PeopleSoft vs SAP ERP

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Score 7.9 out of 10

Based on 201 reviews and ratings

Score 8.1 out of 10

Based on 260 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

PeopleSoft

8.9

SAP ERP

7.6

Pay calculation

9.5

5.0

Benefit plan administration

8.1

8.3

Direct deposit files

9.1

8.3

Salary revision and increment management

8.7

7.9

Reimbursement management

9.0

8.4

PeopleSoft

8.0

SAP ERP

8.0

API for custom integration

8.2

7.5

Plug-ins

7.9

8.4

PeopleSoft

9.3

SAP ERP

9.0

Single sign-on capability

9.3

8.9

Role-based user permissions

9.2

9.1

PeopleSoft

8.8

SAP ERP

8.0

Dashboards

9.4

7.8

Standard reports

8.9

8.2

Custom reports

8.2

8.0

PeopleSoft

8.1

SAP ERP

8.3

Accounts payable

8.5

8.2

Accounts receivable

8.6

8.0

Global Financial Support

8.3

—

Primary and Secondary Ledgers

8.1

—

Intercompany Accounting

8.7

—

Localizations

6.6

—

Journals and Reconciliations

8.3

—

Enterprise Accounting

7.8

—

Configurable Accounting

9.1

—

Centralized Rules Framework

6.9

—

Standardized Processes

8.9

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PeopleSoft

7.7

SAP ERP

8.0

Inventory tracking

8.4

8.5

Automatic reordering

7.7

Location management

7.4

7.9

Manufacturing module

7.3

8.0

PeopleSoft

7.2

SAP ERP

8.0

Pricing

8.1

8.3

Order entry

7.9

8.0

Credit card processing

8.6

7.4

Cost of goods sold

6.4

8.3

Order Orchestration

6.4

—

End-to-end order visibility

7.0

—

Order exception Resolution

6.1

—

PeopleSoft

8.0

SAP ERP

—

Automated Invoice Processing

8.5

—

Shared Services Payments

8.5

—

Billings Management

8.2

—

Customer Receipt Applications

8.1

—

Customer Collections

7.6

—

Revenue Recognition

8.3

—

Cash Management

8.6

—

Asset Management

8.0

—

Travel & Expense Management

8.3

—

Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting

7.7

—

Period Close

7.4

—

Transactions Tax

8.7

—

Subledger Reconciliations

7.2

—

3rd Party Accounting Systems

7.5

—

PeopleSoft

7.3

SAP ERP

—

Budgeting and Forecasting

7.4

—

Project Costing

7.7

—

Cost Capture

8.1

—

Capital Project Management

8.0

—

Customer Invoicing

9.0

—

Customer Contract Compliance

6.4

—

Project Revenue Recognition

6.6

—

Project Financial Performance Analysis

7.3

—

Project Financials Dashboard

7.0

—

Real-time Financial Reporting

7.0

—

Embedded Business Intelligence

6.9

—

Project Planning Collaboration

6.4

—

PeopleSoft

6.3

SAP ERP

—

Project Planning and Scheduling

6.4

—

Project Manager Dashboard

7.1

—

Resource Manager Dashboard

7.2

—

Task Insight for Project Managers

6.1

—

Project Manager Mobile Functionality

5.8

—

Team Member Task Collaboration

5.8

—

Team Member Mobile Functionality

5.2

—

Project Candidate Search

4.5

—

Project Candidate Comparison and Analysis

6.4

—

Defineable Resource Pools

7.0

—

Defineable Resource Pools

6.9

—

Talent Profiles

6.7

—

Real-Time Project Reporting

6.2

—

Absence Management

6.3

—

Product Lifecycle Management

7.4

—

PeopleSoft

7.5

SAP ERP

—

Award Lifecycle Management

7.9

—

Spending Control

7.6

—

Indirect Cost Management

6.3

—

Billing

8.3

—

PeopleSoft

7.7

SAP ERP

—

Sourcing Team Collaboration

8.4

—

Sourcing Analysis

7.3

—

Bids Analyzed and Compared

6.6

—

Catalog Shopping E-Commerce for Employees

7.7

—

Contract Authoring

5.8

—

Contract Compliance Management

6.7

—

Contract History

7.9

—

Contract Renewal Automation

7.2

—

Contract Repository

7.4

—

Contract Standardization and Enforcement

7.7

—

Electronic Signatures

8.6

—

Invoice Automated Matching

9.5

—

Purchasing Risk and Compliance Management

6.9

—

Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated

9.3

—

Spend Compliance Management

8.0

—

Supplier Assessment

9.1

—

Supplier Communication and Collaboration

7.7

—

Supplier Management

7.5

—

Supplier Portal

7.2

—

PeopleSoft

7.3

SAP ERP

—

Risk Repository

7.3

—

Control Management

7.3

—

Control Mapping

7.3

—

Control Efficiency Assessments

7.3

—

Automated Control Assessments

7.3

—

Assessment Capture

7.3

—

Issue Detection

7.3

—

Automatic Notification

7.3

—

Remediation and Certification

7.3

—

PeopleSoft

5.5

SAP ERP

—

Transportation Planning and Optimization

5.5

—

Transportation Sourcing Management

4.5

—

Transportation Process Integration

5.5

—

Transportation Execution Management

6.4

—

Freight Payment Automation

6.4

—

Trade Management

6.4

—

Trade Regulatory Compliance Management

6.4

—

Customs Entry Management

5.5

—

Customs Document Management

6.4

—

Customs Document Collaboration

5.5

—

Fulfillment Management

4.5

—

Inventory Visibility

4.5

—

Warehouse Workforce Management

4.5

—

PeopleSoft

7.7

SAP ERP

—

Production Process Design

7.8

—

Supply Chain Business Flows

7.8

—

Production Management

8.3

—

Contracted Manufacturing Management

7.6

—

Configuration Management

7.6

—

Work Definition

7.6

—

Work Execution

7.3

—

Advanced Fulfillment

6.8

—

Manufacturing Costs

8.1

—

PeopleSoft

7.5

SAP ERP

—

Forecasting

8.0

—

Inventory Planning

7.7

—

Multi-tier Supply Chain Planning

6.7

—

Performance Monitoring

7.7

—

PeopleSoft

6.1

SAP ERP

—

Ideation Management

6.4

—

Requirements Management

5.5

—

Proposal Management

5.5

—

Innovation Portfolio Management

6.4

—

Product Master Data Management

6.4

—

Vendor Portal

5.5

—

Project Portfolio Management

7.3

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Pros

PeopleSoft Financials does a great job of delivering detailed payroll information.
It is great for companies that require complex payroll accounting
It has a very easy interface for pulling payroll information from the system
Payroll entry and payroll changes are easily made due to its ease of use for users

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Employee in Finance and Accounting

Performing Arts Company, 51-200 employees

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Integration of physical inventory movements and financial results
Financial planning reports
Product costing modules and analysis

