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The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software Comparison Report assists prospec
solutions can satisfy your technical, business, and functional requirements. If you pla
SAP ERP Software Comparison Report allows you to analyze the features and functio
appraisal task. You just need to pick out a minimum of two software your organizatio
to start evaluating your options. This can save you months researching different syste

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Sales Management
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Financials

Human Resources

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Inventory Management

Purchasing Management

Quality Management

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Product Technology

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terprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software Comparison Report assists prospective buyers in examining and comparing capabiliti
ns can satisfy your technical, business, and functional requirements. If you plan to assess a new software package or you simply
P Software Comparison Report allows you to analyze the features and functions of your selected systems in a meticulous, side-
sal task. You just need to pick out a minimum of two software your organization would like to appraise, and you'll immediately r
t evaluating your options. This can save you months researching different systems.

Financials

2000

Product Technology

1000

Sales Management 0
 Quality Management

Purchasing Management

SAP Business ByDesign

Module Description Total criteria Supported Supported by
Partner
The Financials module provides features and functions that
allow accountants and financial managers to ensure financial
transactions are tracked and properly recorded, and that this
information is available via reports and other data retrieval
tools. Traditionally, this module includes the general ledger,
accounts payable, fixed assets, cost accounting, cash
management, accounts receivable, and financial reporting 1017 789 5
submodules

Human Resources encompasses all the applications

necessary for handling personnel-related tasks for corporate
managers and individual employees. Modules will include
Personnel Management, Benefit Management, Payroll
Management, Employee Self Service, Data Warehousing,
Health and Safety, Workforce Management, Training, and 479 227 0
Product Technology
Manufacturing Management covers discrete manufacturing
and provides the ability to plan production at various scales,
rolling high-level plans down into daily schedules of
individual machines and workers, and tracing real-time
situations on the production shop floor and in planning to
control manufacturing, and thus ensuring manufacturing
facilities follow production plans in an accurate and timely
manner, as well as providing the ability to alter
manufacturing schedules and current operations as
required. It involves product configuring, work centers and
machines dispatching, all aspects of work-in-progress 1081 618 0
management, and comprehensive product costing
functionality. It also provides a consolidated view of the
production situation using extensive multi-level reporting
capabilities.

Solutions for inventory management are used for the record-

keeping of goods that are warehoused, and managing the
movement of these goods to, from, and through 193 155 0
warehouses.

Purchasing management encompasses a group of

applications that controls purchasing of raw materials
needed to build products and that manages inventory
stocks. It also involves creating purchase orders/contracts,
supplier tracking, goods receipt and payment, and regulatory 273 195 0
compliance analysis and reporting.

Quality management refers to the set of actions taken by an

organization to ensure that it creates and delivers high-
quality products. In order to do so, organizations must
comply to national and international rules and regulations
related to product quality, but they often also create and use
internal requirements for quality control. Specific procedures
need to be set up in order to ensure that the end products
comply to internal or external quality standards. All these
activities need to be well documented in order to provide
the information needed when customers are not satisfied
with the quality of the products received. Government 82 57 0
agencies may also require this information for control and
verification.
Sales Management encompasses a group of applications
that automates the data entry process of customer orders
and keeps track of the status of orders. It involves order
entry, order tracing and status reporting, pricing, invoicing,
etc. It also provides a basic functionality for lead tracking,
customer information, quote processing, pricing & rebates, 237 192 2
etc.

This group of criteria defines the technical architecture of

the product as well as the technological environment in
which the product can run successfully. Criteria include
product and application architecture, software usability and
administration, platform and database support, application
standards support, communications and protocol support
and integration capabilities. Relative to the other evaluation
criteria, best practice selections place a lower relative
importance on the product technology criterion. This
apparently lower importance is deceptive because the
product technology usually houses the majority of the
selecting organization's mandatory criteria, which generally
include server, client, protocol and database support,
application scalability, and other architectural capabilities.
The definition of mandatory criteria within this set often 177 111 0
allows the client to quickly narrow the long list of potential
vendors to a short list of applicable solutions that pass
muster relative to the most basic mandatory selection
criteria.

