ERP for SME Manufacturing company?

[skyebear]

Hi,

I'm looking for advice as to suitable ERP systems for a manufacturing company.

The company is a start-up who will be manufacturing industrial products and selling to distributors.

The company will be sourcing commodity components from China and Europe, as well as machining their patented parts in-house, with final assembly and shipping taking place at their UK site. So the ability to track multiple parts' streams in, stock levels, time spent in assembly, forecast demand and track final products out would be key.

There's no appetite to invest capital so a SaaS product would be preferable.

I appreciate this sort of setup will be food & drink to lots of you and hoping to lean on your expertise and any things to look for and avoid if possible.

Thanks.

[simon_harris]

D365 is probably easy enough and scalable if the company does well

[Redarress]

Talk the guys here. They are all ex engineers and decided to write this based ooop north
https://www.statii.co.uk

[skyebear]

simon_harris said:

D365 is probably easy enough and scalable if the company does well

Would that be D365 F&O? Thanks.

[skyebear]

Redarress said:

Talk the guys here. They are all ex engineers and decided to write this based ooop north
https://www.statii.co.uk

Interesting, thanks. Supporting another SME is always good too.

[48k]

I built a bespoke ERM system for a manufacturing business which is live with a couple of clients. It's constantly evolving and someone works on it 4 days per week for me. It covers everything from initial customer enquiry though design, order management, factory scheduling, stock management, delivery scheduling, delivery management, invoicing etc. and integrates with various systems like Outlook 365, Equifax, Experian, Companies House, Google maps, Whatsapp and so on.
Happy to have a chat if it could be something of interest. Link in my profile.

[spikeyhead]

It matters not which software, what's more important is that before you choose the software you work out exactly what you want it to do and put all the processes in place to support it.

[48k]

spikeyhead said:

It matters not which software, what's more important is that before you choose the software you work out exactly what you want it to do and put all the processes in place to support it.

Do you bend the software to support the business or do you bend the business to work with the software. The eternal question.....

(the answer in reality is that you do one or the other or both, depending on each different scenario)

[D4SH]

we went from Sage 50 to https://www.unleashedsoftware.com/ about 2 years ago for our Manufacturing and assembly company. Complete gamechanger for us in its efficiency and would happily recommend as you sound as though you're in a similar boat to us

[shirt]

As already said, map out what you want it to do before speaking to any vendor. Create a scoring system accordingly to assess the bids.

Also speak to your suppliers to ensure yours and their systems are integrated.