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SAP Business ByDesign is a software as a service (SaaS) enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Acknowledging the increasing adoption of SaaS solutions, especially in the middle market, SAP made the bold decision to develop an...
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- Company size: 201-500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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All in One
Scalable Implementations ensuring happy clients.
Pros
1)Great Interface, Amazing Accessibility and Document Flow from one module to another. 2)Scalable to all types of small to mid-size organizations having 1-1000 employees.
3)Easy to use and learn and has provisions with Work Centers for CRM, SCM, FICO, PMO and HRM modules.
Cons
1)Limited ability when it comes to specific module based requirements since it tends to be a generic all in one solution.
2) Has a very limited presence under the SAP Umbrella and very few people talk about it.
- Industry: Apparel & Fashion
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Extensive, all encompassing business ERP system
Implementation of SAP Bydesign across our companies means we have one system across all companies so reporting can be on a local or global level. The gold partner support is excellent and ongoing system improvements good.
Pros
Reliable cloud based adaptable ERP software that is ideal for multi-company, multi-country, multi-curency business management. Out teams accross the globe can access live data across warehouses, production, logistics, sales and finance. Enable as much or as little as required in implementation. Web services enable it to talk to other systems if needed.
Cons
Occasional minor back end issues take some time to resolve if they are not business critical. The CRM module and app are not user friendly and not feature rich like some other systems avaliable. We have integrated our SAP Bydesyn with Hubspot CRM
Reasons for Choosing SAP Business ByDesign
We use Sage Accounts, Orderwise Stock Management and Goldmine CRM, and had to have separate systems in different countries. We needed a multi currency ERP solution, we looked at 5 systems and settled on SAP BydesignReasons for Switching to SAP Business ByDesign
Had all the functionality and was suitable for an SME, whereas most of the other multi currency systems were too large, and would have cost too much and taken too long in implementation.- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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One of the best ERP system for small and medium companies.
My overall experience with Business ByDesign has been really great. The platform lives up to its expectations and has the greatest features to manager a growing company that might outgrow other systems they use.
Pros
What I love about this product is that you can customize the platform to your company and industry specifications and have cloud benefits.
Cons
There is not really much I do not like about the system. Sometimes support can be slow depending on the vendor and support team/system you use.
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- Industry: Logistics & Supply Chain
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Do not even think about implementing this without the proper staff, who are also trained
I do not like it and find it difficult to work with.
Pros
SAP is very robust and I suspect with proper training and the correct implementation team, it would really help with the everyday functioning of the company.
Cons
I am not a fan of SAP BYD because it is cumbersome and difficult to use without intense proper training. It is European based and not intuitive at all, so those combined make it difficult to find what you need and get it to work correctly for you. I'm not shy about trying things on my own, but I find myself giving up and reaching out to our AMS team, which results in charges for help.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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The best choice for mid-size companies that looks for a complete suite in the Cloud
This is our management system
We recommend it for every company that looks for multi-"all" ERP from 10 to 999 users
Pros
The product is very easy to use. SAP provides mobile applications ready to be used
All the functions that a midsize company needs are pre-set in the solution : project management, contract management, field service operations, manufacturing, acounting, finance, builtin analytics, AP, AR, inventory, crm, srm, supply chain. A great vision, well packaged product, scalable from 10 to 999 users.
It is more than robust, stable and there from 12+ years, benefiting from 42+ years of SAP experience in ERP Suites
Cons
A tighter integration with other SAP products but now we can use SAP CLOUD PLATFORM to connect everything and use RPA functions.
Reasons for Switching to SAP Business ByDesign
Robustness, ease of use, functionalities, SAP CLOUD, SAP HANA capabilities- Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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SAP Business One for Our Organization
Early, we didn't have a method to monitor the cost of production, the cost for repair and material movement. Also, there was no link between the transactions.
Pros
This is the best ERP system which I used in my life. There are a lot of unique features in SAP. Among them, the Relationship Map and Query Generator are the best part I like to use. Via relationship, very much easy to get the idea of the transaction because it shows the links between the transaction. It easily gets the decision.
Cons
In Production, there is no way to get item-wise cost for the items.
