SAP: From simple sales to multi-level production products. It can handle it.
August 16, 2019

SAP: From simple sales to multi-level production products. It can handle it.

Jose Arreola | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

SAP Business One OnDemand

Modules Used

  • Accounting and Financials
  • Operations and Distribution

Overall Satisfaction with SAP Business One

It was being used by the whole organization before we limited the use to finance, accounting, and partial use by operations. It helps us record transactions across three entities and produce the data we need to produce consolidated financials.

Pros

  • Can handle complicated inventory structures that can support many selling models.
  • Has good internal controls that result in getting clean, uncorrupted data where it matters.
  • Can be highly customized to adapt to business needs.

Cons

  • The way SAP handles inter-company transactions is sub-par.
  • User errors are hard to correct once there is history on that error.
  • Allowed for growth among several e-commerce channels while accurately tracking a custom-made inventory structure.
  • Allowed for a centralized customer management space for customer service.
Yes - Phase 1: Planning the SAP/SellerCloud functional points of integration.
Phase 2: Developing and testing integration.
Phase 3: Executing the integration, one transaction type at a time.
Phase 4: Monitoring and auditing the information recorded.
These implementations are not easy. Even a standard implementation can be difficult. With a never-been-done-before implementation, the implementation team and the user team need to be thorough with planning, make a decision on key points, and stick to them before any design happens. Our biggest challenge was not from StellarOne, rather it was from the mid-implementation decisions from our internal team. StellarOne did a great job warning us, implementing our decision, and then helping us adjust our SAP to handle the new direction we took.
In our case, SAP worked great for handling our unique business needs. We were able to construct, deconstruct, and reassemble our products to meet consumer demand. SAP is great for companies that are looking for a centralized place to store their data, and provide reliable, audit-able, transaction data. For a small business with a simple selling structure, or with no inventory, SAP may offer too much for them to fully utilize it.

SAP Business One Feature Ratings

9.0
Accounts payable
10
Accounts receivable
8
Global Financial Support
5
Primary and Secondary Ledgers
10
Journals and Reconciliations
10
Configurable Accounting
10
Standardized Processes
10
8.0
Billing Management
10
Cash and Asset Management
8
Travel & Expense Management
10
Period Close
4
10.0
Inventory tracking
10
Location management
10
8.0
Order entry
9
Credit card processing
5
Cost of goods sold
10
Payroll Management ()
Not Rated
5.7
Dashboards
4
Standard reports
8
Custom reports
5
8.0
API for custom integration
8
10.0
Role-based user permissions
10
Single sign-on capability
10
Not Rated
Award Lifecycle Management
Not Rated
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
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
Not Rated
Bids Analyzed and Compared
Not Rated
Contract Authoring
Not Rated
Contract Repository
Not Rated
Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated
Not Rated
Supplier Management
Not Rated
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
Not Rated
Proposal Management
Not Rated
Product Master Data Management
Not Rated

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