ERP Evaluation Competitor Rating Analysis for
NetSuite (NetSuite 2007) by NetSuite, SAP Business ByDesign (FP2.0)
by SAP
The graphs below were developed as a
high-level competitive rating analysis of NetSuite (NetSuite
2007) by NetSuite, SAP Business ByDesign (FP2.0) by SAP. They
display the standard scores of the vendor's solution, as determined
through TEC's default ERP Evaluation model. The graphs
reflect 3691 functional, technical, and business criteria.
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FINANCIALS
Includes:General Ledger;
Accounts Payable (A/P); Fixed Assets; Cost Accounting;
Cash Management; Budgeting; and others |
959 |
82.01 |
86 |
HUMAN
RESOURCES
Includes:Personnel
Management; Benefits; Payroll; Employee Self-Service;
Employee Metrics; Health and Safety; and
others |
435 |
59.7 |
59.63 |
MANUFACTURING
MANAGEMENT
Includes:Product Costing;
Shop Floor Control; Field Service and Repairs;
Production Planning; Project Management; Product Data
Management (PDM); and others |
1048 |
35.71 |
62.37 |
INVENTORY
MANAGEMENT
Includes:Inventory
Management--Online Requirements; Processing
Requirements; Data Requirements; Reporting and
Interfacing Requirements (Inventory Management);
Locations and Lot Control; Forecasting; and
others |
184 |
51.63 |
83.48 |
PURCHASING
MANAGEMENT
Includes:Profile of
Suppliers; Rating of Suppliers; Requisitions and
Quotations; Purchase Orders (POs); Pricing; Vendor
Contracts and Agreements; and others |
260 |
53.15 |
71.04 |
QUALITY
MANAGEMENT
Includes:Production
Quality Management; |
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40 |
63.45 |
SALES
MANAGEMENT
Includes:Online
Requirements (Sales Management); Reporting and
Interfacing Requirements (Sales Management);
Available-to-Promise (ATP); Pricing and Discounting;
Customer Service and Returned Goods Handling; Customer
Relationship Management (CRM) and E-Commerce
Requirements; and others |
230 |
76.09 |
79.39 |
PRODUCT
TECHNOLOGY
Includes:Architecture;
User Interface; Platforms; Application Tools; Workflow
and Document Management; Reporting; and others |
327 |
61.53 |
58.76 | |
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Financials
Financial system modules for bookkeeping and ensuring
accounts are paid or received on time.
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GENERAL
LEDGER
Includes:Parameters and
Structuring; Chart of Accounts Structure; Ledger
Development and Management; Enterprise Reporting
Structure; Journal Entry and Reporting; Journal
Vouchers; and others |
314 |
90.38 |
89.75 |
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE
(A/P)
Includes:Policies and
Procedures; Supplier Master Data; Invoice Process and
Aging; Journal Invoice Process; A/P Ledger Posting;
Control of Payments; and others |
235 |
88.68 |
89.38 |
FIXED
ASSETS
Includes:Records for Fixed
Assets; Asset Transactions; Depreciation of Assets;
Depreciation Books; Tax Reports; |
89 |
60 |
77.53 |
COST
ACCOUNTING
Includes:Cost Data; Cost
Allocations; Cost Allocation Processing; Management of
Costs; |
49 |
91.02 |
86.94 |
CASH
MANAGEMENT
Includes:Up-to-date cash
balance report; Projects cash resources from sales, A/R,
field services, and miscellaneous cash; Projects cash
utilization from purchasing, A/P, and miscellaneous
cash; Checks committed funds against cash reserves or
availability; Updates and maintains pay date schedule;
Reports cash projections; and others |
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88.75 |
95 |
BUDGETING
Includes:Budget Control;
Budget Accounting; Budget Development; Budgets;
Allocation of Budgets; |
65 |
87.08 |
74.08 |
ACCOUNTS
RECEIVABLE
Includes:On-line
Requirements; Processing Requirements; Data
Requirements; Reporting Requirements; Interfacing
Requirements; Credit and Collections Management; and
others |
105 |
79.71 |
88.86 |
