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MANUFACTURING SOFTWARE DECEMBER 2018

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C O N T E N T S

Introduction

Defining Manufacturing Software

FrontRunners (Small & Enterprise Vendors)

Runners Up

Methodology Basics

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This FrontRunners analysis is a data-driven assessment

identifying products in the Manufacturing software market that offer the best capability and value for small businesses. For a given market, products are evaluated and given a score for Usability (x-axis) and User Recommended (y-axis). FrontRunners then plots 10-15 products each on a Small Vendor and an Enterprise Vendor graphic, based on vendor business size, per category.

In the Manufacturing FrontRunners infographic, the minimum qualifying scores were 3.45 for Usability and 3.52 for User Recommended.

To be considered for the Manufacturing FrontRunners, a product needed a minimum of 20 user reviews published within 18 months of the evaluation period. Products needed a minimum user rating score of 3.0 for both Usability and User Recommended.

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INTRODUCTION

The minimum score cutoff to be included in the FrontRunners graphic varies by category, depending on the range of scores in each category. No product with a score less than 3.0 in either dimension is included in any FrontRunners graphic. For products included, the Usability and User Recommended scores determine their positions on the FrontRunners graphic.

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Manufacturing software helps companies manage orders

and schedule production jobs using accurate bills of materials and inventory management to ensure all components are available.

Software Advice’s FrontRunners is focused on the North American Manufacturing software market. We identify this set of core capabilities for the Manufacturing software category: material requirements planning (MRP), manufacturing execution system (MES), quality management and product life cycle management, as well as at least one of the following: configure/

price/quote (CPQ), financial management, asset management, human resources (HR), customer relationship management (CRM), business intelligence (BI) and/or supply chain management (SCM).

D E F I N I N G M A N U FAC T U R I N G S O F T WA R E

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For each individual rating in both the Usability and User Recommended criteria, the methodology

weighs recent reviews more heavily.

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USABILITY

Expandable

ProdsmartMIE TRAK PRO

Priority Software

E2 Shop System

AIMS360

IQMS

Microsoft Dynamics 365

SAP Business One

JobBOSS

Epicor ERP

Costpoint 7

F R O N T R U N N E R S ( S M A L L & E N T E R P R I S E V E N D O R S )

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F R O N T R U N N E R S S C O R E S

( S M A L L V E N D O R S )

TOTAL SCORE

USABILITY SCORE

USER RECOMMENDED

SCORE

1 Expandable 9.57 4.86 4.70

2 MIE TRAK PRO 9.05 4.51 4.54

3 Prodsmart 9.38 4.89 4.49

4 Priority Software 8.56 4.17 4.39

5 E2 Shop System 8.53 4.32 4.21

6 AIMS360 7.72 3.96 3.77

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F R O N T R U N N E R S S C O R E S

( E N T E R P R I S E V E N D O R S )

