Infor VISUAL vs. Intuit Enterprise Suite

The original version of Visual Manufacturing (Lilly Software) was intended for mechanical manufacturing. It was adapted at our facility (we were not the first) to accomodate electronic manufacturing. For electronic manufacturing process control it is not ideal when referencing in-line or custom processes used to build product. For material control it is excellent unless a modification to a standard product is required (and we did this on 60% of product going out the door). The co-product feature that removes material from an assembly requires the creator of the work order to calculate the percentage of cost the removed items are from the completed product. On the business operations side regional tax reports were difficult to extract and an external module to go into the data base and extract that had to be created. The system itself was stable for the most part. Occasional "data collisions" corrupted transactions at times. The accounting procedures in place found them by the end of the month .where they were corrected. For a small business with less formal processes Infor Visual can be used with little training for the operators. If the processes need a higher level of accountability and control the processes can be formalized with workflow scripts to ensure that higher level of control.

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We are a small non-profit organization and this product has allowed us to save time and resources by providing a platform for new and existing employees to get their information all in one place. Paying bills and receiving revenue is easy to track in this manner and customer support has been very effective when we need them.

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• Part/BOM libraries
• Traceability from customer order to work order
• Job status representation

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• Ease of processing payroll and providing all necessary reports and documents in one software such as tax forms and forms related to the financials.
• Ease of creating purchase orders to tie to vendor bills to track purchases made by the organization.
• Ease of creating financial reports with various filters and exporting them to PDF or excel for a simpler read and study of profit vs. losses.

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• At times a "shadow part" is necessary in the manufacturing process. This shadow part does not require an inventory transaction but is made a as a separate process - sometimes out of sequence to the general process flow. Infor Visual ver 6.3.5 does not have that capability.
• When generating forms for business and manufacturing operations Infor Visual ver 6.3.5 has a limited number of options. To change or add forms requires an unsupported editor. When the stock and custom options are depleted an outside programming module is required as well as programmers to develop the forms.
• While free software upgrades to the main operations modules have been part of the maintenance agreement. One upgrade required database and hardware support not justifiable for the current business model. The system was frozen at the current version at that time.
• There is no easy way to differentiate between engineering documentation and production documentation.

Incentivized

• Reports could be more tailored to Construction
• Budgets Can Be Refined a little more
• Credit Card and Lines of Credit Could be Larger for Enterprise Customers

Good Technical and Customer Support during and after implementation tasks. Good Project Plan and Management support for implementation and post implementation. Financial functionality could be more comprehensive particularly with Budgeting and Cash Management. Inventory Management capability was adequate but could be more comprehensive as well. "Out of the Box" functionality was adequate but requested add-ons and enhancements seemed to be a bit pricey.

Because I love the software and the people behind it are passionate about building the features to support business growth. They have built so many features I have asked for and it gets better and better

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Because of use cases and easy implementation and the vertical and horizontal scaling.

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IES has been an excellent partner of Gridmatic and they continue to enhance on their process. Due to dev in reporting is the reason I am unable to give 10 rating.

Incentivized

As we have seen the live environment and the use cases where we implement.

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Excellent. I am the first Lighthouse customer and I see first hand that their team cares, they care about not just the features but about their customers and their success. They truly want their customers to succeed

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Could have used more hands-on approach. There are multiple webinars and information sessions but until you actually use the system, these are not very helpful.

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We unfortunately did not evaluate any other ERP software. VISUAL was a legacy system and we determined that changing systems would be too difficult, and not cost effective. We reached out to our local VISUAL rep who knew how the software functioned, but not how to apply it more appropriately to our business model, so we continued on with what we had rather than looking elsewhere.

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Intuit Enterprise Suite reports are so much better. There are many to choose from and users can build reports specific to their needs. Reconciling bank accounts is so much easier. The capability Intuit Enterprise Suite has to make the process simple means there is less time spent with recons being out of balance.

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• Good Billing provided
• Easy to implement and use
• scales vertical and horizontal

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• QuickBooks supplies a platform for basic accounting
• It allows us to operate our business from a banking and taxes perspective.
• It could do much more from a business management perspective.

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