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PRONTO-Xi Rating displays the level of support for functionality and services provided by PRONTO-Xi by PRONTO Software. |
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Average Competitor Rating displays the average level of support for functionality and services provided by all of the vendors within TEC’s knowledge base. |
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Competitor with the Lowest Rating is a real product or service solution. It indicates the overall lowest level of support for functionality or services (based on TEC’s model of ERP Discrete solutions). |
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Competitor with the Highest Rating is a real product or service solution. It indicates the overall highest level of support for functionality or services (based on TEC’s model of ERP Discrete solutions). |
*To learn more about criteria rating definitions please consult The ERP Discrete Rating Guide
| Module | Total Criteria | PRONTO-Xi by PRONTO Software | Lowest Rated Competitor for ERP Discrete | Highest Rated Competitor for ERP Discrete | |||||||||
| Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | ||||||||
| Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | |||||
| FINANCIALS Includes:General Ledger; Accounts Payable; Fixed Assets; Cost Accounting; Cash Management; Budgeting; and other | 959 | 917 | 1 | 40 | 96.33 | 671 | 23 | 264 | 79.67 | 944 | 0 | 15 | 99.83 |
| HUMAN RESOURCES Includes:Personnel Management; Benefits; Payroll; Employee Self-Service; Data Warehousing; Health and Safety; and other | 246 | 180 | 0 | 66 | 78.15 | 19 | 24 | 203 | 44.35 | 239 | 2 | 5 | 95.85 |
| MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT Includes:Product Costing; Shop Floor Control; Field Service and Repairs; Production Planning; Project Management; Product Data Management (PDM); and other | 1048 | 955 | 0 | 93 | 96.07 | 14 | 1011 | 23 | 9.07 | 1025 | 0 | 23 | 98.64 |
| INVENTORY MANAGEMENT Includes:Inventory Management On-line Requirements; Processing Requirements; Data Requirements; Reporting and Interfacing Requirements (Inventory Management); Locations and Lot Control; Forecasting; and other | 184 | 182 | 0 | 2 | 99.72 | 81 | 1 | 102 | 76.84 | 183 | 1 | 0 | 99.53 |
| PURCHASING MANAGEMENT Includes:Vendor and Supplier Profile; Supplier Rating and Profile; Requisitions and Quotations; Purchase Orders; Prices and Discounts; Vendor Contracts and Agreements; and other | 260 | 241 | 0 | 19 | 96.98 | 123 | 0 | 137 | 66.73 | 245 | 0 | 15 | 96.33 |
| QUALITY MANAGEMENT Includes:Defective or excess material return processing must update on-hand; Damaged material--corrective action and failure analysis available to vendor on-line; Inspection required indicator by supplier and by item; Pre-inspection receipts registered as "inventory on hold"; On-line inquiry of inspection and material review board (MRB) queue; Validation against automated inspection criteria; and other | 29 | 24 | 0 | 5 | 93.79 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| SALES MANAGEMENT Includes:On-line Requirements (Sales Management); Reporting and Interfacing Requirements (Sales Management); Available-to-Promise (ATP); Pricing and Discounting; Customer Service and Returned Goods Handling; Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and E-Commerce Requirements; and other | 230 | 217 | 0 | 13 | 94.71 | 116 | 6 | 108 | 60.24 | 223 | 0 | 7 | 98.54 |
| PRODUCT TECHNOLOGY Includes:Architecture; User Interface; Platforms; Application Tools; Workflow and Document Management; Reporting; and other | 327 | 216 | 33 | 78 | 88.36 | 96 | 124 | 107 | 57.94 | 277 | 21 | 29 | 92.62 |
Financials
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This encompasses modules for bookkeeping and making sure the accounts are paid or received on time.
