Best Alternative to SAP

Provider profiles

One profile per firm: what they do for manufacturers, the evidence they publish, how they engage and when to choose someone else.

  1. 1. OpenLazarus

    AI operations layer

    Best for: Companies leaving SAP ECC that want the daily operational work (orders, purchasing, supplier and customer correspondence, quality records) on an AI system they own, beside whichever ERP keeps the ledger.

  2. 2. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management

    Enterprise ERP

    Best for: Large and upper mid-sized companies replacing an ECC estate with a comparable enterprise ERP at a published per-user price.

  3. 3. Infor LN

    Enterprise ERP

    Best for: Complex, multi-site discrete manufacturers (aerospace and defence, automotive, high tech, industrial) leaving ECC for a cloud ERP built for that work.

  4. 4. Oracle NetSuite

    Cloud ERP

    Best for: Subsidiaries and mid-sized companies leaving ECC for one cloud suite covering accounting, order management, inventory, warehouses and manufacturing.

  5. 5. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

    Mid-market ERP

    Best for: Mid-sized companies, or subsidiaries, whose ECC use is mainly finance, distribution and straightforward production, and that want a published price.

  6. 6. Acumatica

    Mid-market ERP

    Best for: Mid-sized manufacturers and distributors leaving ECC that want multi-entity finance, MRP and scheduling with unlimited users.

  7. 7. Epicor Kinetic

    Manufacturing ERP

    Best for: Manufacturers and distributors leaving ECC that want an industry ERP with embedded AI agents generally available in Europe.

  8. 8. Odoo

    Modular ERP

    Best for: Smaller ECC users and subsidiaries that want a full suite at a published per-user price and the option to run on-premise.