LeanCost vs. MELSS Comparison Chart

Tasor Planner is a powerful software solution for advanced planning and scheduling. It automatically generates optimal production plans and schedules, enabling businesses to gain a competitive edge by lowering costs and shortening delivery times. Tasor Planner optimizes production planning even in environments with the most challenging constraints and dependencies, creating accurate and optimal production schedules. Tasor Planner is a perfect fit for companies of all sizes—small, medium, and large enterprises. Adjust the parameters in the Profit Calculator application according to your production needs and calculate the profit increase using Tasor Planner. Tasor Planner allows businesses to consistently meet customer order due dates, even in the most complex cases. With Tasor Planner, it is always possible to know what quantity will be available and when, enabling accurate delivery date estimations.

Run your Engineer To Order (ETO) manufacturing business with increased accuracy, efficiency, and profitability with Total ETO (formerly Questica ETO). Find, track and close new business more efficiently, create estimates with greater accuracy, and automatically cascade to a total at the project level. Integrate your BOM with the most popular 3D CAD packages SolidWorks, AutoDesk Inventor, PTC Creo, Solid Edge, Catia and more. Submit material requests to purchasing without double entry and view, track, and manage your inventory including work in progress. Report costs in real-time as your team places orders, allocates stock, and logs hours to a job. Empower management with real time information and configure every report to suit your company. Integrate seamlessly with QuickBooks, Sage, or another financial system.

Real-time Visibility into Your Shop Floor's Performance. The Shoplogix smart factory platform enables manufacturers to increase overall equipment effectiveness, reduce operational costs, sustain growth and improve profitability by allowing them to visualize, integrate and act on production and machine performance in real-time. Manufacturers that trust us to drive efficiency in their factories. Real-time visual data and analytics provide valuable insights to make better informed decisions. Uncover hidden shop floor potential and drive rapid time to value. Develop a continuously improving culture through training, education and data-driven decisions. Compete in the i4.0 world by making the Shoplogix Smart Factory Platform the cornerstone of your digital transformation. Connect to any equipment or device to automate data collection and exchange it with other manufacturing technologies. Automatically monitor, report and analyze machine states to track real-time production.

Steelhead's cloud-based technology gives you the opportunity to digitize and streamline every step of your manufacturing process - designed specifically for your job shop, not the other way around. Our software allows Operators to send quotes, add work orders, include product recipes, track the movement of parts, send packing slips and invoices, train operators, automatically generate reports, and reprioritize jobs all with the tap of a finger! Access effortless inventory management with low-quantity alerts and accounting integrations to automate invoice tracking. How is Steelhead different? Any Operator off the street can be trained in as little as 10 minutes! Deploying at your job shop can be as quick as two weeks (not months like other MRP solutions) - we aren't your traditional MES or ERP. Reach out today for a demo of the technology or an on-site optimization consultation.

Odoo is a fully integrated, customizable, open-source software packed with hundreds of expertly designed business applications. Odoo’s intuitive database is able to meet a majority of business needs, such as: CRM, Sales, Project, Manufacturing, Inventory, and Accounting, just to name a few. Odoo is an all-in-one software solution designed to meet the needs of companies, regardless of their size (or budget). The unbeatable, seamless nature of Odoo helps businesses become more efficient by reducing redundant manual processes, which helps companies save countless hours of labor. Every module is interconnected to provide a fully-integrated experience from app to app, and users can automate many processes that would’ve otherwise required manual inputs into multiple applications. Odoo keeps all business functions in one place, allowing teams to collaborate with other departments from one unified platform in the most efficient way possible.

ProShop is a paperless and web based shop management, ERP, MES and QMS system for manufacturing companies in regulated industries. ProShop was built on the shop floor of a machine shop for nearly 20 years, and it's not like anything you've seen. Built to manage the complex manufacturing environment better than anything else on the market - by an order of magnitude. Never before has there been a system that gives you such insight into every detail of your manufacturing company. ProShop is best described as a Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem (DME). It is 100% paperless, and combines the features found in ERP, MES, QMS, CMMS, and other software categories for machine shops, fabricators, job shops, contract manufacturers and others in regulated industries who need tight controls on their process and want exacting and timely information to make the best and most profitable decisions.

MRPeasy helps small manufacturers grow with easy-to-use tools that cover all the essentials they need to manage their production. Having built the first cloud-based MRP platform in 2014, we offer user-friendly software-as-a-service that covers everything from production planning to CRM, skipping all the features that are too complex or irrelevant for small manufacturers. This means smaller manufacturers get access to powerful production planning tools, levelling the playing field with larger competitors. With MRPeasy, you know exactly how much your products cost and when they’re ready, helping you to steer your business effectively. MRPeasy integrates with leading accounting software like QuickBooks and Xero and e-commerce platforms like Shopify and WooCommerce, providing a comprehensive, fully integrated business management solution.

Designed for apparel manufacturers, importers and distributors. Includes Product Development Management, Costing, Purchasing, Order Entry, EDI, CRM, Alerts, Production Planning, Work in Progress, Imports, In-house manufacturing, Subcontractors, Raw Material Inventory, Finished Goods Inventory, Order Allocation, Barcoding, Warehouse Locator, Pick Tickets, Packing, Shipping, Invoicing, and Accounting integration with QuickBooks and fully integrated with ECommerce in real time. POS analysis module and sales analysis module using Business Intelligence. InStyle Cloud, is a Software as a Service (SaaS) product that provides access to our Apparel Business Software and its functions remotely as a Web-based service. Special access is provided for internal users, customers and vendors. Integration with services from Gildan, SanMar, S&S and Alphabroder make InStyle ideal for product embellishment. Integration with FedEx and UPS make shipping easy.

Fishbowl is the #1 selling manufacturing and warehouse management software for QuickBooks. Designed for small and medium-sized businesses, including manufacturers, distributors, and service providers, Fishbowl gives businesses the flexibility to stay within the QuickBooks platform for accounting while seamlessly integrating advanced inventory features with it. It also offers multi-location tracking, work orders, bills of materials, barcoding, shipping, auto reorder points, and integrations with EDI, shopping carts, merchant services, and other business solutions. If you are looking for an affordable inventory management solution that can help your business take advantage of the latest technology to streamline operations and save time and money, Fishbowl is a great option.

Katana's Cloud Inventory Platform gives you a centralized view of your inventory to maintain optimal stock levels across all your locations and efficiently track products available for sale. Easily manage incoming orders from all your sales channels and issue purchase orders directly from Katana to ensure restocking at the right time and in the right quantities. Seamlessly integrate Katana with your e-commerce, accounting, and other business software to automate repetitive tasks and get real-time visibility over your daily operations and business performance. Main features: *Real-time inventory insights *Built-in purchase order management *Omnichannel sales management *Manufacturing operations management *Financial visibility and cloud accounting