Rating Distribution Legend

Name Description
Add-on Partner Supported via add-on products offered by partners
Customization Supported via customization (changes to the source code)
Future Release Supported in a future release
Modification Supported via modification (screen configurations, reports, GUI t
Not Supported Unsupported
Supported Supported as delivered out-of-the-box
Supported by Partner Supported via an integrated partner solution
Third Party Support Supported via a third party solution
Unrated The vendor or provider has not yet submitted information for a r
yDesign vs SAP ERP Comparison Report

ining and comparing capabilities of software of any tier.Your comparison chart helps you rigorously examine how these differen
oftware package or you simply would like to assess the attributes of your current software package, the SAP Business ByDesign
systems in a meticulous, side-by-side appraisal.The comparison report is sure to be an easy tool for simplifying the entire system
raise, and you'll immediately receive an email from us. Then you can simply open your extensive comparison matrix in Microso

SAP Business ByDesign

Financials
SAP ERP

2000

Human Resources

1000

0 Manufacturing Management
 Inventory Management

Purchasing Management

Rating Distribution
SAP Business ByDesign
Add on Modification Third Party Customization Future Not Unrated
Partner Support Release Supported

0 21 53 0 75 15 59

0 2 75 0 97 29 49
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0 0 0 0 29 0 9

0 8 0 0 18 39 13

0 1 0 0 17 3 4
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simplifying the entire system
mparison matrix in Microsoft Excel
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Supported Supported by Add on Modification Third Party Customizatio Future
Partner Partner Support n Release

