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The ultimate MRP solution for small manufacturers! MRPeasy offers an affordable, user-friendly, and cloud-based MRP system tailored specifically for small manufacturing businesses. Transform your customer orders into manufacturing orders and let the system schedule them automatically. It effortlessly books items from your inventory, and if needed, initiates purchase orders on your behalf. Depending on the real-time requirements, MRPeasy allows for both forward and backward scheduling. Automated checks ensure the availability of workers, workstations, and materials. Maintain a comprehensive overview of all your operations at all times! MRPeasy also smoothly integrates with premier accounting software such as QuickBooks and Xero, along with e-commerce platforms like Shopify and WooCommerce. This integration creates an all-encompassing business management solution that meets your every need.

Epicor Kinetic is a cloud-first, AI-powered ERP platform for manufacturing environments that require a connected system for transactional, operational, and reporting workflows. The platform supports finance, supply chain, production, inventory, quality, service, analytics, project management, governance and compliance, and global business management. Functional coverage includes planning and scheduling, materials management, shop floor coordination, product management, CRM, field service, electronic reporting, and enterprise content management. Kinetic provides browser-based access, role-based workflows, integration and extensibility tools, IIoT-related capabilities, and deployment options for cloud, on-premises, or hybrid architectures. It can integrate with listed third-party systems for payroll, tax, labeling, procurement, warehouse processes, data capture, and quality workflows, including ADP Workforce Now, Avalara, BarTender, Sage, SourceDay, and Sovos. Epicor Prism adds AI-supported automation and decision support for selected workflows. Kinetic also supports operations across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC and is available in multiple languages, which can matter for distributed manufacturing organizations with regional or multinational requirements.

Epicor Advanced Manufacturing Execution System is designed for plastic molders, manufacturers who use repetitive processes and those who have an assembly process that involves multiple machines. It is designed to assist floor operators in monitoring and optimizing their plant operations. Advanced MES helps manufacturers monitor their business and control it with real-time information on plant and machinery. The system allows users to identify inefficient allocations of resources to find new capacity for the business. It can also be used to record machine downtime, scrap and material waste in each production cycle. The software provides real-time monitoring of processes, scheduling in real time and visibility into operations. Users can view production details and descriptors and monitor up to 100,000 cycles. Maintenance teams can access machine condition reports for planning preventive maintenance. Advanced MES integrates accounting and manufacturing estimating capability.

We simplify your manufacturing.™ Global Shop Solutions AI-integrated ERP software provides the applications needed to deliver a quality part on time, every time from quote to cash and everything in between including shop management, scheduling, inventory, accounting, quality control, CRM and 25 more. Available in the cloud or on premise and with AI in mind, our manufacturing customers benefit from real-time inventory accuracy, improved on-time delivery, lower administrative costs, increased sales and improved customer service.

Project Insight helps organizations connect project data across teams and systems to make better decisions about their business. As a strategic project and portfolio management platform, it brings together resource and capacity planning, financial management, project requests, execution, governance, and portfolio performance. The result is a connected project data backbone that gives PMOs and executives visibility into organization-wide work and supports trustworthy reporting, forecasting, and AI analysis. Teams can continue using familiar tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Microsoft, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and HubSpot while Project Insight brings their project information into one central command center, reducing manual data entry and disconnected reporting. Manage projects, programs, and portfolios using flexible workflows, intelligent scheduling, Gantt charts, Kanban boards, time tracking, budget management, and customizable dashboards. Leaders can monitor workloads, project health, costs, and strategic priorities without chasing information across departments. AI-powered features help create project plans, turn meeting discussions into action items, recommend resources, forecast capacity, and evaluate what-if scenarios. From growing teams outgrowing spreadsheets to established PMOs with complex business processes, Project Insight adapts to the way organizations work through configurable processes, dedicated onboarding support, and free view-only access for clients and stakeholders.

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.

Visual Planning is a powerful scheduling and resource management tool that's simple to use. Visual Planning is used by thousands of organizations to share their schedules and work more efficiently together.

Wrike is a powerful work management platform that gives cross-functional teams full visibility into complex projects. Our cloud-based collaboration software software is trusted by 20,000+ leading companies around the world, including tech giants such as Fitbit and Siemens. Wrike boasts a wide range of award-winning features, including dynamic request forms, automated workflows, cross-tagging, custom item types, and 400+ app integrations. Work smarter with Work Intelligence™: our advanced communication software that offers voice commands, smart replies, and document processing. We also offer tailor-made templates to help teams kick-start Agile projects and tick every box for compliance. As well as 99.9% uptime, our enterprise-grade security offers single sign-on, role-based access control, and continuous data backup. For extra peace of mind, you can use the Wrike Lock add-on and gain full ownership of your master encryption key. Wrike has been proven to make organizational processes 40% more efficient, eliminating time-consuming admin work and reducing costs across the board. Discover how it can benefit your team — start your free two-week trial today.

The HiveMQ Platform provides a scalable, reliable data backbone with an event-driven MQTT architecture. Here are a few highlights: 1. MQTT Broker: At the heart of the HiveMQ platform is a fully MQTT-compliant broker purpose-built for fast, reliable, bi-directional data movement between IoT devices and enterprise systems. 2. Edge Data Integration: HiveMQ Edge seamlessly integrates edge data by converting industrial protocols into standardized MQTT, enabling an interoperable IIoT infrastructure. 3. IoT Streaming Governance: Data Hub transforms data in flight, passing only the most relevant, contextualized data to cloud and enterprise systems. 4. UNS & IT/OT convergence Enabler: Commonly used as the backbone for Unified Namespace architectures and seamlessly connects OT devices with IT systems for full visibility and interoperability. 5. Distributed Data Intelligence: HiveMQ Pulse unifies and contextualizes data across the enterprise for smarter decisions exactly where they matter most. 6. Maximum Interoperability: Runs anywhere on-premises or in public or private clouds. Efficiently connects to streaming applications, databases and data lakes with a Java SDK to build your own 7. Scalability to Support Growth: Elastic scaling with automatic data balancing and smart message distribution. Proven benchmark of up to 200M active clients with 1.8B messages/hour 8. Business Critical Reliability: Zero message loss with persistence to disk and offline queuing. No single point of failure due to masterless cluster architecture and zero downtime upgrades

Evocon is a cloud-based production monitoring solution that helps manufacturing companies manage and improve their production efficiency. Evocon automates and digitizes the collection of data from production machines. We then transfer the collected data to the cloud so that manufacturers can access it in real-time, either on-site or remotely. Finally, by visualizing the data in an intuitive way, we make it actionable. This enables manufacturers to track their downtime, reduce costs and optimize the use of their production equipment. It also gives them a platform for smart decision-making – where to invest and what areas need the most attention. By providing transparency, we help companies find a way forward based on what their data says. More than 10 years of experience in production monitoring Used in 50+ countries Covering 14 different industries Available in 18 languages