SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Avantages

The feature I like the most about this software is the easy access to all my inventory in one place with plenty of filters to choose from to get what I'm looking for fast and easy.

Inconvénients

What I least like about this software is the sign in page .

Avantages

1. GUI is very user-friendly.
2. Easy to integrate with other SAP tools.
3. Real-time analytics is possible through HANA.
4. Can store data from both heterogeneous and homogenous databases.
4. Columnar storage provides high data compression.

Inconvénients

1. Cost of the RAM.
2. Doesn't support all the conventional SQL functions.
3. occasional bugs but they will be resolved by SAP.

Avantages

I like that SAP By Design made it possible to go from a low auditable system to a highly auditable system very quickly. There is a confidence level in SAP that is appealing to partners and customers.

Inconvénients

Because it is web based, customization options are limited. With that said, I've learned that is is preferable to conform to the kind of best practices inherent within BYD than it is to keep making things up as one goes along.

Avantages

I've been working with SAP ERP for last 5 years, and its a very complete suite for ERP tasks, it had made easier our job, many processes have even been speed-up and upgraded lately, they are faster than before, and its an software very much customizable, and has an good support from all modules Finance, Sales.

Inconvénients

Sometimes vendors give you high hopes on this software, and sometimes it has it limits, so i've seen some users that think this was going to be an ultra speed erp, and it is not.

Avantages

I like hat HANA is in-memory computing technology that provides an in memory database for fast data access and processing to users. Properties like faster data fetching, quick execution times, speedy access to external Apps make it a very useful technology. The business problems being solved with the product are as the data volume grows, the conventional database based reports and processes tend to slow down. This at times negatively affects the year on year trend analysis and processes requiring multiple data fetch. HANA, being in memory database virtually eliminates these issues. The data fetch is almost instantaneous and the processes run much faster.

Inconvénients

I see nothing negative about the technology in itself. The roll out of this platform could have been done in a better way. The cloud integration of SAP has been slow as well. These I thing that can be looked into

Avantages

I use everyday SAP in my work. We run a lots process there. Is a powerfull software and you can adapatable it to your company needs, to make invoices, to run revenue process, to keep balances tracking

Inconvénients

Sometimes when a lot process are running at the same time, the app just turn to slow. But I think is because our PCs are quite old.

Avantages

The project of implementation is aligned to agile methodologies. This is important because you can achieve immediate results. First, you can use finance module in you first sprint and to continue with the next modules in the next sprints. You do not wait until the project is finished to start your operations.

Inconvénients

I have not found courses about SAP Business ByDesign in detail. On OpenSap platform only there are few courses and it is not enough to learn all modules.

Avantages

I like being able to view all of the settings of an item on one screen and ability to customize setting such as restricting to specific vendors.

Inconvénients

I don't like that i can't view one style at a time but I believe that is due to the model that my company chose to purchase. We work with multiple sizes, it would be easier to view at a style level.

Avantages

If you are looking for an ERP product from SAP, and not willing to go with the traditional way, then look no further. This provides a quick solution for your ERP requirements.

Inconvénients

Since your DB is on the cloud, I personally feel that the response time isn't always that great that you generally sought in real world when doing business. Further, a bit pricey when your requirements are not that heavy.

Avantages

Inventory is traceable
sitting at any location we can track and check the inventory

Inconvénients

it is quiet expensive for small players of industry.

Avantages

It is great for SCM but that's about the only thing.

Inconvénients

You have to click 10x before getting to the screen you need. It doesn't properly record revenue and doesn't offer a VSOE606 option for revenue recognition. If you're looking for an ERP you're better off using Netsuite.

Avantages

SAP is a very good ERP system. It allows the efficient management of data, real-time control of different processes, and inventory management. It is also very easy to ingrate SAP with other business systems.

Inconvénients

This might be a one-off experience, but I did not have a very good experience with their customer support regarding one ticket that I created. Otherwise, everything else is spot on.