FINANCIAL
REPORTING
Includes:Online
Requirements; Miscellaneous; |
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88 |
75.43 |
PROJECT
ACCOUNTING
Includes:Project and Cost
Coding Structure; Project Creation; Cost Coding
Structure Creation or Maintenance; Transaction
Processing; Line Item Data Capture; Reporting Format and
Tools; and others |
51 |
21.57 |
74.9 | |
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Human Resources
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 Product
Technology
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PERSONNEL
MANAGEMENT
Includes:Recruitment
Management; Profile of Personnel; Organizational
Structures; Job Position and Wage Profiles; Career
Development and Training; Management of Rewards; and
others |
122 |
44.43 |
48.36 |
BENEFITS
Includes:Standard
Benefits; Profile for Employee Benefit Plan;
Administering Benefits; |
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40 |
58.33 |
PAYROLL
Includes:Profile for
Employee Payroll; Earnings and Deductions; Eligibility
Parameters; User Balances; Automated Time Sheet;
Security and Audit; and others |
70 |
85 |
85.14 |
EMPLOYEE
SELF-SERVICE
Includes:Review and
maintain name, address, telephone number, etc.,
associated with life events; Review or enroll in
benefits for open enrollment period; Change benefits
related to a life event; Update W4 information such as
tax filling status, number of exemptions, and
withholding information; View pay stub info: gross pay,
taxes, other deductions, net pay, pay period, and
year-to-date totals; Maintain dependents and
beneficiaries related to life event; and
others |
22 |
70.91 |
65.45 |
EMPLOYEE
METRICS
Includes:Staff headcount,
movement, and turnover trends analyses and reports;
Workforce planning reporting; EEO/affirmative
action/disabled employee reporting; Absence and leave
accrual reporting; Wage and salary costs data, with
detailed breakdowns across, for example, earnings,
deductions, and disbursements; Reports on vacancies and
the effectiveness of filling them such as time to fill,
cost per applicant, and average time of retaining the
position; and others |
13 |
49.23 |
26.15 |
HEALTH AND
SAFETY
Includes:Report and
investigate incidents of injury and illness for
employees and contractors; Initiation of corrective
actions related to an incident; Logging of first aid
records and reports; Manage occupational injury and
illness claims; Report incidents involving vehicles and
equipment; Detect and monitor hazardous conditions
(areas) and materials, and exporting them via an
interface for further processing; and others |
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40 |
20 |
WORKFORCE
MANAGEMENT
Includes:Project
Identification; Resource Identification and
Classification; Workforce Forecasting and Planning
(Supply and Demand); Workforce Gap Analysis; Resource
Allocation and Analysis; Project Management and
Tracking; and others |
147 |
70.2 |
72.52 |
TRAINING
Includes:Planning;
Administration; |
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26.15 |
0.77 | |
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Manufacturing Management
Kanban is a method of Just-in-Time production that
uses standard containers or lot sizes with a single card attached to each.
It is a pull system in which work centers signal with a card or other
device that they wish to withdraw parts from feeding operations or
suppliers. The Japanese word kanban, loosely translated, means card,
billboard, or sign, but other signaling devices such as colored golf balls
have also been used. The term is often used synonymously for the specific
scheduling system developed and used by the Toyota Corporation in Japan.
Point-of-use storage/floor stock�keeping inventory in specified locations
on a plant floor near the operation where it is to be used.
