We performed a comparison between Microsoft Dynamics 365 Central and SAP Business One based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: The main difference between the two solutions is that users of Dynamics 365 say the performance is lacking and do not report an ROI like SAP Business One users do.
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is using the Excel sheets on Chrome and other applications."
"The platform offers a robust and comprehensive cycle for supply chain and inventory management, with features like minimum and maximum settings, dynamic monitoring of inventory levels, and integration with Microsoft's AI capabilities."
"It's quite useful for our production line, and it's easy to configure to our requirements."
"Microsoft Dynamics NAV is brilliant and it's a different segment when comparing it with Dynamics AX. Dynamics AX is a larger product with much more features and it's aimed at a different segment of the market."
"It is easy to use, and it works very well for small-scale companies."
"NAV covers everything from purchasing and selling items to invoicing. Everything is within NAV, so it's all very neat."
"The customer support is good. The first level of support agent in every case was able to solve the problem very quickly."
"We like the manufacturing and case management modules."
"For us, the most useful feature of Business One is Material Requirements Planning (MRP)."
"We like it as it's easy to use, cost-effective, easy to deploy, and easy to get support for."
"The most valuable features of SAP Business One are that it has plenty of features and an easy general ledger entry. Additionally, we have an internal team that supports the solution and they provide is good. The solution is easy for us to support."
"We have been satisfied with the technical support."
"I had been using it for the end-to-end functionality."
"This is an all-in-one ERP solution for small businesses. Everything is linked. Once you have this, you have all the features available in SAP. You have PR, inventory items, journal entry, and project management features."
"The relationship map is very useful for us."
"This is the most efficient ERP that is in the market right now."
"We need to customize more often than we would like."
"Some of the control aspects such as auditing can definitely be improved. For example, auditing is not very easy, and the user permissions are complicated."
"The solution must provide more AI features."
"The stability could always be improved."
"There is room for improvement in terms of compatibility."
"They need to improve their processes."
"The product should improve work optimization."
"I wouldn't say that Microsoft Dynamics is very scalable."
"In terms of business processes, the production could use improvement."
"I'd like to see the solution become more user-friendly."
"They have a web client now. It primarily does sales. They just added purchasing. It'll be far more effective when I have inventory and financials as well into the web client version."
"There is room for improvement in stability."
"In the next release, I would like to see the inclusion of cloud features."
"The price could improve for SAP Business One."
"Our customers often request concurrent licensing, which is not available with SAP Business One. Adding this option would be beneficial."
"There are improvements needed. However, they provide improvements over time."
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is ranked 3rd in ERP with 62 reviews while SAP Business One is ranked 4th in ERP with 61 reviews. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is rated 8.2, while SAP Business One is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central writes "Easy to deploy, extremely stable, and highly scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Business One writes "Helps with intercompany sales and purchase orders, and optimizes inventory management". Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is most compared with SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics AX, SAP ERP, Oracle E-Business Suite and Odoo, whereas SAP Business One is most compared with SAP S/4HANA, SAP ERP, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, SAP S/4HANA Cloud and Epicor ERP. See our Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central vs. SAP Business One report.
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Both are not the right fit for Manufacturing company because these 2 solutions are built for small and medium size enterprises mainly for accounting purpose but not for operations. They need modules like Production planning & Scheduling, Quality management, adv' inventory optimization, Shoop floor control, Supplier management, Adv' warehouse, Inbound and outbound logistics and so on.
Regards, Mohammed Shakir (shakir52268@gmail.com)
Hi Sanjay,
My recommendation is to evaluate ERP software from a long-term perspective as it is a big investment. As I understand, your organization is growing and needs better control and reporting hence you are looking for business transformation and digitalization therefore ERP is the first step in business transformation.
As Inteliwaves (visit us at www.inteliwaves.com) are in the SAP consulting field a company based out of Mumbai, India we are dealing with the business requirement for ERP implementation day in and day out, and from our past experience we have observed that customers who have implemented small scale ERP software do not support business growth due to scalability issue and after few years they need to look for another solution for their growing business demand.
I will recommend you to checkout for the SAP Public cloud option which is best in the current market scenario. Please lets us know if you need more details on SAP Public cloud solution or demo as we are an SAP partner. Thanks & regards, Manish, manish.chhatbar@inteliwaves.com, 9930636260
I think you should first look at Dynamics BC. We have provided consulting services to your company and knows in-and-out of your processes. Ranthosh knows me very well. You can reach out to me at 9811359356
Look at e10x-ERP (educe10x.com). Built natively for the cloud, connects using a browser, and no need for hefty hardware installations, etc. e10x-ERP is focused on SMB manufacturing companies and has a suite of modules that will fit your requirements. The modules include attendance and payroll which most other ERPs do not offer as standard.
Also, integrated with WhatsApp Business (for auto reports, auto messages to customers, suppliers, etc), email, trigger, and event-based reports, integrated with GST (ASP).