Roadmap ERP vs SAP

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….. an ‘End-To-End’ Solution
Roadmap ERP, an end-to-end business solution can fit into any manufacturing and
services industry irrespective of business in nature. It is a strategic business solution
that integrates all business functions, including manufacturing, finance, and
distribution.
Being integrated with all modules, it allows every department or function to store and
access information in real time. Complete visibility also enables organizations to run
their enterprise in accordance with their strategy, while empowering them to make
quick decisions to pursue opportunities.
Roadmap Products facilitates the customers to increase business values through
business process integration, transformation, cost reduction and process re-
engineering.
Used to better operate planning, administration and all internal business processes,
including manufacturing, supply chain, financials, customer relationship management,
human resources, and warehouse management; thereby enabling Business owners to
run their business with high levels of customer service and productivity, and
simultaneously lower costs and inventories. Roadmap ERP product will integrate all
data and processes of an organization into a single unified system.
With its wide range of modules, it can be readily adapted to meet industry or
company-specific requirements without impacting the standard functions or limiting
the upgrade path.
Promotes business success with extensive features and functions, that reduces process
cycle time while increasing productivity and competitiveness. Optimize every sector
of your value chain with Roadmap ERP Solutions, from sales to costing, procurement,
production, finance, and supply chain management.

3. Few salient features…
 End-to-End Business solution
 Fit for any kind of Industries,irrespectiveof business nature
 SingleSystem forcompletecorporate operations
 One touch Dashboard - configurable
 Maximized operational efficiency & productivity for any complex needs
 EnhancesProductivity &Efficiency, byoptimum utilizationof resources

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Features Description
Roadmap
ERP
Sap
B1
Sap R3 MS NAV Others
Comprehensive End to
End Business Solution
Roadmap ERP is one of most robust,
comprehensive, User friendly, end to
end business solutions covers entire
business functionalities of any kind of
manufacturing /service industries;
and can be bench marked with any
tier 1 leading MNC ERP software.
Highly Scalable Supports to efficiently manage
multiple corporate groups, companies
(legal entities), branches/plants with
single installation. P&L and Balance
Sheet can be taken at
branches/plants, consolidations by
company/corporate group level.
Web Enabled Roadmap ERP is a web enabled
software. Organizations spread across
geographically in different location can
do their transactions online via
Internet/VPN/RF/leased Lines.
Multi Strategy Support Supports multi strategies like
 Make to Stock
 Make to Order
 Engineer to Order
 Assemble to Order etc.
Complete Reduction of
Redundant Data Entry
Roadmap helps to avoid complete
redundant data entry.
Workflow Approvals Roadmap ERP assures paperless
organization except for the statutory
requirements. Organization can define
its own processes for various
department functionalities. Upon
approval, system auto sends the
email/message notification to
concerned
suppliers/customers/employees which
saves time.
Notification
Management
Roadmap ERP's Proactive Notification
Management system enables
organization users to do their day to
day tasks on-time. User doesn't
require remembering anything; once
user logs in, system gives pending task
list to the users to follow and
complete.
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Features Description
Roadmap
ERP
Sap
B1
Sap R3 MS NAV Others
Periodical Accounting
System (Indian A/c
System)
Most of the MNC software does not
support Indian Accounting System
(Periodical accounting system).
Indian accounting practices are
(1) When Organization purchase
material, Purchase A/c is debited
(2) No journal while issuing the
material to department/WIP
(3) Closing stock will be arrived by
stock valuation.
Whereas MNC software support
perpetual Accounting System; in
which,
(1) Inventory A/c will be debited while
purchasing
(2) Inventory to WIP/Expenses journal
will be passed while issuing and
transferring material
(3) Closing Stock is available in Trial
Balance
Branch / Division
Accounting
Organization having plants in different
states necessary to submit individual
TB, P&L & Balance Sheet to
Government Authorities. Roadmap