*To learn more about criteria rating definitions please consult The ERP Discrete Rating Guide
| Module | Total Criteria | PRONTO-Xi by PRONTO Software | Lowest Rated Competitor for ERP Discrete | Highest Rated Competitor for ERP Discrete | |||||||||
| Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | ||||||||
| Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | |||||
| GENERAL LEDGER Includes:Parameters and Structuring; Chart of Accounts Structure; Ledger Development and Management; Enterprise Reporting Structure; Journal Entry and Reporting; Journal Voucher Ledger Transactions; and other | 314 | 298 | 1 | 15 | 97.79 | 225 | 17 | 72 | 78.98 | 309 | 0 | 5 | 99.49 |
| ACCOUNTS PAYABLE Includes:Policies and Procedures; Supplier Master Data; Invoice Process and Aging; Journal Voucher Process; AP Ledger Posting; Payment Controls; and other | 235 | 231 | 0 | 4 | 99.53 | 177 | 2 | 56 | 83.56 | 228 | 0 | 7 | 99.5 |
| FIXED ASSETS Includes:Fixed Assets Records; Asset Transactions; Asset Depreciation; Depreciation Books; Tax Reporting; | 89 | 83 | 0 | 6 | 95.06 | 69 | 1 | 19 | 85.69 | 89 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| COST ACCOUNTING Includes:Cost Data; Cost Allocation Definitions; Cost Allocation Processing; Cost Management; | 49 | 44 | 0 | 5 | 98.1 | 27 | 0 | 22 | 79.45 | 48 | 0 | 1 | 99.73 |
| CASH MANAGEMENT Includes:Current cash availability; Calculation of expected cash resources (sales, AR, field service, and miscellaneous cash); Calculation of expected cash uses (purchasing, AP, and miscellaneous cash); Forecast effects of cash resources and uses on cash availability; Expected pay date maintenance; Cash projection reporting; and other | 16 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 93.77 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 78.18 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| BUDGETING Includes:Budget Controls; Budget Accounting; Budget Development; Budgets; Budget Allocation; | 65 | 61 | 0 | 4 | 90.37 | 30 | 0 | 35 | 61.87 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE Includes:On-line Requirements; Processing Requirements; Data Requirements; Reporting Requirements; Interfacing Requirements; Credit and Collections Management; and other | 105 | 103 | 0 | 2 | 99.41 | 72 | 0 | 33 | 83.55 | 103 | 0 | 2 | 99.52 |
| FINANCIAL REPORTING Includes:On-Line Requirements; Miscellaneous; | 35 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 29 | 0 | 5 | 92.15 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| PROJECT ACCOUNTING Includes:Project and Cost Coding Structure; Project Creation; Cost Coding Structure Creation or Maintenance; Transaction Processing; Line Item Data Capture; Reporting Format and Tools; and other | 51 | 49 | 0 | 2 | 94.64 | 32 | 3 | 16 | 77.98 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
Human Resources
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Human resources encompasses all the applications necessary for handling personnel-related tasks for corporate managers and individual employees. Modules include personnel management, benefit management, payroll management, employee self service, data warehousing, and health and safety.
*To learn more about criteria rating definitions please consult The ERP Discrete Rating Guide
| Module | Total Criteria | PRONTO-Xi by PRONTO Software | Lowest Rated Competitor for ERP Discrete | Highest Rated Competitor for ERP Discrete | |||||||||
| Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | ||||||||
| Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | |||||
| PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT Includes:Recruitment Management; Personnel Profile; Organizational Structuring; Job Position and Wage Profiles; Career Development and Training; Reward Management; and other | 106 | 83 | 0 | 23 | 91.19 | 8 | 0 | 98 | 63.54 | 103 | 0 | 3 | 99.01 |
| BENEFITS Includes:Base Benefits; Employee Benefit Plan Profile; Benefits Administration; | 24 | 16 | 0 | 8 | 78.2 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 60 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 93.06 |
| PAYROLL Includes:Employee Payroll Profile; Earnings and Deductions; Eligibility Controls; User Balances; Automated Time Sheet; Security and Audit; and other | 70 | 62 | 0 | 8 | 91.45 | 11 | 0 | 59 | 62.22 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| EMPLOYEE SELF-SERVICE Includes:Review and maintain name, address, telephone number, etc., associated with life events; Review or enroll in benefits for open enrollment period; Change benefits related to a life event; Update W4 information such as tax filling status, number of exemptions, and withholding information; View pay stub info: gross pay, taxes, other deductions, net pay, pay period, and year-to-date totals; Maintain dependents and beneficiaries related to life event; and other | 22 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 60 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| DATA WAREHOUSING Includes:Staff headcount, movement, and turnover trends analyses and reports; Workforce planning reporting; EEO/affirmative action /disabled employee reporting; Absence and leave accrual reporting; Wage and salary costs data, with detailed breakdowns across, for example, earnings, deductions, and disbursements; Reports on vacancies and the effectiveness of filling them such as time to fill, cost per applicant, and average time of retaining the position; and other | 13 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 93.08 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| HEALTH AND SAFETY Includes:Report and investigate incidents of injury and illness for employees and contractors; Initiation of corrective actions related to an incident; Logging of first aid records and reports; Manage occupational injury and illness claims; Report incidents involving vehicles and equipment; Detect and monitor hazardous conditions (areas) and materials, and exporting them via an interface for further processing; and other | 11 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 91.82 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 76.36 |
Manufacturing Management
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Kanban is a method of Just-in-Time production that uses standard containers or lot sizes with a single card attached to each. It is a pull system in which work centers signal with a card or other device that they wish to withdraw parts from feeding operations or suppliers. The Japanese word kanban, loosely translated, means card, billboard, or sign, but other signalling devices such as colored golf balls have also been used. The term is often used synonymously for the specific scheduling system developed and used by the Toyota Corporation in Japan. Point-of-use storage/floor stock—keeping inventory in specified locations on a plant floor near the operation where it is to be used.