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PRODUCT
COSTING
Includes:Item Costing;
Costing Activity; Purchase Costing; Costing
Calculations; Cost Report and Inventory Accounting;
Actual Costing; and others |
105 |
41.71 |
42.1 |
SHOP FLOOR
CONTROL
Includes:Flow
Manufacturing; Company Calendar; Work Centers and
Machines; Orders Dispatching; Production Orders Control
and Reporting; WIP Management; and others |
385 |
25.82 |
60.52 |
FIELD SERVICE AND
REPAIRS
Includes:Call Management;
Service Order Management; Field Service Management;
Service Contracts Management; Processing and Statusing;
Service Training Management; and others |
119 |
45.55 |
71.09 |
PRODUCTION
PLANNING
Includes:Master Production
Scheduling (MPS); Rough-Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP);
Material Requirements Planning (MRP); Capacity
Requirements Planning (CRP) and Work Center Scheduling;
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77.91 |
PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
Includes:Uses control
numbers to link materials, inventory, manufacturing
activities, etc. to customer orders; Multilevel pegging
for materials, inventory, and manufacturing activities;
Optional control number for materials, inventory, and
manufacturing activities; Transaction tracking by
project with online audit trail; Automatically provides
full multilevel pegging; Calculates net requirements for
projects and contracts (netting logic); and
others |
36 |
43.33 |
20 |
PRODUCT DATA
MANAGEMENT (PDM)
Includes:BOMs structured
in a tree chart can be edited and modified; Validates
data before it is added to a file or database;
Integrates with a CAD or PDM system so part numbers can
be added directly into a BOM; Rules to ensure that only
available parts are added to a BOM; Reference
designators are included with BOMs; PDM workflow; and
others |
68 |
40 |
67.06 |
PRODUCT/ITEM
CONFIGURATOR
Includes:Product
variability; Menu selections; Selection constraints;
Conditions; Auto planning BOM; Option types; and
others |
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Inventory Management
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 warehouses.
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INVENTORY
MANAGEMENT--ONLINE REQUIREMENTS
Includes:Maintain item
number history of usage, both planned and unplanned, and
purged upon a specific date criteria; Provide inquiry
and reporting capability for inventory transactions by
item number, location, and transaction type.; Provide
reporting capability by item number (all transactions
since last cycle count); Provide inquiry and reporting
capability for inventory transaction summary by from and
to dates; Provide inquiry and reporting capability for
inventory status by item number and serial number;
Provide inquiry and reporting capability for slow moving
and obsolete inventory; and others |
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70.34 |
91.72 |
PROCESSING
REQUIREMENTS
Includes:Provide for
multiple facilities, warehouses, stockrooms, and
inventory locations; Kanban inventory management;
Flexible assignment of inventory processing by product
and part (kanban and point-of-use); Provide allocation
of raw material and component inventory to firm planned
or open work order locations; Provide for non-nettable
inventory locations; Provide for ABC classification of
parts, based on order activity, historic usage/cost, or
projected usage/cost; and others |
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55 |
88.57 |
DATA
REQUIREMENTS
Includes:Provide product
line code information on the inventory master file;
Provide item number information on the inventory master
file; Provide item description information on the
inventory master file; Provide unit of measure
information on the inventory master file; Provide
effectivity information on the inventory master file
(absolute date effectivity may be assigned via item
number); Provide effectivity information on the
inventory master file regardless of its total product
structure usage; and others |
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40 |
93.33 |
REPORTING AND
INTERFACING REQUIREMENTS (INVENTORY
MANAGEMENT)
Includes:Produce
system-generated documents for material issues to
production runs; Provide reporting of inactive, excess,
or obsolete inventory; Provide inventory valuation
reporting by item number, product code, warehouse,
production facility, distribution center, or stockroom;
Provide the ability for a distribution center to run
reports or inquiries on inventory status, open order
