ERP Software for Manufacturers

The key to optimizing manufacturing operations is having total visibility across your entire production process. This level of visibility can seem nearly impossible if you’re running separate systems for production, inventory management and accounting. Our ERP solution for manufacturing helps you rise to the challenge. By pulling your core business information into a single system, you’re able to achieve real-time inventory and production management.

Manufacturing Industries We Work With

We help manufacturers in many industry verticals maintain stability, drive growth, and boldly compete using our completely customizable and powerful ERP solutions.

Textile Products

ERP solutions for machinery manufacturers

Machinery & Components

ERP solutions for electronics manufacturing

High Tech & Electronics

Glass, Ceramics & Concrete

Apparel

Chemical Production

Agriculture

Furniture

Metal Fabrication

What Our Customers Say About ERP Solutions for Manufacturing

SAP Business One has really helped with our quality control and traceability program. We can continue to trace each individual shipment or lot number throughout our production and shipping procedures. It helps maintain the traceability of our end product.

Cal Vandaele, Vandaele Seeds

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ERP Solution Benefits for Manufacturers

Streamline your manufacturing processes to drive growth

Increase efficiency of your production lines and reduce product lead times

Use powerful scheduling, capacity planning, routing and BOM management to optimize every aspect of your manufacturing process.

Leverage process automation to reduce the manual effort of your team

Automatically allocate components, resources, raw materials and costs to your work orders based on the BOM setup.

Maintain an optimum production plan based on real data

Use material requirements planning (MRP) to optimize production planning based on real data, instead of informal, ad-hoc scheduling.

Proven Benefits for Your Team

Business Leader

Finance Leader

Sales Leader

Operations Leader

Purchasing Leader

IT Leader

Your title could be CEO, Owner, President, General Manager or similar. You’re responsible for all aspects of the business – from revenue and profit margins to ensuring product quality and customer satisfaction, the buck stops with you. You need to be confident your production environment is operating at peak performance and stay on top of small issues before they turn into major problems that impact the business.

Get a complete view of your organization’s performance, including revenue, production costs and profit margin
Achieve granular insight into your production costs, by product line or production order
Identify your most and least profitable products
Increase efficiency across the organization by simplifying systems and processes

Strategic and tactical planning to continue growing the business
Reducing operating and production costs
Increasing profitability by product or production order
Maintaining an optimal product mix to stay ahead of your competition

Profitability by produced item
Production costs
Quality of shipped products
Profitability and percentage growth
Revenue and percentage growth
Operating costs

Whether your title is CFO, VP of Finance, Controller or Accountant, you’re the money person. It’s up to you to make sure your vendors are paid, payroll is met, payment is collected from customers and financial statements are accurate.

Accurately forecast cash flow to align with material purchases for upcoming production orders
Get granular reporting on your financial performance at any point in time
Closely manage the company’s finances, including cash flow, bank accounts, loans, etc.
Create budgets and financial forecasts based on accurate historical data
Centralize accounting and financial controls
Complete period end close quickly and accurately

Effectively managing cash flow to feed resources back into materials and equipment
Planning for future capital investments, like new machinery or additional manufacturing space
Reducing production costs and increasing profitability
Producing accurate and timely financial records to inform your management team’s decision making

Total production costs by order or item
Gross margin by produced item
Days sales outstanding
Profitability and revenue goals

As the Director of Sales and Marketing, VP of Sales or Business Development Manager, you lead the company’s sales initiatives. Your focus is on generating new business to drive revenue. Speed and efficiency are critical to making the most of your team’s time and keeping them focused on the goal – selling.

Easily maintain a database of your contacts and track all sales activities
Provide accurate price quotes and delivery dates
Streamline the sales process by creating templates for quotes and sales orders
Support a mobile salesforce
Easily report on sales performance and identify areas for improvement

Knowing your prospects and customers inside out
Understanding what’s in your pipeline and what deals need attention
Analyzing your quote-to-close rate to identify areas for future improvement
Nurturing suspects and prospects into paying customers
Identifying new markets and areas for opportunity

Prospect to opportunity conversion
Percent of opportunities closed
Revenue and profitability by salesperson
Revenue and profitability by territory
Percent of sales quota achieved
Revenue by customer
Average order value

Your title could be VP of Operations, VP of Manufacturing or Chief Operations Officer. You manage the operational and manufacturing processes for the organization. You’re focused on increasing productivity, lowering costs and improving quality. In a nutshell – it’s your job to make sure things run smoothly.

Get a clear picture of your production materials, resources and equipment availability
Streamline your ordering process to ensure you have the right materials at the right time
Schedule your production line more efficiently and reduce lead times
Accurately allocate raw materials and resources to production orders
Fully understand the production costs on each product
Implement industry best practices and continuous improvement strategies

Set the operational strategy, including outsourcing, partnerships and material sourcing
Improving demand planning and delivery
Optimize manufacturing processes
Achieving insight into the company’s operations to identify opportunities for improvement

Production time / costs by product
Product line profitability
Supplier costs
Transportation costs
Transportation delivery (SLA)
Over / under budget by production order
Cost of raw materials
Cost of scrap

Your title could be Purchasing Manager, Senior Buyer or Supply Chain Manager. You're in charge of managing vendor relationships, sourcing and ordering materials, and ensuring just-in-time delivery of materials for production.

