ERPlite offers a truly complete and integrated manufacturing management system for small to medium size manufacturers. All of the features needed to successfully track manufacturing inventory are available in ERPlite at an affordable price point. In addition, the familiarity of Microsoft Office products makes the ERPlite manufacturing management system quick to learn, use, and successfully implement. The ease of learning and use of ERPlite dramatically reduces the need for outsourcing implementation to expensive consultants. Many customers download ERPlite via the internet and implement it themselves over a few weeks rather than the industry norm of months. Internet distribution and support dramatically reduces the overhead costs at erplite.com inc., thus making profitable a selling price that is an order of magnitude lower than equivalent functionality competition.
NEW features in v8.0: a finite capacity backward scheduling MRP tool , called pullPlan, that pulls/plans inventory to fullfull prioritized open Sales Orders/Forecast. Finite capacity plan aided by a gannt chart like visual schedule, where users can collaboratively edit the schedule by dragging and dropping Work Orders to schedule bottleneck resources.
ERPlite is designed specifically for engineer-to-order, build-to-order, build-to-stock and startup repetitive manufacturing companies.
Manufacturers can track installed product by serial/lot and revision numbers throughout the manufacturing process and to the customer location. (A requirement of many GMP compliant Medical Device Manufacturers).
Master Production Scheduling, MRP calculations in seconds (vs. hours for most MRP tools) facilitates quick evaluation of scenarios, with the aid of graphic calendar schedule, to find the best action plan.
Primary modules include:
Itemmaster, multi-level Bills of Material, Purchasing, Receiving, Sales Orders, Shipping, Work Orders, Manufacturing Requirements Planning (MRP), Master Production Schedule (MPS), Routing, Serial/Lot Number tracking, Engineering Change Order, Job Costing, Cost of Goods Sold, Customer Service, Return Material, Email alerts, partial receipts/shipments, barcode, Capacity Planning, configurable reports, multicurrency, Access/MySQL/SQLserver scalability, Product Configurator.
Built-in reports provide key summary and status information, such as: indented BOMs, Open Sales Orders, Open Purchasing Orders, Inventory Transaction History, cost of Bills of Material, Inventory Valuation, Available to Promise etc.
Thin client solutions (Windows Terminal Server, Win frame, PC Anywhere, Carbon Copy) can be used to link road warriors, dialup connections or bandwidth limited PC connections.
An online version of ERPlite, called anywhereERP, is available with a connection to QB Online. anywhereERP has a subset of ERPlite's functionality appropriate for distribution and light manufacturing. NEW in v8.0: anywhereERP is integrated with ERPlite, so that web based functionality can be used from any internet connected PC or PDA.
Customization:
ERPlite is all that most manufacturers need. However, if you require customization, source code is free with any ERPlite purchase. Thus you can modify all ERPlite functionality and add new functions that are needed by your business. Source code is available for Microsoft Office 97, 2000, XP. Customization of forms, reports and labels requires only basic skills in Microsoft Access. Adding business logic functionality needed by your business can easily be done in Microsoft Access and Visual Basic for Applications. The Microsoft Access skills required to do modifications are widely available in most companies and/or low cost local consultants.
Integration 3rd Party Software:
ERPlite integrates with 3rd party software via import/export tools: Excel, text files, XML, ODBC, and QuickBase. An automated link is available for QuickBooks Pro 2002/3/4 that synchronizes: parts list, customer and vendor addresses, employees, Purchase Orders, Sales Estimates, inventory adjustments, Bills and Invoices. This eliminates double data entry.
Automated links are also available for : Parts&Vendors, UPS, FedEx, Quotewerks, SolidWorks, Agile and others.
Free trial:
A fully functional, 30 day evaluation version of ERPlite, including the QuickBooks link, can be downloaded from www.erplite.com