status (sales and production), costs, sales, and quotes
for items that only pertain to their specific facility;
Reports of inventory by team, planner code, and buyer
code; Interface with the general ledger to forward a
journal for all inventory adjustments; and
others |
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40 |
82.22 |
LOCATIONS AND LOT
CONTROL
Includes:Set stocking
locations for each item as fixed, assigned, manual or
assigned by the system; Standard ten-position convention
to identify location of items in inventory; A given
finished item can be listed simultaneously in multiple
stocking places in one site; Users define types to
classify storage locations, such as warehouse, store,
branch, truck, consigned, return, repair, inspection,
department, bulk, or category; Use random locations for
storing items; Standard locations for stocking items;
and others |
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49 |
84 |
FORECASTING
Includes:Conducts
simulation to test policies; Uses beta factor to resolve
forecasting errors; Compares actual service levels to
service levels specified in policies; Generates
initialization and control reports to create and
evaluate forecasts; Generates initialization or
simulation reports for safety stock; Measures accuracy
of forecasts (adjusted or unadjusted); and
others |
52 |
40 |
75.38 |
RESERVATIONS AND
ALLOCATIONS
Includes:Reservation
days--time fence between soft and hard allocations;
Displays online and in real time resources and inventory
that are available in a specific location; Item balances
maintained by grade specifications and lot number;
Available inventory reduced at time of sales order
entry; Customizable rules for reallocating inventory
across open orders; Immediate allocation of inventory
quantities to backorders; and others |
26 |
60.77 |
78.46 |
ADJUSTING
INVENTORY
Includes:Manual
adjustments to inventory values; User specifies reason
codes for adjusting inventory, such as cycle count or
poor quality; Secure access via control number to modify
inventory transactions; Displays inventory balance
information before and after adjustments; Inventory
adjustments tracked for reporting purposes;
Authorization on individual transaction level; and
others |
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Purchasing Management
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 compliance analysis and reporting.
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PROFILE OF
SUPPLIERS
Includes:Fields for
supplier data such as shipping methods, item references,
and conditions; Suppliers may have more than one
address; Store e-mail addresses, web sites, and fax
numbers in vendor profiles; Associate items with
vendors' descriptions; Code different vendor production
lead times, taking into account both supplier lead time
and transport time; Bill-to-entity information including
currency, bank, account number, and mode of payment; and
others |
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75 |
91.67 |
RATING OF
SUPPLIERS
Includes:Year-to-date
description of purchases in dollar value, by supplier;
Goods delivery times are maintained as statistics for
each supplier; Twenty-four month statistical performance
data; Average of early days and late days delivery;
Rejected salvaged in number and dollar value; Analyzes
suppliers' PO fulfillment performance based on
significant data points such as cost or price and
quality; and others |
13 |
44.62 |
45.38 |
REQUISITIONS AND
QUOTATIONS
Includes:Users can
manually enter requisitions, which update along with
automatic entries; Procurement system allows multiple
line items and delivery schedules; Quality codes
included on purchase requisitions; Requisitions can be
approved in real time; Processes requests for quotation
(RFQ); Manage and update supplier's quotes for
particular items; and others |
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58.46 |
100 |
PURCHASE ORDERS
(POS)
Includes:MRP requisition
converts to a purchase order; Conversion of a planned
purchase order to a PO electronically forwarded to
vendor automatically; Manually enter and send purchase
order; Assigns sequential PO numbers automatically;
Purchase order types including standard PO,
blanket/contract, subcontract order/operation, purchase
request, and return-from-stock; Purchase orders for
miscellaneous (non-inventoried) items "Fast Path"; and
others |
63 |
61.27 |
71.59 |
PRICING
Includes:Price and
discount table corresponds to individual suppliers and
items; Automatic update of an item's record based on the
item's most recent purchase price; Orders may be