Avantages

I have been working with SAP hana for about 6 months, I have tried and used the tool and it seems to me that it is an extremely complex and complete tool. The trasactions of hundreds and even thousands of concurrent users and the speed and versatility with which HANA develops seems to me amazing.

Although not being open source, its variety of customization in terms of interface and modules to be implemented is very good.

The Cloud is the future of storage and databases without doubts and Hana provides an excellent service with local storage provides a greater sense of security of our data.

Inconvénients

Despite the tools and software that SAP provides for the migration of other environments to HANA, I had some problems presented at the time of migration of my platform. Once this has been solved, everything went perfectly.

As the system is very complex, companies without certified personnel specifically in HANA can take years to use the software to the maximum due to the learning curve

Avantages

Integrazione del software in tutte le aree aziendali

Inconvénients

Si presta poco alla personalizzazione, ma la cosa è voluta e permette una standardizzazione dei processi

Avantages

Multiple deployment options
very well integrated
Facilitates rapid Business Process Transformation

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

Using SAP is very user friendly once you know what you are doing. There is tons of point an click items to get through so I was able to start using pretty quickly.

Inconvénients

If you are not an expert user then you might not realize that there are so many shortcuts to help make your work more efficient.

Avantages

I like the customizability and the openness to the software. There is a lot of maneuverability within SAP that is unmatched elsewhere, which is largely due to the fact that modules are built in-house. The support team for SAP is immense, and having worked with two pharmaceutical giants, the one that used SAP had more power to implement new functions.

Inconvénients

The turnaround time on updates/upgrades is awful, there's just no other way to put it. You could design a new software from the ground up between updates.

Avantages

The best feature you cannot delete the entries once made in the system and hence it has a perfect audit log. Also over the period SAP has evolved and is taking care of flow between different modules Purchase, Sales, FA, FI & CO. You can generate various different reports with a simple T Code. You can also restrict which users can have access to which data or transaction as per your organizational needs.

Inconvénients

I think the most complex part is customization, you really need to be very sure of what you want. Also at times you need to have skilled staff for certain critical processes as the system is works on Garbage in Garbage Out concept.

Avantages

Accurate and instant information of all orders (PO) can be viewed and extracted anytime. Data extraction feature in excel is good.
Useful tool for process and data management (SAP ECC )

Inconvénients

Purchase , implementation and service of software is very costly. More storage space required on server.

Avantages

Brings all the functionality needed to run a business into 1 system. The system is scalable depending on your needs and the size of your business

Inconvénients

The system is used in so many industries and areas that it has a lot more features than you may need. This can be difficult for employees to understand why there are so many fields that they don't use.

Avantages

The ease that I have to put order, charge prices, search purchase history, review supplier data, among others

Inconvénients

The difficult thing that it is done to the suppliers to be able to fill the Request of offer and be able to associate it with its number of parts.

Avantages

SAP Business By Design is a well thought out ERP solution designed with the expertise gained in this field for over a decade.SAP have integrated CRM, accounting, project management, SCM, supplier relationship management, HR, executive management dashboards, and compliance in one single package and is offered as a SaaS. While SAP manages upgrading, hosting and maintenance, the system itself is scalable relatively to expansion of the business. Its super updating process allows users to manage accounts for multiple currencies in different stations. One of the outstanding features is the self learning material found in the system which helps to get the full potential of this complex all in one system.

Inconvénients

As an advanced ERP and cost wise, this is more suitable for medium and beyond organizations.

Avantages

Ease of Access and efficient in working and downloading any report

Inconvénients

Flowchart of P2P process and Q2C process which is available in their SAP Business One solution. I believe that is one of the best feature to have in any software.

Avantages

Great insight tool which gives every minute detail of an employee/contractor.

Inconvénients

Interface needs to be improved as it lags the competition.

Avantages

Stability: no crash problem as from my experience.
Performance: send and retrieve data quickly.
Applicability: can be applied for almost any accounting standard.