*To learn more about criteria rating definitions please consult The ERP Discrete Rating Guide
| Module | Total Criteria | PRONTO-Xi by PRONTO Software | Lowest Rated Competitor for ERP Discrete | Highest Rated Competitor for ERP Discrete | |||||||||
| Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | ||||||||
| Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | |||||
| PRODUCT COSTING Includes:Item Costing; Costing Activity; Purchase Costing; Costing Calculations; Cost Report and Inventory Accounting; Actual Costing; and other | 105 | 100 | 0 | 5 | 98.7 | 0 | 105 | 0 | 0 | 104 | 0 | 1 | 99.78 |
| SHOP FLOOR CONTROL Includes:Flow Manufacturing; Company Calendar; Work Centers and Machines; Orders Dispatching; Production Orders Control and Reporting; WIP Management; and other | 385 | 374 | 0 | 11 | 99.44 | 0 | 385 | 0 | 0 | 371 | 0 | 14 | 98.89 |
| FIELD SERVICE AND REPAIRS Includes:Call Management; Service Order Management; Field Service Management; Service Contracts Management; Processing and Statusing; Service Training Management; and other | 119 | 114 | 0 | 5 | 98.49 | 0 | 119 | 0 | 0 | 117 | 0 | 2 | 98.62 |
| PRODUCTION PLANNING Includes:Master Production Scheduling (MPS); Rough-Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP); Material Requirements Planning (MRP); Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP) and Work Center Scheduling; | 297 | 243 | 0 | 54 | 90.92 | 0 | 297 | 0 | 0 | 297 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| PROJECT MANAGEMENT Includes:Control ID for requirements, orders, and inventory; Pegged requirements, orders, and inventory; Optional control identification for requirements, orders, and inventory; Project identity for transactions with complete on-line audit history; Automatic multi-level pegging to end items; Project and contract netting logic; and other | 36 | 31 | 0 | 5 | 93.3 | 14 | 0 | 22 | 63.46 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| PRODUCT DATA MANAGEMENT (PDM) Includes:Graphical manipulation of BOM data; Local verification prior to upload; Import preliminary BOM from external systems (CAD and PDM); Development of BOM based on material availability; BOM reference designators; PDM Workflow; and other | 68 | 59 | 0 | 9 | 96.14 | 0 | 67 | 1 | 0 | 65 | 0 | 3 | 98.2 |
| PRODUCT/ITEM CONFIGURATOR Includes:Product variability; Menu selections; Selection constraints; Conditions; Auto planning BOM; Option types; and other | 38 | 34 | 0 | 4 | 95.53 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 3 | 95 |
Inventory Management
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Inventory management encompasses a group of applications for maintaining records of warehoused goods and processes movement of products to, through, and from warehouses.
