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Title: Intuitive ERP Software System Assignment Submitted by B.Siva Kumar Reddy 10MIT0009 Subject: Enterprise Systems Faculty: R.K.Nadesh

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Title: Intuitive ERP Software System

Assignment Submitted by

B.Siva Kumar Reddy

10MIT0009

Subject: Enterprise Systems

Faculty: R.K.Nadesh

Vellore - 632 014, Tamil Nadu, India

SCHOOL OF INFORMATION TECHONOLOGY & ENGINEERING

August, 2011

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Intuitive ERP Software SystemINTRODUCTION

Intuitive ERP Software System - Manufacturing Software

The Intuitive ERP Software System is an ERP software application that helps mid-market manufacturing businesses achieve increased productivity, lower costs, and happier customers.

How does Intuitive ERP software work?

By organizing information and automating business processes across the entire enterprise, Intuitive ERP builds flexibility and control into every facet of your business environment and increases the quality and visibility of the information you need to make more profitable decisions.

A technology standard unmatched in the industry

Intuitive ERP was built, from the ground up, with 100% Microsoft technology. The current release of Intuitive ERP has a pure .NET managed code framework and over 90% of the standard product features have been rewritten in pure .NET.

Intuitive ERP addresses the following business needs:

Enterprise resource planning software

Complete integration of planning, materials management and procurement, manufacturing and financial business processes reduces costs and improves productivity, quality and control within your operation.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Automation and integration of sales, marketing, support and e-commerce helps you win sales and improve customer satisfaction, increasing customer responsiveness and loyalty.

Business Intelligence

Unparalleled business intelligence (BI) tools provide complete visibility into your system's critical business data, allowing you to make faster, more informed and progressive company decisions.

E-Commerce

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Web applications and adoption of Microsoft's .NET technology enables you to access information, sell product, run business processes and connect with customers and partners anytime, anywhere via the internet.

Extended Enterprise

Intuitive ERP is designed to support businesses that operate at a single location or with multiple plants -- across town or across the world.

Technology Infrastructure

An exclusively Microsoft-based solution facilitates a smooth, quick implementation and simplified system administration, customization and integration of your business system, while also providing a stable, scalable technology infrastructure.

Intuitive ERP Software System-ERP

The Intuitive ERP software system provides an intuitive and flexible tool set that can handle all the front and back-office operations of a discrete manufacturing company.

Planning: Generate plans on demand, analyze material requirements, control production costs and scheduling, and manage resource efficiency.

Inventory: Manage detailed inventory records, maintain optimal inventory levels, simplify inventory transactions, automate frequently performed tasks, ship and receive goods, track material location/lot information, track serial numbers, utilize bar coding and bar code labelling, and perform cycle counting and physical inventories.

Engineering: Create and maintain multi-level visual bills of material manage product data, design routings and standard processes, and track and control engineering changes.

Purchasing: Manage procurement, organize and maintain detailed vendor information, maintain a bid matrix, create purchase orders or generate purchase orders from planned orders, manage requisitions, and receive and inspect vendor shipments.

Manufacturing: Plan and schedule production, enter and track work orders, control the shop floor, monitor production status, manage material and equipment capacity, promise deliveries, and track time and attendance.

Finance: Create budgets and monitor cash flow, process accounts payable and accounts receivable, generate general ledger activities, reconcile financial accounts, and track material, labour and production costs. Create professional presentations with your financial statements.

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Quoting / Estimating: Provide quotes and estimates to customers and automatically convert quotes to sales orders. Easily create new items (and associated bills of material and routings), copy and modify existing items, or quickly configure an item on-the-fly.

Order Processing: Provide quotes and estimates, enter and maintain complex sales orders or convert quotes directly to sales orders, create new items, bills of material and routings on-the-fly, maintain price matrices, and ship finished product.

Advanced Configurator: Quote, sell and deliver complex, custom-configured products, compress the quote to delivery cycle, view design and pricing changes automatically, and simplify the collection and management of critical product data.