ERP's auto journal creation feature
enables task very simpler. When the
transaction happens across the two
plants, system automatically creates
the journals in both the books of
account.
Buyer - Consignee
Handling (Customer)
Customers will have plants in different
states and each one will be defined as
separate customer. Orders will be
placed by customers and materials are
dispatched to customers. Payments
will be made by parent company
stating all bills referring group
companies and for which, one receipt
against multiple customers’ bills can
be matched & cleared.
Multiple Supplier &
Payment to one
Suppliers will have plants in different
states and each one will be defined as
separate supplier. Orders will be
placed to suppliers and materials are
dispatched from supplier. Payments
will be made to parent company
stating all bills referring group
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companies and for which, one
payment voucher against multiple
supplier bills can be matched &
cleared.
Multi Currency Support Roadmap ERP supports multi
currency transaction in purchase,
sales, payment and receipts. System
automatically passes the journal for
Realized gain/loss. Payable/Receivable
balance and aging can be viewed in
both foreign and local currency.
Triangular Currency
Handling
During Payment/Receipt, Roadmap
ERP handles three currency
operations. For example.
(1) Transaction Currency is Euro
(2) Bank Operating Currency is US$
and
(3) Company's function currency is
Indian Rupees.
Foreign Currency
Revaluation
It is a statutory requirement to revalue
the Foreign Currency Accounts
Payable and Accounts Receivable
documents. Normally the revaluation
task happens after 3 to 6 months of
financial year end. But, by that time
the documents that were due by 31-
Mar might have been closed in the
current year with old exchange rates.
Roadmap ERP handles this challenge
successfully.
Supplier Acts as
Customer & Vice Versa
It is quite normal in business that
supplier will act as customer and vice
versa. Roadmap ERP efficiently
handles the transactions.
LC/BG Handling Roadmap ERP efficiently handles
Letter of Credit (LC) and Bank
Guarantee in both Issue and Receipts
Mode.
Packing Credit / Bill
Discounting
Roadmap ERP efficiently handles
Packing credit and bill discounting; in
which, packing credit loan can be
availed against the sale order and
likewise, bill discounting can be
availed against sales invoice. In certain
cases, packing credit loan can be
converted into bill discounting.
Forward Contract Roadmap ERP helps to protect from
exchange rate variation losses during
foreign currency transactions.
Duty Drawback Roadmap ERP handles duty drawback
for exporting goods.
LUT Handling Roadmap ERP supports LUT, for
removal of export excisable goods
without payment of duty.
Non-Performing Assets Roadmap ERP considers the amounts
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very long time as Bad Debts; which
will be based on the Auditor or
Management decision.
Late Payment Interest
Calculation and early
Payment discount
calculation
Roadmap ERP considers the payment
that are received after the due days for
interest calculation and amounts paid
in prior to prescribed period will be
taken for discount calculation.
Receivable Due Date Roadmap ERP calculates the
receivable due date, based on the
following basis,
 Invoice Date
 Receipt Date
 Milestone based
 Consumption Based
 LR Date Based
Bank Deposits Organization can register and track
the different type of deposits, maturity
date, maturity amount etc.
Cash Forecast Cash Forecasting can be generated
from various sources such as
Accounts Payable, Accounts
Receivable, Purchase Orders, Sales
Orders, and Payroll etc. Forecasted
cash flow can be later compared with
actual cash flow.
Fixed Asset Management Complete fixed asset life cycle
management starting from
 Asset registration
 Depreciation, Cost additions
 Retirement
 Termination
 Asset disposal
Capital WIP Organization can maintain multiple
Capital WIP and upon completion, the
same can easily be converted into
single/multiple Fixed Assets
Budgeting Organization spends considerable
amount of time in preparing budget.
With Roadmap ERP, budget
preparation is very simpler. With only
few inputs, detailed budget up-to
budgeted P & L and Balance Sheet
can be prepared in the following
methods,
 Static Budget
 Flexible Budget
 Rolling Budget
Costing Roadmap ERP supports the following
type of costing and based on the
industry type appropriate costing
methods can be mapped.
> Process Costing > Operation
Costing > Job order costing
> Batch Costing > ABC Costing
> Contract Costing

