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Syspro Differences

Target market - SYSPRO is targeted to mid market manufacturers and distributors with revenues between $5 Million and $250 Million with 10 to 1,000 employees. SYSPRO is well known for its manufacturing system. SYSPRO handles both discrete and batch (process) manufacturing. Discrete manufacturers build single items such as furniture or vehicles. Batch processing applies to products such as food, pharmaceuticals or plastics.

Installation Base-12,000 worldwide

Inventory optimization. Includes tools to generate forecasts using a variety of sophisticated algorithms that you won’t typically find in other ERP systems

Factory Scheduling consists of three different products:

• Graphical Planning Board - a finite scheduling tool which presents a schedule graphically, but will normally require manual intervention by the scheduler
• Finite Scheduler - contains more sophisticated features to schedule a factory such as transfer batches, sequence dependent setup times, preferred resource selections, maximum operation spans, and maximum delay between operations
• Advanced Scheduler - generate schedules in complex environments through the use of advanced scheduling rules and by considering the availability of components and raw materials. You can define your own complex scheduling rules using filters, a combination of standard and/or defined advanced rules, user defined scripts etc. Jobs on different BOM levels and stock on hand is pegged based on defined rules
  

Business Intelligence (BI) / Analytics includes:

• SYSPRO built their own BI solution using Microsoft SQL Analysis Services
• Pre-defined KPIs
• OLAP
• Includes ETL (Extract, Transform & Load) through SYSPRO Administrator

Wireless mobile applications allowing you to use SYSPRO at the point of work. Scan and post receipts or shipments in the warehouse or scan and post stock taking (inventory counts).

Embedded Crystal Reports as the report writer - customize system reports and save preferences for reuse.

CRM including: account management, marketing automation, service ticket management and sales opportunity management

Work Flow with triggers based on events such as late shipments, inventory below safety, credit limit exceeded; leading to email or internal messages

Electronic Signatures to control who in the company is allowed to process various transactions and provides an audit trail of who performed a transaction and when it occurred. It is used to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley/Bill 198.

Rules-based configurator which is a great tool for companies that have many features and options associated with products such as furniture and electronics

Trade Promotion Management includes:

• Manages volume rebates and advertising allowances
• Create accrual
• Cut cheque through A/P
• Adjust/write-off with general ledger update
• Post credit to A/R
• Give free product(s)
• Based on quantity breaks
• Apply to invoice
• Thresholds based on weight, quantity or volume

• Allocate deductions taken by customer

Case Studies

Ontario Drive and Gear

ITW Construction Products

The Redco Group