Quality: Inspect incoming (purchased) and outgoing (manufactured) materials, inspect returned materials, trace defective parts to their original location/lot, and maintain data on instruments and equipment.

Intuitive SPC: Perform real-time Statistical Process Control at all inspection points throughout the system, including work-in-process, purchasing, and material review/return.

Return Material Authorization: Handle the return of materials, automatically de-book sales, commissions and taxes, create customer credits, and request and document RMA samples.

Intuitive Forecasting: Generate forecasts based on usage data and multiple forecasting methodologies, generate demand requirements based on forecasts, and analyze forecasts compared to actual data.

Payroll / Human Resources: Manage your employee’s salary and job histories, benefit eligibilities and uses, and process payroll.

Alert Messenger: Maintain real-time workflow communication by automating customized messages to vendors and customers as well as employees for specific system events, via e-mail, on-screen messaging, or pager.

Project Management: Establish projects and master projects, associate Project IDs with all facets of the system, maintain a Project ID in multi-level manufacturing and procurement orders tied to a given sales order, report on revenues, expenses and profit/loss for any project, and report on progress billing.

Intuitive ERP-Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Integration of your front and back-office systems delivers capabilities and flexibility to your sales, marketing and support teams that they had only dreamed of in the past, allowing you to maintain and grow valuable customer relationships. From sales force automation to

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customer services, all the tools to find, capture and support your customers are available in Intuitive's CRM solution. 

Intuitive CRM-Relationship Management: Add and update contact and account information for prospects, customers, vendors and other business partners. Record interactions and manage schedules and tasks. Access complete account history information and review account details such as current orders, order status, pricing history, financial status and more.

Intuitive CRM-Opportunity Management: Manage the complete sales cycle from prospect to customer. Track sales opportunities by creating and linking opportunity records to specific accounts and maintain a complete history of activities. Create and link appointments, tasks, notes, documents, e-mails and activities to specific sales opportunities. Report on sales funnel and opportunity progress.

Intuitive CRM-Marketing Management: Create, deploy and manage targeted marketing campaigns to potential and current customers. Track campaign responses and solicitation exclusions. Compare actual responses with forecasted response rates to determine campaign ROI.

Intuitive Service: Automate customer support with complete incident management: manage all incidents reported on products, track and report on this data for analysis, issue

returns, manage service contracts, establish and maintain warranties. Services and Support

Consona ensures successful and efficient use of our products by offering the services of experienced consulting and technical support teams, extensive implementation documentation, planning guides and comprehensive training classes. As a result, many customers implement the system in less than 90 days.

Consulting

By implementing Intuitive ERP, you are taking a major step in improving your processes. To help you prepare for that initiative and to guide you through other opportunities to build or revitalize your business, Consona offers comprehensive consulting services. Consona’s consultants provide direct, on-site support of your needs in the application of Intuitive products and process re-engineering.

Intuitive Virtual Classroom

The Intuitive Virtual Classroom is a live, on-line training program designed to help customers get the most out of their Intuitive ERP system. Virtual Classroom sessions

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provide an easy and cost-effective way for customers to get new employees educated, learn about a new release, train end users in specific functional areas, and to receive expert answers to questions regarding ERP.

Training

Several in-depth educational courses are offered to ensure that you get the highest return on your ERP investment, from implementation to everyday use of the system. These courses, which include hands-on training and workshops, provide an in-depth understanding of Intuitive ERP and the manufacturing environment.

Technical Support

Certified technicians who have in-depth knowledge of the product, as well as manufacturing and accounting environments, staff Consona’s technical support organization. Access to the Intuitive Customer Support web site, an immediate online service and support resource, provides customers with 24-hour access to a support knowledgebase, software updates, technical documentation, and more.

