Compare Flowlens vs. M1

Built by a small business for small businesses, Flowlens delivers end-to-end business management software designed specifically to meet the needs of SME manufacturers. Use Flowlens to support your growth as you add customers, suppliers, stock and scale to your manufacturing business, From purchasing to sales to stock management, production and quality control, Flowlens integrates seamlessly with cloud accounting applications, ends data entry duplication and empowers you with full supply chain visibility across your manufacturing business.  Optimise productivity. Whether you’re looking to replace paper and Excel based processes or older legacy systems, implementing Flowlens provides you with a proven pathway to boosting profitability and establishing data integration across your business functions.  Deliver financial visibility across your supply chain. Connect Flowlens with your accounting applications, and you’ll remove data double entry between functions and establish full online reporting visibility across all your operations.  Enhance stock control. Pinpoint your near and long term materials requirements through Flowlens capacity planning and multi-level BOM management.  Drive supplier management. Move your supplier management processes online with Flowlens. Simplify and streamline supplier negotiations and maximise your cost and quality position through Flowlens RFQ management functionality.  Engage online with your customers and secure more business. Use Flowlens CRM functionality to ensure you remain ahead of the competition when engaging with your customers. Miss nothing and follow up on all sales opportunities in real time.

M1 is a subscription cloud-based or on-premise ERP software for manufacturers, enabling you to tie your business operations together in one system to centralize your data. It lets you coordinate and share data across various functions within your business from sales, inventory, scheduling, production, shipping, and more. The solution is suitable for small to midsize companies that manufacture via repetitive, make-to-stock, make-to-order and engineer-to-order processes. M1’s product configurator provides a multi-level, automated configuration that builds product configurations from a BOM, including all sub-assemblies. Users can also add additional rules and formulas after the wizard is complete. Other key features include MRP, BAM, free “view only” licenses for users who only need to view and edit reports, “Smart Screen Technology” that automatically changes screens based on users’ input and a free M1 Design Studio that allows users to customize the system without accessing the source code or requiring extensive programming knowledge. With M1, you also have access to differentiators like Alora Machine Intelligence, Avalara, uniPoint, KnowledgeSync, Net1, and many others.