Know exactly how much of each material you need to fulfill production orders
Forecast material demand based on upcoming production schedules
Manage procurement costs through consolidated vendor purchasing
Automate the purchase process using MRP functionality
Time raw material orders with production orders

Effectively managing multiple vendors to avoid production material shortages
Optimizing production material levels
Negotiating pricing with vendors
Ensuring on-time delivery
Keeping material lead times down

Inventory turnover
Time to fulfill orders
Available to promise

As the IT Director, VP of IT, CIO or CTO, you oversee the company’s information technology operations. You’re responsible for maintaining technical equipment, staying on top of the latest technology tools and trends, and evaluating changing technical requirements and solutions.

Target uptime of 99.9% per calendar month for hosted ERP solutions
Redundant, dual powered servers ensure your ERP systems available even in the event of a facility failure
Free up internal IT resources by offloading server performance monitoring, hardware maintenance and security updates to our experienced datacenter team
Get budgeting piece of mind with predictable quarterly invoicing based on simple per user pricing

Minimizing ERP system downtime
Maintaining data security and back-ups
Managing user security
Providing the systems and tools necessary to maximize organizational efficiency
Maintaining lowest total cost of ownership for ERP systems

Percent of downtime
Cost of hosting per month
IT staff productivity
100% cyber security

ERP Solution Features for the Manufacturing & Production Industry

Purchasing

Production

Finance & Accounting

Reporting & Analytics

Inventory Management

Warehouse Management

Sales & CRM

Purchasing

Control your inventory and material costs by simplifying your procurement processes and managing vendor relationships more effectively.

Clearly see the quantity of each product in stock
Confidently forecast demand based on seasonal and other cycles
Manage procurement costs
Ensure raw material orders are timed appropriately with production orders using MRP (Materials Resource Planning) features

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Inventory Management

Consistently deliver an exceptional customer experience by ensuring you have the right product, for the right customer, at the right time.

Eliminate the manual effort in managing your inventory
Reduce the frequency of backorders
Use sophisticated forecasting and planning tools to optimize your inventory levels
Reduce inventory costs with better inventory control and material planning
Increase customer satisfaction with improved on-time delivery rates
Easily track and record stock movement so you know where your product is at all times

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Production

Optimize your manufacturing processes and gain total visibility into your production costs.

Get a clear picture of your production materials, resources and equipment availability
Streamline your ordering process to ensure you have the right materials at the right time
Schedule your production line more efficiently and reduce lead times
Accurately allocate raw materials and resources to production orders
Fully understand the production costs on each product

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Warehouse Management

Optimize freight, shipping and warehouse operations with warehouse management companion solutions that integrate with your enterprise resource planning platform.

Manage inbound and outbound shipping transactions
Keep your warehouse organized so your staff always knows just where to find what they’re looking for
Optimize order-to-cash processes with fast access to quotes, sales orders, deliveries and invoices
Reserve inventory to outbound quotes, sales orders or production orders to reduce time from order to shipment

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Finance & Accounting

Break down the wall between your financial data and the rest of your operation. Tie everything together in a single system to get more accurate and timely financial information.

Complete period end close quickly and accurately
Closely manage your company’s finances, including cash flow, bank accounts, loans, etc.
Create budgets and financial forecasts based on accurate historical data
Ensure you’re compliant with all applicable audit and tax requirements
Get a clear picture of your organization’s financial performance at any point in time
Make more profitable decisions using real-time data

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Sales & Customer Relationship Management

Drive revenue by enhancing your customer experience – from first touch, to sale and throughout post-purchase engagement.

Effectively manage sales opportunities to turn more prospects into customers
Easily maintain a database of your contacts and track all sales activities
Provide accurate price quotes and delivery dates for product or services
Streamline your sales team’s activities with templates for sales orders, quotes and proposals
Give your sales team a complete view of your customers and their needs

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Reporting & Analytics

Manage your business proactively with comprehensive reporting that considers all areas of your business collectively. An ERP solution allows your manufacturing company to answer questions like:

What’s our average gross margin per sale?
What’s the average cost to produce goods?
Which finished goods are trending up or down in cost?
What percentage is being rejected due to quality, by product or category?
Which products, lots or raw materials are associated with the top five customer warranty issues?
What are our top selling products (or categories) by territory, sales representative or customer group?
How long are suppliers taking to deliver materials?
Which suppliers are the top (or bottom) five performers, based on delivery time or fulfillment accuracy?

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Explore Manufacturing ERP Software

ERP Software for Manufacturers

Manufacturing Industries We Work With

Textile Products

Machinery & Components

High Tech & Electronics

Glass, Ceramics & Concrete

Apparel

Chemical Production

Agriculture

Furniture

Metal Fabrication

What Our Customers Say About ERP Solutions for Manufacturing

ERP Solution Benefits for Manufacturers

Streamline your manufacturing processes to drive growth

Increase efficiency of your production lines and reduce product lead times

Leverage process automation to reduce the manual effort of your team

Maintain an optimum production plan based on real data

Proven Benefits for Your Team

Business Leader

Finance Leader

Sales Leader

Operations Leader

Purchasing Leader

IT Leader

ERP Solution Features for the Manufacturing & Production Industry

Purchasing

Inventory Management

Production

Warehouse Management

Finance & Accounting

Sales & Customer Relationship Management

Reporting & Analytics

Explore Manufacturing ERP Software

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