Customization Services Group

Many of our customers find that Intuitive ERP meets the majority of their needs without customization. We realize, however, that you may have unique business conditions that create the need to customize a solution. Consona offers complete customization services to provide the technical expertise and development resources for the customization of your system. All customizations are fully documented and conform to Consona’s strict programming standards to assure product compatibility and seamless integration.

Documentation

An Implementation Guide, Tutorial Workbook, and User’s Manual are available in hard copy as well as electronically, in book-marked Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Context-sensitive on-line F1 key help—with an integrated APICS glossary—provides in-depth product information and multiple cross-references throughout the system.

User Groups

User Groups provide a forum for Intuitive ERP users to share their experience and knowledge about the product. Intuitive supports User Groups by providing organizational guidance, guest speakers, product updates and an opportunity to provide direct feedback on product features and functionality.

Intuitive ERP-Business Intelligence

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What if you could spend your day analyzing data and making informed decisions—instead of mining data and creating your own spreadsheets? Intuitive’s outstanding suite of Business Intelligence tools provides you with the critical business information you need for faster and more informed decision-making.

Intuitive ERP graphically displays critical sales, purchasing, inventory, production and financial activity data. From a global view of your business, you can review summary information, drill down into transaction-level detail and easily prepare presentation-quality reports. These tools are also integrated with Microsoft Office to provide maximum flexibility.

Decision Management Tool: Automatically track and analyze over 50 key performance indicators (including inventory turns, average days to pay, etc.) using data from Intuitive ERP to provide vital information on the health of your company.

Executive Information System: Generate real-time reports on critical elements of company-wide data in a graphical, easy-to-read format.

Ad Hoc Report Wizard: Easily create an unlimited number of custom reports (with no database or query building expertise required) based on the data stored within the Intuitive ERP database. This is the easiest reporting tool you’ll ever use.

Intuitive ERP E-Commerce

Imagine being able to access the information you need 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Now imagine that your customers can do the same...

To compete, you must be faster, more cost effective and more knowledgeable of your customer than your competitor. Intuitive's e-commerce solutions leverage Internet technology to provide your company and your customers with immediate access to the information and tools you need to compete successfully.

In addition to our complete business-to-business e-commerce portals, the Intuitive solution is completely web-enabled via Microsoft Terminal Server.

E-Commerce functionality the Intuitive enterprise solution has to offer.

Customer Portal: Allow your customer to view a catalog of products, place orders, and check their activity status all securely over the internet. Customize price matrixing and inventory selection for each customer. Allow customers to track the status of their shipments and orders, view their current AR aging, and make other valuable inquiries specific to their organization over the Internet.

Sales Portal: Enter orders at the point of sale and look up information on order value and status, shipments, billings and invoice detail and history over the Internet.

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Electronic Data Interchange (EDI): EDI allows you to communicate with your trading partners electronically. Intuitive provides the templates necessary for the entry and transmission of EDI transactions to and from your customers and vendors. In addition, the EDI interface provides support for the transactions commonly processed via EDI and can be used with any EDI translator service.

Intuitive ERP -Extended Enterprise-Multi-Plant Operations

With plants across town or across the world, your company's success depends on the strength of the business systems in each of your locations. And whether you are a corporate controller or operations plant manager, those systems need to provide you with increased productivity, improved inventory management and greater cash-flow generation.

The challenge has been to meet the seemingly conflicting objectives of maintaining corporate oversight and management while providing the local business unit flexibility that has given you a competitive advantage. The solution is Intuitive ERP™ from Intuitive Manufacturing Systems.

Intuitive ERP meets the challenges of a multi-plant environment:

Corporate-level consolidation of critical business information provides the management team with a global view of operations and a drill-down capability to manage issues.

Sophisticated functionality without the complexity of monolithic or bureaucratic systems empowers employees to make faster and more accurate business decisions.

Flexibility and expandability reduce long-term operating costs while supporting the unique business needs of each division or plant. 

