SYSPRO vs Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform Comparison

customer supportive. development integrated business software. financial management. Manufacturing and distributive.

lacking in complex features. People hear about this software less.

Well, organized menu.

Limited functionality. I come from a SAP shop, Syspro is very limited comparatively.

we chose Syspro just as we were merging 2 manufacturing companies with 7 manufacturing facilities in 3 states. The flexibility allowed us to complete this merger and keep all the financials and manufacturing data separated. the open database of SQL allows reporting with any software that can read sql. We have been on the software 8 years and SYSPRO has constantly stayed current with the latest developments in the IT area.

the software is all encompassing so you need know all the details of how your manual processes work.

Fairly user friendly. A lot of features for the cost.

The version I am using (not the most current) is not modern in its look or feel and takes a lot of time to train.

Nice product, great and helpful service. Modules for across the board manufacturing support, from inventory, bills of materials, all financial modules, and support modules like Customer Service to Shipping.

Can't seem to get a cup of good Espresso, especially Decaf, from the software, and would appreciate more options of 'canned Syspro ready-made-reports'.

It is a very user friendly application, easy to extract data to excel for fitter analysis.

The erp has been design mostly for the manufacturing industry but it does not come with the equipment maintenance module manufacturing industry is equipment intensive and the cost of maintaining equipments is very high syspro lacks the capability of tracking equipment maaintenance cost syspro clients are forced to look for third party apps which are expensive and challenging to interface with syspro this is frastuating most of us please work on this.

We are a manufacturing company and we have a complicated Inventory. Syspro is a great program for managing our inventory. It also has a great product configurator. All other modules works very well too.

Syspro constantly has updates and I wished the updates would install automatically.

Syspro is highly customizable and can be configured to fit just about any business structure, from process manufacturing to ecommerce retail. The online help is robust, and the online forums are available for technical help.

The downside of the product being highly customizable is that configuration must be well planned and well thought out prior and during implementation. A bad implementation can lead to a bad experience with this product.

The manufacturing costing (BOM), and Financial modules are at the core of our business. Straightforward integration with other products (you need a good VAR) is a plus. Highly customizeable too. Excited for their upcoming web-based product update!q

As with all ERPs, it is a massive beast that requires tons of resources to deploy in your organization. It does not have any built-in warehouse management functions, but can integrate with other WMS systems.

I used Syspro when overseeing 5 manufacturing plant locations. The locations where not integrated to use the same system. Syspro provided the technically to duplicate the same reports and overall streamlined the functionality between plants even though they were separated. Reporting was easy due to this.

Syspro has a wealth of opportunity and with each area, a company must balance the cost to buy that section verse benefit.

The support is great and they are always enhancing the product. Our CRR is awesome and very helpful. The manufacturing side is great and the BOM function works very well with formulas and batching in the food industry. The lot functions and traceability is great as well.

Having to upgrade our custom modifications every time there is a major release. This is self-inflicted somewhat.. but it keeps us behind in the upgrade cycle. And the custom programming is expensive!

Flexibility, detail. You can use the mass options it offers or just the ones you need. I am sure we could use more than we do. You have support you can use as much or as little as you need. I have used Syspro for 20 years. I am still happy with the choice for accounting, inventory and manufacturing.

We did require special detail down costing. NOT available on any software. Manual not as user friendly as it could be. Updates are not automatic.

As a small company, many of us are constantly using the system to keep track of all aspects of orders, manufacturing, and inventory. Syspro is a great tool for organizing our information and allowing all of us ease of access. Also great for our ISO quality system requirements. We currently don't have accounting integrated with the system, so I cannot attest to the performance of that side of things.

Can sometimes be hard to get responses from the help desk.

SysPro is a complete ERP solution for both distribution and manufacturing companies, which is my experience with this software. However, I don't see any reason why a service company cannot use this product as the software is licensed by the module and overall implementation can be custom tailored to the needs of each organization. The accounting and finance section is robust and complete and the general...

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Browsing capability is limited to a relatively small number of records if you don't want to wait a very long time to see results. Alternatively, you can query the data you need using MS-Query or SQL Server Management Studio to get quick and accurate results. Many of the system reports are not very useful. Here again, you can design your own reports or use your own queries.

It's a massive piece of software with enormous capability.

Highly technical and can be very difficult to use. Requires a lot of training and setup, and lots of support to maintain and troubleshoot. Not very user-friendly.