Reasons for Switching to SAP Business ByDesign
It cost effictive and attractive features in it.- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Cloud based accounts payable software
Pros
As a software developer for me SAP Business ByDesign is the most easy to use and straightforward to integrate accounts payable software in the market.
Cons
SAP Business ByDesign is quite fine in terms of the features they offer however they need to increase the quaility of their technical documentation.
- Industry: Human Resources
- Company size: 5,001-10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Simple compared to normal sap software
It’s good but need to improve on performance and features.
Pros
Easy to configure,has a lot of applications.intutive user interface.this has got good finance features.
Cons
It cannot be compared with sap on premise ,way less features and has a small scope compared to it.other cloud solutions are having better performance then this.
- Industry: Banking
- Company size: 1,001-5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Best Reasource Management Soluction
I have been working with SAP resource management tool more than 3 years and this is one of the best employee performance managing tool I ever seen.
Pros
Each employee can simply input their tasks according to there JD and describe their performance during the year. Also individual can be rated to each task and more visible in line manager review.
System can access from any ware and easy to implement.
Cons
When comes to year end review process, most employees are engaging with SAP system and some times we experiencing delay response. This may be connectivity issue (bandwidth).
Other than that, System is very user friendly and easy to access.
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Company size: 201-500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Good system - hard to use
good system if you know how to use it
Pros
Good functionality
logical system
good documentation for support
good best practice standard processes
Cons
difficult to use
lack of expertise on how to use this system in the market
rigid - difficult to do customization
- Industry: Aviation & Aerospace
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Nice but could be improved!
I enjoy using SAP I feel very confident with it
Pros
I like that there are so many functionalities. It’s great for financial analysis
SAP ERP is a very comprehensive tool that is very helpful to my companies business to achieve best financial and customer support results
Cons
This software needs more shortcuts
There also needs to be a way to pull more than. 1 invoice at the time
This part is such a waste of time
- Industry: Building Materials
- Company size: 5,001-10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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SAP as a long relationship
It's kinda like a relationship. First you are amazed on how complete it is and how it can fill your needs. Then your needs evolve and it dosen't evolve quite on par with you. Then you have to do a lot of work and money in order to be able to do have it do everything you need, Finally, you stick with it because you are dependent on it but you basically have to do everything it dosen't like on the side with excell because you don't want to spend money or time on your old girl (You should though, its healthier for the company) and may even sucumb to temptation and start spending money on other software that wont work with SAP, Then your going to be using both, becuse you are already got them, until you tier out. Basically a double life. Still love sap all & all. Couldn't live without it.
Pros
I has absolutley everything needed and more. Its very well integrated throught all the company and enables you manage all company records at any specific times.
Cons
Graphs are no use. If you need a dashboard or simple presentation you are eventually gona need to export data to excell.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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SAP Business ByDesign the real cloud ERP
It is a true ERP in the cloud, with all the advantages of being 100% web, it is a solution in HTML5, with which you can manage it 100% on your tablet or mobile phone. It has BI and CRM, that surpasses the traditional ERPs and with Hana accounts with very good operating performance.
Pros
SAP Business ByDesign is an ERP very easy to use, to implement and that allows to have 360º information of the whole company in real time. It is very easy to learn to use by the end users. It has very good integrated BI reports. It's the beautiful SAP
Cons
SAP does not do much promotion to the product, to success stories and not much is known about its strengths in what the cloud managed by SAP itself. I consider the ERP's weakness in advanced manufacturing functions, in the management of mass purchases and in the capacity of large batches of information.
- Industry: Food Production
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Inventory managing, production planning, there's nothing SAP won't do.
SAP Business has allowed us to take production planning and inventory management to a whole new level. Logging entries and checking on data has been made easier with SAP. For us analysts checking on production process information to determine potential flaws is key, and SAP allows us to do just that with the help of our operator friends and their diligent logging.
Pros
SAP is an extremely powerful software that allows you to do just about anything that a company needs to operate smoothly. I particularly enjoy production planning and management from this software.
Cons
I cannot stress how difficult SAP is to use compared to, for example, Excel which we occasionally still use. SAP experts had to come in to the company and explain everyone how to use it.
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 1,001-5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Good solution for small and mid enterprises
Overall i was very satisfied with the product, it is futuristic and offers efficiency for small businesses. But they need to offer more trainings to use this ERP system very efficiently.
