Great ERP tool to use in a manufacturing environment. Great for production planning & PO management
What do you like best?
Ability to easily manage customer purchase orders and ability to manage production from demand planning and forecast planning (through the APO extension) to master production scheduling to capacity planning and MRP / line of balance. Ability to manipulate master data and extract reports.
What do you dislike?
The tool is quite difficult to use and not easy to be customised. I don't like the fact that sometimes to extract a report it takes a lot of time. The APO extension can be improved as it is quite difficult to use too.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
when implementing SAP is key to agree the structure with all the stakeholders before rolling it out and make sure all people are following the standard works in order to maintain the process stable and reliable. It is definitely the best ERP tool and I suggest to implement to make sure all the production process is more under control
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
We have started using SAP in 2013 and after that we are experiencing as a company an higher demand stability, an improved capacity planning a production planning. It is very beneficial to have all the information related to customers, products, etc. in one database and have the ability to pull the datasets needed at any time.