Ridder iQ is a manufacturing ERP, from ECI Software Solutions. Ridder iQ includes customer relationship management functionality that is fully integrated, and includes an integration with Outlook for email.
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SAP Manufacturing Execution
Score 8.6 out of 10
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SAP Manufacturing Execution is the company's MES designed to digitally control, monitor, and automate manufacturing operations.
The best in the complete production process. It provides the correct info in a very usable way. It is pretty good in sales, but the lack of discounts for sales goods and sales production is not ideal. On the other hand, ECI provides an excellent service for looking for custom solutions where we need them.
SAP Manufacturing Execution is suitable for desecrate manufacturing. For the complex routing of the product, this software ensures users do not by mistake start executing the wrong steps. This is the best tool to track and work on nonconformance and rework scenarios. This is most suitable when the landscape has SAP ERP in place.
Visual routing ensures the production line layout is as appropriate as shown on the application.
Production house needs a lot of data to do an in-process inspection of the product. ERP might not need that. SAP ME provides that place to do every data collection.
Nonconformance functionality ensures when needed the product goes to the appropriate station to get repaired. Also, data collection can raise NC and can move the product to a particular station to get an issue corrected.
All the information is well integrated with SAP ERP and makes SAP ME more valuable for the organization.
SAP MII also comes along with SAP ME helps to get the application well integrated with the shop floor equipment.
The production planning does not use the business calendar for buffer days between end date production and delivery date.
If the buffer days are on closed dates (weekend and/or Holidays) you have no buffer days at al which is mandatory for Just In Time delivery.
The production calendar progress is based on an employee (project hours) and not on the actual WIP.
WIP is a combined booking from machine/operator but is not deducted from in the planning budget if not linked tot project hours.
There is still no API (the SDK is only available for windows applications).
Industry 4.0 requires open standard communications for integrated use like a MES/SCADA system.
The SDK still does not implement anything other than a username/password.
Ridder iQ implements SSO for the client but the SDK does not offer a passwordless login for users in an external program. When using SSO users forget their password and are unable to change their password since the current password js mandatory for changing it.
Receiving items larger than the default trade size removes all reservations from the purchase order. The system has once a gain a required need for purchasing material due to this behaviour.
This is by intent of ECI, they think if a product which is made out of a 1x1 meter plate cannot be created out of a plate 2x2, many other steel company face this issue but they don't want to change this behaviour.
The SDK does not offer any way of custom views outside the clients acces, this leads to many API calls which is bad for the overal performance.
All custom views require to be created by a consultant and be out within your license.
There is no Forecast feature where time/material is resevered and/or creates a details BOM. We need to give forecasts to our suppliers in order to not run out of raw materials and get a better price.
Ideas.aha.io must be used by users for requesting new features or changes.
If you look at the top 10 request only 1 request is planned and all others are "Future consideration" or "Chances of being made".
This means the actual users are nog being heard and they continue their own vision instead of actually listening to their users.
Its nice software but it is very, very slow in webification and integration possibilities by using api's. Untill now the programm has client-server technology unfortunately. And there are far too less no code adjustments possible.
Ridder iQ is friendly to use. With the use of roles we can give a very good user experience to our employees; they are more in control of their tasks. Since we use Ridder iQ, the right information is available for everybody in our organization, all on demand.
Ridder iQ is specialized for our business and has people who bring a lot of knowledge to the table, so Ridder iQ is far more suited than a ERP solution which is not specilized in the make-industry. Furthermore, the customizability of Ridder stands out compared to solutions like ISAH. Therefore, the choice was an easy one, because knowledge and customizability are important criteria.
There was no product evaluated before using SAP ME. This replaced the custom homegrown MES system. The custom MES system had a lot of issues with the integration with SAP ERP. While evaluating the situation, SAP MII was the initial tool used to create the integration of the custom MES. We later found the fully functional tool SAP ME off the shelf had several functionalities out of the box.