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Analyst in Finance and Accounting

Machinery Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

PeopleSoft is owned by Oracle so any issues or bugs need to be logged through a service request (SR) via My Oracle Support. It is cumbersome to log a SR and support that is provided isn't always helpful, particularly since Oracle will not help with any customization issues. Typically lots of trace files or documentations are required before a support engineer can provide relevant input.
Users often got frustrated with pages that weren't as user friendly as it could be. Users want similar experience of easily navigating through Amazon web sites, but many components/pages in PeopleSoft requires user training. Then again, the ERP system is technical in nature so it shouldn't be like buying books on Amazon...
I mentioned the many ways to perform data integration, but web service route takes a highly skilled technical developer to do it well. There are so many pieces to the puzzle that it can be quite challenging. Also, using RESTful web service is limited by PS not supporting OAuth authentication protocol.

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Employee in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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In our case, the support department is a little slow to meet important requests.
When the user does not remember the password, our recovery option is only the technical support department. Some recovery option by E-mail would be excellent.
Transactions to generate monthly reports over time have become slower. We need debugging of this. Customers are growing and transactions equal, there should be some way to optimize the process and for these reports to not take so long to generate.
The data export formats are of old software. They should consider updating the current formats to the new ones.

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Alexis Correa

Profesional de Experiencia del Cliente

MiNuevoSitio.comLogistics and Supply Chain, 201-500 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

PeopleSoft 9.1

Based on 2 answers

PeopleSoft financials seems to always find ways to improve and upgrade. PeopleSoft does a good job keeping up with technology

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Christina O'Steen

Coordinator of Office Services

Georgia College and State UniversityEducation Management, 501-1000 employees

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SAP ERP 8.6

Based on 4 answers

The cost of SAP as an ERP is quite high and the switching costs associated with ERP systems are even higher. That being said moving from one ERP to another only happens once in a great while for large organizations. Those switching costs include retraining, IT hardware requirements, outside consultants and more

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Todd Bellamy

Systems Analyst

MATECH Solutions (Machining Technologies, Inc.)Food Production, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

PeopleSoft 8.2

Based on 1 answer

PeopleSoft financial is user friendly and once you get the hang of it is very useful in everyday accounting

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Christina O'Steen

Coordinator of Office Services

Georgia College and State UniversityEducation Management, 501-1000 employees

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SAP ERP 8.0

Based on 1 answer

Once you learn how to use SAP ERP, it becomes a powerful tool for analysis and inventory management.

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Analyst in Finance and Accounting

Machinery Company, 10,001+ employees

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Support

PeopleSoft 8.2

Based on 1 answer

Because when I have a problem, our staff is well trained and they can answer most of my questions on the first call

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Christina O'Steen

Coordinator of Office Services

Georgia College and State UniversityEducation Management, 501-1000 employees

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SAP ERP 3.0

Based on 1 answer

No answer on this topic is available.

Implementation

PeopleSoft 9.1

Based on 1 answer

I wasn't part of the implementation

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Christina O'Steen

Coordinator of Office Services

Georgia College and State UniversityEducation Management, 501-1000 employees

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SAP ERP 3.0

Based on 1 answer

No answer on this topic is available.

Alternatives Considered

Both about the same I like the new interface of PeopleSoft

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Christina O'Steen

Coordinator of Office Services

Georgia College and State UniversityEducation Management, 501-1000 employees

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SAP is greatly superior to JD Edwards. JD Edwards was a manual, clunky system that didn't work well with other locations that were using SAP.

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Analyst in Finance and Accounting

Machinery Company, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

With the ease of using reports, I have been able to manage accounts by categories increasing my awareness for profitability.
I would like to have a clearer system of entering time/materials into the system. Something to track outside costs before an invoice has hit as a notification would be awesome.

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Laura Leistikow

Production Coordinator

Mundocom1001-5000 employees

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Positive impact is one stop ERP solution for all HCM needs
Negative impact is ECC has no place for big data, analytics, user friendly Talent system unless you integrate it with SAP SF
Portal is out dated and needs more fancy features
Workflow configuration needs simplified approach

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Verified User

Program Manager in Corporate

Computer Software Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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