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SAP Business ByDesign

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What is SAP Business ByDesign?

SAP Business ByDesign is SAP's cloud ERP suite offering, launched in 2007, designed for the SMB market. The product includes a broad range of capabilities including financials, human resources, sales, procurement, customer service, and supply chain. Business ByDesign is a…

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Popular Features

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  • Role-based user permissions (5)
    9.6
    96%
  • Custom reports (5)
    9.6
    96%
  • Standard reports (5)
    9.2
    92%
  • Dashboards (5)
    8.8
    88%
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What is SAP Business ByDesign?

SAP Business ByDesign is SAP's cloud ERP suite offering, launched in 2007, designed for the SMB market. The product includes a broad range of capabilities including financials, human resources, sales, procurement, customer service, and supply chain. Business ByDesign is a new platform, delivered…

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Product Demos

SAP Business ByDesign HR Demo

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SAP Business ByDesign Manufacturing

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SAP Business ByDesign Procure-to-Pay

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Intelligent Supplier Invoice Scanning SAP Business ByDesign Cloud ERP

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Features

Payroll Management

Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.

8.4
Avg 7.2

Customization

This addresses a company’s ability to configure the software to fit its specific use case and workflow.

9.2
Avg 7.2

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

9.3
Avg 8.1

Reporting & Analytics

Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.

9.2
Avg 7.0

General Ledger and Configurable Accounting

Financial management solution, including capabilities for general ledger and configurable accounting

8.7
Avg 7.6

Inventory Management

The ability to track and manage the flow of goods or materials into and out of an inventory.

9.1
Avg 7.9

Order Management

The ability to process orders, and track them from quote to cash.

8.5
Avg 7.8

Subledger and Financial Process

Revenue management solution including capabilities for subledgers and financial processes

9.2
Avg 7.4

Project Financial Management

Project financial management solution including capabilities for project budgeting, cost control, billing and contract management.

9.2
Avg 7.6

Project Execution Management

Project execution management solution including capabilities for project scheduling, resource management, and team member task management.

8.3
Avg 6.8

Grants Management

Grants management solution for higher education, public sector, or non-profits with capabilities for managing financial awards for program and project funding

10
Avg 7.6

Procurement

Procurement management solution with capabilities for sourcing, contracting, procure-to-pay and supplier management

8
Avg 7.0

Logistics

Logistics solution with capabilities for transportation planning, transportation execution, trade compliance, customs management, warehouse management and warehouse workforce management.

9.2
Avg 6.9

Manufacturing

Manufacturing solution for managing manufacturing processes and costs.

9
Avg 7.5

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Planning solution with capabilities for planning, performance monitoring, change responses and execution.

8.6
Avg 7.2
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Product Details

What is SAP Business ByDesign?

SAP Business ByDesign (ByD) is a cloud enterprise resource planning software (Cloud ERP) that is sold and operated as software as a service (SaaS) by SAP SE. It is designed for small to medium-sized enterprises as well as subsidiary businesses. The software is designed to provide business processes across application areas from financials to human resources with embedded business analytics, mobility, e-learning, and support.

SAP Business ByDesign is built on the principles of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). The underlying technology is leveraging SAP's in-memory HANA database.

A comprehensive set of prepackaged integrations as well as SOAP and oData webservices ensure easy integrations to other SAP or non-SAP applications.

The main application areas:

  • Financial Management
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Project Management and Professional Service Automation
  • Supplier Relationship Management and Procurement
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Human Resource Management
  • Fund and Grant Management
  • Business Analytics
  • Executive support and compliance management.

ByDesign is deployed in 144 countries and supports 12 languages.

SAP Business ByDesign is available for a monthly software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscription, based on a base package, user types, and number of users. The price includes hosting, unlimited storage, access to all application areas (see above), support etc.

Updates are delivered automatically four times a year with no IT staff required.

