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SAP Cloud ERP

Score8.6 out of 10

2,052 Reviews and Ratings

What is SAP Cloud ERP?

SAP Cloud ERP (SAP S/4HANA Cloud) is a modular ERP that enables users to run mission-critical operations in real time from anywhere, introduce new business models in any industry, and expand globally. SAP Cloud ERP is a SaaS product and can also be deployed in a hybrid landscape for quicker time to value.​

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SAP Cloud ERP is a foundational component of the SAP Business Suite, an integrated system of applications, data, and AI that connects and optimizes every part of a business, to enable smarter decisions, real-time insights, and intelligent automation.​

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the Order to Cash Dashboard - For the management of the order-to-cash process more efficiently across revenue streams and business models - including sales of physical and digital goods, services, subscriptions, projects, and bundles.
a Sales Management Overview - Helps ensure sales reps meet their goals with an overview of orders and key sales performance metrics, with status tracking for each order in real time for the early detection of potential issues.
the Purchasing Spend Dashboard - For weighing various aspects of purchasing spend through quick access to clear, complete, and real-time data, with less risk, and without opening different reports and transactions.
Operational Supplier Evaluation - Provides a transparent overview of suppliers. Users can approve the most reliable vendors and get the right mix to serve business needs while reducing risk.
Inventory Management - Provides visibility to manage supply chains, to mitigate risk, avoid unnecessary costs, maximize efficiency, and fulfill customer orders on time.
Inventory Processing - Enables real-time supply chain visibility and provides meaningful metrics, with customizable dashboards and reports that display real-time inventory that track the status of inbound and outbound deliveries.

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Top Performing Features

  • Travel & Expense Management

    Enter expenses from mobile devices, integrate credit card and travel booking, configure policy enforcement

    Category average: 7.1

  • Project Planning and Scheduling

    Interactive Gantt chart for establishing tasks, durations, and delivery schedule

    Category average: 7.3

  • Project Mobile Functionality

    Capabilities for project functions such as updating and monitoring task progress and timecards from mobile devices

    Category average: 6.8

Areas for Improvement

  • Custom reports

    Users can create custom reports.

    Category average: 7.3

  • Plug-ins

    A number of third-party plug-ins are available to expand the core functionality of the software.

    Category average: 7.4

  • Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting

    Control spending at any budget level or time interval

    Category average: 7.1

Modern ERP solution.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SAP Cloud ERP to streamline and automate business processes, including supply chain, procurement, and finance. Along with faster data processing, it offered modern technologies such as built-in AI, machine learning, and real-time data analytics. With its multi-currency and multi-language support, we can handle international operations smoothly.

Pros

  • t comes with built-in AI agent which reduces manual work by automating repetitive processes and provides faster insights
  • It offers speedier data processing along with real-time data analytics
  • You can choose suitable subscription plan as per business requirement and save money

Cons

  • Limited customization.
  • Costly than other solutions.

Return on Investment

  • Its joule agent helped us reduce manual work by automating repetitive processes.
  • With SAP Cloud ERP we able to handle international operations seamlessly.
  • It helped us save big upfront cost required for on-premise setup.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Dynamics GP

Other Software Used

Cisco AnyConnect, TeamViewer, SAP HANA Cloud

SAP ERP Review.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am a consultant for SAP and run my organization, KATBOTZ LLC.

Pros

  • FICO
  • Supply chain management and integration to FICO.
  • Trusted Analytics.

Cons

  • AI
  • Machine learning
  • Middleware

Return on Investment

  • Robust and trustworthy system.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Zoho Books

Other Software Used

Zoho Books

Robust ERP solution

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using SAP Cloud ERP for enterprise resource planning. By providing suite of integrated business applications it helped us to manage organization resources efficiently. It helped us streamline business processes and perform quick advanced analytics for important business decisions. Its periodical updates helped us stay competitive in a rapidly changing market.

Pros

  • It offers flexible subscription plans which lets you add or remove users, memory, storage as per requirement.
  • It can be deployed faster than on-premise setup.
  • It offers periodical innovation cycle which provides you early access to new features and technology

Cons

  • Implementation requires proper planning and execution
  • Limited customization
  • New users requires proper training and support

Return on Investment

  • Its flexible subscription feature helped us save significant amount of upfront cost
  • Its periodical innovation cycle helped us stay competitive in rapidly changing market
  • Its in-memory feature helped us in faster data processing, advanced analytics, and faster decision-making

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Dynamics GP

Other Software Used

Cisco AnyConnect, Cisco Duo, FortiClient, TeamViewer

Strong end-to-end ERP for Business Growth

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SAP Cloud ERP to manage IT hiring operations and for finance work like vendor payment management etc. It reduce manual efforts and streamline our invoicing.

Pros

  • To get real time reporting and monitor revenue and expenses
  • It streamline and automate vendor invoicing

Cons

  • Ai should be added so that more manual efforts can made automated
  • UI UX also is complicated and can be improve

Return on Investment

  • It has improved our operational efficiency and has reduce our manual efforts
  • Better visibility and clear reports that leads to more informed decisions

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Dynamics 365

Other Software Used

Apollo.io, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Adobe Acrobat, Lusha

S/4HANA Cloud - The Adoptable ERP

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for demonstrating it to our prospects and customers. It has the best practices incorporated for key LOBs and also available for multiple countries. It addresses the problems of long build cycles of on-prem systems and also keeping system updated is a pain, With a 6 month release cycles with improvements and also the simple steps to activate any new process, it has become easier for us to improve our overall demo capabilities and readiness and also shrink the sales/pre-sales cycles

Pros

  • The inbuilt collaboration with the SAP Help
  • Standard processes ready for adoption
  • Feasibility to build to extensions and keep core clean
  • Workflow

Cons

  • In some areas in the Logistics like - Bar code reading
  • Some features missing when compared to On-Prem/Private cloud to be incorporated
  • Inability to do a mass upload of pure Finance AP invoices. We had to build an extension for a customer

Return on Investment

  • Better visibility in SAP eco system and channels
  • Helped close some business with SAP Cloud service offerings
  • Ease of building skills and competency on Cloud

Usability

Alternatives Considered

SAP SuccessFactors HCM

Other Software Used

SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite, SAP Ariba, WalkMe