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Optimize Your Operations for Growth
Rising operational expenses pose a significant challenge to profitability and growth for discrete manufacturers. Fluctuations in material prices and consumer demand coupled with labor shortages have brought even more complexity to job costing.
With our specialized discrete manufacturing ERP, easily drill down to analyze job costs and profits and compare actual costs against estimates at any point in the production process. Armed with these insights, you can drive strategic decision-making and increase production profitability to enable growth.
By automating workflows and gaining access to real-time insights, our discrete manufacturing ERP helps you optimize resource utilization and eliminate inefficiencies. This means reduced lead times, lower operational expenses and improved profitability.
Eliminate Inefficiencies With Purpose-Built ERP
Identifying bottlenecks in your scheduling process can be a challenge. Missed delivery dates and increased work in process can result in additional costs, like overtime and expediting materials.
Aptean Discrete Manufacturing ERP is here to revolutionize the way you handle these challenges. With advanced scheduling capabilities, you gain unparalleled flexibility and control empowering you to seamlessly identify scheduling bottlenecks, drill down into "why late" analysis and generate actionable insights to make quick business decisions.
This means you can improve on-time delivery, increase throughput and drive efficiencies in your production process. Companies like The Metalworking Group have increased shop floor visibility and efficiency, boosting on-time delivery from 75% to 86% in under a year.
Gain Real-Time Visibility and Performance Insights to Enhance Decision-Making
Making informed, data-driven decisions is crucial in the discrete manufacturing industry. However, many manufacturers struggle with a deficit of accurate, real-time insights and the means to act on them.
Aptean’s discrete manufacturing ERP provides robust business intelligence and access to the data you need when you need it. Our purpose-built solution delivers comprehensive data on production performance, inventory levels and customer demand, empowering you to make quick, informed decisions.
All in all this empowers you to drive operational excellence, reduce waste and increase productivity—ensuring your business remains competitive and profitable.
Modernize Your Technology Infrastructure for Operational Excellence
Outdated and siloed technologies create bottlenecks and inefficiencies that can severely hinder your manufacturing operations, leading to prolonged lead times, supply chain inefficiencies and vendor complications, impeding your responsiveness and growth.
Our cloud-based discrete manufacturing ERP is designed with a secure, scalable architecture that supports the growth trajectory of your manufacturing business. From small, single-site operations to large, multi-site enterprises, Aptean ensures data security and system integrity while providing the flexibility to scale operations seamlessly.
For example, by leveraging Aptean Industrial Manufacturing ERP, Portable Pipe Hangers has achieved consistent growth over two decades.
“We’ve been able to scale up quickly and easily, with revenue increasing four-fold since implementing the system.”
Why You Need a Specialized Discrete Manufacturing ERP
Every sector within the discrete manufacturing industry—from fabricated metals to electronics—faces a wealth of complex and unique challenges. Whether you're battling supply chain disruptions, fluctuating material prices or evolving customer demands, relying on a generic enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution simply won't cut it.
What’s needed is a comprehensive system designed specifically for discrete manufacturing, offered by a provider that has deep expertise of the unique challenges and demands of your industry.
With a purpose-built discrete manufacturing ERP, you can optimize operations, streamline spending, improve quality control, and gain clear and actionable data insights—allowing you to meet customer demands with ease and precision.
So, are you ready to smooth the complexities of your business and accelerate your business growth? Our tailored ERP for discrete manufacturers helps automate processes, enhance visibility and maximize profitability—propelling you ahead of the competition.
Navigating ITAR Requirements? Don’t Sacrifice Your Digital Transformation.
Ensuring you meet your obligations to the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR) is paramount. ITAR imposes stringent controls on the export and import of defense-related articles and services and to meet these obligations, you must equip your organization with the right technology and practices to manage, track and secure controlled unclassified information (CUI).
Gain peace of mind with our cloud discrete manufacturing ERP for ITAR regulated manufacturers, purpose-built to seamlessly control access, manage documentation and secure data—all while maintaining a user-friendly and efficient system. Our solution empowers your organization to safeguard sensitive ITAR controlled data and maintain the highest levels of integrity in your operations.
Managing ITAR compliance doesn't have to be daunting. Here's how we make it simple:
Siloed and secure infrastructure - Your data security is non-negotiable. That's why we exclusively host ITAR customers on the Microsoft Azure Government Cloud—a trusted name in the defense industry.
Qualified support – Rest assured; your ITAR-controlled data is in qualified hands. We rigorously restrict access to Aptean staff who are US Persons, ensuring compliance without compromise.
Comprehensive compliance - we’ve taken additional measures to help ensure compliance such as enhanced internal security, guidance from external ITAR consultants and conduct SOC2 auditing.
Streamline End-to-End Operations With Discrete 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.
Procurement Management
Our discrete manufacturing ERP gives you the tools you need to understand where your procurement requirements are coming from, plan for those requirements and execute your supply plan in a cost-effective manner. The system collects demand in a planned purchase order queue that displays all sources of supply and demand with time phasing. Material availability and purchasing queue reports help you manage planning requirements, and a purchase order variance report identifies vendors that deliver on time and stay within quoted prices. You can even create RFQ forms with a single command.
Materials Management
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 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).
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 good warehouses, distribution centers, storage facilities and/or manufacturing plants at geographically separate facilities.
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 Business Intelligence 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.
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Compare Aptean's Discrete Manufacturing ERP
Features | Made2Manage ERP | Generic ERP Solutions |
|---|---|---|
Inventory Management | ✔ | ✔ |
Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger | ✔ | ✔ |
Order Management | ✔ | ✔ |
Centralized App Marketplace | ✔ | ✔ |
Progressive Billing | ✔ | ? |
Multi-Level Bill of Materials Management | ✔ | ✖ |
Planning and Scheduling | ✔ | ✖ |
Shop Floor Manager | ✔ | ✖ |
Flexible Quoting for Custom Products | ✔ | ✖ |
Serial Number Tracking and Traceability | ✔ | ✖ |
Engineering Change Management | ✔ | ✖ |
Standard and Non-Standard Bill of Materials Management | ✔ | ✖ |
Job Variance and Margin Analysis | ✔ | ✖ |
Customer Relationship Management | ✔ | ✖ |
Field Service Management | ✔ | ✖ |
Procurement | ✔ | ✖ |
Industry Specific Integrations (I.e. CADLINK, UniPoint etc) | ✔ | ✖ |
Embedded AI inc. NLP data queries | ✔ | ✖ |
Self-Service Setup, Support and Training | ✔ | ✖ |
Advanced User and Subscription Management | ✔ | ✖ |
Realtime Business Intelligence | ✔ | ✖ |
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