954 2 0 1 0 0 0

371 2 5 25 23 1 0
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 Discrete Manufacturing (ERP) Knowledge Tree
1. FINANCIALS
The Financials module provides features and functions that allow accountants and financial
managers to ensure financial transactions are tracked and properly recorded, and that this
1.1. GENERAL LEDGER
General ledger keeps centralized charts of accounts and corporate financial balances. It supports
all aspects of the business accounting process. In this module, financial accounting transactions are
1.1.1. PARAMETERS AND STRUCTURING
1.1.1.1. Lean manufacturing accounting practices and methods (i.e., manufacturing overheads
based on cycle time including labor)
1.1.1.2. Fiscal calendar is defined by the user
1.1.1.3. Calendar periods are defined by the user
1.1.1.4. Calendar can be defined as uneven periods, adjustment periods, or to a maximum of 366
periods
1.1.1.5. Multiple calendars
Multiple calendars may be useful for different accounting scenarios. For example, different financial
entities may need separate fiscal calendars--one set of books might require a quarterly calendar
1.1.1.6. Multi-entity financial reporting
A financial reporting entity is a business unit which can legally make financial reports.
1.1.1.7. Twelve or thirteen fiscal months
1.1.1.8. Fiscal quarterly periods can be defined as 4-4-5, 5-4-4, or 4-5-4
The 4-4-5 calendar period uses a four week, four week, five week pattern. Likewise, the 5-4-4
calendar period uses a five week, four week, four week pattern; and analagously for the 4-5-4
1.1.1.9. Organization of calendar periods determined by the user
1.1.1.10. Calendar may be organized in a variety of ways, supporting 999 periods in a financial year
The calendar can be organized in a limitless form, with up to 999 user periods, per calendar
1.1.1.11. Open any number of fiscal years or calendar periods at the same time
1.1.1.12. Companies with different regional presences may set a default currency for the financial
division of each region
1.1.1.13. Sets reporting entity and its organizational characteristics
The ability to decide how to organize data when defining the organization of an enterprise's
financial information
1.1.1.14. Distinguishes A/P transactions (of the same type) from different entities
account payable (A/P)
1.1.1.15. Each entity's ledger can have its own calendar and chart of accounts
1.1.1.16. Each entity's ledger can have its own accounting periods opened and closed
By controlling when an account is open and closed, the posting of information in an account period
can restricted.
1.1.1.17. User may choose between data collection and real time posting modes
Allows for instant processing or batch processing
1.1.1.18. Tracks items in the G/L and sub-ledger by quantity and value (in whichever currency is
used)
general ledger (G/L)
1.1.1.19. Maintains unit and dollar amount postings in GL and sub-ledgers
The ability to change the currency used in balance sheet accounts to another currency using a
default rate. It is possible to override this default rate for particular accounts. Moreover, it is possible
1.1.1.20. User-defined criteria for system purges for general ledger transactions, journal vouchers,
and accounts payable data based on the number of years or months of data required to maintain--
1.1.1.21. Sub-ledgers closed out prior to performing a purge. The closeout process sets all financial
account balances in the sub-ledger to zero by posting an equal and offsetting transaction
This would be part of the year end procedures for offsetting accounts. It can be used in determining,
for example, year end sales amounts. This criterion would be considered in relation to whether or
1.1.1.22. Specifies a key and rules to have the system automatically purge all records related to the
key throughout the system--sub-ledger accounts, sub-ledger transactions, tables, rates
A general ledger key typically is an identifier attached to accounts to put the accounts into groups.
For example, there may be fifteen accounts in the chart of accounts related to payroll, and all fifteen
1.1.1.23. Automatic check to ensure that prior to deleting a financial record, the account balance
must have been "closed out" (i.e., nets to zero)
1.1.1.24. Translation of balance sheet accounts including the ability to have a default rate (spot) that
can be overridden on an exception basis (historic), on an account-by-account basis - do not want to
The ability to cumulatively incorporate results from the previous accounting period into the current
accounting period, but only when the last document generated in the previous period was the
1.1.1.25. Automatically inserts actual account balances into the elapsed month's bucket in a future
forecast file at the end of each accounting period when the system rolls into the next period
1.1.1.26. Prevents roll from one accounting period to the next unless the last job run is the financial
statements
The ability to cumulatively incorporate results from the previous accounting period into the current
accounting period, but only when the last document generated in the previous period was the
1.1.1.27. Audit log required for any changes to table information that may contain rates and
information used by the system in any way; log contains before and after, change, date, and user
1.1.1.28. Flexible general ledger key with multiple levels
General ledgers are designed to present values for creating financial statements. The multiple level
for a ledger key means the system will have a more complex and functional key structure--one that
1.1.1.29. Exception reporting with drill down capabilities
The ability to automatically, rather than manually, identify open receivables exceptions by using
user-defined conditions (for example, very large amount invoices, exceeding credit line, etc.)
1.1.1.30. Change cross charge percentages without retroactively changing previously published
financial information
1.1.1.31. Provision for use of standards that can be automatically propagated throughout the
system to the various ledgers
The system can provide a copy function or a program to propagate a chart of accounts for a specific
existing business unit to a new business unit. If a US dollar ledger has a chart of accounts, a
1.1.1.32. Integration with ADP electronic transmission of payroll data
ADP refers to automatic data processing.
1.1.1.33. Uses the budget forecast information to create automatic postings; accruals for any
potential overhead item, for example, bonus, depreciation, professional fees, new product
For future expenses that have not been received. Upon invoice receipt, differences are posted to
a particular G/L account.
1.1.1.34. Automatic year-end rolling of balances in sub-ledgers and general ledger control accounts
This is different from a purge because the balance still exists but has been moved to another
account. This allows for the automatic aging of account balances from a current file to a prior file
1.1.1.35. Automatic linking and posting of control accounts from related sub-ledger accounts
1.1.1.36. Processes jobs in edit and update mode
The ability to process jobs that are in the midst of being edited or updated
1.1.1.37. Jobs required to include error and warning messages on reports
1.1.1.38. Reports to include a control report that lists pages on which errors and warnings have
occurred
The ability to create a report subsection that indicates which pages of the report mention errors and
warnings
1.1.1.39. User-defined controls to allow specific jobs to update multiple times in a period
The ability to decide if a particular job should be updated more than once during a given time period
1.1.1.40. Provides posting views at the company, market, and title/SKU level
The ability to look up entries in the ledger by company, by market, and by stock keeping unit (SKU)
1.1.1.41. Table master functionality--sets parameters in a table, has jobs read the table, and creates
postings or reports accordingly
The ability to define variables within a tabular array of data so that jobs are performed and postings
or reports are created accordingly
1.1.1.42. User-defined field names for tables
This refers to enterprise resource planning (ERP) database tables, not, for example, report tables.
1.1.1.43. Method for verifying keying to ensure only appropriate records updated
The ability check data entry to make sure that only the correct records are updated
1.1.1.44. Archiving of transaction history as well as purge from active files
1.1.2. CHART OF ACCOUNTS STRUCTURE
The chart of accounts is a list of ledger account names and account numbers, creating consistency
in terminology and eliminates redundant accounts. A chart of accounts structure should include
1.1.2.1. Account numbers may contain upwards of thirty alphanumeric characters
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