Manufacturing software for job shops, made to order manufacturers and Project Manufacturing professionals who need complete control over their business. Jobscope gives shop owners the ability to track and control costs and capabilities, set up production lines and timescales, control quotations and the full sales process
Jobscope Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) software for manufacturing companies is designed to work the way you work. We’ve put in all the helpful features, like flexible costing and integrated inventory management, and designed the screen exactly for what you need, when you need it. Jobscope Manufacturing Software is easy to learn and quick to implement. We have affordable rates available for value-added resellers across the country.
Acumatica
Acumatica is a manufacturing ERP software that integrates manufacturing, inventory management, and accounting. It allows you to generate accurate pricing and to calculate your total manufacturing costs.
Highlights:
Eliminates outdated and incorrect information
Oversee and control engineering changes
Balance supply and demand to reduce costs
What Sets It Apart: Acumatica’s financial management interface is designed for companies with complex requirements—it allows you to automate reporting, streamline operations, and reach international markets.
Pricing: Not listed on site, but notes it has an a-la-carte model.
Striven
Striven is an ERP software solution that combines accounting, CRM, project management, HR, operations, and more into one, easy to use interface. Striven is a diversely capable software solution that supports both front and back-office personnel. Striven’s extremely customizable software suits a variety of industries such as professional services, manufacturing, construction, and real estate.
Highlights:
Complete MRP System
Track parts for simple and complex builds
Locate and identify equipment/production/logistical issues
Customizable quality control and oversight capabilities
Automated inventory management
Customizable dashboards for each employee
Real-time business analytics
Sales tax and regulatory reporting
What Sets It Apart: Striven’s expert team of business analysts personally see to your success. From training and onboarding, technical support, and business-specific customizations, the Striven support staff is available 24/7. On top of that, Striven’s automation capabilities allow you to work more efficiently.
Pricing: Free trial and custom demo, packages begin at $10/user.
Aptean
Aptean is an ERP suite that specializes in hyper-niche, industry specific software solutions that include solutions primarily for the food and beverage industry and biotech/life sciences. It came to exist when a merger between Consola Corporation and CDC software was finalized.
Highlights:
Supports research, and protections surrounding IP (intellectual property)
Maintains updated compliance for food safety standards
Optimizes route plans for deliveries
What Sets It Apart: Aptean is in tune with the latest consumer trends and habits in the food in beverage industry and prides itself on protecting food-grower livelihoods.
Pricing: Plans vary by industry.
JOBSCOPE
JOBSCOPE provides manufacturing and maintenance functionalities for engineer to order, make to order, project based, aerospace defense, and aircraft maintenance companies.
JOBSCOPE ERP manufacturing software helps thousands of order-driven manufacturing businesses throughout reduced job-cost and inventories, lowered labor and material costs, increased profitability and cash flow, improved job completions and on-time delivers, and improved MRP and communications across all operations.
Features:
- Online order entry, tracking, modification, and inquiry
- Shared information for both job and customer records
- Scheduling at shop floor level and management level
- Automatic updating of job cost from transactions entered throughout the system
- Handles workflow from design in AutoCAD all the way through to execution
- Automatic assignment of routings based on part disposition
- Allows you to view linkages between work orders and change the linkages
- CAD drawings and other visual aids may be linked to inspection methods
- Quality Assurance inspections and online entry of inspection results
- Tracks vendor price quotations
- Creates planned purchase orders and purchase orders
- Multiple stocking locations/multiple bins
- Online MRP updating and reporting
Accounts Payable
Features Include:
- Full integration with the JOBSCOPE Purchasing subsystem
- Browse features for easy access to invoice, vendor, and purchase order data
- Automatic determination of date due based on terms
- Capability to handle foreign currency conversions and a variety of payment methods
- Automatic calculation and distribution of purchase price variances
- Close monitoring of invoice payment status from ‘open’ to ‘paid’
- Selection of invoices to be paid by invoice number or due date
- Complete flexibility in choosing and sorting invoices on reports
- Invoice aging by vendor
Accounts Receivable
Features Include:
- Shared information from both the job and customer records
- Automatic calculation of A/R invoice due date based on terms, as well as date payment is expected based on customer’s average number of days to pay
- Update of cost applied at invoicing for accurate reporting of work in process and cost of sales
- Retention processing
- Foreign currency facilities
- Browse functions for both invoices and customers
General Accounting
Features Include:
- User-defined account numbers of up to 20 characters in length
- Multi-company and multi-division processing
