Industrial Manufacturing ERP
Industrial Manufacturing ERP Overview
Aptean’s powerful discrete manufacturing ERP is made by manufacturers for manufacturers in make-to-order (MTO), assemble-to-order (ATO), engineer-to-order (ETO) and mixed-mode environments.
With user-friendly features for real-time planning and scheduling, actual job costing and shop floor execution, Aptean Industrial Manufacturing ERP delivers tailored functionality you won’t find in competing ERP solutions.
But, it’s more than just an ERP.
By integrating your core production and business operations and streamlining processes across the enterprise, the system quickly delivers improvements across a number of key business areas:
- Enhanced visibility into job costs and profits
- Increased efficiency in management of material resources and inventory
- Improved on-time delivery rates
- Faster response to customer demands
- Increased production profitability
Industrial Manufacturing ERP Advantages
Aptean Industrial Manufacturing provides full ERP capabilities designed specifically for the needs of mixed mode manufacturers with a completely integrated solution across the entire enterprise. Our software provides deployment options and flexibility by either deploying On Premise or in the Cloud.
Our software and services are matched closely with specific customer needs, incorporating deep industry knowledge and experience. Plus, they are continually enhanced to meet evolving customer requests and suggestions. Notable for ease-of-use, fast navigation, tailored views and tight security, Aptean applications deliver the functionality without the fuss – solid applications that make users’ jobs easier, not more cumbersome.
Aptean Industrial Manufacturing ERP is designed to bring the entire company together by offering broad application coverage that allows all departments to use the system effectively, including management, sales, engineering, purchasing, operations, manufacturing, quality, customer service, finance, accounting, and human resources.
Our software is backed by an experienced management team and deep financial resources, combining high-fit solutions, solid customer relationships, and a strong balance sheet into a value proposition unmatched by other vendors.
Industrial Manufacturing ERP Modules
Materials Management for Industrial Manufacturing ERP
Aptean Industrial Manufacturing ERP delivers a range of features to help you more efficiently manage material resources and inventory transactions. You can easily track part and material lot information and generate detailed reports. Plus, the system helps you automate inventory and labor transactions with wireless barcode technology via the Shop Floor Data Collection (SFDC) tool. With Aptean Industrial Manufacturing ERP, you can confidently make materials management decisions.
Production Management for Industrial Manufacturing ERP
Production and Engineering Management
Access a full suite of shop floor execution tools to help you get the job done right, on time, and on budget. The system helps you easily create and track job orders, drive material requirements and examine job costs in real-time throughout the production process. Supervisors can track production priorities, order status, work center loads, and labor. Meanwhile, operators can clock in and out and report material movements and work order completion via simple touch screens. Aptean Industrial Manufacturing ERP also helps you maintain process routings and bills of material (BOMs).
Sales & Order Management for Industrial Manufacturing ERP
Quoting and Order Management
With Aptean Industrial Manufacturing ERP, managing customer orders has never been easier. Whether you need to quickly generate an accurate quote, create a sales order, custom-configure products at the point of sale or assign special pricing arrangements, you can provide responsive service to your customers. Orders flow directly into purchasing, inventory, and shipping to trigger key production operations.
Financial Management for Industrial Manufacturing ERP
Financial Management
From budgeting and cash flow management to preparing detailed financial reports, Aptean Industrial Manufacturing ERP’s financial application tools help you carefully manage your bottom line.
Monitor all your checking account transactions, develop budget forecasts, automate billing processes, and more. Multi-site capabilities allow you to manage financial data across multiple finished goods warehouses, distribution centers, storage facilities and/or manufacturing plants at geographically separate facilities.
Customer Relationship Management for Industrial Manufacturing ERP
Customer Relationship Management
Aptean Industrial Manufacturing ERP provides embedded CRM features to help you efficiently manage customer information, opportunities and support from a single platform. Easily schedule future interactions, meetings and to-do items related to individual customers to ensure key relationships are maintained and nurtured.
You can also receive and replace, receive and rework or receive and credit using the embedded RMA functionality. The Aptean Industrial Manufacturing ERP CRM supports full integration with Microsoft Outlook to further streamline your workflow.
Additional Capabilities for Industrial Manufacturing ERP
Advanced Quality by uniPoint
Advanced Quality by uniPoint enables you to track and measure the cost and frequency of quality events, initiate non-conformances and corrective preventative actions, and manage quality documentation to streamline preparation for quality audits. The solution also supports the tracking of ISO compliance, including ISO 9001, ISO 13485, ISO/TS 16949, AS9100 and FDA 21 CFR Part 11 & Part 820 Compliance.
Business Intelligence
With our discrete manufacturing ERP, you gain quick access to the data required to make critical business decisions. Pre-configured pivot tables and business performance notifications help you easily monitor KPIs and pull custom reports. You can also leverage the Aptean Analytics module to translate big data into meaningful views of business KPIs and trends — all delivered via user-friendly, interactive dashboards. The Advanced Reporting tool helps you generate and distribute financial and operational reports with graphs, charts and gauges using easy drag-and-drop procedures.
Aptean Analytics
Aptean Analytics is a robust business intelligence tool that helps you translate big data into meaningful KPIs and trends. With user-friendly dashboards built specifically for discrete manufacturers, you can quickly drill down into issues related to profitability, planning, manufacturing, quality, purchasing, inventory, sales, and delivery. You can also conduct searches and interact with analytics from various browsers and tablets. Changes and customizations can be made easily, enabling new data insights on the fly.