TOTAL SCORE

USABILITY SCORE

USER RECOMMENDED

SCORE

1 IQMS 8.38 4.13 4.25

2 Microsoft Dynamics 365 8.15 4.04 4.11

3 SAP Business One 7.80 3.80 3.99

4 JobBOSS 7.68 3.87 3.82

5 Epicor ERP 7.27 3.54 3.73

6 Costpoint 7 6.99 3.46 3.53

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R U N N E R S U P

1factory

A2000

AccountMate

Acctivate

Acumatica Cloud ERP

Adjutant

ADS Solutions - Accolent ERP

Advanced Supply Chain

AdvancePro

Agility DMSI

Agni Link

Apprise ERP

APTEAN ERP

Aquilon ERP

ARMATURE

ASCTrac WMS

Asprova

Assure

Autodesk PLM 360

Avercast Forecasting Solutions

bcFood

BlueCherry

CATSWeb

Central ERP

Cetec ERP

Cincom CPQ

CIS Configurator

CloudFactoryWorx

ComplianceQuest

Concept EPC

Connected

CONSELF

Cosential

Datacard

Datacor Chempax

DBA Manufacturing

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DEACOM ERP Software

Deskera MRP

DevonWay CI

DNAsp

E-Z-MRP

E2 Manufacturing System

ECi M1

eCompliance Safety Software

Ecount ERP

Edible

EIC Software

Enterprise 21 ERP

EQMS by Qualsys

eRep

EtQ Reliance

EVO~ERP

Exact Globe Next

Exact Macola

Exact MAX

Factory MES

FactoryASP

FactoryTalk

FashionFlow

Focus ERP

Foresight Intelligence Center

FORGE

Fulfil.IO

Fusion 360

GainSeeker Suite

Genius Manufacturing

Get Sweet

Global Shop Solutions

greenlight.guru

Hero Loyalty

HQ - Scout Systems

IFS Applications

Infor CloudSuite Business

Infor CRM

Infor ERP

Infor LN

Infor M3

Infor Process Manufacturing Essentials

Infor SyteLine ERP

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Infor VISUAL

Intellect BPM

Intuitive ERP

IQMS Manufacturing

JustFoodERP

Katana MRP

Kenesto

Lawson M3 Enterprise Management System

Lead Commerce

LillyWorks

LogicBox CRM

Logivations

Made2Manage ERP

MFG/PRO

Microsoft Dynamics SL

MISys Manufacturing

MRPEasy

NGC

NolaPro

Nomad erpCommerce

OASIS by IntelliTek

OfficeBooks

Omono

OnContact CRM 7

Onspring

Oracle E-Business Suite

Oracle SCM Cloud

Ostendo

Paperless Parts

Paragon ERP

PBS Manufacturing

Pentaho

PINpoint

PlanningForce

Poka

PolyPM

ProcessPro Premier

Pronto Xi ERP

ProShop

QDM SPC System

QMClouds

Qooling

QT9 Quality Management Software

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Qualio

Quality Management Software by IQS

Quality Management Software by UniPoint

Quantum by CIMx

Quartz QMS

RamBase

Ramco ERP

Rapid Response Manufacturing

REALTRAC

Resource Manager DB

Royal 4 Enterprise

S2K by VAI - Manufacturing

S2K Enterprise

Sage 300 cloud

Sage ERP X3

SAP - Manufacturing

SAP Anywhere

SAP Business ByDesign

SAP for Asset Management Services

Seebo

Shopfloor-Online

Simio

SimScale

SkyCiv Structural 3D

skyWATS.com

SMARTer Manager

Solumina

SpinFire Professional

SQCpack

Statii

Synergy SPC

SYSPRO

System100

SyteLine

Tactic

Technicon CPQ

The Plex Manufacturing Cloud

ToolTrack

Total ETO

TPSynergy

TrackVia

TrueERP

Vault QualityOne

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VelocityEHS

VERSE

Vital Plant MES Suite

Workloud

WorkWise ERP

XMPro

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The FrontRunners methodology assesses and calculates a

score for products on two primary dimensions: Usability on the x-axis and User Recommended on the y-axis.

The Usability score is a weighted average of user ratings including:

• End-user ratings of one to five stars on the product’s ease of use.

• End-user ratings of one to five stars on the product’s functionality.

The User Recommended score is an overall weighted average of scores including:

• End-user ratings of one to five stars on how valuable users consider the product to be relative to its price.

• End-user ratings of one to five stars on how likely they are to recommend the product to others.

There are up to two FrontRunners graphics for each market, one Small Vendors and one Enterprise Vendors graphic. The Small Vendors graphic highlights qualifiers from smaller (by employee size) vendors, while the Enterprise Vendors graphic displays qualifiers for larger (by employee size) vendors.

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METHODOLOGY BASICS

Markets are defined by a core set of functionality, and to be eligible for FrontRunners, products must offer that core set of functionality. Core functionality required is determined by our research analysts, who provide coverage for and have familiarity with products in that market. Additionally, a product must have at least 20 unique user-submitted product reviews published within 18 months of the start of the analysis period across the three Gartner Digital Markets web properties: softwareadvice.com, capterra.com and getapp.com.

Inclusion in the Small Vendor or Enterprise Vendor FrontRunners graphics is based on vendor employee count. Vendors eligible for the Enterprise Vendor graphic must have more than the median employee count for all vendors in the market, or 100 employees—whichever is greater. Vendors whose employee counts do not meet either of those thresholds qualify for the Small Vendor graphic.

1 In the event fewer than 10 products qualify for either a Small Vendors or Enterprise Vendors FrontRunners graphic, the vendors that do qualify will be combined into a single graphic.

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