SAP S/4HANA

"leading ERP with automation and intelligence"

Puntos a favor: Multiple deployment options
very well integrated
Facilitates rapid Business Process Transformation

Contras: the upgrades are a bit time consuming
application is bit rigid, but built rigid on purpose

"All in one ERP"

Puntos a favor: 1- Data processing speed is better than any other ERP with it's in memory Technology incorporated in the system
2- Very secure from user security setup to data encryption and patching.
3- easy to use interface for users
4- it comes with best practice for any business, so you only need to follow their defined process for your business
5- it has all the modules any business will need "Financials, auto payment, Purchasing, Material Management and Monitor, Treasury Management, online bidding and More.
6- Easily integrate with other systems if you have other operational Systems
7- it has Powerful HCM that manage Employee life cycle " Recruitment with auto screening and staging - onboarding - Transaction Payroll - Training and developing - Performance Management and succession planing
8- Reporting and Analysis tools to help evaluate company performance.
9- Budgeting and planning through out the System

Contras: 1- cost of acquiring the software or the needed hardware.
2- implementation time and cost are very high compared to other ERP systems
3- Maintenance contract cost is also high.
4- the need for a dedicated experienced team to Administrate the system
5- the need for the company to define all its processes before purchasing such huge system as you may spend more than what's actually needed for your operations to run

"Difficult and time consuming"

Comentarios: Good if you're willing to put in an extraordinary amount of effort to get it up and running

Puntos a favor: SAP will give you whatever information you want. However you want to look at your goods movements, storage, consumption, inventory adjustments, you name it, if you want to look at it, you can with SAP

Contras: It has a cumbersome GUI, it's not at all user-friendly, it's not intuitive, it's difficult and expensive to implement

"Solid product with many years in the market"

Comentarios: Overall It's been a good experience and you always keep learning more things about the software.

Puntos a favor: You can find a lot of information in the web and that it makes it easy to learn the basics. Also there is a strong community that can help you find answers. Also i like that is very logical and robust, so this facilitates queries from others sources to get data from SAP Tables.

Contras: You depend on customization to adapt the software to some business needs. Also it is very expensive so it cannot be implemented on small companies.

"Once you learn it, you will compare everything to it"

Puntos a favor: Extremely flexible and everything that you do is traceable and reversible. The things you can do with SD is only limited by your imagination and is very good for large volume processes.

Contras: Learning curve is very steep. You need to understand the back end configuration truly capitalize on its capabilities.