Oracle E-Business Suite vs. SAP Manufacturing Execution

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Oracle E-Business Suite
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Oracle E-Business Suite is a comprehensive suite of integrated, global business applications. The suite includes cross-industry capabilities spanning ERP, CRM and supply chain planning.N/A
SAP Manufacturing Execution
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
SAP Manufacturing Execution is the company's MES designed to digitally control, monitor, and automate manufacturing operations.N/A
Pricing
Oracle E-Business SuiteSAP Manufacturing Execution
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Oracle E-Business SuiteSAP Manufacturing Execution
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Oracle E-Business SuiteSAP Manufacturing Execution
Top Pros
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Features
Oracle E-Business SuiteSAP Manufacturing Execution
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Oracle E-Business Suite
8.3
31 Ratings
14% above category average
SAP Manufacturing Execution
-
Ratings
Pay calculation8.129 Ratings00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration8.024 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files8.124 Ratings00 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Oracle E-Business Suite
8.5
69 Ratings
16% above category average
SAP Manufacturing Execution
10.0
1 Ratings
32% above category average
API for custom integration9.869 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Plug-ins9.752 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Oracle E-Business Suite
9.9
73 Ratings
20% above category average
SAP Manufacturing Execution
10.0
1 Ratings
21% above category average
Single sign-on capability9.866 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Role-based user permissions9.972 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Oracle E-Business Suite
9.1
66 Ratings
27% above category average
SAP Manufacturing Execution
8.7
1 Ratings
22% above category average
Dashboards9.143 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Standard reports8.364 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Custom reports9.964 Ratings10.01 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Product A and Product B
Oracle E-Business Suite
7.9
80 Ratings
4% above category average
SAP Manufacturing Execution
-
Ratings
Accounts payable9.776 Ratings00 Ratings
Accounts receivable8.974 Ratings00 Ratings
Global Financial Support8.952 Ratings00 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers9.763 Ratings00 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations9.764 Ratings00 Ratings
Configurable Accounting9.754 Ratings00 Ratings
Standardized Processes9.757 Ratings00 Ratings
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
Oracle E-Business Suite
8.7
53 Ratings
10% above category average
SAP Manufacturing Execution
10.0
1 Ratings
24% above category average
Inventory tracking9.052 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Automatic reordering8.837 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Location management8.941 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Order Management
Comparison of Order Management features of Product A and Product B
Oracle E-Business Suite
8.9
56 Ratings
14% above category average
SAP Manufacturing Execution
-
Ratings
Pricing8.950 Ratings00 Ratings
Order entry8.852 Ratings00 Ratings
Credit card processing8.041 Ratings00 Ratings
Cost of goods sold9.750 Ratings00 Ratings
Order Orchestration8.937 Ratings00 Ratings
Subledger and Financial Process
Comparison of Subledger and Financial Process features of Product A and Product B
Oracle E-Business Suite
9.2
66 Ratings
22% above category average
SAP Manufacturing Execution
-
Ratings
Billing Management8.846 Ratings00 Ratings
Cash and Asset Management8.855 Ratings00 Ratings
Travel & Expense Management8.949 Ratings00 Ratings
Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting9.840 Ratings00 Ratings
Period Close9.759 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Financial Management
Comparison of Project Financial Management features of Product A and Product B
Oracle E-Business Suite
7.8
42 Ratings
3% above category average
SAP Manufacturing Execution
-
Ratings
Budgeting and Forecasting8.033 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Costing8.042 Ratings00 Ratings
Cost Capture8.035 Ratings00 Ratings
Capital Project Management8.133 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Contract Compliance8.125 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Revenue Recognition8.132 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Execution Management
Comparison of Project Execution Management features of Product A and Product B
Oracle E-Business Suite
7.6
20 Ratings
11% above category average
SAP Manufacturing Execution
-
Ratings
Project Planning and Scheduling7.818 Ratings00 Ratings
Task Insight for Project Managers7.418 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Mobile Functionality8.016 Ratings00 Ratings
Definable Resource Pools7.915 Ratings00 Ratings
Grants Management
Comparison of Grants Management features of Product A and Product B
Oracle E-Business Suite
8.9
24 Ratings
16% above category average
SAP Manufacturing Execution
-
Ratings
Award Lifecycle Management9.020 Ratings00 Ratings
Procurement
Comparison of Procurement features of Product A and Product B
Oracle E-Business Suite
8.4
50 Ratings
19% above category average
SAP Manufacturing Execution
-
Ratings
Bids Analyzed and Compared7.927 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract Authoring8.026 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract Repository7.919 Ratings00 Ratings
Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated9.736 Ratings00 Ratings
Supplier Management9.732 Ratings00 Ratings
Risk Management
Comparison of Risk Management features of Product A and Product B
Oracle E-Business Suite
7.1
12 Ratings
9% above category average
SAP Manufacturing Execution
-
Ratings
Risk Repository7.010 Ratings00 Ratings
Control Management8.010 Ratings00 Ratings
Control Efficiency Assessments6.010 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue Detection8.011 Ratings00 Ratings
Remediation and Certification7.112 Ratings00 Ratings
Logistics
Comparison of Logistics features of Product A and Product B
Oracle E-Business Suite
7.5
20 Ratings
9% above category average
SAP Manufacturing Execution
-
Ratings
Transportation Planning and Optimization8.117 Ratings00 Ratings
Transportation Execution Management8.216 Ratings00 Ratings
Trade and Customs Management7.316 Ratings00 Ratings
Fulfillment Management7.316 Ratings00 Ratings
Warehouse Workforce Management8.216 Ratings00 Ratings
Manufacturing
Comparison of Manufacturing features of Product A and Product B
Oracle E-Business Suite
7.8
26 Ratings
4% above category average
SAP Manufacturing Execution
10.0
1 Ratings
28% above category average
Production Process Design6.721 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Production Management7.824 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Configuration Management7.022 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Work Execution8.023 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Manufacturing Costs8.724 Ratings00 Ratings
Supply Chain
Comparison of Supply Chain features of Product A and Product B
Oracle E-Business Suite
8.6
33 Ratings
17% above category average
SAP Manufacturing Execution
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Ratings
Forecasting8.730 Ratings00 Ratings
Inventory Planning8.833 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance Monitoring7.926 Ratings00 Ratings
Product Lifecycle Management
Comparison of Product Lifecycle Management features of Product A and Product B
Oracle E-Business Suite
8.3
16 Ratings
13% above category average
SAP Manufacturing Execution
-
Ratings
Proposal Management8.313 Ratings00 Ratings
Product Master Data Management8.312 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Oracle E-Business SuiteSAP Manufacturing Execution
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(93 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(10 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
6.2
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
3.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
6.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
6.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
5.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
4.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.7
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
6.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
6.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.8
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
6.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
4.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Oracle E-Business SuiteSAP Manufacturing Execution
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle
Oracle eBusiness Suite is the best combination of CRM and ERP. Oracle helps us in managing the entire process of Sales and Marketing. The best feature is that it is highly user-friendly. We can easily manage the entire process of marketing from running a campaign to managing it and getting an interesting prospect than making a lead to making an opportunity by recording each and every conversation from day 1 to last day so that customer feels its valued by the company after that finally getting a business from the prospect.
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SAP
SAP Manufacturing Execution is suitable for desecrate manufacturing. For the complex routing of the product, this software ensures users do not by mistake start executing the wrong steps. This is the best tool to track and work on nonconformance and rework scenarios. This is most suitable when the landscape has SAP ERP in place.
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Pros
Oracle
  • The EBS Oracle Order Management and Shipping Execution solution allows the creation of an integrated, seamless order-to-cash process and accurately capture of customer orders across multiple channels.
  • Orchestration of order details for seamless fulfillment execution.
  • Efficient shipment planning and confirmation.
  • Communication of order status information to customers throughout the order lifecycle.
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SAP
  • Visual routing ensures the production line layout is as appropriate as shown on the application.
  • Production house needs a lot of data to do an in-process inspection of the product. ERP might not need that. SAP ME provides that place to do every data collection.
  • Nonconformance functionality ensures when needed the product goes to the appropriate station to get repaired. Also, data collection can raise NC and can move the product to a particular station to get an issue corrected.
  • All the information is well integrated with SAP ERP and makes SAP ME more valuable for the organization.
  • SAP MII also comes along with SAP ME helps to get the application well integrated with the shop floor equipment.
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Cons
Oracle
  • Because the application is working globally, it sometimes hangs and the connection is dropped.
