Why integrate QuickBooks to a mid-market manufacturing ERP system?
More and more companies are choosing a hybrid ERP approach. Loyalty, growth and functionality all play a part in these decisions. Read on for more.
With the large difference in price between QuickBooks Enterprise and that of a mid-market manufacturing system, the question begs to be asked. After all, some will say, what’s an extra 15% to get a totally integrated system?
To properly answer this, it is important to consider why a company that has been successfully using QuickBooks Enterprise suddenly needs a mid-market manufacturing system. While there are many factors that could lead to this, commonalities seem to revolve around growth, and functional areas.
Depending on industry sector and type of manufacturing, many small manufacturers can support business activity levels using QuickBooks and spreadsheets for operations up to a certain threshold. Beyond that threshold, it is not uncommon to see the operations side of a manufacturing firm get out of control, while accounting is well under control. To illustrate this, a company making large ticket configurable equipment can quickly lose control in the shop, while the volume of transactions remain quite moderate from a treasury function volume of transaction.
For some types of manufacturing firms, help can be found in the form of third party add-ons to address operations. For others, operations like make to order, configure to order environments, make to project, or others, off the shelf out of the box package may have too many shortcomings to handle growth and complexity. The only solutions capable of addressing all needs may be to move to a mid-market application.
While many companies choose to make a wholesale change, others opt for the hybrid ERP approach. Proponents of this have shown to have a strong sense of loyalty towards QuickBooks. Others argue that, if the integration is functional, why throw resources at accounting to fix an operations issue?
Every situation is different, but INDUSTRIOS has found a recent tendency towards the latter approach. INDUSTRIOS customer Plas-Tech is testimony to that.