SAP Business ByDesign Features

General Ledger and Configurable Accounting Features

  • Supported: Accounts payable
  • Supported: Accounts receivable
  • Supported: Global Financial Support
  • Supported: Primary and Secondary Ledgers
  • Supported: Journals and Reconciliations
  • Supported: Configurable Accounting
  • Supported: Standardized Processes

Subledger and Financial Process Features

  • Supported: Billing Management
  • Supported: Cash and Asset Management
  • Supported: Travel & Expense Management
  • Supported: Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting
  • Supported: Period Close

Inventory Management Features

  • Supported: Inventory tracking
  • Supported: Automatic reordering
  • Supported: Location management

Order Management Features

  • Supported: Pricing
  • Supported: Order entry
  • Supported: Credit card processing
  • Supported: Cost of goods sold
  • Supported: Order Orchestration

Reporting & Analytics Features

  • Supported: Dashboards
  • Supported: Standard reports
  • Supported: Custom reports

Customization Features

  • Supported: API for custom integration
  • Supported: Plug-ins

Security Features

  • Supported: Role-based user permissions
  • Supported: Single sign-on capability
  • Supported: Multi-factor authentication
  • Supported: User-level audit trail

Grants Management Features

  • Supported: Award Lifecycle Management

Project Financial Management Features

  • Supported: Budgeting and Forecasting
  • Supported: Project Costing
  • Supported: Cost Capture
  • Supported: Capital Project Management
  • Supported: Customer Contract Compliance
  • Supported: Project Revenue Recognition

Project Execution Management Features

  • Supported: Project Planning and Scheduling
  • Supported: Task Insight for Project Managers
  • Supported: Project Mobile Functionality
  • Supported: Definable Resource Pools

Procurement Features

  • Supported: Bids Analyzed and Compared
  • Supported: Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated
  • Supported: Supplier Management

Logistics Features

  • Supported: Warehouse Workforce Management

Manufacturing Features

  • Supported: Production Process Design
  • Supported: Production Management
  • Supported: Configuration Management
  • Supported: Work Execution
  • Supported: Manufacturing Costs

Supply Chain Features

  • Supported: Forecasting
  • Supported: Inventory Planning
  • Supported: Performance Monitoring

Additional Features

  • Supported: Lead and Opportunity Management
  • Supported: Quality Management
  • Supported: After Sales Service

SAP Business ByDesign Screenshots

Screenshot of With the embedded analytics of SAP Business ByDesign this is easily possible for key users or end users to define dashboards that contain tailored reports and KPIs for their roleScreenshot of Screenshot of SAP Business ByDesign comes with many reports pre-delivered by SAP. Customers can easily create additional reports or KPIsScreenshot of For each business document in ByDesign you can open the document flow, which shows you in a graphical the predecessor and successor business docuemnts as well as any associated accounting documents. This shows at what point you are in the entire business process.Screenshot of SAP Business ByDesign includes a Project Management module that is integrated with CRM to sell and bill projects, with HR to staff projects, and with SCM and SRM for procurement.Screenshot of The Financial Closing business scenario helps you to perform financial period-end closing activities to ensure correct financial statements, such as Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Cash Flow Statement. The Closing Cockpit helps to minimize the risk of missing important steps or incorrect timing.Screenshot of SAP Business Bydesign is based on the most modern business process platform in the industry. The underlying functionality allows business users to configure and adapt the solution to their unique and changing needs – without requiring extensive, expensive IT resourcesScreenshot of SAP Business ByDesign provides multiple mobile Apps e.g. for time recording, expense recording, manager approvals etc. One App is the Project Cockpit that helps project managers to keep track of important tasks and to collaborate with the project team

SAP Business ByDesign Videos

See how Business ByDesign in combination with SAP Analytics cloud and SAP Hybris Revenue Cloud supports efficient decision making and implementation of new business models
3rd edition of the comprehensive video training for SAP’s integrated cloud suite. The video training provides a broad understanding about SAP's Business ByDesign solution. Starting with the SAP's motivation to become a cloud player and an introduction to cloud computing the v...
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3rd edition of the comprehensive video training for SAP’s integrated cloud suite. The video training provides a broad understanding about SAP's Business ByDesign solution. Starting with the SAP's motivation to become a cloud player and an introduction to cloud computing the v...
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Watch Customer Testimonial Overview Videos - Overview Hear from a variety from customers, how SAP Business ByDesign is helping them to digitize their business