Inconvénients

Cost: the product is costly, so if the company is not large enough to exploit it full to its capacity, then other products might be more cost efficient.

Alternatives envisagées 

Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP et Dynamics 365

Pourquoi passer à SAP S/4HANA Cloud

I'm SAP Consultant. My client who went for SAP S/4HANA for Finance is a big manufacturing company with lots of cash flows in and out every month, and has a large number of SKUs.

Avantages

This software in my experience is very good, when you have big data packages, for customers in large database about 3+ TB, and with high transactionality, its perfect, because the selects and searchs in database becomes very fast, its been known that most time lost is in database side consulting and searching, using indexes and it. But this HANA database it's been a new great solution for it.

Inconvénients

Sadly, implementing sap hana can become very expensive for the customer, starting on a appliance or cloud system with high requeriments, like 500GB ram and few terabytes of disk, that would be the main issue, so not many customer can implement it.

Avantages

I use it every second day at work anyand it is so functional in the day to day running and record keeping of the business. Keeps recorded input safe as long as you don't forget to click on the save command. I use it to capture daily production reports, incidents and observations at work. Makes recording keeping easy and organised.

Inconvénients

Sometimes when I enter Actual hours in one of the tools we call ik34, it reads my hours as over where even when my hours are way less. I still haven't figured out what could it be that leads to that.

Avantages

We have used a version of SAP for 10 years now. SAP gave us one place to combine everything. Before SAP we used three different softwares to run our business.

Inconvénients

Out of the box is somewhat basic. We found that we had to buy a lot of add ons via third party companies in order to make everything work the way we needed it to.

Avantages

SAP ERP is powerful when properly configured and supported. There are a huge number of options and ways to configure the software

Inconvénients

Support options. It is quite expensive to get SAP products supported. Basically, if it has SAP involved, you can double your project timeline and add at least two zeros to the expected budget.

Avantages

I have interacted with with SAP HANA for one year now. Sap HANA is a powerful in-memory database by SAP that allows both transactions and analytics to run on it. Sap HANA allows for fast processing of large volumes of data.

My favourite feature about SAP HANA is its ability to provide Persuasive Analytics through customized dashboards e.g. top 5 customers by sales amount, total sales amount, stock turnover e.tc.

Another cool thing about SAP HANA is the level of security offered by the database. SAP HANA offers robust security features that include access management controls.

Inconvénients

SAP HANA is generally costly and more complex as compared to other database solutions for SAP in the market. I think the benefits offered by the database are totally worth every coin you spend on the database.

Avantages

Very appealing strategy/roadmap about an efficient, intelligent ERP system.
Support many different countries with localization package and there are more to come.

Inconvénients

Advance features (analytics, e.g.) come with premium licenses and sometimes based on volumes of docs/revenue (e.g. eDocument). So might be expensive.
On the other hands, some products are not supported in some countries. Then the implementation of a 3rd party software to SAP might be time-consuming.
SAP always suggests their standard solution and often their standards might be very different to the company's standard.

Avantages

Finally SAP provide a new release that is up to date with recent trends: cloud. It grant a new better USer experience leveraging the SAP Fiori technology.

Inconvénients

IT is needed a fremework that allow to easily create web application (using SAP Fiori) that allow to deploy an app in days and not months.

Avantages

User friendly GUI and easy access to tasks

Inconvénients

no cons about S4 till now this if effective software

Avantages

It has some features that can help companies to manage their costs, sales and so on. Besides that, the support is good and try to attend our expectation.

Inconvénients

It is not a flexible ERP, there are several ones better than SAP. Furthermore, the SAP system is not prepared for all countries due to a specific characteristics, like duties, taxes , etc

Avantages

The features here are ambitious and with a simple business with few complexities could be nice to leverage.

Inconvénients

The platform and overall user experience is not very intuitive. If you're in a complex business with users of all levels of expertise when it comes to understanding software, expect some growing pains when it comes to the rollout of this platform.

