Aptean Ross ERP vs. Coupa Supply Chain Design & Planning

Ross ERP was designed for and excels in process manufacturing environments. It is best leveraged in companies with strong management support for technology with a strong understanding of the business and manufacturing processes and a willingness to engage in the design and operation of the system. It is less suited for organizations looking for cut and paste solutions that don't' require input from the users and management. It is whatever you make of it.

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Coupa is well-suited for stable demand patterns. Time phased Safety Stock Optimization seems like it could use improvement. It is well-suited for making business decisions related to tradeoffs between inventory, lead time, etc.

Incentivized

• Management short-dated ingredients FIFO.
• Ease of pulling past production material handling information.
• Managing of inventory needs MRP.

• Easy to learn. The help menu is self-explanatory.
• Very easy to import and export data and has multiple ways of modeling.
• Nice visualizations.

Incentivized

• The user interface is under constant improvement, but its a difficult balance between flexibility and ease of use. They have made great strides in recent releases, but have room to grow.
• Built in reporting and analytics. Again, they are making great improvements over the last several releases, but have room to keep improving.

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• Community user group
• Free, accessible training
• Simulation to solve the problem...not just to test the optimized solution against

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Ross by and far has the most features and support for what is out there. Where most ERP systems everything is add ons, Ross builds those for the most part directly into their applications

Initially used IBM LogicNet. Switched to SCG because of the extra features and also because Llamasoft bought IBM LogicTools

Incentivized

• I don't have hard numbers on ROI. For our business, ERP is a requirement, and Ross has excelled at meeting those requirements. We have nearly doubled the business, with perhaps a 20% increase in headcount managing those orders and invoices. We would not have been able to do that without the efficiencies of process we gained with Ross.

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• Service level up
• Inventory down
• Sensing issues with our supply chain in near real-time

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