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SAP Business ByDesign Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesAustralia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom (UK), United States (US), Albania (Partner localized), Algeria (Partner localized), Bahrain (Partner localized), Belarus (Partner localized), Bosnia (Partner localized), Bulgaria (Partner localized), Chile (Partner localized), Columbia (Partner localized), Costa Rica (Partner localized), Croatia (Partner localized), Czech Repubilc (Partner localized), Ecuador (Partner localized), El Salvador (Partner localized), Guatemala (Partner localized), Honduras (Partner localized), Kazakhstan (Partner localized), Kuwait (Partner localized), Lebanon (Partner localized), Montenegro (Partner localized), Morocco (Partner localized), Egypt (Partner localized), Oman (Partner localized), Panama (Partner localized), Peru (Partner localized), Poland (Partner localized), Qatar (Partner localized), Romania (Partner localized), Serbia (Partner localized), Slovenia (Partner localized), Sweden (Partner localized), Ukraine (Partner localized), Thailand (Partner localized)
Supported LanguagesEnglish, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Dutch, simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Hebrew

Frequently Asked Questions

SAP Business ByDesign is SAP's cloud ERP suite offering, launched in 2007, designed for the SMB market. The product includes a broad range of capabilities including financials, human resources, sales, procurement, customer service, and supply chain. Business ByDesign is a new platform, delivered entirely through a SaaS model, with functionality that overlaps somewhat with BusinessOne, which is also an SMB product, although not a true SaaS product.

NetSuite ERP, Sage Intacct, and Workday Financial Management are common alternatives for SAP Business ByDesign.

Reviewers rate Automatic reordering highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of SAP Business ByDesign are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

SAP Business ByDesign Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)10%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)80%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)10%
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Reviews and Ratings

