When selecting Manufacturing Software, here are some important pointers.

Manufacturing Software

As a manufacturing company you would consider your business one or combination of the following types of manufacturing:

1. Make to Order
2. Make to Stock
3. Engineer to Order
4. Configure to Order

When it comes to selecting a manufacturing software for your company, it would be very easy if you were only one of those. But if you are a combination of a few, then you have some work to do. Most software companies started by being strong in one of those areas but not in a combination of all.

Here modules you need when you do the following:

1. Make to Order
   1. Bill of Materials
   2. Work Order/ Job Costing
   3. Material Requirements Planning
2. Make to Stock
   1. Bill of Materials
   2. Material Requirements Planning
3. Engineer to Order
   1. Estimating
   2. Work Order/Job Costing
   3. Material Requirements
   4. Advanced Scheduling
4. Configure to Order
   1. Estimating
   2. Work Order/Job Costing
   3. Material Requirements
   4. Product Configurator

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Tags: Accounting Software, Configure to Order, Engineer to Order, Make to Order, Make to Stock, Manufacturing Software

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