Divisional Manager IT at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 10
Jun 18, 2025
We received a few complaints about the slowness in SAP Business ByDesign last year, so I think SAP can focus on improving performance, particularly when it becomes slow during data saving and handling. My feedback about the modular architecture and customized features of SAP Business ByDesign is that it is only good, but we have not explored much on this one. The initial setup for SAP Business ByDesign was complex. One disadvantage was that we had the legacy system, SAP Business One, and we could not migrate our data to SAP Business ByDesign. They should have provided a migration path.
Project accountant at Montego Upstream Services Limited
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Top 5
Apr 9, 2024
The approval process for the solution could be improved. With SAP S/4HANA, you can design your release strategy and modify it to include as many people as possible, which is missing in SAP Business ByDesign. That could be an area of improvement.
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There are certain areas of improvement. One main area is the absence of payroll functionality in BYD, and as far as I know, BYD has no plans to introduce it. Another aspect is related to warehouse operations, where they want integrated processes, including barcode scanning for material movements. This feature is currently missing as well. Additionally, the clients require seamless integration with the Pulse system for updating inventory and master data. At the end of the day, they want sales data from the Power system to be automatically received in BYD. However, this integration is complex and partially functional. They also have a requirement to bring purchase order creation into the Pulse system. Handling these data integrations and processes is a bit challenging for BYD. These are the areas where BYD could improve.
Sr Manager Revenue and Taxation at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Real User
Dec 21, 2022
There is room for improvement in the reporting capability. To use it properly, you need intensive IT support. You cannot write your own reports. You can query data from tables and you can create your own reports within an Excel environment and that's helpful. But if you have to do anything formalized in a SOCs-compliant environment, you wouldn't be allowed access to those data tables. You would have to have a support function that can help you create the reports that you need.
SAP Business ByDesign can improve the flexibility and user-friendliness of the reporting during the implementations. Customizing the reports inside the device requires a lot of knowledge and most of the time a developer level is needed. For example, if you want to have a more specific reporting layout.
Territory Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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Jan 17, 2022
SAP Business ByDesign is a very vast product, but it has to be a bit more centralized. All the models need to be more centralized for a better experience. In a feature release, a development kit should be available in the UIDs, where people can have the customizations. HR and payroll should be added and the human resource management system should be added by default.
I would say budget controlling needs improvement. I mention this because it does not have all the functionalities that we need in terms of managing the budget.
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We received a few complaints about the slowness in SAP Business ByDesign last year, so I think SAP can focus on improving performance, particularly when it becomes slow during data saving and handling. My feedback about the modular architecture and customized features of SAP Business ByDesign is that it is only good, but we have not explored much on this one. The initial setup for SAP Business ByDesign was complex. One disadvantage was that we had the legacy system, SAP Business One, and we could not migrate our data to SAP Business ByDesign. They should have provided a migration path.
There might be some hurdles when integrating with SAP ECC, but integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud is smooth.
The approval process for the solution could be improved. With SAP S/4HANA, you can design your release strategy and modify it to include as many people as possible, which is missing in SAP Business ByDesign. That could be an area of improvement.
There should be a lot of production and treasury management especially in finance.
Are you outsourcing SAP Basis administration can be a cost-effective solution for many organizations, especially those with limited resources or expertise. By outsourcing, you can avoid the cost of hiring and training internal staff, as well as the expense of maintaining an on-premise infrastructure. In this blog: https://www.cleveroad.com/blog... we talk about the various benefits your company can avail of by choosing a reputed SAP service provider partner for your business needs.
There are certain areas of improvement. One main area is the absence of payroll functionality in BYD, and as far as I know, BYD has no plans to introduce it. Another aspect is related to warehouse operations, where they want integrated processes, including barcode scanning for material movements. This feature is currently missing as well. Additionally, the clients require seamless integration with the Pulse system for updating inventory and master data. At the end of the day, they want sales data from the Power system to be automatically received in BYD. However, this integration is complex and partially functional. They also have a requirement to bring purchase order creation into the Pulse system. Handling these data integrations and processes is a bit challenging for BYD. These are the areas where BYD could improve.
The payroll module of the solution could improve.
There is room for improvement in the reporting capability. To use it properly, you need intensive IT support. You cannot write your own reports. You can query data from tables and you can create your own reports within an Excel environment and that's helpful. But if you have to do anything formalized in a SOCs-compliant environment, you wouldn't be allowed access to those data tables. You would have to have a support function that can help you create the reports that you need.
The database needs to be more customizable.
ByDesign could be improved by making screen modifications easier.
SAP Business ByDesign can improve the flexibility and user-friendliness of the reporting during the implementations. Customizing the reports inside the device requires a lot of knowledge and most of the time a developer level is needed. For example, if you want to have a more specific reporting layout.
The Arabic localization is neglected. It should have an Arabic interface. It lacks Arabic translation or support from right to left.
SAP Business ByDesign is a very vast product, but it has to be a bit more centralized. All the models need to be more centralized for a better experience. In a feature release, a development kit should be available in the UIDs, where people can have the customizations. HR and payroll should be added and the human resource management system should be added by default.
I would say budget controlling needs improvement. I mention this because it does not have all the functionalities that we need in terms of managing the budget.