Smaller manufacturers often rely on basic tools like spreadsheets, manual entry, or even distribution inventory management software. These might work at first, but as your business grows, an ineffective manufacturing system can cause production bottlenecks.

The lack of real-time visibility, difficulty managing inventory, and falling behind on production are all signs you’ve outgrown your current system.

Whether you’re using spreadsheets or an outdated ERP or distribution inventory management system, there are clear signs that it’s time for an upgrade:

• You’re constantly reacting instead of planning
• You run out of materials mid-production or collect excess stock
• You can’t easily track true costs, and it’s hard to know which products are profitable
• Scheduling feels like best-guess planning

Without real-time insights, planning, production, and avoiding bottlenecks become a constant challenge.

Manufacturing ERP for Small Business

Effective manufacturing software for small businesses improves visibility and streamlines operations to improve profitability.

• Real-time visibility allows you to track what’s happening across your operations and make informed decisions without waiting for someone to update a spreadsheet.
• Effective scheduling tools help you identify and avoid bottlenecks before they cause downtime.
• Better cost tracking provides you with a clear picture of actual product costs and profit margins, helping you identify where to improve efficiency.
• With real-time reporting, you know when to reorder and how much stock to keep on-hand. Strategic sourcing ensures materials are purchased at optimal prices.

Passport Software

PBS Manufacturing improves visibility, and real-time reporting provides business insight for better decision making. PBS™ can help you streamline purchasing, inventory management and production to ensure orders are shipped on time.

• Better planning tools to have materials on-hand when you need them for on-time deliveries.
• Increase productivity with less effort. Reduction or elimination of redundant data entry, minimizing errors, and improving order tracking and visibility.
• Track fluctuating prices of materials, purchase larger quantities or buy them further in advance, and maintain a preferred vendor and alternative sources. Allows you to adjust pricing in time to help protect margins.

PBS™ Manufacturing provides in-depth reporting to help improve efficiency and profitability through timely information organized the way you need it.

PBS™ is modular in design and integrates with PBS™ Accounting to adapt to your unique needs and processes. You can select only the modules you need and scale up as you grow.

Call 800-969-7900 to learn more about PBS Manufacturing ERP, an affordable yet robust system designed to serve the needs of small to mid-sized manufacturers. Or, contact us – we are here to help.