*To learn more about criteria rating definitions please consult The ERP Discrete Rating Guide
| Module | Total Criteria | PRONTO-Xi by PRONTO Software | Lowest Rated Competitor for ERP Discrete | Highest Rated Competitor for ERP Discrete | |||||||||
| Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | ||||||||
| Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | |||||
| INVENTORY MANAGEMENT ON-LINE REQUIREMENTS Includes:Maintain item number history of usage, both planned and unplanned, and purged upon a specific date criteria; Provide inquiry and reporting capability for inventory transactions by item number, location, and transaction type.; Provide reporting capability by item number (all transactions since last cycle count); Provide inquiry and reporting capability for inventory transaction summary by from and to dates; Provide inquiry and reporting capability for inventory status by item number and serial number; Provide inquiry and reporting capability for slow moving and obsolete inventory; and other | 29 | 27 | 0 | 2 | 97.9 | 18 | 0 | 11 | 79.16 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 96.5 |
| PROCESSING REQUIREMENTS Includes:Provide for multiple facilities, warehouses, stockrooms, and inventory locations; Kanban inventory management; Flexible assignment of inventory processing by product and part (kanban and point-of-use); Provide allocation of raw material and component inventory to firm planned or open work order locations; Provide for non-nettable inventory locations; Provide for ABC classification of parts, based on order activity, historic usage/cost, or projected usage/cost; and other | 28 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 16 | 1 | 11 | 75.18 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| DATA REQUIREMENTS Includes:Provide product line code information on the inventory master file; Provide item number information on the inventory master file; Provide item description information on the inventory master file; Provide unit of measure information on the inventory master file; Provide effectivity information on the inventory master file (absolute date effectivity may be assigned via item number); Provide effectivity information on the inventory master file regardless of its total product structure usage; and other | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 90 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| REPORTING AND INTERFACING REQUIREMENTS (INVENTORY MANAGEMENT) Includes:Produce system-generated documents for material issues to production runs; Provide reporting of inactive, excess, or obsolete inventory; Provide inventory valuation reporting by item number, product code, warehouse, production facility, distribution center, or stockroom; Provide the ability for a distribution center to run reports or inquiries on inventory status, open order status (sales and production), costs, sales, and quotes for items that only pertain to their specific facility; Reports of inventory by team, planner code, and buyer code; Interface with the general ledger to forward a journal for all inventory adjustments; and other | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 80.91 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| LOCATIONS AND LOT CONTROL Includes:Stocking locations fixed, assigned, manual, or system assigned; Ten-position location convention, which identifies location scheme; Multiple stocking locations per site per item; Location types warehouse, stores, branches, trucks, consigned, inspection, return, repair, or user-defined category, department, or bulk; Random stores locations; Default stocking locations; and other | 20 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 11 | 0 | 9 | 72.16 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| FORECASTING Includes:Provides initialization run to simulate policy effects; Beta factor used to combine forecast errors; Monitor actual service levels versus policy service level; Forecasts, forecast monitoring, and initialization of control reports; Safety stock initialization or simulation reports; Measures performance of unadjusted forecast, adjusted forecast; and other | 52 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 60 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| RESERVATIONS AND ALLOCATIONS Includes:Reservation days--time fence between soft and hard allocations; On-line display of resources and inventory availability by location; Lot quality, grade specification visibility to meet customer requirements; Hard allocation of inventory at order entry time; Reallocation of reserved inventory across orders; Automatic allocation of inventory to backorders; and other | 26 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 13 | 0 | 13 | 69.27 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| INVENTORY ADJUSTMENTS Includes:Manual update of inventory quantities; Adjustment reason codes including cycle count and poor quality; Control number required to record inventory transaction; Inventory balance display: before adjustments and after adjustments; Audit trail of inventory adjustment for reporting; Select transaction authorization; and other | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 91.18 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
Purchasing Management
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Purchasing management encompasses a group of applications that controls purchasing of raw materials needed to build products and that manages inventory stocks. It also involves creating purchase orders/contracts, supplier tracking, goods receipt and payment, and regulatory compliance analysis and reporting.