Avantages

I have worked on PS Module of SAP. It is a great software for developing the projects. All information (purchase requisition status, procurement status,financial information etc.) are easy accessible to the Project Manager and hence helps in expediting the projects.

Inconvénients

The codes and interface are not that user friendly. It takes a little time to get used to all the feature.

Avantages

It is a software that integrates with all areas of the company, is in constant evolution, the security part is super detailed,

Inconvénients

The implementation is very complex, a lot of training is required, the certifications are expensive.

Avantages

The multi-dimensional utility of this software for various departments is the most fascinating feature. It can be used across the board ranging from shipping/receiving, planning, manufacturing, quality assurance, quality control and testing, payrolls, and administrative services, to name a few. It provides a transparent system for overview of a process through different modules. It is very production in inventory management, batch scheduling, resource management, quality metrics, product delivery. A must-have tool for all large institutions to streamline operations.

Inconvénients

The software itself is quite complex to learn for a new user. The availability of software professionals to train on the software is limited. A brief tutorial about the basic functions of the software would be appreciated for new users.

Avantages

The structure employed in the PA and OM modules makes data storage straightforward. The native reporting tools are strong and versatile.

Inconvénients

There is a lack of task-specific training literature, forcing a choice between learning through trial and error and taking broad courses on the topic.

Avantages

SAP has traditionally been very good with its Enterprise Resource Planning software. With the advent of S/4 HANA cloud, it has taken it a notch higher. With HANA as a in memory database beneath the application layer, it is extremely fast; and with S/4 with all its innovations in simplifying and integrating various business processes seamlessly, SAP S/4HANA Cloud becomes the best ERP software on cloud for any enterprise small or big!

Inconvénients

People may find it expensive but now with latest billing models that SAP offers, people still can get the best value of out of their investment on SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Avantages

La manera en el que las tareas se pueden realizar con facilidad.

Inconvénients

La cantidad de pasos que hay que realizar diversas tareas.

Avantages

1. Having really impressive capacity of data.
2. surely not easy to use. Need experience.
3. Impressive Results for ERP on HANA.

Inconvénients

Just one thing to be in light, certain modules are very complex need more understanding on it before just go and patch.

Avantages

Al momento non ho trovato vantaggi evidenti rispetto ad altri software utilizzati

Inconvénients

Trovo scomodo il fatto di dover fatturare più volte allo stesso cliente se vi sono progetti differenti, sarebbe preferibile avere la possibilità di decidere.

Avantages

This software is robust, it helps to have all employee inputs within one program for a project

Inconvénients

This software is trying to do much at once, SAP was sold as a solution to the last two companies I worked for in the creative industry but in each case the SAP software has caused more harm than help. The software is good for invoicing but there are too many bugs or loop holes in the program causing records to be untraceable or inefficient. It should not take 20 minutes plus a manual override to a software bug to create a slipping ship.

Avantages

Integration with state of art technology. Continuous innovation and business functionality gives edge over other products

Inconvénients

Sometime multiple options of a requirement confuses. Business function wise selection option should be provided.

Avantages

Contains vast array of enterprise resource planning functions. Common software which is a transferable skill throughout different industries.

Inconvénients

Very expensive and requires extensive training to unlock full potential of the software.

Avantages

La función más impactante es poder hacer seguimiento de las actividades de un operario.

Inconvénients

Se necesita tiempo para aprender a usar el software.

Avantages

Can input the Financial data such as Account Receiable , Account Payable , Budget v.s Actual result , daily revenue , Purchase Order etc.

Inconvénients

This software user account for employee is expensive. So , only 15 personnel can access SAP user account in 35 personnel in our department.

Avantages

I like SAP as it us very user friendly. It has very useful tools adapted to best practices. It is easy to get support

Inconvénients

To get started on it you definitely need training

Avantages

I like how every module is connected and the strong infra structure to keep subsidies reconciled.

Inconvénients

Writing reports is not that easy, you need more training to understand how the different tables are related.