Compare E-Z-MRP vs. Sutton

MRP Software assists in planning your material needs in a manner that mirrors your approach, assuming you had the necessary time, patience, and precision. Inventory and production planning isn't inherently complex or magical; rather, E-Z-MRP efficiently evaluates all your customer orders and sales forecasts. Utilizing your bills of material (BOMs), it determines what items you need to manufacture or procure. It also accounts for existing stock and pending orders. Furthermore, by analyzing the lead time required for each item, E-Z-MRP helps you decide the optimal timing for placing purchase orders and initiating work orders, ensuring you meet your promised delivery dates. Unlike many more intricate material planning systems, E-Z-MRP simplifies the process, allowing you to obtain the essential production planning details without any unnecessary steps or complications. Ultimately, this approach not only saves time but also enhances operational efficiency.

Sutton is a manufacturing and distribution ERP platform that combines core operations management with AI-driven automation and customizable applications. The software centralizes inventory, warehousing, sales, purchasing, production, fulfillment, traceability, and compliance in one system. Inventory capabilities include real-time stock visibility, multi-location management, demand forecasting, shipping workflows, and monitoring of materials that may run out. Production features support shop-floor control, production scheduling, work centers, materials, jobs, and operational tracking. Sutton’s intelligence layer analyzes operational data to surface business health, identify exceptions, recommend next steps, and help users act on those recommendations. AI agents can prepare purchase orders, respond to changing production requirements, generate shipping documents, and handle other repetitive operational tasks across modules. Sutton Studio allows users to create custom apps, reports, forms, and workflows by describing what they need in plain English, with the resulting tools operating directly on existing Sutton data and permissions. The platform also includes an AI-assisted onboarding process that can reformat data, map fields, make bulk edits, and configure the system for migration. Sutton integrates with ecommerce, accounting, and sales channels such as QuickBooks, Shopify, WooCommerce, Amazon, and eBay and provides flexible API access for connecting additional systems.