A standardized and easy-to-administer IT infrastructure can be centralized, web deployed or distributed to reduce installation, training and maintenance costs.

The system architecture enables technological integration with larger ERP systems.

Intuitive ERP-Extended Enterprise-Globalization

Intuitive ERP is designed to support businesses that operate locally or globally. Language and currency need not be a barrier to conducting business. With multi-language and multi-currency capabilities, Intuitive ERP can be implemented around the world. Whether you manage a small company in Paris or an international firm in Los Angeles, Intuitive ERP supports your needs.

Multi-Language

The Intuitive ERP system architecture provides a flexible environment to easily modify language tables, reports and forms. Any language can be supported, including double byte

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languages. System upgrades do not affect translation; all translations remain intact and fully operational with no maintenance from release to release.

Multilingual capability extends to the user level, not just the client. The same client workstation and logon can be used by more than one employee with more than one language. For example, one employee can be working in Spanish while another employee on the same or a different workstation is using English.

Multi-Currency and VAT

Intuitive ERP is fully multi-currency enabled, allowing for an unlimited number of currencies including the Euro. The multiple currency capability includes currency gains/losses (realized and unrealized), currency transfers, reports written in the vendor/customer's language, default currency by customer and vendor, and more. In addition to single or multi-currency capabilities, Intuitive ERP includes support for the use of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and Value Added Tax (VAT) throughout the system, including an easy-to-establish VAT Percentage Matrix by item or product family

About Consona Corporation

Intuitive, a Consona ERP solution, is supported by the comprehensive resources of Consona Corporation—a leading provider of software and services that enable organizations to achieve continuous business process improvements. Consona is committed to delivering ongoing customer value; a philosophy that extends throughout our entire organization. From product development and support to professional services and account management, Consona continues to refine our customers’ expectations of what a software company can do for them. To gain a better understanding of the Consona customer experience, examine our approach and get ready to raise your own expectations.

Consona is a business software and service provider dedicated to becoming your valued business partner. Our goal is to help your company continuously improve your business processes over time. Toward this mission, Consona invests in the people, processes, technology and tools needed to provide you with a unique and effective combination of customer care, product fit, industry expertise, and a broad range of consulting, IT and business services.

The Consona product portfolio consists of both industry-specific and cross-industry enterprise resource planning (ERP), engineering, and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. We provide these business solutions to more than 4,500 customers worldwide and across a variety of industries, including manufacturing and professional services.

A number of elements work together to make Consona a standout in the industry. Backed by an experienced management team and deep financial resources, Consona melds an

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aggressive acquisition program, strong balance sheet, solid customer relationships, and high-fit solutions into a value proposition that is unmatched by other vendors—but well-matched to you and your business.

Intuitive ERP Software

Intuitive Manufacturing Systems offers intuitive and flexible enterprise solutions that help today's mid-market manufacturers achieve greater operational efficiency and profitability through seamless integration of business processes on an enterprise-wide level.

Since 1994, Intuitive has been dedicated to providing discrete manufacturers with software solutions that truly add value to their business. Intuitive's enterprise solution is designed to deliver superior functionality, rapid implementation, high levels of usability and a technology standard that is unmatched in the industry.

Intuitive ERP, a Consona ERP solution, was built around the concept that the software should support standard business cycles and that the underlying technology should be flexible and affordable. Developed using solely Microsoft technologies, the software incorporated well-established manufacturing and accounting practices (such as those prescribed by APICS and GAAP) and an intuitive user interface to deliver very sophisticated solutions—as well as economic value—to mid-market manufacturers.

Consona has over 800 Intuitive customers in over 20 countries, in industries ranging from aerospace to bicycle parts and circuit boards to boat docks. Though virtually all manufacturing segments are represented in our customer base, the top three industries served are electronics, industrial machinery and equipment, and fabricated metal products. Intuitive ERP is designed for discrete, make to stock, make to order, configure to order, assemble to order, and mixed-mode manufacturers.