Pros
It is very good that SAP has also thought to develop ERP system for small and mid business enterprises. These enterprises has generally messy documentation and financing systems, so when you have this ERP system, it makes your job very easy. Just like Business One for big companies, they offer what is necessary for small and mid companies. You can enter your order, follow your invoices, track your budget with account receivables and payables, Also the report are very useful. The list goes on.
Cons
The least i can say is like Business One system, you need to spend some extra time to enter manual, it is mostly challenging in the beginning. You need to fill all data for CRM system, so when you skip making these, you are not using CRM system efficiently.
- Industry: Plastics
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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SAP Business ByDesign
Overall, a very robust and insightful ERP system that connects all departments and ensures workflows and processes are being done correctly.
Pros
The fact that it's cloud-based is great for getting insights from any device, anywhere. Also, the extensive reports you're able to generate gives you great real-time data of your KPIs.
Cons
The customer support could use a little improvement in terms of data migration and system implementation.
- Industry: Military
- Company size: 201-500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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SAP
I use the system daily and after few moths I feel that I can work smoothly, but still only 70% is what I feel that I use.
Pros
Powerful tool for the business, can bring me the information I need from the database.
Cons
It takes few months to get use to it and learn all the function you daily uses.

- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 5,001-10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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SAP is still the best Enterprise resource planning tool
SAP is great as it unifies a business process into one application. I will recommend it any day.
Pros
SAP is a financial tool that integrates all aspects of a business together, it is fantastic as it enables assigning of different access levels for users.
Cons
SAP modules are very expensive as the cost of a total data migration can cost millions of dollars.
- Industry: Chemicals
- Company size: 201-500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Easy to use
Pros
It is easy to use, good quality , many training support available.
Cons
A bit too expensive, but it is a good product.
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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SAP by design - very cumbersome and confused
Pros
SAP is very good in creating tasks, has many, many modules, good cloud system, document flow, personalisation.
Cons
SAP ByDeign seems to have been programmed by people with lack of accounting. VAT returns have no date or suppliers/customer names, they only show ID ref, journal red, any kind of reference except what you need to see. You are able to view these in another report after you have done VAT return!
Payment runs and customer statements are the same thing, it throughs out report which you have to accept with no view of what is in the report, assuming that everything you put in it is correct in the first place.
Very cumbersome, too many processes to do simple tasks. Very confused system!
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Accounting tool for you
I was able to automate certain processes in the business thanks to SAP.
Pros
Able to customize the software as per the business requirements was something I needed and there you go I found SAP Business.
Cons
Took me little time to get familiar with the product. But overall I love it because of the report creation and it is cloud based.

- Industry: Banking
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Powerful tool for decision making
A powerful tool for decision making and business insights.
Pros
The tool does not require IT investment to be implemented.
Cons
The tool is not accessible if you are not familiar with SAP products.
- Industry: Computer Software
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SAP Business ByDesign: Flexible, adaptable, scalable ERP
Pros
SAP has more than 40 years of best business practices built into the software. Then, to have a cloud-based product that reduces IT infrastructure, and keeps my business information where I need it, when I need it, is truly a win-win for any business.
Cons
If there was one thing I did not like about SAP, it would be their time-to-market. They are consistently 6 months behind. However, I also think this is one of their strengths - which is to not bring a product to market before it is ready. SAP has always done well in this regard.
- Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Junk By Design
I have used and configured many ERP systems and with out a doubt this is the worst system money could buy. Do yourself a favor and look elsewhere.
Pros
The only pro would be it is cloud based. Beyond that there is no reason to use this in your business unless you would like to lose customers and employee's
Cons
Slow performance, terrible interface, not intuitive, not configurable. Crashes constantly. Poor online support, poor training guides. Ten steps to do one task. The service, HR , Marketing section are worthless. Good luck finding the correct design studio tools Absolute junk.
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Constantly working to update functionality
I have been using SAP ByD for 2+ years now. We have the system in use for 3 separate companies, worldwide. We use the Fixed Assets module, Travel and Expenses, Cost Accounting, Manufacturing, Sales. It handles everything quite well.
Pros
The thinking is done for us. Other software would require some background programming, this one has it all updated to the current government agency settings.
Cons
The freezing on screens, when I try to run specific reports.