100%
1 Rating
10.0
100%
1 Rating

Manufacturing module

10.0
100%
1 Rating
10.0
100%
1 Rating

Order Management

10.0

ABB Ability Solution Suite

100%
10.0

Expandable

100%
Expandable ranks higher in 6/6 features
Expandable ranks higher in 6/6 features

Pricing

10.0
100%
1 Rating
10.0
100%
1 Rating

Order entry

10.0
100%
1 Rating
10.0
100%
1 Rating

Cost of goods sold

10.0
100%
1 Rating
10.0
100%
1 Rating

End-to-end order visibility

10.0
100%
1 Rating
10.0
100%
1 Rating

Order exception Resolution

10.0
100%
1 Rating
10.0
100%
1 Rating

Order Orchestration

N/A
0 Ratings
10.0
100%
1 Rating

Project Execution Management

10.0

ABB Ability Solution Suite

100%

Expandable

Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 15/15 features
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 15/15 features

Project Planning and Scheduling

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Project Manager Dashboard

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Resource Manager Dashboard

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Task Insight for Project Managers

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Project Manager Mobile Functionality

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Team Member Task Collaboration

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Team Member Mobile Functionality

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Project Candidate Search

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Project Candidate Comparison and Analysis

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Defineable Resource Pools

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Defineable Resource Pools

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Talent Profiles

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Real-Time Project Reporting

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Absence Management

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Product Lifecycle Management

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Manufacturing

10.0

ABB Ability Solution Suite

100%

Expandable

Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 9/9 features
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 9/9 features

Production Process Design

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Supply Chain Business Flows

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Production Management

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Contracted Manufacturing Management

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Configuration Management

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Work Definition

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Work Execution

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Advanced Fulfillment

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Manufacturing Costs

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Supply Chain

10.0

ABB Ability Solution Suite

100%
10.0

Expandable

100%
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 4/4 features
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 4/4 features

Forecasting

10.0
100%
1 Rating
10.0
100%
1 Rating

Inventory Planning

10.0
100%
1 Rating
10.0
100%
1 Rating

Multi-tier Supply Chain Planning

10.0
100%
1 Rating
10.0
100%
1 Rating

Performance Monitoring

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Product Lifecycle Management

10.0

ABB Ability Solution Suite

100%

Expandable

Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 7/7 features
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 7/7 features

Ideation Management

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Requirements Management

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Proposal Management

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Innovation Portfolio Management

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Product Master Data Management

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Vendor Portal

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Project Portfolio Management

10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings

Reporting & Analytics

ABB Ability Solution Suite

Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
8.7

Expandable

87%
Expandable ranks higher in 3/3 features
Expandable ranks higher in 3/3 features

Dashboards

N/A
0 Ratings
7.0
70%
1 Rating

Standard reports

N/A
0 Ratings
9.0
90%
1 Rating

Custom reports

N/A
0 Ratings
10.0
100%
1 Rating

General Ledger and Configurable Accounting

ABB Ability Solution Suite

Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
9.0

Expandable

90%
Expandable ranks higher in 2/2 features
Expandable ranks higher in 2/2 features

Accounts payable

N/A
0 Ratings
9.0
90%
1 Rating

Accounts receivable

N/A
0 Ratings
9.0
90%
1 Rating

Subledger and Financial Process

ABB Ability Solution Suite

Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
10.0

Expandable

100%
Expandable ranks higher in 1/1 features
Expandable ranks higher in 1/1 features

Period Close

N/A
0 Ratings
10.0
100%
1 Rating

Grants Management

ABB Ability Solution Suite

Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
10.0

Expandable

100%
Expandable ranks higher in 2/2 features
Expandable ranks higher in 2/2 features

Award Lifecycle Management

N/A
0 Ratings
10.0
100%
1 Rating

Indirect Cost Management

N/A
0 Ratings
10.0
100%
1 Rating

Attribute Ratings

  • ABB Ability Solution Suite is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend

Likelihood to Recommend

10.0

ABB Ability Solution Suite

100%
1 Rating
7.0

Expandable

70%
1 Rating

Usability

10.0

ABB Ability Solution Suite

100%
1 Rating

Expandable

N/A
0 Ratings

Support Rating

10.0

ABB Ability Solution Suite

100%
1 Rating

Expandable

N/A
0 Ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

ABB Ability Solution Suite

Of course this is the one of the best solution available in the market at present. When you have Multiple system in a plant then you need a powerful tool for Computation which Ability does it smoothly.

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Expandable

Expandable fits our companies needs quite well to manage inventory, sales orders, and purchasing. We recently started to also use Expandable to track ECN changes. The ECN functionality is a little limited in the fact it is difficult to add descriptions or parts affected after it has been implemented. I would recommend having an additional program for managing ECN history

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Pros

ABB Ability Solution Suite

  • Computation of data.
  • Presentation to right person.
  • Ability to perform critical task and sending to users.
  • Multiple control system connectivity.

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Expandable

  • Great way for everyone on the team to see the same information - sales orders, inventory, purchase orders etc
  • The support team is always very responsive!!
  • Very customizable to create links between screens

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Cons

ABB Ability Solution Suite

  • May be for smaller PLCs this can't be implemented.
  • Cost may an area ABB can look in to.
  • Improvement in GUI

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Expandable

  • Data entry on certain tasks can be very tedious (for example effected parts on an ECN)
  • Sometimes data connections for upload are very slow or just flat out fail multiple times. The problem is intermittent so difficult for support to track and fix
  • Certain fields cannot be pulled on a report and require engineering time to create a process to add functionality. It would be nice to have unfiltered access to all fields

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Pricing Details

ABB Ability Solution Suite

General

Free Trial
—
Free/Freemium Version
—
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

—

Expandable

General

Free Trial
—
Free/Freemium Version
—
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

—

Usability

ABB Ability Solution Suite

ABB Ability Solution Suite 10.0
Based on 1 answer
One of the best solutions in the market with a user-friendly system. This is very useful when the ABB system (Like we had 800xA) is there, new or existing; all the ABB systems can be integrated using this rather than going to a 3rd party vendor, which may have interface problems.

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Expandable

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

Support Rating

ABB Ability Solution Suite

ABB Ability Solution Suite 10.0
Based on 1 answer
Good support in terms of quality and promptness. When we had problems with some of the commands not getting executed, their online support also provided a good solution to solve the problem. Even mission-critical task we were able to solve during this Pandemic time. The suggestion is to go for the online support 1st in the future, followed by a visit.

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Expandable

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

Alternatives Considered

ABB Ability Solution Suite

Better suited for the ABB System as Microsoft is a third party for ABB Control System.

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Expandable

No answers on this topic

Return on Investment

ABB Ability Solution Suite

  • Positive is definitely ROI since manual intervention is minimized and the process is automated.
  • Cost wise, ABB has been looked upon considering the small industry.
  • Overall, a good solution for a large companies.

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Expandable

  • Helps to provide accurate lead times to customers.
  • Accurate revision recording for customer support

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