*To learn more about criteria rating definitions please consult The ERP Discrete Rating Guide
| Module | Total Criteria | PRONTO-Xi by PRONTO Software | Lowest Rated Competitor for ERP Discrete | Highest Rated Competitor for ERP Discrete | |||||||||
| Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | ||||||||
| Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | |||||
| VENDOR AND SUPPLIER PROFILE Includes:Vendor information including items, method of shipment, and terms; Multiple addresses per supplier; Store e-mail addresses, web sites, and fax numbers in vendor profiles; Item link to vendor item/description; Vendor lead times: external and transportation; Bill-to-entity information including currency, bank, account number, and mode of payment; and other | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 84.21 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| SUPPLIER RATING AND PROFILE Includes:Purchases YTD in number and dollars; Statistics for on-time, early, and late deliveries; Twenty-four month statistical performance data; Average days early and late; Rejected salvaged in number and dollar value; Supplier performance analysis including quality defects, delivery performance, and cost/price; and other | 13 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 63.08 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| REQUISITIONS AND QUOTATIONS Includes:On-line requisition entry and update; Multiple line items and delivery schedules; Quality codes included on purchase requisitions; On-line requisition approval; RFQ processing; Vendor quote by item; and other | 13 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 63.08 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| PURCHASE ORDERS Includes:Conversion of requisition into PO; Conversion of planned purchase orders to PO directed to vendor automatically and electronically; Manual entry of purchase order; Automatic sequential purchase order numbering scheme; Purchase order types including standard PO, blanket/contract, subcontract order/operation, purchase request, and return-from-stock; Purchase orders for miscellaneous (non-inventoried) items "Fast Path"; and other | 63 | 58 | 0 | 5 | 96.7 | 39 | 0 | 24 | 79 | 60 | 0 | 3 | 98.98 |
| PRICES AND DISCOUNTS Includes:Price lists and discounts by supplier and by item; Registration of latest purchase price for an item; Discount by order and by order line; Price/discount grade by quantity and by amount; Multiple vendor price agreement and term levels; Effectivity dates for prices and for discounts; and other | 13 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 97.54 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 64.59 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 85.57 |
| VENDOR CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS Includes:Agreement levels: general, product class, and product; Agreement number; Contract types: normal and special; Contract start and end dates; Agreement signal date; Delivery date quantity, minimum, and maximum quantity; and other | 16 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 95.14 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 52.16 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 79.46 |
| PURCHASE ORDER MANAGEMENT Includes:Multiple business units, plants, sites linked to common legal entity; Centralized purchasing; Purchase classification of products; Purchasing controls for receiving, replenishment location, class, product lead times; Internal lead times by product and by warehouse; Retain PO data for audit purposes (PO with electronic approval); and other | 25 | 22 | 0 | 3 | 91.54 | 18 | 0 | 7 | 83.9 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 98.78 |
| PROCUREMENT REPORTING, ON-LINE REPORTING CAPABILITY Includes:Requisition report and query; Purchase order report and query for planned POs and released POs; PO status and follow-up report or query; PO action report/query; Flexible PO/receipt exception report/querying; Released POs by part number report/query; and other | 24 | 22 | 0 | 2 | 97.5 | 8 | 0 | 16 | 60 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| REPETITIVE VENDOR PROCUREMENT Includes:Creation of contract for set items, set time period, and set quantity/monetary value; Contract effectivity dates; Contract maximum quantity, dollar value; Vendor delivery conditions by buyer; Delivery data, allocation data, and purchasing data by PO line; Creation of vendor schedule in hard copy and electronic format; and other | 19 | 15 | 0 | 4 | 89.16 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 40 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| PROCUREMENT RECEIPTS Includes:Goods arrival and goods receipt reporting; Receipt order or receipt number; Receipt by contract/project; Receipt of consolidated purchase orders on one shipment; Sequential receipt numbering scheme; On-line receipts: purchase order; and other | 30 | 29 | 0 | 1 | 97.87 | 13 | 0 | 17 | 67.66 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| PURCHASING MANAGEMENT ON-LINE REQUIREMENTS Includes:Create and use blanket purchase orders; A reference to a contract or master agreement; Create multiple releases, each relieving a committed amount; Provide this multiple release capability at the line item level; Provide a reference back to the blanket purchase order that yielded this PO; Provide the ability to open a purchase requisition manually; and other | 14 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 68.62 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 94.83 |
| REPORTING AND INTERFACING REQUIREMENTS (PURCHASING MANAGEMENT) Includes:Print open PO detail information by vendor, item number, due date, or dollar value; Generate past due reports by vendor or item number in due date sequence; Automatic reminder for overdue shipments sent to vendor via fax or e-mail; Print a vendor performance report based on shipment and purchasing history; Print a vendor performance report based on showing late deliveries (days late); Print a vendor performance report based on orders placed; and other | 18 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 98.33 | 10 | 0 | 8 | 74.44 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 98.33 |
Quality Management
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Quality management encompasses applications for operational techniques and activities used to fulfill requirements for quality control, inspection plan creation, and management, defective item control and processing and inspection procedure collection planning.
