Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for Canadian Manufacturing Companies

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems for Canadian manufacturing companies can be integrated into nearly every function of your Canadian manufacturing business, from the sales and quoting process to material planning, shop floor control, quality management, outside services, procurement, scheduling, shipping and logistics, customer service, finance and human resource management.

ERP for Manufacturing Companies in Canada

With ERP for Canadian manufacturing companies, your business can reap the benefits of:

Full visibility into operation and transactions

  • From summary date, decision-makers can drill down to transactions that form the fiscal and operational audit trail
  • Real time visibility into status of all processes from quote to cash
  • Ability to automatically notify decision-makers when scheduled activities fail to occur on time
  • Ability to automatically and immediately notify decision-makers when certain conditions occur

Inventory Control

  • Increase inventory turns to help better manage operating capital and cash flow
  • Responsiveness and flexibility in your inventory while maintaining high customer order fill rates
  • Solutions to help manage long lead times of materials while minimizing current on-hand inventory

Improved insight into the performance of your business

  • Direct costs from raw materials and labour through to overhead allocations
  • Indirect costs ensuring visibility and careful management of SG&A costs
  • Accurately predicted product costing, supporting more knowledge based sales decisions
  • Integrated view of supply chain allowing you to minimize inventory while improving customer satisfaction

Better regulatory compliance

  • Tighter financial controls for financial compliance declaration (Sarbarnes-Oxley and Base II) as well as other forms of compliance reporting (EH&S, sustainability reporting and industry specific initiatives such as 21 CFR part II)

Improved data management

  • Consistent data to provide global view of the business – provides performance metrics and measures to drive business
  • Product or services data – information relating to suppliers, customer orders and products to support faster new product development and cycles
  • Single base of information for consistency in billing and other interactions with customers

Download and read our ERP in Manufacturing article found in Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters Magazine to gain a better understanding of how ERP solutions in manufacturing can help your manufacturing business.

Enterprise Resource Planning can also be implemented into many other industries, including Oil and Gas, Retail, Financial Services, Professional Services, Energy and more. To learn more about ERP for manufacturing, speak to one of our ERP specialists located across the country from Toronto to Kitchener, Edmonton to Calgary and Vancouver. Call Ideaca at 1-866-816-4332 or contact us online.