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Henry Winchonlong | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
SAP Business ByDesign has improved our operations decreasing the time to close accounting periods and monthly reports. Mainly we implemented SAP ByDesign to replace old legacy systems. Now, we are working on our finance and logistics processes integrated and avoiding reprocess and lack of information. Our users are increasing their skills from day to day.
  • I like the ease of use and the implementation methodology.
  • With SAP Business ByDesign you can integrate other systems with Web Services, and data technology to get information easy and fast.
  • SAP Business ByDesign includes an Analytics Module to create new reports in regards to your needs.
  • Regarding the functionality, SAP Business ByDesign can improve some logistics functions and additionally should improve the data entries to update exchange rates.
  • About the licensing, there are many types of licenses and it is very confusing to distinguish them.
  • The mobile apps are confusing and they do not have the same functions as the web version.
SAP Business ByDesign is well suited for companies of services or companies that work on projects. For instance, the procure-to-pay scenario is the most useful and is very convenient for this kind of company. For some productive companies it can be complicated to use because it's difficult to connect the productive processes with sales processes.
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting (7)
78.57142857142857%
7.9
Accounts payable
80%
8.0
Accounts receivable
80%
8.0
Global Financial Support
80%
8.0
Primary and Secondary Ledgers
80%
8.0
Journals and Reconciliations
70%
7.0
Configurable Accounting
80%
8.0
Standardized Processes
80%
8.0
Subledger and Financial Process (3)
76.66666666666667%
7.7
Billing Management
70%
7.0
Cash and Asset Management
80%
8.0
Period Close
80%
8.0
Inventory Management (2)
80%
8.0
Inventory tracking
80%
8.0
Location management
80%
8.0
Order Management (4)
80%
8.0
Pricing
80%
8.0
Order entry
80%
8.0
Cost of goods sold
80%
8.0
Order Orchestration
80%
8.0
Payroll Management
N/A
N/A
Reporting & Analytics (3)
80%
8.0
Dashboards
70%
7.0
Standard reports
80%
8.0
Custom reports
90%
9.0
Customization (2)
80%
8.0
API for custom integration
80%
8.0
Plug-ins
80%
8.0
Security (2)
90%
9.0
Role-based user permissions
90%
9.0
Single sign-on capability
90%
9.0
Grants Management
N/A
N/A
Project Financial Management (5)
80%
8.0
Project Costing
80%
8.0
Cost Capture
80%
8.0
Capital Project Management
80%
8.0
Customer Contract Compliance
80%
8.0
Project Revenue Recognition
80%
8.0
Project Execution Management (3)
80%
8.0
Project Planning and Scheduling
80%
8.0
Task Insight for Project Managers
80%
8.0
Project Mobile Functionality
80%
8.0
Procurement (3)
80%
8.0
Bids Analyzed and Compared
80%
8.0
Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated
80%
8.0
Supplier Management
80%
8.0
Risk Management
N/A
N/A
Logistics (1)
80%
8.0
Warehouse Workforce Management
80%
8.0
Manufacturing (5)
80%
8.0
Production Process Design
80%
8.0
Production Management
80%
8.0
Configuration Management
80%
8.0
Work Execution
80%
8.0
Manufacturing Costs
80%
8.0
Supply Chain (3)
80%
8.0
Forecasting
80%
8.0
Inventory Planning
80%
8.0
Performance Monitoring
80%
8.0
Product Lifecycle Management
N/A
N/A
  • Integrated processes, sales, logistics, and finance
  • Control of accounts payable from purchase orders placed before
  • Solving 80% of incidents reported in less than 24 hours
SAP Business ByDesign has all functionalities that other systems have and more. Additionally, SAP Business ByDesign can be used from activation. The processes in this system are ready to use. SAP Business ByDesign only needs a few initial configurations to work. SAP Business ByDesign is a cloud solution and has multi-tenancy architecture.
75
Mainly, the SAP Business ByDesign users represent several logistics functions to control material input and output from warehouses and finance functions to manage accounts for multiple operating units and business areas, currencies, and reporting standards. The cash flow management to use transactions of customers and suppliers data to get real-time visibility into our company cash position. Additionally, we have purchase orders approvers, requesters of shopping carts, buyers, subcontractors, and IT members to support our business users.
3
We have system analysts to support internal requirements, and to resolve incidents reported by end-users or functional users. Additionally, we have a business analyst to implement new business cases over the main business configuration. We mainly require the following skills: expertise on SAP Buisiness ByDesign, creativity to propose several options to solve user requirements.
  • Procure to pay
  • Budget management
  • Cash flow and liquidity management
  • Assets Management
  • Closing period o Cokpit
  • We have implemented a decision tree in SAP Business ByDesing to manage several levels of purchase orders approval due to internal policies. This implemented way is based on standard document approval of SAP ByDesing.
  • Business Analytics using Microsoft Excel through a plugin to connect directly and easily. This complement is helping to our end-users to extract data to make complex reports.
  • We are using standard SAP Business ByDesign web services to integrate external applications.
  • We are going to use the services module to implement service business processes to include the request to resolve, and service orders.
  • We are considering to use Project management to manage the project activities and integrate all stakeholders such as project managers, project planners, buyers, team leaders, operators, and subcontractors.
  • We also are planning to integrate with other external applications that support corrective and preventive maintenance.
We have recently renewed our licenses after the first year operating on SAP Business ByDesign and we are thinking to extend more time because the system gives us all functions according to our needs, our business model, and our operations. Our users are satisfied, and they are requesting more implementations on this system. They know that the system is permanently upgrading, and it is a good sign from SAP to improve their skills and to continue working on the SAP Business ByDesign system.