*To learn more about criteria rating definitions please consult The ERP Discrete Rating Guide
| Module | Total Criteria | PRONTO-Xi by PRONTO Software | Lowest Rated Competitor for ERP Discrete | Highest Rated Competitor for ERP Discrete | |||||||||
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| Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | |||||
| DEFECTIVE OR EXCESS MATERIAL RETURN PROCESSING MUST UPDATE ON-HAND | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| DAMAGED MATERIAL--CORRECTIVE ACTION AND FAILURE ANALYSIS AVAILABLE TO VENDOR ON-LINE | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| INSPECTION REQUIRED INDICATOR BY SUPPLIER AND BY ITEM | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| PRE-INSPECTION RECEIPTS REGISTERED AS "INVENTORY ON HOLD" | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| ON-LINE INQUIRY OF INSPECTION AND MATERIAL REVIEW BOARD (MRB) QUEUE | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 40 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| VALIDATION AGAINST AUTOMATED INSPECTION CRITERIA | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| INSPECTION DISPOSITION WITH AUDIT TRAIL | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| DISPOSITION DELINQUENCY REPORT | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| QUANTITY REJECTED | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| REJECT REASON CODES | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| OPEN REJECTIONS REPORT | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| NON-CONFORMANCE PROCESSING | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| CORRECTIVE ACTION CREATION AND TRACKING | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| REJECT STATUS: NO DISPOSITION, AWAITING VENDOR APPROVAL | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| REWORK STATUS: WAITING FOR REWORK MANUFACTURING ORDER | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| USE AS IS STATUS: AWAITING QA VARIANCE MEMO | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 70 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| RETURN-TO-VENDOR STATUS: AWAITING SHIPMENT | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| OVERALL SUPPLIER QUALITY, SURVEY DATA AND LETTERS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| ON-LINE RETURN-TO-VENDOR | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 70 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| CUSTOMER RETURN FILE: AWAITING DISPOSITION | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| AUTOMATIC RESCHEDULING OF RETURN-TO-VENDOR ITEMS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| APPROVED ITEMS SUBSTITUTION LISTING FOR EACH ITEM | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| APPROVED VENDOR FOR EACH ITEM NUMBER | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| RETURN NOTE PRINTING | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| RETURN-TO-VENDOR DEBIT MEMO PRINTING | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| RECALCULATION OF AVERAGE COST | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| QUALITY DATA ON-LINE | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| REQUIREMENTS GROUPING USING COLLECTION PLANS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 70 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| QUALITY DOCUMENT LINKAGE WITH PRODUCT MASTER WITHIN PDM | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 70 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
Sales Management
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Sales Management encompasses a group of applications that automates the data entry process of customer orders and keeps track of the status of orders. It involves order entry, order tracing and status reporting, pricing, invoicing, etc. It also provides a basic functionality for lead tracking, customer information, quote processing, pricing & rebates, etc.
