ERP Manufacturing

Manufacturing Software for a Small Business

Manufacturing is defined as the transformation of unrefined materials into market-ready products through the use of machines and processing systems. In order to build, assemble, or create the products, the manufacturing responsibilities have to be managed. Manufacturing Software handles purchasing, inventory, financials, cost accounting processes, planning, capacity scheduling, warehousing, and requirements planning. Having access to data that covers the entire manufacturing cycle (from the acquisition of raw materials to production planning, marketing, sales, manufacturing, warehousing materials and finished product, billing, and collecting) offers control that will assist improve and advance a company’s goals.

It is always best for a manufacturing business to operate software that deals only with manufacturing tasks. This holds true for all manufacturers. However, the kinds of software needed for a small business are different from those that are needed for large business; it is not realistic to expect that small businesses need all the complexity offered in software designed for large enterprises.

Small businesses play a distinct role in the marketplace in that they are businesses that yield less than fifty million dollars a year in revenue.  Manufacturing Software for a Small Business is then, in the most basic terms, a software program that provides manufacturing related features such as inventory control, materials requirement planning, and product bar coding on a lesser scale.

The software market today is replete with business manufacturing vendors. A few of them have been around for many years while some are considerably newer. Right now, the top five Manufacturing Software solutions for a Small Business are sold by long-time vendors. These are: SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, M1 by B&G, Epicor, and Sage.

Verticent, though, is one of the newer vendors with a very good product for small businesses. Verticent is a Manufacturing Software vendor that also provides customer relationship management (both SFA and CRM), e-business, and business intelligence solutions designed specifically to work with the unique business demands of small size manufacturers. Verticent Manufacturing Software helps further effective business operations by reducing implementation and on-going administrative costs, increasing organizational responsiveness and productivity, improving customer service, sharpening organizational insight and control, and delivering a rapid return on investment. One of the industries where Verticent has made a noticeable, and positive, dent is the metals industry. In that vertical industry, Verticent software has already proven to be successful, using industry-specific functionality to deliver affordable software, suitable for a small business.

Written by :

tracey boxer