discounted manually or automatically based on the order
line; Price adjustments such as quantity discounts are
determined from a grade table; Vendor price may be
changed for a product class in multiple vendor
agreements; Pricing and discounting tables include
effectivity dates; and others |
13 |
44.62 |
86.15 |
VENDOR CONTRACTS
AND AGREEMENTS
Includes:Agreements with
suppliers may be discounted at different levels
including the product level, product class level, and a
level for general terms; Agreement number designating
common terms; Defines normal contract and special
contract types; Contract effectivity dates (start and
end); Users may enter agreement start dates (a signal
date); Contract terms may specify ranges for delivery
dates and quantities; and others |
16 |
43.75 |
37.5 |
MANAGEMENT OF
POS
Includes:Entities within a
company link to a common legal entity (for example,
business units, plants, sites, etc.); Consolidates
enterprise-wide purchasing as a central unit; Products
classified within a purchase class default to a main
vendor; Verifies (and holds if necessary) receiving
transactions on the basis of controls defined during
purchasing; Internal processing lead times provided
based on products and warehouses; Retain PO data for
audit purposes (PO with electronic approval); and
others |
25 |
66.4 |
61.6 |
PROCUREMENT
REPORTING AND ONLINE REPORTING
Includes:Requisition
report and query; Purchase order report and query for
planned POs and released POs; Purchase order status and
follow-up reporting or querying; Purchasing action
recommended according to material requirements;
User-defined parameters for PO and receipt exception
reporting; Released purchase orders traced by part
number; and others |
24 |
33.33 |
72.5 |
REPEAT
PROCUREMENT
Includes:Users (with
proper authorization) may issue blanket POs for
specified items, quantities, and time periods; Includes
established effective dates in contract orders and line
items; Tracks quantity or dollar value ranges for
contracts; Purchasing agent may establish special
conditions for delivery by the vendor; PO line items
maintain information pertaining to allocation, delivery,
and purchase; Shipping and delivery schedules for the
vendor reported in physical or electronic formats; and
others |
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20 |
63.16 |
RECEIPTS FOR
PROCUREMENT
Includes:Reports
information on goods reception; Receipt order or receipt
number; Creates receipts based on the contract or
project; Multiple POs may be grouped as a single receipt
for one shipment; Automatically numbers receipts in
sequence; Calls up PO receipts in real time and updates
inventory data; and others |
30 |
47.33 |
71 |
ONLINE
REQUIREMENTS FOR PURCHASING MANAGEMENT
Includes:Create and use
blanket purchase orders; Provides a reference to a
contract or master agreement; Create multiple releases,
each relieving a committed amount; Multiple release
capability at the line item level; Provides a reference
to the blanket purchase order that yielded a particular
PO; Manual instigation of purchase requisitions; and
others |
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78.57 |
85.71 |
REPORTING AND
INTERFACING REQUIREMENTS FOR PURCHASING
MANAGEMENT
Includes:Print open PO
detail information by vendor, item number, due date, or
dollar value; Generate past due reports by vendor or
item number in due date sequence; Automatic reminder for
overdue shipments sent to vendors via fax or e-mail;
Print a vendor performance report based on shipment and
purchasing history; Print a vendor performance report
based on showing late deliveries (days late); Print a
vendor performance report based on orders placed; and
others |
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Quality Management
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PRODUCTION
QUALITY MANAGEMENT
Includes:Defective or
excess material return processing must update on-hand;
Damaged material--corrective action and failure analysis
available to vendor on-line; Flags need to perform
inspection of a specific item or a supplier's items;
Receives items and records as �inventory on hold� when
quality inspection is pending; Identifies items awaiting
or in process of inspection through an online query;
Validates inspection disposition using criteria that
specify inspection process; and others |
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40 |
63.45 | |
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Sales Management
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, etc.
