Trusty and flexible ERP System for large organizations
December 12, 2017

Trusty and flexible ERP System for large organizations

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Oracle eBusiness Suite

I have 2 roles where Oracle eBusiness Suite is used by my organization. Both are used as the main ERP system for the whole corporation. However, some business units (particularly recently acquired ones) do not use most of all modules of our Oracle EBS. It solves the business problem of having a single source of truth, particularly from a corporate view. It also allows the use of shared-services as shared-service team benefits from utilizing the same system as the business units that they are supporting.
  • Oracle EBS and SAP are main competitors for large Fortune 500 type clients. Oracle is better than SAP in terms of customizing or for non-standard businesses
  • Flexfield is something specific to Oracle EBS and allows customization in variables
  • Oracle owns PeopleSoft so migration from software like PeopleSoft to Oracle is easier
  • Oracle tends to be cheaper to implement vs SAP out of the box
  • User interface is still behind customer-based software like those by Google
  • New and smaller ERP systems tend to have better automation and GUI
  • Oracle EBS R12 still blends both webpage with Java interface from prior version
  • Single source of truth. Reduced pulling and consolidating from various systems into 1.
  • Standard interface for operating the company
  • Enabled in-depth analytics of financial information
  • SAP
As mentioned before, Oracle tends to be better for companies that require more customizing of the system to fit their business models whereas SAP is better for companies that require less customization or want to follow industry standard processes. I did not choose the Oracle eBusiness Suite system for the companies.
Oracle EBS is better suited for businesses with business models that are not manufacturing or standard. It is also made for large companies as its costs and upkeep requires more resources.

SAP is better suited for manufacturing companies (widget-in/widget-out companies). SAP is also more accounting friendly than Oracle to implement. Oracle EBS is stable, but its interface is archaic.

Oracle E-Business Suite Feature Ratings

Accounts payable
Not Rated
Accounts receivable
Not Rated
Global Financial Support
8
Primary and Secondary Ledgers
8
Journals and Reconciliations
8
Configurable Accounting
9
Standardized Processes
8
Billing Management
Not Rated
Cash and Asset Management
Not Rated
Travel & Expense Management
Not Rated
Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting
Not Rated
Period Close
8
Inventory tracking
Not Rated
Automatic reordering
Not Rated
Location management
Not Rated
Pricing
Not Rated
Order entry
Not Rated
Credit card processing
Not Rated
Cost of goods sold
Not Rated
Order Orchestration
Not Rated
Pay calculation
Not Rated
Benefit plan administration
Not Rated
Direct deposit files
Not Rated
Dashboards
8
Standard reports
8
Custom reports
7
Not Rated
API for custom integration
Not Rated
Plug-ins
Not Rated
Not Rated
Role-based user permissions
Not Rated
Single sign-on capability
Not Rated
Award Lifecycle Management
Not Rated
Budgeting and Forecasting
Not Rated
Project Costing
Not Rated
Cost Capture
Not Rated
Capital Project Management
Not Rated
Customer Contract Compliance
Not Rated
Project Revenue Recognition
Not Rated
Project Planning and Scheduling
Not Rated
Task Insight for Project Managers
Not Rated
Project Mobile Functionality
Not Rated
Definable Resource Pools
Not Rated
Bids Analyzed and Compared
Not Rated
Contract Authoring
Not Rated
Contract Repository
Not Rated
Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated
8
Supplier Management
Not Rated
Risk Repository
Not Rated
Control Management
Not Rated
Control Efficiency Assessments
Not Rated
Issue Detection
Not Rated
Remediation and Certification
Not Rated
Not Rated
Transportation Planning and Optimization
Not Rated
Transportation Execution Management
Not Rated
Trade and Customs Management
Not Rated
Fulfillment Management
Not Rated
Warehouse Workforce Management
Not Rated
Not Rated
Production Process Design
Not Rated
Production Management
Not Rated
Configuration Management
Not Rated
Work Execution
Not Rated
Manufacturing Costs
Not Rated
Not Rated
Forecasting
Not Rated
Inventory Planning
Not Rated
Performance Monitoring
Not Rated
Proposal Management
Not Rated
Product Master Data Management
Not Rated