Product Development

Consona focuses 100 percent of the Intuitive product development efforts on the needs of our customers. We listen closely to customer input and offer many forums for providing input on product development including:

Best practices for product definition Access to our Expert support site to directly request changes and/or enhancements Beta testing opportunities Participation in user group meetings with Intuitive product experts

R&D funds are directed to serving the needs of our customers. In other words, Consona invests R&D on product enhancements that our engineering and enterprise resource planning customers care about. Intuitive software is designed solely for the unique requirements of the manufacturing industry.

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Intuitive software products are only released after stringent quality metrics have been achieved. At Consona, delivering a quality product with the robust functionality to meet our customers’ needs takes priority over meeting an arbitrary target release date. Since product development decisions are not governed by the needs of the sales team, we are not under the same pressures as other software vendors that may rush applications to market and sacrifice quality in the process. Because we take the time to fully scope out customer requirements, build deep functionality, and thoroughly beta test our products, Intuitive customers receive more reliable software.

Implementing Kanban Alternatives in Lean Manufacturing

This Lean whitepaper explores how manufacturing companies are adopting Lean because of its efficiency—lowering costs and lead-time, while improving quality and performance. In today’s highly competitive and challenging markets, companies need every available advantage.

Aberdeen Report: Benchmarking ERP in Small Manufacturing

This report focuses on the decision-making process in SMB manufacturing companies to install and/or upgrade ERP software and ways to maximize return on investment in those systems.

Six Steps to a Successful ERP Implementation

This white paper focus on the challenges and benefits associated with choosing and implementing a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution.The key to doing it “right” is staying focused on the big picture and staying focused involves following six considerations.

ERP Selection Process Survival Guide

This guide provides an overview of the steps for conducting an effective and successful enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution evaluation. Recognizing exactly what these steps are, preparing for them and following a predetermined evaluation plan can help ensure an efficient and successful selection process.

MODULES and DETAILS

Ad Hoc Report Wizard: Create custom reports quickly and easily.

Advanced Configuration: Quote, sell and deliver complex, custom-configured products easily.

Alert Messenger: Real-time workflow communication.

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OLAP Analytics: Advanced reporting and analysis with OLAP and data warehousing.

Decision Management Tool (DMT): Keep track of the health of your company.

Customer Portal: Business-to-business e-commerce.

Sales Portal: Extended access to business information.

Intuitive CRM: The information to grow and maintain healthy customer relationships.

Intuitive Forecasting: Integrate easy and accurate advanced forecasting capabilities into your planning.

Intuitive HR: Better manage your most important assets.

Intuitive Payroll: Fast and flexible payroll processing.

Intuitive SPC: Production-based quality management.

Multi-Plant Operations: Corporate scope, local flexibility.

Customers

Intuitive has over 800 customers worldwide, in industries ranging from aerospace to bicycle parts and circuit boards to boat docks. Though virtually all manufacturing segments are represented in our customer base, the top three industries served are electronics, industrial machinery and equipment, and fabricated metal products. Intuitive ERP is designed for discrete, make-to-stock, make-to-order, configure-to-order, and assemble-to-order manufacturers.

We also serve industries all over the world. Intuitive ERP is installed in over 20 countries and fully multi-currency enabled.

The next generation of ERP software for mid-market manufacturers!

Intuitive, a Consona ERP System is the only ERP enterprise software application with a 100% Microsoft.NET-based architecture and pure .NET functionality.

Intuitive ERP enables mid-market manufacturing enterprises to:

Improve productivity and reduce costs

Find out how the Intuitive ERP software system will maximize the efficiency of business processes across your entire enterprise.

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 Keep your customers satisfied

Learn how to maintain profitable customer relationships with integrated CRM functionality in your sales and support departments.

Make better business decisions

Get the visibility you need—from a strategic level to daily operations—to identify opportunities for cost savings and efficiency improvements.