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Features Description
Roadmap
ERP
Sap
B1
Sap R3 MS NAV Others
Taxation Auto generation of statutory reports in
single click;
Reports such as, RG23A Part I & II,
RG23C Part I & II, Rg1, Er1, Service
Tax, VAT Annexure I,II,III, IV Exp. &
Imp., Form I, C Forms, To be
Issued/Received, H Forms To be
Issued/Received, E1 & E2 Forms to be
Issued/Received, TDS/TCS/ESI
Register, Service Tax Payable/Availed
Register.
Formula based Tax
Calculation
Through Roadmap ERP Formula
builder, it is easy to define the formula
to calculate the required taxes.
Moreover user has options to change
the new rates when Government
changes the tariff.
Financial Statement Auto generation of Schedule VI,
Revised Schedule VI financial
Statements.
Parallel working in dual
years
During the year end, it is required to
work for both the financial year
(Current Year & Last Year). Roadmap
ERP supports to do the transaction in
both the years. At any time until
closure of last year, closing balance
can be transferred.

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Features Description
Roadmap
ERP
Sap B1 Sap R3
MS
NAV
Others
Purchasing &
Subcontracting
Supports 2 different types of
purchasing & subcontracting such as,
Quantity Purchase / Subcontracting
Orders Open PO & Supplier Schedule
for Purchasing/ Subcontracting
KANBAN Planning Roadmap ERP supports KANBAN
planning.
Stock Visibility Complete visibility of Raw Material
stocks, Finished Goods (FG) stocks,
WIP Process/operation/stage wise
stocks at Shop Floor and
subcontractor.
Lot/Serial/Locator Sales
Order/Project wise
Through Roadmap ERP, stock can be
tracked at lot number wise/ serial
number wise as well locator wise i.e.
Rack, Row, and Column. Shelf life and
expiry stocks can be tracked easily.
Also, Stocks can be tracked at Sales
Order and Project wise.
Dimension wise Stock Available stocks can be viewed by
material type such as Sheet, Coil, bar
and also by Grade Thickness, Width,
Length, Inner Dia., Outer Dia. Etc
Sale Order Management Supports two different type of Sales
Orders
 Quantity Sales Order
 Open SO and Customer Schedule
Multiple Amendment: Roadmap ERP
supports to amend the sales orders
and customer schedule multiple times
and keep track of history.
Multi Type of Sales Roadmap ERP supports the following
types of invoices,
(1) Standard (2) Stock Transfer (3)
Stock Transfer 3PL (4) Supplementary
(5) Scrap (7) Labor (8) Service (9) Input
Sales (10) Project (11)
Demo/Exhibition (12) Free
Replacement (13) Free Sample (14)
Service Tax Transfer (15) Fixed Assets
Sales
Retrospective Price
Effective
It is quite normal in business that,
sales prices are revised with past
effective date. Roadmap ERP helps the
organizations to prepare the
supplementary invoice for the FG’s
invoiced in the past period.
SALES & DISTRIBUTION

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Features Description
Roadmap
ERP
Sap B1 Sap R3
MS
NAV
Others
8D Roadmap Quality control adheres 8D
reporting.
APQP Roadmap ERP handles the complete
APQP business process.
Auditing Roadmap ERP handles the following
auditing process.
 5S Audit,
 Customer Audit,
 Supplier Audit,
 Sub-Contractor Audit,
 Process Audit
 Internal Quality Audit
Measurement System
Analysis
Supports to have different
Measurement System Study such as,
 R&R Study
 Bias study
 Linearity Study
 Stability Study
Calibration Roadmap ERP handles complete life
cycle of registering gauges defining
calibration due dates, inside/outside
calibration, obsolete gauges etc.
TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT

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Features Description
Roadmap
ERP
Sap B1 Sap R3
MS
NAV
Others
Manufacturing Types Roadmap ERP supports different type
of manufacturing such as,
 Discrete Manufacturing
 Line/Repetitive Manufacturing
 Process Manufacturing
 Batch Manufacturing
 Project Manufacturing
Primary & Alternative BOM Roadmap ERP supports to maintain
multiple Routing / Bill of Material /
Bill of Resources for each product and
option to choose required one in the
planning/manufacturing etc.
Different Types of
Production Order
Roadmap ERP supports to different
type of production orders
 Standard
 Regular Lot
 Sample Lot
 Pilot Lot
 Tool Development
 Non Standard
 Labor Order
Mould, Dies & Tools Roadmap ERP handles every
Mould/Die/Tool order as a Project and
complete tasks of the projects such as
planning, purchase, production and
subcontracting can be effectively
monitored.
Mould, Dies & Tool Life
Monitoring
Roadmap ERP supports to maintain
multiple moulds, dies, tools and its life
can be effectively monitored.
PLANNING & MANUFACTURING

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Features Description
Roadmap
ERP
Sap B1 Sap R3
MS
NAV
Others
Human Resources & Payroll Comprehensive coverage of HR &
Payroll Modules from Planning,
Recruiting, Orientation, Portfolio,
Leave & Time Management, Loan
Management, Performance Appraisal
(9 Standard Method), Business Trip
Management, Training & Development
and Payroll .
Employee Self Services Through Employee Self Service
Management, Employees can update
their personal information, Education
information, certification details, and
dependent details. Employees can view
their payroll, leave details and
supports to raise leave request, loan
request , training request, business
trip request etc.
Salary Computation It is quite normal in the organization,
which gives the salary increment
effective from the past period. It is
cumbersome task to calculate the
salary for the past period and deduct
the actual paid and pay the net
remaining. Roadmap Payroll effectively
handles this process.
TDS Computation Roadmap ERP calculates TDS for the
employees based on their salary and
proposed/actual investments made.
Any increment in salary and
allowances are automatically adjusted.
Mobile Apps Roadmap ERP enhanced with latest
features of having the desired portals
in Mobile/Tabs/Laptops etc.; which
gives instant real time information of
business information.
 Workflow Approval
 Marketing CRM – Pre Sales &
Post Sales
 Employee Attendance
 Employee Self Service Portal
 Supplier Portal
 Customer Portal
HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

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Usability Roadmap ERP SAP BI SAP R3 MS NAV Other ERPs
UI
FullWeb Interface
Responsive Mobile UI
Android Native App
iOS Native App
Market Place
App Store / Add-ons
Subjective Ratings
Ease of Use
Navigationand Search
Data Entry
Mobile App
Reports Flexibility
ROADMAP ------
 Use single product forthe entire corporate, regardless of verticals/locations
 ERP SystemGo-live means integratingallbusiness requirements and submissionof 1st
month P&L and Balance Sheet
 Customization is completelyborne by Roadmap untilGo-Live
 AMC starts fromthe date of systemGo-Live
 Havingmore features when compared with the InternationalERPs, and that too 1/3 oftheir price.
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