- Completely discretionary totaling structure for the chart of accounts
- Capabilities for statistical accounts and alternative totaling structures for informational reporting
- Flexible expense budgeting for fixed and variable accounts
- Ability to define and manipulate multiple budgets at once
- Automatic subsystem journaling
- Tightly controlled, fully automated process for posting
Inventory
Features Include:
- On-line master file maintenance
- Multiple stocking locations/Multiple bins
- Inventory receipts and issues tracking
- Shipment tracking
- Standard and average/actual cost
- On-line monitoring of inventory levels
- Issues Kitting
- Interface with Purchasing and Plant MRP
- Optional LIFO valuations
- Physical inventory processing
- Physical count worksheets
- Major/minor product codes to group and subgroup inventory
- Automatic general ledger journal entry
- A-B-C inventory analysis
- Cycle counting
- Monthly inventory usage
Job Accounting
Features Include:
- Automatic updating of job cost from transactions entered throughout the system
- Classification of job charges by user-defined categories to differentiate various types of costs
- Ability to enter and maintain original and current budget figures for each cost category
- Retrieval of cost categories from various areas of the system
- Budget overrun feature alerts when actual costs exceed estimated values
- Audit trail of budget changes
- Actual versus estimated cost comparisons
- Various formulas for calculating percentage completion
- Functions for calculating and applying cost-of-sales and earned revenue
- Capability to require a special password to charge costs to selected jobs
MRP
Features Include:
- On-line MRP updating band reporting
- Contract/job-specific material requisitions
- Traditional stock inventory and raw materials requisitions
- Inventory reservations by contract/job and requirement date
- Full integration among MRP, Inventory Control, Production Planning, and Purchasing subsystems
- Contract/job-specific bill-of-material status reporting
Order Entry
Features Include:
- On-line order entry, modification, tracking, and inquiry
- Multiple jobs on one contract
- Multiple releases on one job
- Manual/automatic assignment of job numbers
- Credit check at order entry
- Sales analysis based on orders won, lost, inactive, etc.
- Interface with Bill of Materials, Accounts Receivable and Job Cost
- Commission splits among multiple salespeople
- Unique payment terms assignable to each job/order
- On-line order scheduling directly from the Order Entry screen
Purchasing
Features Include:
- Separate ‘buy from’ and ‘remit to’ names and addresses
- Automatic updating of vendor history data
- Tracks vendor price quotations
- Purchasing for job, account, stock, and lot inventory on a single purchase order
- Create planned purchase orders (manually and automatically)
- Create purchase orders
- View and manage planned purchase orders
- Create purchase orders from planned purchase orders
- Mass create planned purchase orders
- Prints purchase orders on request; reprinting available
- PO Browse
- Free-format contract specifications text printed on the purchase order
- Prints change orders
- Computes all extensions at time of PO entry
- Removal of permanent shortages/overages from expediting lists without altering record for discrepancy
- Interfaces with MRP
Aquilon
The Aquilon ERP software application encompasses 17 modules. These modules are used to support financial management, distribution & supply chain management, and manufacturing management.
Highlights:
Aquilon2Go is an add-on to the Aquilon ERP that grants remote access to sales data
The manufacturing module includes estimating and re-manufacturing capabilities
Includes role based security
What Sets It Apart: Aquilon takes part in social responsibility initiatives, including advising customers to follow climate-friendly procedures such as archiving of reports so that no paper records are required.
Pricing: Starts at $99.
Batchmaster
BatchMaster Software offers cloud and on-premise software solutions for growing, mid-market recipe- and formula-based manufacturers. It features an add-on manufacturing application and ERP solution.
Highlights:
Includes a front office module that supports multiple currencies and multiple languages
Manages multi-level assembly with it’s packing BOM software
Quality control assessments via custom reporting
What Sets It Apart: Offers a guaranteed 3 month deployment for it’s proven remote services.
Pricing: Plans start at $2000.
Fishbowl
Fishbowl is an asset tracking solution and inventory management software that is able to be used by any size organization. It places emphasis on simplicity and innovation.
Highlights:
Software includes barcode scanning technology that syncs with CRM capabilities
Integrates with Amazon, eBay, Shopify among others
Allows you to manage multiple job sites
What Sets It Apart: Fishbowl is able to integrate with any version of Quickbooks so that users are still able to use a connected software that they have experience with
Pricing: Free trial offered, prices available after demo.
Conclusion
Jobscope Manufacturing Software provides powerful and manufacturing software built to fit your unique business processes. The Jobscope platform offers a wide array of features that allow you to streamline your operations, increase efficiency, and most importantly, reduce costs. With the Jobscope Manufacturing Software you can finally eliminate the errors and waste caused by manual data entry. Jobscope easily integrates with QuickBooks to give you a clear view of operational profit & loss, balance sheet, and automatically timesheets job completion.