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| Module | Total Criteria | PRONTO-Xi by PRONTO Software | Lowest Rated Competitor for ERP Discrete | Highest Rated Competitor for ERP Discrete | |||||||||
| Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | ||||||||
| Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | |||||
| ON-LINE REQUIREMENTS (SALES MANAGEMENT) Includes:Accommodate an order type for a new order or quote; Accommodate a status field indicating either a quote or a customer order for a new order or quote; Create an order from a quote with a reference back to the quote, for a new order or quote; Create an order from only selected lines of the quote; Decrease the amount quoted; Allow for customer account and sales order status on-line by customer name or number or by sales order number; and other | 42 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 27 | 0 | 15 | 77.8 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| REPORTING AND INTERFACING REQUIREMENTS (SALES MANAGEMENT) Includes:Accommodate processing and printing of invoices, reports, and shipping; Print billing reports by product, invoice number, and customer; Report daily unit and dollar bookings, by item number, by customer and customer type, with month to date (MTD) totals.; Report daily unit and dollar billing/shipments, by item number and by customer with MTD totals and sort by product group; Report booking history (units) by month, displaying each of the twelve months with a total; Report billing and shipment history (units) by month, displaying each of the twelve months with a total; and other | 49 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 25 | 0 | 24 | 70.37 | 46 | 0 | 3 | 98.15 |
| AVAILABLE-TO-PROMISE (ATP) Includes:Product allocation reporting, indicating total demand, available inventory, and sales order priority; Display available to promise schedules; Display available-to-promise schedule by date buckets and by allocation; Pull desired quantities and availability dates directly into sales order; Automatic available-to-promise determination; Determine available-to-promise based on capacity restraints; and other | 10 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 82 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 28 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| PRICING AND DISCOUNTING Includes:Manual discounts; Automatic order discounting by buying agreement; Discount templates by product family; Volume, header, and line discounts; Promotion discount by product and product range; Promotion discount date effectivity; and other | 77 | 74 | 0 | 3 | 98.83 | 47 | 0 | 30 | 76.5 | 76 | 0 | 1 | 99.6 |
| CUSTOMER SERVICE AND RETURNED GOODS HANDLING Includes:Flexible inquiry capabilities; Up-to-the-minute product availability and delivery data; Order inquiry link to manufacturing status, capacity, ATP yield, and inventory status; Single screen customer information on open orders, order detail, status and history, credit, invoicing, and application of payments; On-line access to invoices; Partial order shipment by releasing available items on order; and other | 29 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 13 | 0 | 16 | 66.9 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (CRM) AND E-COMMERCE REQUIREMENTS Includes:Provide the ability to store and report forecasted sales based by salesperson and territory as well as based on the probability and projected closing date for each sale; Provide a period by period trend report of historical sales and salesperson activity based on past performance; Provide a report of the forecast error based on past forecasts compared with past actual sales results; Automatically generate a call or mail list based on a selection of any combination of database elements in the list database; Provide call history for the customer; Provide hot key access to customer account information; and other | 23 | 16 | 0 | 7 | 88.47 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 45.41 | 20 | 0 | 3 | 93.78 |
Product Technology
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This category defines the technical architecture of the product, and the technological environment in which the product can successfully run. Criteria include product and application architecture, software usability and administration, platform and database support, application standards support, communications and protocol support and integration capabilities. Relative to the other evaluation criteria, best practice selections place a lower relative importance, on the product technology category. However, this apparently lower importance is deceptive, because the product technology category usually houses the majority of the selecting organization's mandatory criteria, which usually include server, client, protocol, and database support, application scalability and other architectural capabilities. The definition of mandatory criteria within this set often allows the client to quickly narrow the long list of potential vendors to a short list of applicable solutions that pass muster relative to the most basic mandatory selection criteria. During the process of product selection a great deal of attention is given to the functional capabilities of the software being evaluated. While this aspect is obviously important, ignoring the technical mechanisms by which the software actually operates can be fatal to a project.
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| Module | Total Criteria | PRONTO-Xi by PRONTO Software | Lowest Rated Competitor for ERP Discrete | Highest Rated Competitor for ERP Discrete | |||||||||
| Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | ||||||||
| Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | |||||
| ARCHITECTURE Includes:Data Integration Technologies; Messaging Protocols; Device Interfaces; Architectural Foundation; Web Enablement; Organizational Structure; and other | 256 | 173 | 24 | 59 | 78.52 | 72 | 84 | 100 | 50.69 | 222 | 11 | 23 | 93.85 |
| USER INTERFACE Includes:User Configurability; | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 25.71 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| PLATFORMS Includes:Database; Servers; Client; | 33 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 66.67 | 16 | 17 | 0 | 46.3 | 21 | 10 | 2 | 61.3 |
| APPLICATION TOOLS Includes:Application Development Tools; Application Management Tools; Process Modeling and Updating; Business Model Generation; | 21 | 6 | 0 | 15 | 80.5 | 0 | 19 | 2 | 30 | 17 | 0 | 4 | 95.83 |
| WORKFLOW AND DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT Includes:Messaging; Workflow; E-mail; Document management; Electronic commerce; Automatic creation of to-do-list; and other | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 95 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 80 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
