Looking for ERP Software

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Permalink Reply by chadtrad on June 3, 2008 at 12:24pm

Tessa, rather inexpensive is what to you? A budget is a great place to start as well as a list of core features your business needs to operate. Do you have online sales that the ERP app will need to work with?

-Chad-

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Permalink Reply by Me to We Style on June 3, 2008 at 3:03pm

No we do not need it to work with online sales, so that may make things a little easier. We are a very young company so trying to set a budget is difficult for us because good ERP software can be very expensive depending on what you want to do with it. We would like to have software that can grow with us, but should the costs be too great we may have to consider purchasing again. Thank you for your reply and we are still on the hunt :)
~Tessa

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Permalink Reply by chadtrad on June 4, 2008 at 1:44pm

Tessa, you can look into SAP Business One, Oracle for Small Business, Sage Software, Microsoft Great Plains and Netsuite are a few that may at least be able to give you some general help and cost concerns to think about. A technology choice is a very serious investment and can break a company if not implemented correctly, not trained correctly, or used correctly. Good luck and hope this helped

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Permalink Reply by Apparel1 on June 3, 2008 at 1:39pm

Tessa - personally, I have never purchased ERP software, so I can not offer a specific suggestion. You can find a few resources at the ERP Software directory on Apparel Search. Hopefully someone else from the network will respond to you with more specific suggestions.

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Permalink Reply by Me to We Style on June 3, 2008 at 3:05pm

Thank you very much!
I have checked out the site, and they have great information it is just difficult get to the root of how it works and real critiques when talking to sales reps and reading websites! I think the next step my be to just pick a few and demo them, that way we know for ourselves.
~Tessa

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Permalink Reply by Apparel1 on June 3, 2008 at 3:26pm

Glad you liked that site, it is mine... (I create the Apparel Search site). Anyway, regarding the ERP software, I agree with you that the best method is to test product. You can speak to the sales people to get an education on the features, but you should definately test a few prior to investing in the software. After you determine the best option for your company, please post the version you selected and why you selected it as your top choice. Maybe that will help others in the future.

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Permalink Reply by Dimitris Athanasiadis on December 21, 2011 at 12:53pm

Hi,

You've probably covered by now but in case you're disappointed by your choice and are looking for an alternative or in case someone else reads this, our product, megaventory.com, offers inventory management and other ERP capabilities at very affordable prices that are specifically targeted to the small and medium enterprise. I should also mention that a significant fraction of our customers are from the apparel industry and have fully embraced the megaventory best practices for their business.

I will be glad to answer questions or offer clarifications if you or anyone else's interested

Dimitris Athanasiadis

megaventory.com

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