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SAP Business One pros and cons

Vendor: SAP
4.0 out of 5
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PROS

SAP Business One offers comprehensive financial management capabilities which users find valuable.
It features integration of modules like sales, purchasing, inventory, and finance.
SAP Business One is highly scalable and easy to deploy, benefitting small to medium businesses.
The Material Requirements Planning (MRP) feature is particularly beneficial for reporting and decision-making.
SAP Business One provides robust add-ons for enhanced production capabilities and customization.

CONS

SAP Business One lacks comprehensive integration with other tools, requiring users to seek add-ons or custom solutions for full functionality.
The HR and payroll features are not fully integrated, necessitating separate solutions to accommodate these functions.
Exchange rates must be manually inputted, lacking an automated feature that could enhance user experience.
The performance of SAP Business One in high-volume business environments and overseas operations, especially with on-premises setups, needs improvement to support expanding organizations.
Customization options are limited, impacting the ability to tailor the ERP to specific business needs without substantial effort in additional development or add-ons.
 

SAP Business One Pros review quotes

reviewer1765542 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 2, 2022
We like it as it's easy to use, cost-effective, easy to deploy, and easy to get support for.
Sajith Morais - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 19, 2023
The documentation part and the user manuals provided by SAP are quite comprehensive.
EO
Sep 2, 2020
The document search feature is very good.
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Ijlal Naqvi - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 27, 2024
The most valuable features of the solution revolve around the fact that it is easy to deploy and scalable and is not resource-intensive.
reviewer1198704 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 22, 2021
The SAP Business One is simple and it provides us the control we need.
AB
Sep 29, 2021
For us, the most useful feature of Business One is Material Requirements Planning (MRP).
Hatem Mohamed NageebSalama - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 28, 2022
What's most helpful to customers who use SAP Business One is that the solution is fully integrated and easy to use. It's very easy to digest and has many features for small to medium companies.
Ranjan Dwivedi - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 26, 2023
SAP Business One has valuable and helpful features for standard utilities, such as sales, purchasing, inventory, and finance, including Indian localization. Additionally, it is strong in the area of production. It has enhanced capabilities in advanced production planning, maintenance, and other features as needed through the use of add-ons provided by partners. These add-ons run within the solution and can be provided to customers based on their specific production needs.
reviewer1089996 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 27, 2021
The solution is user-friendly in comparison with Oracle.
reviewer1480536 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 3, 2021
The product seems to be quite stable.
 

SAP Business One Cons review quotes

reviewer1765542 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 2, 2022
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.
Sajith Morais - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 19, 2023
SAP Business One consumes a lot of network resources and bandwidth, especially when accessing the web solution, B1 Web Access.
EO
Sep 2, 2020
The user interface could be improved with drag-and-drop functionality that it currently lacks.
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Ijlal Naqvi - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 27, 2024
Improvements are required in the support for partner-delivery add-ons, functional graphs, user development, and BI since certain shortcomings exist in these areas.
reviewer1198704 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 22, 2021
Overall, the integration and the reports can be better.
AB
Sep 29, 2021
Business One doesn't have a proper master data management function.
Hatem Mohamed NageebSalama - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 28, 2022
SAP Business One could be improved if SAP creates one platform to integrate different solutions, particularly having a multi-company concept rather than having different databases. The solution could be similar to SAP S/4 Hana and the SAP Business ByDesign concept.
Ranjan Dwivedi - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 26, 2023
The standard SAP Business One is sufficient for the Indian region. There is no need for further enhancement as custom solutions can be designed and developed to meet specific needs. For example, HR and payroll is not a standard feature of the solution, but they can be created as a separate custom solution. However, payroll is not a standard function due to the varying norms and regulations across India's 29 states and union territories. Therefore, a standard payroll solution cannot be provided by SAP to add utility and features. Adding it would lead to different versions of the solution and more complexity in managing them. However, it would be useful to have addons to cover the other states which have different regulations.
reviewer1089996 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 27, 2021
Something which would be helpful to management and, from our vantage point as a user, would be to see a simple reporting tool.
reviewer1480536 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 3, 2021
It would be ideal if the reporting and dashboards were improved upon.