  • It should have more shortcuts to make it easier to develop macros. I create many macros and use the "sendkeys" command in VBA, due to the lack of these shortcuts, it is not possible to automate the process.
  • For now I can not think of other areas that require improvement.
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SAP
  • ODS or the BI part of the ME needed more improvement.
  • The archiving job needs to be more robust.
  • Database indexes need to me more analyzed and setup as per the organization requirement.
  • SAP MII UI integration plugin to be developed for increased usability of this application.
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Likelihood to Renew
Oracle
After almost 5 years, we have a full control of this ERP System. We are able to implement new functionalities and modules without any major "consulting" expenses. As of today we are making almost 90% of the personalization/customization and implementation all in house. Once [it] is tuned, [it] keeps running very well with no major issues.
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SAP
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Usability
Oracle
The various forms - like order entry forms that allow the uses to enter sales orders and the ability to personalize the views based on end user needs - are easy to use and follow standard business processes. The new release has a big focus on usability and forms now have a familiar web look and feel which has increased usability considerably.
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SAP
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Reliability and Availability
Oracle
Because of the transactional nature of the system this software is available 24 X 7, and IT is responsible for making sure the system is available during normal business hours.
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SAP
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Performance
Oracle
The performance of the product is very good. Given the transactional nature of the system one of the key focus areas for IT is to make sure performance is not affected for internal reasons. This can also depend on the server configuration and setup. For example, performance on Exadata machine is far superior to other Linux custom systems that companies choose to deploy. In general though, as already pointed out, the platform is now very stable and has few bugs. Whenever there are any issues, the cause is usually customizations that we have made to the platform, rather than out-of-the-box standard functionality.
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SAP
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Support Rating
Oracle
In general, support has not been great - particularly standard (non premium) support . The main issue is that our IT staff has been using this platform for years and is very knowledgeable Whenever something goes wrong, we usually have a very precise idea of what the problem is. We are skilled at problem diagnosis. But the Oracle support process is very rigid and slow. Typically, we are required to go through a lengthy diagnosis process where they ask us multiple questions sometimes over several days and we are obliged to talk to different people with differing levels of knowledge. Since we already know what the problem is, we really just want a patch or a bug fix, but it takes days to get there instead of minutes. This can be very frustrating. This is a big part of the reason why we pay for premium support. But it's still a bit disappointing.
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SAP
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Online Training
Oracle
The instructors are usually precise and knowledgable, and it's convenient to take online classes whenever available any day of the year.
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SAP
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Implementation Rating
Oracle
The key success factors for the implementation was project management, in-house expertise in IT and time. The implementation process started with the initial evaluation with the initial upgrade on a test system and mapping out the gaps and requirements. We did work with Oracle to understand the new functionality R12 had to offer and did another upgrade and researched solutions. With the use of software development cycle procedures there were conference room pilots with IT, business users. We then refined the project plan to the core key details, performed mock go-live implementations and finally upgraded the software. Overall, this was a very successful process.
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SAP
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Alternatives Considered
Oracle
We explored Coupa, SAP, PeopleSoft, Salesforce. We chose Oracle based on value for money, features it offers and the easy availability of vast talent pool in the market. There are many trained Oracle product specialists readily available in the market. This helps us to tap experts when needed easily.
Coupa does not have a Project Accounting module. SAP was too expensive. PeopleSoft is more catered towards to human resources software, while Salesforce is for CRM.
Oracle has better financials and project portfolio management suite when compared to the competition and this what we needed.
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SAP
There was no product evaluated before using SAP ME. This replaced the custom homegrown MES system. The custom MES system had a lot of issues with the integration with SAP ERP. While evaluating the situation, SAP MII was the initial tool used to create the integration of the custom MES. We later found the fully functional tool SAP ME off the shelf had several functionalities out of the box.
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Scalability
Oracle
As I mentioned, it's a good tool but not the best
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SAP
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Return on Investment
Oracle
  • The tremendous amount of testing and time by the technical folks has a negative impact.
  • We find we need a tremendous amount of customization within the standard functionality having a negative impact.
  • Oracle certifications of related products such as the database, Demantra, JRE cause disruption having a negative impact
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SAP
  • Production house is more efficient now.
  • Less paperwork improved means less unproductive work on the shop floor.
  • Regulatory audits are more efficient.
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