Enhance your IT infrastructure

See why implementing enterprise technology should make running your business easier, not more complicated.

Intuitive Functionality

Intuitive ERP builds flexibility and responsiveness into every facet of your business environment.

Suppose your supplier informs you that a delivery will be late. With the click of a button, you can graphically display all of the affected shop orders, as well as related sales orders—enabling your service department to immediately notify your customers and giving instant visibility to your production management to react to the late shipment. Would you rather automatically notify them via e-mail? No problem. With Intuitive ERP, manufacturers can accomplish a level of integration and efficiency that truly changes the way they do business.

The Intuitive ERP system was originally designed based on APICS standards and input from customer review groups. The Intuitive Executive Review Board consisted of ten companies (early Intuitive customers) that embraced our Microsoft-centric philosophy and met on a weekly basis to discuss design ideas for each of the different areas of the system.

Additionally, our unique Work Flow tool—an interactive on-line help system—helps employees visualize their business processes by guiding users through the software. These process flows include step-by-step work instructions that contain links to the actual system forms and reports where live data can be entered. Written in aspxL and accessed through a web browser, Work Flow can be easily customized to add your unique business processes and work instructions.

Focus on Usability

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"Every time I show someone how to use the system, I say, isn’t that intuitive?" said David North, Vice President of business development of Qualitel Corporation in Redmond, WA, an Intuitive customer since 1999. We couldn't have said it better.

Intuitive ERP was designed, from the beginning, with a focus on usability. With our Microsoft-based architecture and graphical user interface, Intuitive ERP looks and feels like the Microsoft® software products your company is already accustomed to using, thus reducing training times and increasing employee productivity.

With features like a customizable "My Menu", advanced search capabilities, customizable fields, easy-to-use reporting wizards, our unique work flow tool and seamless integration with Microsoft products, even the most change-resistant employees will find that the Intuitive ERP system saves them time and effort every day. 

Intuitive customer Aerocell Incorporated found Intuitive ERP's familiar interface and user-friendly architecture to be one of the major benefits of selecting Intuitive ERP: "Intuitive ERP had everyone beat on ease of use. Anyone familiar with Windows can be up and running instantly. Within a month after implementation, our employees were comfortably using the system without any major training," said Steve Durden, Aerocell's controller.

Hallmarks of our "Intuitive" design:

Customize menus for each user Create and save unlimited grid layouts for your data Drill down into any detail by simply double-clicking Attach unlimited documents, drawings, images, etc. to any data record Use advanced search capabilities to find information quickly and easily Export any dataset automatically to Microsoft Excel, HTML, delimited-text files,

and more.

Technology Infrastructure

Technology is clearly necessary to stay competitive in today's marketplace. Consona’s mission is to use technology to ensure that Intuitive ERP helps you sustain growth and compete successfully without burdening your company -- and your IT department -- with an overly complex and non-adaptive product.

The clear choice to achieve this goal is to stay current with the innovations from the leader in the industry -- Microsoft. From day one, Intuitive ERP has provided a technology standard that is unmatched in the industry: 100 percent Microsoft technology. And Intuitive remains committed to embracing advances from Microsoft to create products that are more robust, more secure, faster and, most importantly, easier for you to use and administer

Intuitive ERP and Microsoft .NET:

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Intuitive ERP's Microsoft .NET-based software technology marks a quantum leap forward in enterprise software.

.NET is good for you because it has revolutionized the way we build software — which simply means that we are building a better software product for your company. .NET technology has allowed us to make several improvements in our software. Less code, faster development, and all of those other reasons that make .NET good for us, the software developer, result in a myriad of benefits to you, the software user.  Software built with .NET has fewer problems, is faster, easier to work with, easier to modify, safer and more secure, less work for your IT staff and is overall a more innovative solution and a better investment in the long run.  We predict that, within the next 12 months, technology-savvy manufacturers will be demanding that any new software they purchase will be written in pure Microsoft .NET managed code.

