Focused ERP Solutions
ManEx provides a highly effective and specialized ERP solution for small and midsize Electronics Contract (ECM), Design to Order, Cable &
Harness and Military Electronic manufacturers. ManEx is both powerful and easy to use and matches up well against any ERP system in the world. But ManEx goes beyond this to create even greater value for its customers by focusing on the specialized functionality needed by companies in this unique industry niche. The ManEx system is presented in an integrated modular format divided into five main sections:
- Sales & Accounting Management
- Materials Planning & Execution
- Inventory Control Management
- Shop Floor Management
- System Management & Utilities
Targeted vs. General Software
A truism in the world of business software is that the more customers you try to satisfy, the more complex and expensive your system becomes. By trying to be everything to everybody, general focus ERP systems end up including many functions and capabilities ECM, Design to Order, Cable & Harness and Military Electronic companies don't need and will never use. This not only causes unnecessary complication and makes these systems more difficult to use and implement, it also prevents them from including many specialized functions important to particular types of manufacturers. ManEx's system, by contrast, emphasizes precisely those functions and capabilities these group of manufacturers need most, while leaving out unneeded functions. As a result, ManEx requires no customization to implement, and training, implementation and use are made significantly easier.
Specialized Solutions
Specialized solutions of this are laced throughout the other sections of ManEx, as well. A couple of examples include:
- Multiple pricing control methods provide the kind of flexible and powerful pricing control electronic contract manufacturers need. This includes multiple price breaks based on quantity, sales price breakdown information searched by labor, materials and overhead costs, and multi-level pricing structures for individual customers.
- Specialized customer information tools include the ability to assign industry classification, discount policy and standard mark-up policy by customer and part, and the ability to run product costing and quotation via standard, weighted average or supplier cost quoting. This gives you the flexibility and convenience you need to easily manage complex individual customer pricing information and simplify quotation and accounting processes.
Materials Management
On average 80% of the cost involved in this type of manufacturing is in the materials end of things. Therefore, ManEx places dominant emphasis on managing materials, with particular focus on the specialized needs of ECM's, Design-to-Order, Cable & Harness and Military Electronic manufacturers.
How any ERP system handles materials and inventory management should be any company's first concern. But for manufacturers, who typically must deal with multiple customers and numerous, often short-cycle products, multiple part numbers for the same part, and other demanding inventory challenges, materials management becomes a much more complex and difficult task. They need solutions to match.
Shop Floor Management
ManEx integrates a fully functional and comprehensive MES manufacturing system into its overall system to help you manage production and shop floor activity. The basic shop floor management system comes as part of the standard ManEx package, with a series of optional, fully integrated modules to let you select as many or as few functions as needed for your company.
Like the rest of the ManEx system, these MES functions are tailored to the specific needs of ECM's, Desing-to-Order, Cable & Harness and Military Electronic manufacturers, with targeted functionality other ERP systems can't match.
Proven Reliability
Over twelve years of continuous development, use and improvement, with thousands of users, have made the ManEx system remarkably stable, reliable and user friendly. The last thing you need is to spend excessive time training and re-training employees on how to use software or dealing with system crashes and bugs.