Access to ERP

Question for those of you who sell physical product and use a ERP system.



As a sales person, do you have access to your ERP? If yes, do you use it consistently and what for in the main? Or do you work exclusively from an CRM instead?



Our company uses SAP for ERP and Hubspot for CRM and there is chatter about limiting/removing sales access to SAP, I think to reduce costs as in theory the sales team should really need to operate in the ERP, everything should happen in the CRM.



Just wondered if there is common practice elsewhere, in sales i never have not had access to the CRM but my roles have been somewhat unique, especially in previous roles selling customized products where I would do a lot of product/inventory management with/on behalf of my customers.



The goal apparently is to switch quote creation over to HS from SAP which seems ok as long as it works ok.



Interested to see what others think.

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jefe
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I've sold a few kinds of ERP-integrated software, and I've absolutely seen it both ways with clients.

In many of them, sales will have access to ERP and do a lot of sales order creation etc. in it, and might not even have a CRM. Ithers will keep sales out and only in CRM and avoid paying for ERP seats for their sales teams.
sketchysales
Politicker
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Sales Manager
Yes this makes sense, i think as the team grows they are relooking at whats needed and what isnt which is fair, just as someone who always has had the visibility, I enjoy that but as long as the key functionality is retained i guess i shouldnt be worried.
CuriousFox
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Interesting. I've only discussed SAP to clients about connection, ordering, etc. How do you like it?
sketchysales
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Sales Manager
SAP is good as a ERP, i have used it in 2 jobs now. Its CRM functionality is woeful though, clunky, old school and no good. We recently went in with Hubspot (which again i used in a previous job alongside SAP) and thats been a game changer here.
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