System Architecture:

Exclusive use of Microsoft technology establishes a seamless interaction between all elements of the Intuitive ERP architecture.

System Administration:

Coupled with the administrative tools from Microsoft, a set of intuitive system tools keeps administration chores to an absolute minimum.

Rapid Implementation

Consona provides the people, processes and tools necessary for a well-executed implementation.  Our time-tested implementation process, together with training and other aids, help to get your system and employees up and running in record time.

Many of our customers implement the system in less than ninety days. 

Brian Logan of Lacrimedics, an Intuitive customer, learned first-hand the benefits of Intuitive's rapid implementation:  "One of our subcontractors was implementing a different system at the same time we started our [Intuitive ERP] implementation. One year later, they're still working on the system and we've already had 12 months of very positive results."

We attribute this to several factors:

The flexibility of the product The consulting services and training provided by Intuitive An intuitive interface that makes the product easy for your employees to learn and

use Our Microsoft-based technology infrastructure

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Extensive implementation documentation Proven implementation planning guides Ease of customization/modification of the system

Return on Investment

Intuitive ERP regularly provides solid, measurable financial benefit within the first year after implementation. Customer satisfaction increases based on improved on-time delivery, increased quality, shortened delivery times, etc. Inventory carrying costs decrease due to better planning, tracking and forecasting of requirements. Visibility into how to best schedule the shop floor minimizes downtime. Vendor pricing decreases by taking better advantage of quantity breaks and tracking vendor performance. Collections are turned faster due to better visibility into accounts and fewer billing and delivery errors.

And, while the industry average cost for ERP implementation runs two to three times the cost of the software, Intuitive ERP implementation costs are most often much less than the cost of the system. All of these factor favourably to a rapid ROI on your investment.

Easy to Customize

Intuitive ERP provides several levels of customization. 

1. System Configuration

Intuitive ERP is very flexible; many aspects of the user interface and processing operations can be configured easily to meet the demands of your business environment.  Intuitive ERP includes a set of tools that allows you to configure master control options for entering defaults, auto-numbering, serial numbers, currency and other user-defined attributes, as well as the customization of all field names, forms and reports.

2. Customer Modifications

Source code for the majority of the Intuitive ERP product is delivered to you under the standard software license agreement and can then be modified. Part of the standard system is a special code container for all modified modules that dramatically simplifies upgrades and enhances management and testing of modifications.  

3. Modification Services

Many of our customers find that Intuitive ERP meets the majority of their needs without dramatic customization. We realize, however, that you may have unique business conditions that create the need to customize a solution. Intuitive offers complete customization services to provide the technical expertise and development resources for the customization of your system. All customizations are fully documented and conform to

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Intuitive’s strict programming standards to assure product compatibility and seamless integration.

Clients using Intuitive ERP

Manufacturing companies in industries ranging from aerospace to bicycle parts and circuit boards to boat docks have used Intuitive ERP to reduce costs, improve productivity, and enable new business strategies within their organizations.

Ace Designers, Ltd. :ERP reduces manufacturing costs by 20% for industrial equipment manufacturer

Anderson Power Products: ERP helps manufacturer of high-power interconnects and accessories bring five global locations under one ERP umbrella

American Tubing, Inc. :ERP resolves scheduling issues and increases the bottom line for tubing fabricator

ATI Industrial Automation: ERP helps robotics manufacturer achieve continuous improvement.

Cardinal Scale: ERP allows scale manufacturer to take the weight of with streamlined operations.

Leading Edge Hydraulics: ERP allows hydraulic tube assembly and fitting manufacturer to deliver more value to customers.

Qualitel Corporation: Updating technology results in big payoff for turnkey electronics manufacturer

San Antonio Lighthouse: ERP enables contract manufacturer to stay competitive

TrailTechInc.ERP creates measurable improvement within a month on the shop floor for Trailer manufacturer.