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ONLINE
REQUIREMENTS (SALES MANAGEMENT)
Includes:Accommodate an
order type for a new order or quote; Status field for
new quotes or orders (specifies whether it's a new order
or quote); Creates order from quote and retains quote
reference identification (for all new orders or quotes);
Create an order from only selected lines of the quote;
Decrease the amount quoted; Allow for customer account
and sales order status on-line by customer name or
number or by sales order number; and others |
42 |
92.14 |
98.1 |
REPORTING AND
INTERFACING REQUIREMENTS (SALES MANAGEMENT)
Includes:Accommodate
processing and printing of invoices, reports, and
shipping; Print billing reports by product, invoice
number, and customer; Report daily unit and dollar
bookings, by item number, by customer and customer type,
with month to date (MTD) totals.; Report daily unit and
dollar billing/shipments, by item number and by customer
with MTD totals and sort by product group; Report
booking history (units) by month, displaying each of the
twelve months with a total; Report billing and shipment
history (units) by month, displaying each of the twelve
months with a total; and others |
49 |
62.04 |
91.84 |
AVAILABLE-TO-PROMISE (ATP)
Includes:Allocation
reports specify total demand, and on-hand stock, as well
as sales order sequencing; Schedule views for
available-to-promise items; Available-to-promise
scheduling can be viewed by time period and by
allocation; Imports available-to-promise quantities and
dates into sales order; Available-to-promise items are
specified automatically by the system;
Available-to-promise items are specified according to
capacity; and others |
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52 |
84 |
PRICING AND
DISCOUNTING
Includes:Manual discount
entry for single items or for invoice as a whole;
Automatic order discounting by buying agreement;
Discount templates by product family; Discounts are
based on amount, applied by header, or associated with
contract lines; Promotion discounts can be associated
with products or product groupings; Assigns begin-by and
end-by dates for promotional discounts; and
others |
77 |
81.69 |
63.64 |
CUSTOMER SERVICE
AND RETURNED GOODS HANDLING
Includes:Customizable
enquiry procedures; Provides real-time product inventory
and delivery status; Order inquiry link to manufacturing
status, capacity, ATP yield, and inventory status;
Access of customer and customer order information
through a single screen, including open orders; order
details, status, and history; invoicing, credit details,
and payment application; Invoices can be viewed or
modified online; Partial shipment against purchase
order; and others |
29 |
68.97 |
72.41 |
CUSTOMER
RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (CRM) AND E-COMMERCE
REQUIREMENTS
Includes:Provide the
ability to store and report forecasted sales based by
salesperson and territory as well as based on the
probability and projected closing date for each sale;
Provide a period by period trend report of historical
sales and salesperson activity based on past
performance; Provide a report of the forecast error
based on past forecasts compared with past actual sales
results; Automatically generate a call or mail list
based on a selection of any combination of database
elements in the list database; Provide call history for
the customer; Provide hot key access to customer account
information; and others |
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77.39 |
78.26 | |
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Product Technology
This category defines the technical architecture of
the product, and the technological environment in which the product can
successfully run. 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 category. However, this apparently lower importance is
deceptive, because the product technology category usually houses the
majority of the selecting organization's mandatory criteria, which usually
include server, client, protocol, and database support, application
scalability and other architectural capabilities. The definition of
mandatory criteria within this set often 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. During the process of product selection a great deal of
attention is given to the functional capabilities of the software being
evaluated. While this aspect is obviously important, ignoring the
technical mechanisms by which the software actually operates can be fatal
to a project.
Product Technology Modules
Ratings |
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ERP Evaluation Main Modules |
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Total
Criteria |
NetSuite by NetSuite |
SAP Business ByDesign by SAP |
Module
Rating |
Module
Rating |
ARCHITECTURE
Includes:Data Integration
Technologies; Messaging Protocols; Device Interfaces;
Architectural Foundation; Web Enablement; Organizational
Structure; and others |
256 |
70.23 |
62.03 |
USER
INTERFACE
Includes:User
Configurability; |
7 |
100 |
100 |
PLATFORMS
Includes:Database;
Servers; Client; |
33 |
3.03 |
9.09 |
APPLICATION
TOOLS
Includes:Application
development tools; Application management tools; Process
Modeling and Updating; Business Model Generation;
|
21 |
23.81 |
67.62 |
WORKFLOW AND
DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT
Includes:Messaging;
Workflow; E-mail; Document management; Electronic
commerce; Automatic creation of to-do list; and
others |
6 |
73.33 |
85.83 |
REPORTING
Includes:Reports available
online; Local report printing (not centralized printing
and distribution); Ad hoc inquiry capability from within
the ERP product; Active or inactive status; |
4 |
100 |
100 | |
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