Yes
We replaced some applications that they were not integrated with, and they were doing separate functions individually with each other. The first one, CODA System that it had all finance functions. CODA supported all accounting operations, closing accounting periods, making financial reports, and treasury functions. The BPCS system was another system that was replaced by the new system. BPCS supported logistics operations and purchasing operations. Both replaced systems were not connected, and their documents needed to conciliate and apply additional manual controls. Finally, we had the budgeting system that also was integrated with the other systems.
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Vendor Reputation
We made the decision based on the fact that our legacy systems had a long time without support and they had not updated, were out-of-date and obsolete and did not support the growth of the company and did not respond adequately to regulatory changes. Additionally, to resolve the problems produced for the lack of systems integration.
If I had to do it again, I would implement more workshops to review each system module to ensure its functionality and its feasibility to use in the feature, integrate all key users that are stakeholders in each workshop and take the feedback.
I would request a demo environment or a test tenant to get better use cases or real cases. Also, to estimate the time of the activities and avoid delays during the project execution.
  • Third-party professional services
We implemented SAP Business ByDesign with Third-party professional services. We chose the Seidor company to implement this ERP system. Seidor company is a global implementor and they are SAP Partner for SAP Business ByDesign around the world. Despite some delay during the implementation project we went live in January 2018 according to the last Steering Committee celebrated in December 2017.
Yes
The implementation project of SAP Business ByDesign was broken into two phases, the first phase had as implementation scope the processes of Finance, Logistics, Services, and Localization system and the second phase had as implementation scope Project Management processes. The project phases included the following stages regarding the SAP Cloud Methodology: Prepare, Realize, Verify, Launch, and Support. The Prepare stage allowed us to align the company processes to the SAP Business ByDesign standard processes and its business scenarios. The Realize stage identified gaps and information needed to configure the system. The Verify stage permitted us to execute the unit tests and integrals tests. The Launch stage allowed us to execute Data Migration and prepare the production environment to go live.
Change management was a major issue with the implementation
Firstly, we need to structure a strong management team to monitor the project activities, to track the risks, and to check the quality criteria.
Secondly, It is very important to define and formalize the change management procedure.
Finally, we need to support the project activities on a project management system to avoid duplicate information, to track the activities and to make project reports on time.
  • The Realize stage identified several gaps that they could not implement. This issue did not allow us to implement some modules of the system.
  • Some features the Localization Add-on were not ready to work.
  • We encountered differences in functionality in relation to what we had reviewed previously.
I recommend implementing all workshops during the ERP selection that you need to know very well about the ERP software. It allows us to gather information to accurate the plan of the project implementation. Additionally, we must reach the high-level commitment to achieve the main goals, to define the RACI matrix and communicate to all project stakeholders.
The Business ByDesign support is stablished since you contract the service with SAP. SAP resolves according to the service level agreement. Currently, we continue with the service and we are using the support channels available. We are receiving the support. The SAP support gets an incident and after that, they contact us to resolve the incident, if necessary, they set the meeting to understand it or we explain the incident.
No
We have received several times exceptional support, for instance, the first time, they took remote control of our workstations to replicate the incident to realize the problem. That time, the support resolved a complicated issue with our configuration. At another time, they have communicated by call-conference to indicate the steps to solve the incident.
  • To create documents for AP and AR such as customer invoice documents, and supplier invoice documents
  • To create shopping carts from requesters
  • To execute reports from the Web application and from the Excel Add-in
  • Closing periods or called Cockpit function too
  • To combine existing data sources to produce new and create enhanced reports.
  • To define the organizational structure to start the system implementation.
Yes
The mobile interface has been enhancing to offer more view of information. The mobile interface also has been changing its look and feel according to the SAP Fiori as the new Standard UI of the SAP system. The mobile interface is iOS and Android compatibility. This version for the mobile phone has been adding functions and dashboards to check key performance indicators or KPI like you can see over the web version.
Because SAP Business ByDesign allows us to improve our work, reduce the operational steps, implement audit controls, allows us found standard reports or it allows us to create new ones if you need more than the exists are enough for your work or your needs. Overall, SAP Business ByDesign allows us to standardize our operations, enhance our work, improve our skills, work over a web environment or mobile interface.
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