Ridder iQ vs. Unit4 Enterprise Resource Planning

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.

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Unit4 is good for small and mid-level companies where they need a single platform to manage their functionality.

• You can easily make yourself calculated columns
• You can easily make yourself new tables and fields
• You can easily make yourself adapted screens, widgets, etc.
• You can easily make yourself email templates
• You can easily make yourself scheduled tasks
• Tables and fields have clear names what is very handy to work with

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• Since the software is built with your needs in mind, it can be tailored to your specific needs.
• System security is also created with your specific needs in mind and can be extremely detailed for various roles within the organization.
• The various modules integrate well, if thought through system processes when building.

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• 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.

• Their layout and limited web capabilities are a turn-off
• They lack basic functionality in their web [version]
• The implementation phase is bumpy since their guides and process documents are not step by step and are usually confusing

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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.

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Unit4 is very easy to use. One can use it without much technical knowledge.

Expert level of the support engineers is adequate. However in our opinion it does take a fair amount of time to respond

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Their consultant and support service is also very responsive.

I didn't work here yet at the time of the implementation

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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.

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I have used Fund EZ and QuickBooks. Unit4 is for larger organizations and was needed for our scaling.

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• Flawless purchasing.
• Better planning, less downtime of production
• Because iQ is widely used, we are more dependent on our network environment. This makes us vulnerable. This is more expensive
• Because we write better quotations with multiple sales rules, we can charge better prices with better margins.

• Our business processes were in flux when the initial build of our system was taking place - this made lives very difficult. Make sure processes are set!
• Time - beyond what could have been imagined - this is a huge project, that needs proper resources assigned to it within a company when planning to install.

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